chernobyl

British director James Jones is fluent in Russian, which certainly came in handy wading through the exhaustive documentation of the government's response to the 1986 nuclear-plant accident in then-Soviet-controlled Ukraine and its…

CHORNOBYL, Ukraine — The Russian soldiers who invaded Chornobyl in late February did things that mystified Oleksandr Toporovsky.They dug trenches in radiation-contaminated soil, defecated in offices and spray-painted Illuminati symbols on…

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, nuclear facilities have been caught up in the midst of conventional warfare for the first time in history. That nightmare scenario is one that few of the industry’s players had…

Radiation levels are elevated in some parts of the soil near the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, but do not pose a significant threat to workers or the environment, the head of the international nuclear watchdog agency…

<!-- -->Liudmyla Kozak was under Russian captivity at the plant for 25 daysKirdey: Nuclear engineer Liudmyla Kozak was part-way through a 12-hour overnight shift at the defunct Chernobyl plant when Russia invaded Ukraine on February…

Russia's temporary takeover of the Chernobyl site was "very, very dangerous" and raised radiation levels but they have now returned to normal, the head of the UN atomic watchdog said on Tuesday. "The…

The UN atomic watchdog chief on Tuesday described radiation levels at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site as “abnormal”, saying the area’s brief Russian occupation had been “very, very dangerous”. “The radiation level, I would say, is…

Chernobyl Remembrance Day 2022: April 26 is observed as the International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day to raise awareness about the consequences of the deadly nuclear disaster, which took place on the same day in 1986. The day not…

KYIV: Russian soldiers dug in "many places" at Chernobyl where officials are still unable to restore radiation monitoring after Ukraine re-took control, the state agency in charge said Wednesday. "The occupiers dug in many places. They…

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — As the staging ground for an assault on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, one of the most toxic places on earth, was probably not the best choice. But that did not seem to bother the Russian…