September 26, 1977: The Chernobyl nuclear power station, located about 65 miles north of Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), begins supplying power to the grid. February 1986: A Soviet official is quoted saying that the odds of a nuclear meltdown are “one in 10,000 years....
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The average radiation exposure for the entire Japanese population, due to the Fukushima disaster, was as low as 1/10th of that experienced by the entire European population due to the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown. That’s the finding of a 2022 report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on t...
Photo: Nuclear nightmare: In the days following the Chernobyl nuclear power explosion in the Ukraine in 1986, a cloud of radioactive "fallout" spread throughout Europe. In this sequence of pictures, you can see the cloud (the pink area) on day 2, day 6, and day 10 after the accident....
Fukushima was on course for a Chernobyl-style meltdown that could have rendered much of eastern Japan and Tokyo uninhabitable. Over the next four days, the containment chambers around three of the plant’s four reactors ruptured due to buildups of hydrogen gas, sending up radioactiv...
Mazin says the scene came to him during production when he recalled something from his research into the catastrophic 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that still haunts him today. “That reactor had been there for years,” he says. “It could have blown up at...
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