Photo of the New Safe Confinement at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which covers the number 4 reactor unit, on the 36th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster. (SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images) CHERNOBYL, Ukraine - Here in the dirt of one of the world’s most radioactive...
Reports that Russia's decaying nuclear submarine fleet which is threatening the world with a new Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Concerns on the antique nuclear reactor of Russia's Kola peninsula.Labes, LucindaEcologist
Recalls the nuclear power plant disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Interview with Russia Minister of Atomic Energy Aleksandr Rumyantsev; Release of documents by the Ukrainian Security Service; Confirmation on the construction defects of the plant.Vaganov...
An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country has lost control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after Ukrainian forces fought to defend it from Russian troops, according to reports. The adviser, Myhailo Podolyak, was quoted by The Associated Press and other news ...
As we reassess risk,we might recall that it was on this date in 1986 that Russia announcedthe Chernobyl nuclear disaster, two days after it happened. A view of the facility three days after the incident (source Jurisdictional triage…
Igor Vishnevetsky, a senior non-proliferation and arms control official at the Russian Foreign Ministry, warned that the shelling of the plant risks triggering an event similar to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. We would like to appeal to international organizations, especially to the UN and...
The International Atomic Energy Agency says it was notified but sees "no critical impact" on safety. Chernobyl, the site of a 1986 nuclear disaster, isn't active but operates various radioactive waste management facilities, according to the IAEA. ...
UDC 621.039.586 Data on the origin, time of formation, and location of individual parts of zones of environmental contamination with radionuclides as a result of the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant are necessary for estimates of the dose burdens on the inhabitants of the various ...
Worse Than Chernobyl ; 'IoS' Special Investigation: Nuclear Waste in Russia ++ A 'Dirty Timebomb' Ticking in a Rusting Russian Nuclear Dump Threatens Europe ++ 20,000 Discarded Uranium Fuel Rods Stored in the Arctic Circle Are Corroding. the Possible Result? A Massive Radioactive Explosion That...
Chernobyl only had four nuclear reactors; Zaporizhzhia boasts six. Neither plant was designed to withstand military-grade drones. Any nuclear accident would have “significant radiological consequences”, in Grossi’s words, as well as potentially causing massive energy deficits across ...