Was the Chernobyl disaster preventable? If the RBMK reactor had been designed differently, the explosion that shook the world might never have happened. But what were its fatal design flaws, and why ...
MOSCOW — The Chernobyl plant sits idle 20 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, its last reactor taken out of service some six years ago. But a dozen other reactors of the same design remain ...
Lithuania's State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant has signed two contracts with international consortiums for the design of technologies for dismantling the two shut down RBMK reactors at the ...
Construction work has begun on the outer containment building for the third new unit at the Leningrad nuclear power plant, ...
As curious people, we’re all incredibly fortunate to live in an age where information can so easily be obtained. If you want to learn how something works, from a cotton gin to an RBMK reactor, you’re ...
When people conjure images of nuclear power plants, it's usually an image of Chornobyl (Chernobyl), Fukushima, Three Mile Island, and that's about pretty much where that list ends. But by the end of ...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has revealed that Ukrainian engineers and workers are carrying out temporary repairs of the Chernobyl Reactor 4 containment site’s New Safe Confinement ...
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