Report Says Renovation of Chernobyl-Type Reactor Rushed, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMESVladimir Kovalev
There is no evidence of any long term effects to the populations in the water near the nuclear reactor's cooling pond, which was the most contaminated body of water in the exclusion zone. While the groundwater has not been contaminated to date, the Sarcophagus, which was built around ...
chernobylsk-4 reactorreactor accidentsfission productsenvironmental transporthealth hazardsair pollution monitoringdata analysisOn April 26, 1986, the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power generation occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station some 60 miles north of Kiev in the ...
On April 26, 1986, a reactor in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in today's Ukraine experienced a catastrophic explosion and fire, releasing unprecedented levels of radioactive materials into the atmosphere. Although the accident itself caused a relatively small number of casualties, its long-term...
April– The Chernobyl Atomic Power Station reaches its first 10 billion kilowatt-hours of electical output. Pripyat by night, the hotel in the foreground (pripyat.com). 1982 A partial core meltdown occurs in reactor No. 1. The extent of the accident was not made public until 1985. The re...
Nuclear reactor– a facility that generates/makes heat and electricity through the use of nuclear reactions; ⚛️☢️ Explode– To burst suddenly with a lot of force; 💥 Power plant– A place where electricity is ...
of other major power sources makes nuclear power plants are the best choice. Nothing comes without an attached cost and safety, that's why everything has to be done to ensure maximal reliability. Technology has changed much since 1986, the Chernobyl reactor was seriously outdated even back then...
electricity supply to one of its Soviet RBMK type design reactors. The test was meant to measure a turbogenerator's ability to provide in-house emergency power after shutting off its steam supply. During the experiment the technicians violated several rules in place for operating the reactor. ...
Thirty-one years after the worst nuclear disaster in history, a group of self-proclaimed “stalkers” makes illegal trips into the abandoned radioactive city.
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s (NPP) number four reactor exploded on 26 April 1986, sending a radioactive cloud across much of Europe. Radioactivity with an intensity equivalent to 500 of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War Two was measured in the atmosph...