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A Russian attack drone struck the shelter surrounding the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, Ukrainian ...

A Russian drone struck the containment shell protecting the radioactive reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, causing ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the International Atomic Energy Agency had earlier reported that radiation levels ...

The outer shell that was struck is a protective cover built in 2016 over a heavy concrete containment structure. Soon after ...

President Zelenskyy says the strike was a "very clear greeting from Putin and Russian Federation" - a claim Moscow denies.

Chernobyl is the infamous nuclear power plant from the former Soviet Union. A flawed reactor design resulted in a sudden surge of power on April 26, 1986, destroying Unit 4 of the station.

Any potential explosion or meltdown at Chernobyl, or any other Nuclear Power Plant, by accident or design would cause irreversible damage to the environment and human life that will last for ...

A shelter above the sarcophagus covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine, Saturday, Apr.