Video: For some it was a disaster zone - for others, Chernobyl was the home they would not leave: Stark images reveal the lives of those who refused to give up their homes... even after a nuclear ...

The corium at Chernobyl consists of uranium dioxide fuel, zircaloy cladding, concrete, and the serpentinite that had been packed around the reactor to serve as thermal insulation. Analysis has ...

TASS/. The European Union (EU) has officially passed the keys to the New Safe Confinement (sarcophagus), constructed atop the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor number four destroyed in ...

"Exactly 8 years ago, a new sarcophagus was moved over the old one covering the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl ... reactor there are still several hundred tonnes of radioactive corium and ...

4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. A member of staff at the plant from 1982, he became a witness to the immediate aftermath on the morning of 26 April 1986. The story of ...

The area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of the places being looked at as potential locations for Ukraine's planned future wave of small modular reactors. The former Chernobyl nuclear ...