A hole in the New Safe Confinement shelter was created by a drone with an explosive warhead in February.Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images A steel shield preventing radiation spread ...

Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement (NSC) facility may have been compromised after a drone strike in February 2025, according to reports. The strike was likely an accident, but the drone carried a ...

How the alleged drone strike damaged the New Safe Confinement Investigators trace the current crisis back to a single, violent event: a drone that slammed into the New Safe Confinement above the ...

(CNN) — The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, ...

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to ...

The confinement facility “lost its primary safety functions” after a Russian drone strike in February, nuclear watchdog says. A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct ...