Maksym Polivko, who works as a guide in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, an uninhabited area the size of Luxembourg, says it makes perfect sense for it to be given official status. "The Chernobyl zone today is already a world-famous attraction," he said to AFP. "Tourists come...
The Zaporizhzhia facility is one of the 10 biggest nuclear plants in the world. Fighting in the southern part of Ukraine where it is located has raised the specter of a potential nuclear disaster like the one at Chernobyl in 1986, where a reactor exploded ...
This is a channel type reactor, which is similar to that in Chernobyl. The primary medical isotopes produced at this reactor are 99Mo (from 98Mo) and 125I (see also radionuclides in Table 1) (Solin et al., 2003). A stationary 99mTc extraction type generator covers the demand of the ...