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T he International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has revealed that Ukrainian engineers and workers are carrying out temporary ...
The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a ...
Scientists have confirmed that the lands around Chernobyl can be cultivated once again. Research indicates that the radiation ...
I first heard of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor breakdown on the morning of ... authorities began evacuating the local Soviet population. “The heart of the reactor—the hot radioactive core—is in ...
One of the turning points in history took place on April 26, 1986, when one of the reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...
Chernobyl disaster left behind a strangely-shaped object which would be deadly to anyone who came close to it.
As Ukraine marks the 39th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, engineers ...
Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...
Now, scientists suspect that solar storms powerful enough to collapse portions of modern power grids for months may hit the ...
They used declassified US documents to develop the technology.
On April 26, 1986, life changed forever in Pripyat, Ukraine. A late-night safety check at Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant spiraled out of control. A surge of energy blew the reactor ...
Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the Earth ...