A full two years before the explosion of Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl demonstrated the complexity of nuclear power to the general public, he was tinkering with his own virtual version using a string ...

INSAG stands by the general conclusions of INSAG-1 about the accident’s causes and their implications for the safety of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However, ...

A Ukrainian air defense unit illuminating a hole in the steel shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last month. The fire started by the drone burned for weeks.Credit... Supported by By Kim ...

Since the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in April ... This makes them excellent model organisms for studying a range of things, from biological development, to DNA ...

The tomb burying the remains of the catastrophic Chernobyl reactor meltdown was struck in February by a drone packed with explosives, which blasted open a gash that workers were still repairing ...

Should Japan's stricken nuclear reactors be entombed like the site of the Chernobyl accident? Authorities in Japan aren't yet thinking about a permanent entombment. But they are looking into the ...

“Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the” Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Twitter post. “Our defenders are giving their lives so ...

IAEA said the Chernobyl plant, which holds decommissioned reactors as well as radioactive waste facilities is not currently operational and handling of nuclear materials has been halted.

But the infamous Reactor 4, where the explosion occurred, remained closed to everyone except researchers, cleanup workers, and a few journalists - until now. Chernobyl tour companies recently told ...