How a Cheap Drone Punctured Chernobyl’s 40,000-Ton Shield
The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...
Reason1 个月
Inside the Russian Occupation of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
A legion of Ukrainian workers regularly commutes into the exclusion zone from the nearby city of Slavutych, built after the meltdown for evacuated Chernobyl staff. And in February 2022 ...
world-nuclear-news20 天
Chernobyl: Emergency work completed after drone strike on shelter
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of Chernobyl's giant shelter has been completed, three weeks after it was struck by a ...
The Scientist1 年
U.S. Slow To Ease Export Controls On High-Tech Items
WASHINGTON--One week after the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded in April 1986, Soviet contacts called Carnegie Mellon University robot researcher William ("Red") Whittaker to ask for help in saving ...
People5 年
Creator of HBO's 'Chernobyl' Says Show's Dog Death Scene Is a 'Toned Down' Version of Real ...
It happened," one of Chernobyl's creator's tweeted after ... got too bleak on Monday’s episode of the show, which showed workers known as “liquidators” shooting dogs left behind at the ...