10 – Chernobyl is an amazing experiment It’s hard for most people to see any silver lining in a nuclear disaster. However, while you’d never be able to subject animals or humans to these levels of radiation in a designed experiment, you can study the effects of the animals here and ...
Chernobyl disaster, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. Between 2 and 50 people were killed in the initial explosions, and dozens more contracted serious rad
At Chernobyl, this so-called "elephant's foot" is a solid mass of melted nuclear fuel mixed with concrete, sand and core sealing material that the fuel had melted through. The blob is located in a basement area under the original location of the plant's core.(Image credit: Universal Hist...
the company that owns the power plant hasn’t exactly been forthcoming with information, but the current estimates are around 538,100 terabecquerels (TBq) which is above Three-Mile Island levels, but below Chernobyl levels. And
Before you watch HBO's new miniseries, 'Chernobyl,' that dramatizes the nuclear power plant disaster, here's all the facts you need to know about the real Chernobyl disaster.
The International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is used to communicate the severity of nuclear accidents on a scale of 0 to 7. The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic...
The accident at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine shocked the world, permanently altered a region, and leaves many questions unanswered.
In 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred just 16 miles (26 km) from Belarus’s southern border. The catastrophe contaminated 70% of Belarus with nuclear fallout, affecting 23% of the country’s territory. The disaster created severe and lingering long-term health challenges including high ...
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant which is located in northern Ukraine near the Belarus border was destroyed in the world's largest nuclear accident in 1986. The largest nuclear disaster in world history caused a much higher death toll and human and environmental impact than the nuclear disaster ...
The Challenger space shuttle disaster, the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, and the 1989 Exxon oil spill were all caused to some extent by sleep deprivation. Not sleeping for 16 hours leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to having a blood-alcohol level of .05% ...