Electricity has been fully restored at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after drone strikes damaged power infrastructure in Slavutych.

This was not the first time that authorities had discovered an illegal logging operation taking place in war-torn Ukraine.

Ever since the nuclear disaster of 1986, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has taken on a second life as an animal haven of sorts. Between 1998 and 2004, scientists began to introduce the endangered Przewalski’s horse, the world’s last truly wild equine species, into the zone.

When the Chernobyl disaster struck in 1986, it left behind one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Humans fled, but the animals stayed. Over the years, scientists discovered that radiation had caused strange mutations in the wildlife - changes in color,

The International Atomic Energy Agency says that power was restored on Thursday morning to the New Safe Confinement at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after 16 hours, following damage to a nearby substation.

Energy officials also said the shelling had caused mass power outages in nearby Chernihiv region, cutting off 307,000 customers near Ukraine's northern border with Russia. The Chernihiv region's governor said generators had been set up for key sites like hospitals,

These photos show a B-52 Stratofortress bomber in flames as a firefighter team races against the clock. Inside its burning hulk were nuclear weapons that threatened to ignite. The world was at the brink of a new nuclear disaster that reportedly could have been much worse than the accident at Chernobyl.

EADaily, October 1st, 2025. As a result of the shelling of an object in Slavutich, Kiev region, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was blacked out. This is reported by the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine.

This column was written by Andrew Meier. In the spring of 1986 the English language, and nearly every other, acquired a new word for catastrophe: Chernobyl. On April 25, 1986, when Reactor No. 4 at the nuclear power station near a leafy village some 80 ...

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The Avanhard Stadium remains a perilous location, 40 years since the football venue was abandoned following the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The ground was the former home of Soviet club FC Stroitel Pripyat who were a fourth tier side created in 1970s.