CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP) — A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the structure and briefly star
There is no indication on the ground that Russia is preparing to restart the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine which it is occupying, an official from the UN nuclear watchdog, who has a small team on site, has said. On Tuesday, ...
In 1986 the Chernobyl power plant experienced a devastating accident. Hundreds of thousands of people, livestock, farmland and waterways were contaminated by the radioactive material from the Chernobyl explosion. The nuclear power plant has been in a period of decommissioning since 2000. —...
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine traded claims of rocket and artillery strikes at or near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on Sunday, intensifying f…
In the Russian-held city of Enerhodar, home to Europe's largest nuclear power plant, electricity and water were restored after a four-day outage due to an explosion, the city's Ukrainian mayor, Dmytro Orlov, said. Enerhodar and its Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant have come under rep...
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is upstream of the dam, but it relies on water pumped constantly from its reservoir to cool radioactive fuel and other key functions. Ukraine's state atomic agency said the dam's destruction put the plant at risk, but the statement from Zelenskyy's ...
He said that with Russian troops who had limited experience handling nuclear material controlling the plant, “the danger is not only to the region, but also to the world.” “During the Chernobyl disaster, the explosion occurred on one power unit — [there are] six of them at the Zaporozh...
"This is NOT a nuclear strike, although the explosion is visually similar to it," the Kharkiv government Telegram channel warned, according to an NBC translation of the message. The channel advised residents to close their windows, purify the air if possible and prepare to wear wet ...
“Our strategy is to rebuild generation capacity to Ukraine, not only Zaporizhzhia, but also coal-fired power plants, gas-fired power plants, other nuclear power plants, to be able to provide electricity to increase the production domestically,” said Artur Lorkowski, the director of the Vi...
Lukashenko threat:Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, a key Russian ally, said Minsk wouldimmediately respond to aggressionif provoked, including by using nuclear weapons, state media reported. Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putinannounced plansto station tactical nuclear weapons in Bela...