On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

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 ...

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

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been under Russian military control since March 2022 and its director has said he ...

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Memories of radiation in Europe after the 1986 accident provide a stark lesson for those supporting nuclear power in Australia ...

Chernobyl was a cataclysm of such magnitude that it is hard not to view ... In the early hours of 26 April 1986, there was an explosion in the plant’s fourth reactor. A turbine test had gone ...

Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

It will enable the eventual removal of the fuel-containing materials in the bottom of the reactor building and accommodate their characterisation, compaction, and packing for disposal. This task ...