Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine ... up in the reactor after a series of safety blunders. The reactors had a graphite core with uranium rods. They were air-cooled through two 410ft chimneys.

INSAG stands by the general conclusions of INSAG-1 about the accident’s causes and their implications for the safety of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However, ...

But this led to the actual deactivation of the plant’s safety systems which created a massive steam explosion and an open-air ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

If you've never heard the name Ulana Khomyuk prior to the release of the HBO series "Chernobyl," you're not alone. While most of the show's characters were based on real-life participants in the ...