The accident at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine shocked the world, permanently altered a region, and leaves many questions unanswered.
Thirty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, smoldering nuclear “embers” are still buried within the site. What's happening, and what's at stake?
Ten miles (16 km) to the north, in the town of Pripyat, is the Chernobyl nuclear power station, site of the worst nuclear reactor disaster in history. On Apr. 25, 1986, during an unauthorized test of one of the plant's four reactors, engineers initiated an uncontrolled chain reaction ...
It happened in a danger- ously constructed nuclear power reac- tor with a total meltdown of the core tion disaster that ever resulted in an oc- cupational death toll, albeit a compara- of radiation is bad. and 10 days of free emission of radionu- clides into the atmosphere. Probably ...
1993. Cesium isotope- activity in the Weser ecosystem three years after the disaster at Chernobyl. Netherlands Journal of Aquatic Ecology 27:197-203.Rieger, E.M., B. Claus, E. Peters, M. Schirmer, and I. Schmitz-Feuerhake. 1993. Cesium isotope-activity in the Weser ecosystem three years...
Chernobyl(chĭrnōˈbyēl), Ukr.Chornobyl,abandoned city, N Ukraine, near the Belarus border, on the Pripyat River. Ten miles (16 km) to the north, in the town of Pripyat, is the Chernobyl nuclear power station, site of the worst nuclear reactor disaster in history. On Apr. 25, 19...
A set a five human hair and lung samples from supposedly contaminated and non-contaminated regions around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident of April 1986 have been analysed using the SSNTD technique. Only one of the samples displayed an alpha activity significantly greater than what might...