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After the explosion of reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986, the Soviet Union launched an enormous emergency response. Thousands of workers, soldiers, and specialists ...

It's been around since the Chernobyl disaster and the Challenger accident, but its time may be running out. See the latest ...

Between changing risk perceptions and new equipment developed to cope with extreme hazards, these major disasters have had a profound impact on nuclear safety management.

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The 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was undoubtedly the worst nuclear disaster in history. The Chernobyl disaster claimed 30 lives directly and, according to many experts, thousands ...

VLADIMIR Putin could trigger the “worst disaster in Europe ever” at an occupied nuclear plant in Ukraine where “a million things could go wrong”, it has been warned. As the war-torn ...

An interim report on options for the full restoration of the New Safe Confinement's protective functions is due to be presented later this month. Serhii Tarakanov, Director General of SSE Chornobyl ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened on April 26, 1986, the region became one of the most heavily contaminated areas on the planet. A 1,000-square-mile area surrounding the doomed nuclear ...

Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...