Only a handful of reactors in the entire world supply anywhere near that percent of its national energy GDP. Back in Russia, the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant's employed RBMK-1000s are much the same ...

Russia still has ten operating nuclear reactors that are similar to the one involved in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The type of reactor that exploded during Chernobyl, known as an RBMK, has been ...

The RBMK reactor, infamous for its role in the Chernobyl disaster, was a Soviet nuclear reactor design that carried inherent flaws from the very beginning. This video dives deep into the ...

Most companies don't need the world's second-largest airplane, a cavalcade of police cars and $20-million to change a part. Most companies aren't Progress Energy.

At low power, though, RBMK-1000 reactors become very unstable. In the run-up to the Chernobyl accident on April 26, 1986, operators were doing a test to see if the plant's turbine could run ...

Two additional RBMK reactors were in construction at the time of reactor four’s explosion – construction was cancelled in 1988. However, a number of RBMK reactors are currently still in operation.

CHERNOBYL’S 1986 RBMK reactor explosion remains the single largest nuclear disaster in human history – but how did the Chernobyl nuclear explosion happen?