Russia’s Mining and Chemical Combine (GKhK – Gorno Khimicheskii Kombinat), in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk (part of Rosatom’s ...

The purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group’s Summary ... of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However, ...

The second unit of the Leningrad NPP with the RBMK reactor is being prepared for decommissioning. The removal of nuclear fuel from the power unit has been completed. All fuel assemblies (fuel ...

Making matters worse, the two units in operation use the same so-called RBMK technology that melted down during the notorious 1986 accident in Chernobyl. Unlike modern nuclear reactors ...

"The nuclear scientists investigating the causes of the accident were well aware of the faults of the RBMK reactor years before the accident," Adam Higginbotham, author of "Midnight in Chernobyl ...