The reactors there are of the VVER-1 000 type, considered safer by Western experts than the RMBK reactors at Chernobyl. Chernobyl's number four reactor exploded in April 1986, killing at least 30 ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels ...

The worst are the Chernobyl-type rbmk reactors. They lack even the “confinement” cascades built into other Soviet-era designs. They also rely on flammable graphite, a form of carbon ...

Days after India attacked several Pakistani airbases, a picture circulated in social media posts falsely claiming it showed a ...

The next two reactors built at the plant will be of a new generation, possibly a type he refers to as "Fast Neutron". He's so busy thinking about the future, I ask if he ever remembers Chernobyl. "We ...

I doubt it. But barely 14 years later, the sarcophagus is crumbling, and if Chernobyl is ever to be safe it will have to be rebuilt or replaced, at immense cost. Another concern is the type of reactor ...

Designed to have some of the lowest operating costs among fission reactor types, RBMKs were designed ... itself but by the hit HBO drama series Chernobyl from 2019. But the admittedly captivating ...

Wreckage of the military drone that hit the wrecked Chernobyl reactor cover was shown but the type was not immediately clear. Ukrainian war reporter Denis Kazansky commented: “Russian war ...

But there is "good" news, in a sense: "Either would be much, much less than what happened in Chernobyl," Rofer added. "That reactor (of an entirely different type, graphite rather than metal and ...