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In October 1986, disaster unfolded as Ronald Reagan ... the Soviets constructed a secret facility known as Mayak to produce nuclear bombs. Even before the event, the operations at the site ignored ...
The Windscale fire was not actually the only nuclear accident of 1957. Less than two weeks earlier, an explosion at the nuclear fuel processing plant in Mayak, in the Soviet Union, caused radioactive ...
The movie tells the story of Chernobyl through unseen footage filmed at the nuclear plant during the disaster and intimate interviews of those who were there. The Russian disaster film follows ...
As Ukraine marks the 39th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, engineers ...
the worst nuclear disaster in history while grappling with ongoing threats to atomic safety caused by Russia’s drone and missile attacks and its occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power ...
Ukrainians gathered on Saturday to honour the victims and clean-up crews of the biggest nuclear disaster in history, Chernobyl, during a ceremony held in the northern town of Prypyat. Prypyat ...
The massive steel dome was designed to protect and confine radioactive remains of a reactor that was the site of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident on April 26, 1986.
Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.
Just one hour at the shore of Lake Karachay would be enough to kill. The radioactive lake, located in the southern Ural Mountains in central Russia, was a dumping ground for nuclear waste from the ...
People in Ukraine gathered on Saturday to remember those who died in the Chornobyl power plant accident, marking 39 years of the nuclear disaster. The accident that occurred on April 26 ...
It was Britain's worst nuclear disaster, but it is likely you have never heard of it. Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine, or Fukishima in Japan, Windscale in Cumbria is not vivid in the public imagination.