What happened recently at Chernobyl? | PBS News
Mar 9, 2022 · When fighting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in power cuts to the critical cooling system at the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, some feared that spent nuclear fuel would...
Russian forces seize Chernobyl nuclear power plant - BBC
Russian military forces have seized control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials say. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said the "totally pointless attack" on Thursday...
Chernobyl: Survivors reflect on nuclear accident, Russian ... - UN News
Apr 26, 2023 · Survivors of one of the world’s worst ever nuclear accidents at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine on 26 April 1986 have been reflecting on the events of that fateful day 37 years ago, as...
Chernobyl: Russia destroys radiation monitoring lab, says Ukraine - CNN
Mar 23, 2022 · Russian forces have looted and destroyed a laboratory near the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was used to monitor radioactive waste, the Ukrainian government said Wednesday.
‘It's like the embers in a barbecue pit.' Nuclear reactions are ...
May 5, 2021 · Thirty-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. "It's like the embers in a barbecue pit," says Neil Hyatt, a nuclear materials chemist at the University of Sheffield.
Chernobyl’s frogs are living long, healthy lives - Yahoo
19 hours ago · However, Chernobyl’s situation has changed a lot since the accident – today, only 10 % of the radiation released in 1986 remains, and the most dangerous isotopes, such as iodine, disappeared ...
Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia
The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, ... At 21:02 the evening of 28 April, a 20-second announcement was read in the TV news programme Vremya: "There has been an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One of ...
Chernobyl Radiation Levels Within Safe Limits, Nuclear Agency …
Apr 28, 2022 · By Matthew Mpoke Bigg. April 28, 2022. Radiation levels are elevated in some parts of the soil near the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, but do not pose a significant threat...
Russian forces seize Chernobyl nuclear power plant - BBC News
Feb 25, 2022 · Russian military forces have seized control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials say. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said the "totally pointless attack" on Thursday...
Chernobyl disaster - BBC News
Apr 9, 2022 · Radiation levels increased, but a disaster at the defunct nuclear power plant there is 'extremely unlikely', experts say. All the latest content about Chernobyl disaster from the BBC.