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The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, near the Belarus border in the Soviet Union. [1]
On 14 February 2025, an unmanned aerial vehicle hit the New Safe Confinement structure at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.The attack resulted in significant damage to the protective shelter, but did not lead to increased radiation levels in the surrounding area. [1]
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, said that its team at the site heard a large explosion shortly before 2 a.m. local time Friday (7 p.m. ET Thursday).
Rivne Nuclear Power Plant. Ukraine operates four nuclear power plants with 15 reactors located in Volhynia and South Ukraine. [1] The total installed nuclear power capacity is over 13 GWe, ranking 7th in the world in 2020. [2] Energoatom, a Ukrainian state enterprise, operates all four active nuclear power stations in Ukraine. [3]
An explosion caused by an alleged drone attack at Europe’s largest nuclear plant in Ukraine on Tuesday posed no direct threat to its safety but underscored the “extremely serious situation ...
This is actually the second nuclear power plant in Ukraine that Russia has seized. The first was taken a week ago, when Russia occupied the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is Europe’s biggest, has occasionally been hit by drones during the war without causing significant damage. The strike came two days after President Donald Trump upended U.S. policy on Ukraine, saying he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant [a] (ChNPP) is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning.ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, 16.5 kilometres (10 mi) northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 kilometres (10 mi) from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Kyiv.