The explosion of the Challenger space shuttle and the Russian nuclear accident at Chernobyl drive home the human quality of technology; they provide cases in which well-planned systems suddenly went haywire and there was no ready hand to set them right.一、drive home 是什么意思?二、human ...
Notes the death of Alexander Zakaharov, a Russian nuclear researcher thought to be the first Russian nuclear accident fatality since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Death due to radiation exposure after a June 17, 1997 accident a...
Nuclear plant foreman and technicians stayed at posts despite the risks because they understood what was at stake, and slowly turned the tables on their oppressors
Russians are among the world's most experienced nuclear operators, notes Claire Corkhill, a radioactive waste materials professor from the University of Sheffield. She has worked as part of the international clean-up effort at Chernobyl for the past six years, even visiting the site three times....
It said the increase originated from the southern Urals region on the border between Russia and Kazakhstan and could be the result of an accident at a nuclear facility. Russia has one of its largest nuclear facilities in the region, namely Mayak, housing plutonium production reactors and a repro...
CNBC’s Jim Cramer referred to a proclaimed Russian coronavirus vaccine as “Chernobyl II” on Tuesday, with the “Mad Money” host adding that he would take “a hard pass” on taking it if offered. “Are you gonna take a Russian vaccine?” asked “Squaw
Health effects of the Chernobyl accident and special health care programmes Twenty years have passed since the worst nuclear reactor accident in the world occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The radioactive co... B Bennett,M Repacholi,Carr - 《Geneva World Health Organization...
His comments came a day after Russia and Ukraine marked the 25th anniversary of the world's largest nuclear disaster, sparked by an April 26, 1986 accident at the Chernobyl plant, located in the then-Soviet Ukraine. The anniversary took place as atomic safety is being questioned following the...
U.N. nuclear chief Rafael Mariano Grossi has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation Board of Governors to do everything possible to avert a nuclear accident in Ukraine. "We see what's happening on the ground in Ukraine. This time, if there is a nuclear accident,...
Then, in 1957, nuclear waste storage tanks at the site exploded, raining fallout over hundreds of towns — and releasing more radiation than any other nuclear accident except Chernobyl and Fukushima. Ten years later, an adjacent reservoir used for waste disposal dried out, and powdered radioactive...