A man suffered from devastating health consequences after coming he came into contact with the 'most dangerous object in the ...

When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl ... era control computers. The reactor’s V-30M computer descended from some of these earlier computers. With 20K of core memory, we won’t be impressed ...

INSAG stands by the general conclusions of INSAG-1 about the accident’s causes and their implications for the safety of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However, ...

4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine ... to create a space for a heat exchanger, to stop the molten core melting through the concrete pad and contaminating the groundwater ...

“They don’t have a protective dome around them, just the normal roof, which means that the reactor’s core is pretty exposed ... agency,” he added. The Chernobyl meltdown left a 2,600 ...

It is estimated that about 3 to 4 percent of the total radioactive material in the Chernobyl-4 reactor core was released from the plant, due to the lack of any containment structure. Most of this ...

Scientists recently discovered mutant black tree frogs in the Chernobyl nuclear exclusion ... the chain reaction in the core of the nuclear power plant’s reactor Unit 4 went out of control ...

Vasilii Markin worked at Chernobyl loading and unloading the ... which they feared might collapse from the heat of the burning reactor core. He claims the KGB told him not to tell anyone ...

But the infamous Reactor 4, where the explosion occurred, remained closed to everyone except researchers, cleanup workers, and a few journalists - until now. Chernobyl tour companies recently told ...