Lithuania is preparing to dismantle the core assemblies of the RBMK reactors at the former Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant—the ...
Think of Chernobyl and you think of the city of Pripyat, but what happened to the other towns and villages in the exclusion ...
After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...
On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, POWER sent a freelance photographer and correspondent to the site in Ukraine to document the massive decommissioning effort still underway—and the ...
18 January 2007 – Leningrad nuclear power station [LAES] will start modernizing its No 3 power unit in order to extend its service life beyond 2009, when it is due to expire. Specialists will also ...
In this video, we dive into the dangerous and radioactive depths beneath the reactor using specialized diving equipment.
A steel shield preventing radiation spread from the Chernobyl site isn't working as intended anymore. The IAEA said on Friday that the New Safe Confinement shelter had "lost its primary safety ...
On June 29, 1966, the USSR Council of Ministers issued a decree approving a plan for commissioning nuclear power plants through 1977. The document specifically included the construction of nuclear ...
PRIPYAT, Ukraine — The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart in the dead of night. The first, at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, spread a cloud of deadly radiation that ...
As a blue coach pulls up outside Chernobyl nuclear-power plant, friendly stray dogs approach it. It has passed through multiple Ukrainian military checkpoints—necessary since Russian troops briefly ...
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