The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was the world's worst nuclear accident, with 31 people dying immediately and thousands more ...
While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...
Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to do its main safety function, a nuclear watchdog said. The drone strike ...
The story goes that three men knowingly walked to their deaths beneath Chernobyl to save Europe. It’s one of the most famous moments in nuclear history — and it’s mostly wrong. The danger was real, ...
(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...
According to head of the Atominfo research center Alexander Uvarov, forest fires that periodically occurred in the Ukrainian segment of the Chernobyl exclusion zone may have more significant radiation ...