Chernobyl’s Elephant’s Foot is one of the most radioactive objects on Earth. Just five minutes near it can be fatal, making it a chilling reminder of nuclear disaster.

"Exactly eight years ago, a new sarcophagus was slid over the old one, covering the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant," reads the Napromieniowani.pl profile on Facebook.

The first reporter on the scene of the Chernobyl accident in late April 1986 was Vladimir Gubaryev, science editor of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper in the Soviet Union. An engineer by training ...

4, the site of the worst nuclear power plant accident in history ... inside the New Safe Confinement will take apart the sarcophagus. Chernobyl by the numbers The second task is waste management.

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of fields. The explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat ...

Alla Kravchuk, the daughter of a former Chernobyl engineer, returns to her father's workplace as the huge mobile Sarcophagus built to cover the damaged reactor nears completion. Can the site of ...

This year marks Chernobyl ... 40-year old reactors, which were due for decommissioning at the end of this month. The Fukushima nuclear incident will likely be upgraded from level 4 to a 5 ...