Chernobyl

Ukraine says Russian rockets flew over Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant

Ukraine's state-run atomic energy company said Russian missiles flew at low altitude over Europe's largest nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, and reiterated warnings that Russia's invasion could…

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UPDATED: Ukraine says some Russian troops still in Chernobyl exclusion zone

April 1 (Reuters) - Some Russian troops were still in the "exclusion zone" around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station on Friday morning, the head of the Ukrainian agency in charge of…

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Ukraine demands Russia withdraw from Chernobyl area, says ammunition could explode

March 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine's armed forces say there is a danger of ammunition exploding at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station and that Russian forces occupying the plant must pull out…

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Ukraine says Russian forces near Chernobyl could pose new radiation threat

March 27 (Reuters) - A senior Ukrainian official accused Russia on Sunday of "irresponsible" acts around the occupied Chernobyl power station that could send radiation across much of Europe, and urged the…

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UPDATE – Russian forces take control of Chernobyl workers’ town, three dead – report

VIV, Ukraine March 26 (Reuters) - Russian forces have taken control of Ukraine's Slavutych, where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live, and three people were killed, Interfax Ukraine news agency…

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Ukraine state nuclear company unable to monitor radiation levels around Chernobyl

LVIV, Ukraine, March 21 (Reuters) - Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom warned on Monday that radiation levels around the occupied Chernobyl nuclear plant risked rising because its radiation monitoring system and forest…

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UPDATED: Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant has no external electricity supply again – grid operator

LVIV, Ukraine, March 14 (Reuters) - The head of Ukraine's state-owned grid operator, Ukrenergo, said on Monday the Chernobyl nuclear power station was relying on electricity from diesel generators after external power…

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Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia nuclear plants being run by Ukrainian staff – Russia

March 12 (Reuters) - The Ukrainian nuclear power plants at Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia, both now under the control of Russian forces, are being run and managed by their Ukrainian staff, Russia's atomic…

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Why the Chernobyl disaster site is important for Russia

Russian and Ukrainian forces fought on Thursday for control of Chernobyl, the still radioactive site of the world's worst nuclear accident and a factor in the collapse of the Soviet…

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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant under Russian control – Reports

The decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant is now under the control of Russian forces, according to Ukrainian media reports . According to reports from the Ukrainian president, Volodymir Zelensky , the Russians are trying…

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Unsealed Soviet archives reveal cover-ups at Chernobyl plant before disaster

KYIV (Reuters) - The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl nuclear plant was dangerous and covered up emergencies there before the 1986 disaster, the Ukrainian authorities said as they released documents…

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Pandemic could be WHO’s Chernobyl moment for reform – review panel

GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic could be the catalyst for much-needed reform of the World Health Organization just as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 forced urgent changes at…

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Forest fire kills 4 in Ukraine

Four people died and nine were hospitalised as a forest fire swept through villages in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, Ukraine's emergency services said. The fire has…

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Coronavirus is for China what Chernobyl was for Russia – Whitehouse official

A top White House official on Sunday likened China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak to the Soviet Union's cover-up of the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.…

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Ukraine forest fire reaches Chernobyl site, raising radiation concerns

A substantial forest fire in Ukraine that has been raging for the past eight days has worryingly reached the former nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. Greenpeace Russia warned that the…

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Forest fire at exclusion zone around Chernobyl nuclear power plant

A man holds a dosimeter close to an abandoned house burning in the middle of a forest fire near the village of Volodymyrivka, in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl…

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US – Feels like we are working in Chernobyl – Doctors write their wills amidst Covid19 fears

Doctors the world over take an oath to fight against illness and help to make their patients get better; they fight death every day, hands on. But never has this…

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Former Chernobyl residents visit their hometown for Christmas

Eighteen former residents of Pripyat who had not been in their hometown for many years decorated the Cristmass tree with their family photos taken in Pripyat when the city was…

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Doctors treating Russians after nuclear explosion in training site were not informed of incident

Five hospital staff workers, including senior doctors, told The Moscow Times that FSB agents had their colleagues sign non-disclosure agreements. The three injured men arrived at the hospital around 4:30…

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Chernobyl ‘hero’ liquidator takes his own life after HBO drama

A hero liquidator in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 'took his own life' after the HBO television drama reduced him to tears and reignited fresh anger at being denied a state-funded…

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Photo Story: New sarcophagus for Chernobyl

The European Union (EU) has officially passed the keys to the New Safe Confinement (sarcophagus), constructed atop the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor number four destroyed in 1986, to Ukraine…

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Chernobyl Memories : In Communist times, disasters just did not happen

When a unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in then-Soviet Ukraine exploded in the early hours of April 26, 1986, it sparked a fire that burned for nine days,…

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Corporate Dispatch End-of-Day Roundup

The British and Americans have been historic partners, they have shared values, and those values will endure for the next 75 years and beyond. That is why she was so…

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Chernobyl sees sharp rise in number of tourists after TV series

The success of a television series examining the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl has seen a sharp rise in the number of tourists visiting the site. One tour agency…

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33 years since Chernobyl’s apocalyptic disaster

Ukrainians lay flowers at the memorial for 'liquidators' who died during the cleaning up after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster during a ceremony in Slavutich city, Ukraine, early 26…

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