An interim report on options for the full restoration of the New Safe Confinement's protective functions is due to be presented later this month. Serhii Tarakanov, Director General of SSE Chornobyl ...

A contract has been signed for the development of detailed design documentation for work on parts of the turbine hall and deaerator stack that extend beyond the giant New Safe Confinement arch-shaped ...

A hole in the New Safe Confinement shelter was created by a drone with an explosive warhead in February.Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images The steel structure sealing off the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed this week that the New Safe Confinement structure—designed to confine radiation at the ...

Inspectors now warn that the vast steel shelter over Chernobyl’s ruined reactor has suffered critical damage after an alleged drone strike, stripping away a key layer of protection that the world has ...

A Russian strike could collapse the internal radiation shelter at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, the plant's director has told AFP. Kyiv has accused Russia of repeatedly ...