Chernobyl

A nuclear power startup called NuScale has received safety approval for its tiny nuclear reactor. The reactor features a compact form factor and modular design. If something goes wrong in the reactor, the system douses itself in its own cooling pool to prevent disaster. When you hear the term “nuclear…

A few years ago, some friends and I spent four days trespassing on blasted land though the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to the exploded nuclear reactor at the center of it. I had been doing research with doomsday preppers, people who imagine the world is entering a terminal phase, and though…

When Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says small nuclear reactors "could be a game changer in providing safe, zero-emitting, base load power in many areas of the province," as he did Sunday in a tweet, he's pulling your leg. For a variety of economic and technical reasons, the scenario Kenney described…

Craig Mazin, the Emmy award-winning writer behind Chernobyl and The Hangover movie series, is working alongside Neil Druckmann on The Last of Us TV show for HBO. He's now shared some intriguing new details about what to expect, including that the show will feature storylines that Druckmann originally had in…

"For sure, we have to do that." Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin has discussed his in-development TV adaptation of The Last of Us, which is being made in conjunction with Naughty Dog for release on HBO.Speaking to the BBC, Mazin discussed how the show would include new material mixed in with re-imagined…

A Friday in August sure seemed like a peculiar time for a government like Jason Kenney's to announce it had signed onto a multi-province effort to sell natural resources and encourage the development and sale of a new generation of Canadian technology.  But there was the Alberta premier on Friday,…

Having just come off some major BAFTA wins for HBO’s mini-series “Chernobyl,” that show’s creator Craig Mazin is returning to the network fold for the upcoming live-action series adaptation of Naughty Dog’s iconic video game “The Last of Us”. Mazin will serve as a writer and producer on the upcoming…

Sky has announced that its HBO co-production “Chernobyl” has become the biggest BAFTA-winning series in history. The nuclear disaster mini-series scored nine awards across the BAFTA TV Awards and BAFTA TV Craft Awards, including best mini-series and best actor for Jared Harris. Those were in addition to seven prizes it…

Chernobyl has won two top prizes at this year's virtual BAFTA TV ceremony following huge success at the organisation's craft awards earlier this month.Telling the story of the nuclear disaster at the Ukraine plant on 26 April 1986, the five-part Sky original series took home the gongs for best mini-series…

Space 24 July 2020 By Alice Klein The International Space StationNASA Archive / AlamyA radiation-absorbing fungus found at the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear reactor has been shown to absorb harmful cosmic rays on the International Space Station, and could potentially be used to protect future Mars colonies. Exposure to cosmic rays…