At 1:23 and 48 seconds on April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded - and then exploded again just seconds later. In this video, we break down the RBMK reactor ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine - Workers have raised the first section of a colossal arch-shaped structure that eventually will cover the exploded nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power ...

In Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, a giant protective shield is slowly being moved into place a couple of feet at a time. The concrete and steel arch is billed as the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Thirty years after a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl exploded, the world marked the grim anniversary even as the death toll and ...

The protective radiation shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant—designed to contain radiation from Reactor 4, which was damaged during the 1986 explosion—could collapse if it’s struck again by ...

The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant lost electricity and was disconnected from Ukraine's unified power grid on Tuesday (January 20), raising serious concerns about the containment structure sealing the ...