When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.
In 1956, Calder Hall nuclear power station ... before on a reactor fire, if it had exploded, Cumberland would have been finished. 'Blown to smithereens. It would have been like Chernobyl.' ...
But a decade before the infamous 1986 Chernobyl ... power to the reactor were destroyed in the fire, rendering five of the six water pumps at the plant useless, the aversion of a nuclear ...
The US and Ukraine have discussed the possibility of establishing a US presence at Ukrainian nuclear power plants to provide security and assistance, particularly at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya ...
That's the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose reactor #2 had a partial meltdown in 1979. There were no injuries, and nobody died, but it set the nuclear industry back years. Only two new ...
A Ukrainian air defense unit illuminating a hole in the steel shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last month ... protective shield for a damaged reactor at Chernobyl that would protect ...