Chernobyl

When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have helped maintain the necessary cooling of the core, were destroyed by the subsequent tsunami. Because the reactor could no longer cool…

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SummaryThirty-five years after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded in the world's worst nuclear accident, fission reactions are smoldering again in uranium fuel masses buried deep inside a mangled reactor hall. Sensors are tracking a rising number of neutrons, a signal of fission, streaming from one inaccessible room.…

Lack of transgenerational effects of ionizing radiation exposure from the Chernobyl accident By Meredith Yeager, Mitchell J. Machiela, Prachi Kothiyal, Michael Dean, Clara Bodelon, Shalabh Suman, Mingyi Wang, Lisa Mirabello, Chase W. Nelson, Weiyin Zhou, Cameron Palmer, Bari Ballew, Leandro M. Colli, Neal D. Freedman, Casey Dagnall, Amy Hutchinson, Vibha…

“Chernobyl” producer Sister is adapting the hit Audible original podcast “West Cork” for TV. Created by Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde, “West Cork” is an investigation into the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Du Plantier, a French film producer, was found near her holiday home around the West…

Tall Tales And other stories from the stranger side of lifeVodka made from radioactive apples grown near Chernobyl has been seized by Ukrainian officials. The brand, called Atomik, includes ingredients from the nuclear power plant’s still-radioactive exclusion zone. However, UK drinkers have been denied the chance to consume the heady…

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe said the Department of Mineral Resources did not receive any budget complaints regarding the extension of Koeberg power station's life. He was replying to questions from members of Parliament in the National Council of Provinces. Mantashe said Eskom will provide the budget for the…

KYIV (Reuters) - Scientists have recorded a rise in nuclear activity in the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine since it was covered over in 2017, but the rise has levelled off and does not exceed safety standards, staff said on Wednesday. Staff at the plant…

Home News A scene from the Chernobyl exclusion zone (Image credit: Getty) In 2019, a group of scientists and distillers decided to create a bold new type of booze: Atomik, an artisanal alcoholic spirit made from ingredients grown in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's still-radioactive exclusion zone. (The booze itself…

By Matthew Sparkes The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was enclosed following its meltdown in 1986 Konoplytska/Getty Images Scientists monitoring the ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have seen a surge in fission reactions in an inaccessible chamber within the complex. They are now investigating whether the problem…