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 ...

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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.

FILE - A 1986 file photo of an aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine showing damage from an explosion and fire in reactor four on April 26, 1986 that sent large amounts of ...

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 ...

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ad hoc committee will organize the 2016 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium. Its focus will be on commemorating the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor ...

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 ...

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