In Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, a giant protective shield is slowly being moved into place a couple of feet at a time. The concrete and steel arch is billed as the ...

MINSK, 9 December (BelTA) – The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted by consensus the resolution Persistent Legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster, initiated and prepared by Belarus, at its ...

MINSK, 27 April (BelTA) – The Embassy of Belarus in Russia hosted an evening to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, BelTA learnt from Second Secretary of the embassy Lyubov Mayorova.

Victoria Bondar remembers where she was on April 26, 1986. Living in Kiev, Ukraine, she was about 60 miles away from the city of Pripyat, home of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, when one of the ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine is marking the 30th anniversary of an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the world's worst nuclear disaster. A vigil was held at midnight on Monday in the Ukrainian ...

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The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 was the most severe in the history of the nuclear power industry, causing a huge release of radionuclides over large areas of Belarus, Ukraine ...