In February 2025, a cheap Russian drone tore through Chornobyl’s confinement shelter. Workers warn the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is not safe yetThe dosimeter clipped to your chest ticks faster the moment you step off the designated path inside the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Step back, and it slows again – an invisible line between clean ground and contamination.Above rises the “new safe confinement” (NSC) – the largest, movable steel structure ever built, taller than the Statue of Liberty, wider than the Colosseum, its arch curving overhead like an aircraft hangar built for giant planes. Continue reading...
Inside Chornobyl: 40 years after disaster, nuclear site still at risk in Russia’s war
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Sat 06:00 - Le Figaro
500 millions de dégâts et un confinement fragilisé : dans les entrailles de Tchernobyl, où la Russie a rouvert les plaies de la catastrophe
Sun 04:00 - Le Monde
VIDEO - Tchernobyl : le récit de l’accident nucléaire, minute par minute
Tue 17:56 - The Economist
Scientists are still learning from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster - The Economist
Wed 12:46 - The Conversation
Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation campaign over nuclear disaster - The Conversation
Thu 10:36 - The Boston Globe
Archive photos from the Chernobyl disaster site, Pripyat, Glogow, Moscow - The Boston Globe
Thu 11:50 - SWI swissinfo.ch
Radioactive fallout from Chernobyl accident lingers in Switzerland - SWI swissinfo.ch
Thu 15:49 - Le Figaro
Forty years after the disaster, the threat still hangs over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Fri 02:30 - Le Monde
Chernobyl, forty years later: a choice of documentaries and fiction on the worst nuclear disaster in history
Fri 07:20 - The Times
Why another Chernobyl disaster is one Russian strike away - The Times
Fri 11:47 - La Libre (BE)
In Chernobyl, 40 years after the disaster, the frogs have turned black
Fri 12:20 - Le Figaro
“The radioactive cloud stopped at the border”: the myth of state lies born from catastrophic communication after Chernobyl
Fri 13:48 - South China Morning Post
In pictures: Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years on - South China Morning Post
Fri 18:32 - National Geographic
Inside Chernobyl’s shadow community: what a nuclear disaster looks like 40 years on - National Geographic
Fri 18:33 - USA Today
Look back at the Chernobyl disaster nuclear accident 40 years ago - USA Today
Fri 21:58 - American Nuclear Society -- ANS
Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News -- ANS / Nuclear Newswire - American Nuclear Society -- ANS
Fri 22:30 - PBS Newshour
Inside Chornobyl, 40 years after the world's worst nuclear disaster
Sat 01:03 - Yahoo
Ukrainians thought they had reduced the risks at Chernobyl. Then Russia invaded - Yahoo
Sat 05:00 - The Guardian
Inside Chornobyl: 40 years after disaster, nuclear site still at risk in Russia’s war