The corium at Chernobyl consists of uranium dioxide fuel, zircaloy cladding, concrete, and the serpentinite that had been packed around the reactor to serve as thermal insulation. Analysis has ...

"Exactly eight years ago, a new sarcophagus was slid over the old one, covering the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant," reads ... tons of radioactive corium and dozens of ...

The area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of the places being looked at as potential locations for Ukraine's planned future wave of small modular reactors. The former Chernobyl nuclear ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study ...

A population of dogs thrives in the radioactive environment of Chernobyl. This nuclear disaster ... This disastrous situation occurred when design errors in the reactor coupled with human mistakes in ...

All 61 of the nuclear power plant dogs and 52 out of 55 of the Chernobyl city dogs were identified as being at least 10 per cent German Shepherd, according to the study. Head researcher Dr.

A 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, caused the the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in history. A 1,000-square-mile exclusion ...

In 1986, a meltdown at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused the the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history. Eastern tree frogs living near the site in ...

Each of these is beautiful in its own way, but I’m not sure about the beauty and merit of corium — that which is created in a nuclear reactor core during a meltdown. A necklace made to look ...

The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 was a nuclear meltdown that occurred in northern Ukraine. It began on April 26 with the explosion of one of the power plant's reactors, and led to the largest ...

All 61 of the Nuclear Power Plant dogs and 52 of the Chernobyl City dogs were identified as being at least 10% German Shepherd (AP) According to Dr Matthew Breen from NC State: “The overarching ...