FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, ...
On April 26, 1986, a series of explosions ripped through the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. The ensuing radioactive fallout spread across Ukraine, Belarus and ...
A disturbing trend is manifesting itself in developing countries – the uncalled for craving for nuclear energy. Its equation with economic and industrial revolution in the third world is a smack in ...
THE Ukrainian widow of the first Chernobyl victim has been killed by a Russian drone blast. Nataliia Khodemchuk died after ...
Britain has warned Vladimir Putin of a “dramatic increased response” from the West if he uses chemical weapons in Ukraine, amid warnings over a possible attack on Chernobyl. Ukrainian defence ...
A DENTAL team from Tralee treated over 150 children at an orphanage in Belarus in the same week as part of a roof caved in over one of the nuclear reactors at the Chernobyl plant - only 170 kms away.