The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant could have been worse. Only one reactor was affected and only a small percentage of the core was released. The effect of fallout was less than it might have been because the initial plume did not encounter rain until it reached Sweden, so ...
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There are also two other damaged reactors, Unit 1 and Unit 3, which are in worse condition and will take even longer to deal with. TEPCO plans to deploy a set of small drones in Unit 1 for a probe later this year and is developing even smaller "micro" drones for Unit 3, which is ...
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The fact that the arsenic remained undetected led to a delay of five years in the uncovering of a public-health disaster worse than Chernobyl or Bhopal. The survey took place eight years after the WHO had set formal international standards for arsenic in water supplies, but occurred in the mo...
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