Almost 40 years ago, reactor number four exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Since then, the surrounding area has ...

Video: For some it was a disaster zone - for others, Chernobyl was the home they would not leave: Stark images reveal the lives of those who refused to give up their homes... even after a nuclear ...

TASS/. The European Union (EU) has officially passed the keys to the New Safe Confinement (sarcophagus), constructed atop the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor number four destroyed in ...

engineer Oleksiy Breus entered the control room of the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. A member of staff at the plant from 1982, he became a witness to the immediate ...

The Chernobyl site contains several nuclear waste containment facilities to prevent radioactive materials spreading A radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant which ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and four major Japanese power utilities will work together to develop a next-generation nuclear reactor that will go online in the 2030s, the company announced on ...

Despite the importance of nuclear power as a low-carbon source of electricity, some countries have been phasing it out, citing risks such as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 2011 Fukushima ...

For the second time in four decades, Chernobyl was at the centre of a nuclear crisis. While the site had not been a working ...

The purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group’s Summary Report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident ... Features of the ...

April — Runaway reactions during a test at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near Kiev, located in the what was then the Soviet Union, causes a series of explosions that rupture the containment ...

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This publication provides technical and scientific information regarding the radiation monitoring, radio-ecological research and management of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant cooling pond. It ...