World Nuclear News

Power fully restored to Chernobyl site

The International Atomic Energy Agency says that power was restored on Thursday morning to the New Safe Confinement at ...
Newsweek

Chernobyl Radiation Fears As Power Outage Stops Cooling of Nuclear Fuel Rods

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China ...
Forbes

Chernobyl Reminds Us What’s At Stake In Russia’s War On Ukraine

UPDATE, MARCH 9: A high-voltage power line supplying electricity to the defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is disconnected, reported the State Service of Special Communications and Information ...
CNN

‘Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes’ presents a harrowing window into the nuclear disaster

Even if you watched the Emmy-winning 2019 HBO miniseries (recommended, incidentally), “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes” has plenty to offer as a documentary companion, presenting a former Soviet Union ...
The Atlantic

What Russia Is Stirring Up at Chernobyl

The Russian military’s capture of the Chernobyl nuclear facility in northern Ukraine last week led to heightened levels of both radioactivity and confusion. Since the infamous 1986 explosion at ...
Salon

Russia’s bombardment of Ukraine could trigger a Chernobyl-like event. Here’s why

“Chernobyl,” of course, is shorthand for the April 26, 1986 disaster that befell Ukraine’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It all started with a single mistake: Operators performing a safety test ...
NPR

Helping the dogs of Chernobyl

An animal welfare worker in New York City tells StoryCorp about his experience providing aid for dogs in Chernobyl more than 30 years after the nuclear disaster there. It's Friday, which is when we ...