Thirty years ago, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear ... Khodemchuk was a circulating-pump operator killed in the accident; his body remains entombed inside Reactor No. 4.

Valery Khodemchuk was working on the evening of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. He was in one of the main circulation pump engine rooms in the reactor 4 building. Valery was sent to the engine ...

The reactor in Unit 1 wasn't decommissioned until 1996. 9 A pump in the turbine hall of Chernobyl's Unit 4. 10 The ruins of the turbine hall in Unit 4. When the reactor exploded, falling ...

Viktor Bryukhanov was the manager of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, northern Ukraine, when an explosion at reactor four ... who is in the main circulating pump room close to the explosion.

After some political wrangling, the Soviet government ultimately admitted that the Chernobyl ... to power the circulation pumps) ended up in disaster. In every light water reactor (LWR) design ...

Chernobyl’s No. 4 nuclear reactor exploded on April 26 ... Chernobyl’s spent fuel had decayed to the point that circulating pumps were not necessary to keep them safe. Still, according ...

The incident on April 26, 1986 was the result of multiple factors, including undertrained staff, Soviet cost-cutting and a reactor with a fatal design flaw. Chernobyl Reactor 4, which exploded on ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian drone slammed into the shell covering the remains of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4 — the same ... heat exchange pump. The Swedish Radiation ...

AP The Chernobyl plant is the site of the world’s first level 7 nuclear energy accidents, when Reactor 4 suffered a power surge resulting in steam explosions and a meltdown on April 26 ...