A giant arch shielding radioactive waste from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster began sliding into place Monday with a mission of keeping the site safe for generations to come. The European Bank for ...

Editor’s note: we are updating this story due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and reports from Ukranian officials that the country has lost control of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power ...

The 'western' and 'eastern' halves of the arch of the New Safe Confinement at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have been joined together, SSE ChNPP, the state company tasked with managing ...

A steel arch weighing 3800 tonnes is being lifted at the Chernobyl site in Ukraine, the second such milestone for the New Safe Confinement project. A steel arch weighing 3800 tonnes is being lifted at ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, Ukraine, April 26, 2012 (ENS) – Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych today launched construction of the New Shelter Confinement that will be placed over the damaged ...

Construction has started on a gigantic steel arch to cover the remnants of the Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine on the 26th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident. President Viktor Yanukovych ...

The explosion of Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, caused an unprecedented nuclear accident, releasing radioactive material across much of Europe. To limit the damage, a containment ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) - In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world's largest land-based moving structure has been slid over the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site to ...

It will cost the United States and "about 30 other nations" an astronomical $1.5 billion to erect the Chernobyl arch. The 32,000 ton structure is meant to seal off what remains of the nuclear reactor ...