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This file image, made from footage aired on Jan. 7, 2005, by Israeli television station Channel 10, shows what the channel claimed is Israel’s nuclear facility near Dimona, the first detailed video of the site ever shown to the public. (Channel 10 via AP)
March 25, 2026, 1:58 am
Fallout from Iranian strike on Dimona plant would be symbolic, not radioactive
After missile hit city near sensitive site, experts say strike on nuclear reactor would pose little risk of Chernobyl-like contamination or nuke explosion, but would hurt nonetheless
By Nava Freiberg
Israeli-made radiation protection suit developed by StemRad. (Courtesy)
December 21, 2023, 4:01 pm
Israel’s StemRad inks $4.5m contract to shield US troops from gamma radiation
Israeli-American company has developed shielding technology gear to protect first responders, defense forces, and space explorers from deadly radiation and nuclear threats
By Sharon Wrobel
The 2023 Doomsday Clock is moved, ahead of a live-streamed event with members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, on January 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
January 25, 2023, 9:37 am
‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closest to midnight in shadow of nuclear, climate threats
Decision to reset the hands of the symbolic timepiece is taken each year by a security board and a board of sponsors, which includes 10 Nobel laureates
By Chris Lefkow
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 general view of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, August 7, 2022. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
August 8, 2022, 8:08 pm
Russia, Ukraine accuse each other of endangering Europe’s biggest nuclear plant
Moscow blames Ukraine for shelling Russia-held Zaporizhzhia facility, Kyiv accuses Russia of storing weapons there; observers warn of grave health and environmental threats
By susie blann
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
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
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
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)
March 4, 2022, 11:55 am
How dangerous was Russia’s strike on Europe’s largest nuclear plant?
While Ukraine emergency teams put out blaze at Zaporizhzhia, experts warn attacks on reactor sites could release radioactive waste or damage cooling systems, triggering meltdown
By David Rising
This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows a bright flaring object landing in the grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. (Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant via AP)
March 4, 2022, 9:06 am
Blaze out at Ukraine nuclear plant after Russian shelling sparks catastrophe fears
Zelensky says Russia only country to ever attack a nuclear plant, warns Putin’s ‘reckless’ actions ‘could now directly threaten the safety of all of Europe’; calls for UN to meet
By Dmitry Zaks and Dmytro Gorshkov
A still from a video showing a building on fire at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine on March 2, 2022. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 4, 2022, 5:20 am
Russian shelling sets Ukrainian nuclear plant ablaze, raising fears of disaster
Officials say radiation levels normal, but plant spokesman warns accident can happen at any moment, with firefighters unable to reach flames
By Jim Heintz, YURAS KARMANAU and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV
Illustrative: Steam is emitted from the cooling tower at the nuclear power plant in Tihange, southeast of Brussels on March 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)
March 6, 2018, 9:38 pm
Belgium distributes iodine pills in case of nuclear accident
Government says medication part of wider preventative measures, assures ‘no specific risk’ to country’s 7 aging reactors
By AFP
In this July 9, 2014, file photo, a sign warns of radioactivity near a wind direction flag indicator at the "C" tank farm on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)
May 9, 2017, 9:29 pm
Tunnel with nuclear waste collapses in Washington state
Officials detect no release of radiation, no workers injured
By Nicholas K. Geranios
The Nuclear Research Center NEGEV, located in Dimona. (screen capture: YouTube, via Channel 10)
April 26, 2016, 8:47 pm
Shut Dimona nuclear reactor, urges founding scientist
Aging facility ‘may be world’s oldest reactor,’ says Uzi Even, after 1,537 defects found at aluminum core; says Israel couldn’t build new one without international help
By ToI Staff
A woman cries at the Chernobyl victims' memorial in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on April 26, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Anatolii Stepanov)
April 26, 2016, 7:57 pm
Etched in their mind: Ukraine marks 30 years since Chernobyl
World’s worst nuclear accident killed thousands and spewed radiation across Europe, forcing a global rethink of atomic fuel
By DMYTRO VLASOV
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