The giant New Safe Confinement shelter over the remains of Chernobyl's unit 4 was damaged by a drone in February with an initial EUR42.5 million (USD50 million) already pledged for repair work.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the Slavutych City authorities have signed a memorandum of cooperation with the goal of developing local tourism as part of the post-war revival of the region.

In the latest meeting between International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi and Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev the two sides discussed the on-going security situation and issues relating to any future restart of the plant's units.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has met with Ukraine's President for talks about the current security situation - and also looked ahead to future new nuclear power capacity in the country.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has said the flying of drones near Zaporizhzhia and other nuclear power plants in Ukraine "should stop immediately".

Sampling is taking place across the Zhytomyr region after a research study suggested that thousands of hectares of farmland in the area outside the Chernobyl exclusion zone could safely return to agricultural use.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has outlined the scale of the damage caused by a drone strike and subsequent fires to the giant shelter built over the ruins of Chernobyl's unit 4.

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been under Russian military control since March 2022 and its director has said he expects Russian licences for operation of all units to be obtained by the end of 2027. Ukraine's Energoatom says any talk of restarting the units is a violation of nuclear and radiation safety standards.