The Latest Breaking News from Chernobyl

Pavlo Pavlyshyn, the director of the Rivne nuclear power plant, has been working in Ukraine’s atomic power industry since 1992. He spoke to FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg about the current dangers at Ukraine’s power plants, only three of which – including Rivne – remain under Ukrainian control.

For more than three decades, very little has disturbed the vast exclusion zone around Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, just as authorities intended. That is, until Russian troops moved in, kicking up radioactive dust in their wake.

Proceeds from nostalgic event at Airdrie Working Men's Club will go to the Chernobyl Children's Lifeline

The IAEA and nuclear experts warn Ukrainian nuclear sites are at risk. Is a major nuclear incident possible?

The mayor of a town near to the nuclear power plant warned of a 'complete catastrophe' as food and fuel supplies come close to running out.

From the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia has used severe actions to try and turn the tide, from lying to their people, to disconnecting Chernobyl and bombing hospitals

Mayor wants humanitarian corridor for workers on the edge ‘due to physical and emotional exhaustion’

Reports warned of a 'complete catastrophe' as food and fuel supplies run out - including emergency generators for back up control of the plant's safety systems

Chernobyl re-connected to national electricity grid, Ukrainian regulators tell international agency

Russia's control of radioactive waste facilities at Chernobyl is limiting the flow of information out of them such that Ukraine cannot fully answer all the International Atomic Energy Agency's questions, the Ukrainian nuclear regulator has told the IAEA.

Potassium iodide has become a hot commodity as the war in Ukraine raises fears of global nuclear conflict