Scientists found Chernobyl fuel grains that still contain radioactive gases and operational secrets from the reactor after 30 years

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has revealed that Ukrainian engineers and workers are carrying out temporary repairs of the Chernobyl Reactor 4 containment site’s New Safe Confinement (NSC). This structure was completed in 2016 to enclose ...

Russia promptly accused Ukraine of planning the Chernobyl attack as a “false flag” operation. A Russian drone is reported to have struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s concrete “sarcophagus” in the early hours of Friday in an overnight attack.

A study reveals that the cause of Chernobyl was not hidden fission, but changes in humidity inside the reactor, revealed by neutron spikes.

There have been three major accidents at commercial nuclear reactors – Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and Fukushima (2011). Let’s take a look at each of these accidents to see what happened. Before we do the analysis, you need to ...

At 1:23 in the morning of April 26, 1986, there was a disastrous chain reaction in the core of Chernobyl reactor number four. NPR's Melissa Block... Covering the Chernobyl Crisis At 1:23 in the morning of April 26, 1986, there was a disastrous chain ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in video games. This advancement ... Japan's decision to ...

The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi has already been dubbed the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, and the situation there continues to worsen. But along with references to the “ch-word,” as one nonproliferation expert put it [1], experts ...