The New Safe Confinement dome protects the surrounding environment from leaking radiation, but a recent drone strike on the ...

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is running for UN Secretary-General ...

On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution spearheaded by Ukraine aimed at enhancing global ...

The adoption of the UN General Assembly resolution on the Chernobyl disaster is an important step towards overcoming its ...

The U.N. passed the resolution on Thursday, with few countries—such as Russian ally Belarus, China and North Korea —voting ...

The mission found the NSC’s primary safety systems had failed but confirmed no lasting damage to its structures or monitoring ...

Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, Andrii Melnyk, presented to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) a draft resolution ...

Whether a nuclear renaissance actually occurs in the coming decade or two depends on three fundamental questions: Are the new ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

The protective barrier around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site can no longer confine radioactive waste due to a drone strike in February, the ...

The dome around the Chernobyl site "had lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability" after a ...