A giant arch shielding radioactive waste from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster began sliding into place Monday with a mission of keeping the site safe for generations to come. The European Bank for ...

Editor’s note: we are updating this story due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and reports from Ukranian officials that the country has lost control of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power ...

A steel arch weighing 3800 tonnes is being lifted at the Chernobyl site in Ukraine, the second such milestone for the New Safe Confinement project. A steel arch weighing 3800 tonnes is being lifted at ...

On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant experienced a catastrophic explosion, leading to the worst nuclear accident in history. This disaster released a radioactive plume ...

The first half of the Chernobyl arch has been assembled. It is now being gradually moved to make way for construction of the other half. The first half of the Chernobyl arch has been assembled. It is ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) - In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world's largest land-based moving structure has been slid over the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site to ...

The historic sarcophagus at Chernobyl is slated to be partially dismantled to make way for a safer structure very soon. The Ukranian company that manages the formerly-radioactive site—home of the ...

The U.S. Department of State intends to provide up to $100 million in available foreign assistance funding toward coordinated G7 efforts to ensure the continued containment of fissile nuclear material ...

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