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  Chernobyl at risk again? Greenpeace warns of catastrophic collapse days before disaster anniversary

  World | April 17, 2026 12:17 IST

  The Greenpeace, an international environmental organisation founded in 1971, has warned of radioactivity risk at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after its shell got damaged. The warning comes days before the 40th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

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  Chernobyl nuclear reactor roof under drone attack: Here's why it worries the world

  World | February 14, 2025 19:15 IST

  The attack on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv region sends a warning to the entire world, as the safety of nuclear facilities is of paramount importance to ensure radiation doesn't take place.

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  Russians troops leave Chernobyl nuclear site; Ukraine braces for renewed attacks

  World | April 01, 2022 10:29 IST

  Ukraine’s state power company, Energoatom, said the pullout at Chernobyl came after soldiers received “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches in the forest in the exclusion zone.

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  No contact with Chernobyl nuclear power plant's data systems: UN agency

  World | March 09, 2022 9:44 IST

  Earlier on February 24, Russian forces invaded Ukraine and seized the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant. 

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  Russia occupying Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Plant can be very dangerous, THIS series shows how

  February 25, 2022 13:42 IST

  Acclaimed series, 'Chernobyl', has five episodes each of which tells the story of how the disaster progressed engulfing innocent lives. It gives a unique perception in terms of stories of the people who are directly and indirectly affected by it. 

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  Ukraine continues to battle forest fire near Chernobyl as blaze exceeds normal levels

  World | April 06, 2020 14:50 IST

  The 2,600-square-kilometer (1,000-square-mile) Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was established after the April 1986 disaster at the plant that sent a cloud of radioactive fallout over much of Europe. The zone is largely unpopulated.

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  Lesser known facts about Chernobyl, second biggest Nuclear disaster history has ever seen

  June 07, 2019 10:41 IST

  HBO's mini-series Chernobyl depicts the catastrophic nuclear disaster happened in Ukraine, Chernobyl and the stories of its victims.

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  Korean crisis could be worse than Chernobyl: Putin

  World | April 09, 2013 8:53 IST

  Hanover (Germany), April 9:   Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for calm on the Korean peninsula, saying the escalation of tension in the region could lead to a nuclear disaster far worse than the Chernobyl

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  Will Fukushima Explode Like Chernobyl?

  World | April 12, 2011 17:59 IST

  Tokyo, Apr 12: As Japan raised its assessment of  crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the worst rating  of 7 on an international scale, putting it  on par with the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, the