In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, a routine safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant spiraled into the ...
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Nuclear engineer breaks down Chernobyl core paradox

A nuclear engineer reacts to claims about the Chernobyl reactor and its core inlet behavior, separating myth from real reactor physics. The discussion explains what actually happened and why certain ...
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 ...
Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all ...
When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...
It is thought that as many as five million people were exposed to some sort of health hazard following the Chernobyl disaster ...
Nearly four decades after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, scientists have identified subtle genetic mutation clusters in the children of exposed fathers. By focusing on radiation-specific mutation ...
A steel shield preventing radiation spread from the Chernobyl site isn't working as intended anymore. The IAEA said on Friday that the New Safe Confinement shelter had "lost its primary safety ...