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Chernobyl

A view of the containment vessel that protects the remains of reactor number four at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant and built to contain radiation, after a drone attack, Ukraine, February 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
December 6, 2025, 10:23 am
Chernobyl’s protective shield, damaged in strike, no longer performs main safety functions
Radiation levels normal at nuclear disaster site, but UN nuclear watchdog urges ‘comprehensive restoration’; Ukraine blames Russia for February blast at plant, Moscow denies it
By Reuters
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, damage to the sarcophagus that covers the 4th reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant is seen from inside following a Russian drone attack in Chernobyl, Ukraine, Feb. 14, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
February 14, 2025, 11:34 am
Ukraine: Russian drone blasts hole in radiation shield ‘protecting the world’ at Chernobyl nuclear plant
Radiation levels at site normal after attack, despite damage to cover built over reactor that exploded in 1986; Kyiv says Moscow sent swarm of over 100 UAVs
By AFP
A man walks on a pedestrian crossing point near the Dnipro river and Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant on the other side in Nikopol, Ukraine, August 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
August 25, 2022, 9:54 pm
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant cut off from power grid due to fire damage
Europe’s largest nuclear plant has been occupied by Russia since March; incident raises fears of catastrophe in country still haunted by Chernobyl disaster
By Frank Jordans and HANNA ARHIROVA
A power-generating unit at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the city of Enerhodar, in southern Ukraine, on June 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Olexander Prokopenko, File)
April 26, 2022, 10:01 pm
Ukraine flogs Russia after missiles buzz Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Atomic energy agency says strike could have caused ‘catastrophe’; UN nuclear watchdog says Chernobyl radiation levels normal again after ‘very, very dangerous’ takeover by Moscow
By Agencies
A Ukrainian serviceman walks amid the rubble of a building heavily damaged by multiple Russian bombardments near a frontline in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
April 26, 2022, 7:12 pm
Russia intensifies attacks in Ukraine’s Donbas as West scrambles to arm Kyiv
At least nine killed in Russian attacks on towns and cities in eastern and southern Ukraine; dozens of strikes pound Mariupol plant where last fighters holed up
By YESICA FISCH and Jon Gambrell
Ukrainian soldiers walk next to destroyed Russian tanks in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
April 1, 2022, 9:52 am
Last Russian forces leave Chernobyl, exposed themselves to ‘significant’ radiation
Ukraine says fighting continues in Kyiv suburbs despite Russia’s promised withdrawal from capital; Zelensky dismisses retreat as regrouping for more powerful attack
By Nebi Qena and YURAS KARMANAU
A man walks past a shelter covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
March 31, 2022, 8:52 pm
Russian troops leaving Chernobyl after getting radiation – Ukraine nuclear agency
Energoatom claims soldiers retreated after ‘becoming sick’ in highly radiated area; adds that Moscow signed off on document handing over control of the power plant
By Nebi Qena and YURAS KARMANAU
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks at a press conference about the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in Vienna, Austria, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)
March 29, 2022, 2:54 pm
UN atomic watchdog chief in Ukraine to discuss nuclear safety amid Russia’s invasion
‘We must act now to help prevent the danger of a nuclear accident,’ IAEA’s Rafael Grossi says following Russian capture of several facilities
By AFP
A man walks past a shelter covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
March 28, 2022, 9:33 am
Ukraine reports new fires in Russian-occupied Chernobyl exclusion zone
Officials warn of ‘very serious consequences’ of fires; UN nuclear watchdog has not received live data from site since March 9, says concerned about lack of staff at facility
By Agencies
A picture shows the New Safe Confinement (NSC) new metal dome designed and built by French consortium Novarka encasing the destroyed reactor at Chernobyl plant on July 10, 2019, in Chernobyl. - Ukraine and its European partners on July 10 formally inaugurated a new metal dome encasing the destroyed reactor at the infamous Chernobyl plant, wrapping up a two-decade effort. Branded as the world's largest moveable metal structure, the so-called New Safe Confinement seals the remains of the fourth reactor at the nuclear plant that was the site of the massive Chernobyl disaster in 1986. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP)
March 15, 2022, 6:31 am
Power restored to Chernobyl after fresh outage — nuclear watchdog
IAEA says staff manage to reconnect facility after line damaged by ‘occupying forces’; Ukraine regulator accuses Russian troops of blowing up munitions near Zaporizhzhia reactor
By AFP
A man walks past a shelter covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, April 15, 2021. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
March 14, 2022, 2:45 pm
Power knocked out at Chernobyl nuclear disaster site hours after it was restored
Ukrainian officials say Russian forces damaged supply lines needed to prevent radiation leaks; state power company to attempt another repair
By Agencies
The giant protective dome built over the sarcophagus covering the destroyed fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, April 13, 2021. (Sergei Supinsky/ AFP/ File)
March 12, 2022, 8:57 am
Ukraine: Putin has told his troops to create a ‘man-made catastrophe’ at Chernobyl
Ukrainian intel says false-flag operation to be carried out by Russian operatives and Belarusian specialists sent to facility after communications cut
By ToI Staff and AP
The giant protective dome built over the sarcophagus covering the destroyed fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, April 13, 2021. (Sergei Supinsky/ AFP/ File)
March 12, 2022, 2:44 am
Ukraine notifies IAEA that power line repairs have begun at Chernobyl
UN watchdog says work to continue despite ‘the difficult situation’ outside decommissioned nuclear plant, which was seized by invading Russian forces
By Agencies
An operator's armchair covered with plastic sits in an empty control room of the 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
March 9, 2022, 3:01 pm
Ukraine says power completely cut to Chernobyl; IAEA downplays safety concerns
Energy operator says nuclear power plant ‘fully disconnected from grid,’ and military activity means ‘no possibility to restore the lines’; reserve generators have 48-hour capacity
By AFP and ToI Staff
An aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, is seen in April 1986, made two to three days after the explosion in Chernobyl, Ukraine. In front of the chimney is the destroyed 4th reactor. (AP Photo)
March 9, 2022, 9:49 am
Radiation expert: Ukraine war could pose greater nuclear threat than Chernobyl
Radiation countermeasures expert Dr. Alla Shapiro, a Chernobyl first responder, says war conditions make it harder to save lives in event of attack on nuclear power plant
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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