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Helicopter pilots who saved millions at Chernobyl - they flew straight into the radiation

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, the Soviet Union rushed thousands of volunteers into a lethal radiation zone. Among them ...
Hackaday

Inside SKALA: How Chornobyl’s Reactor Was Actually Controlled

Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor. In their continuing efforts to build a full-sized, functional replica of ...

Fifteen years after Fukushima and 40 years after Chernobyl, what have we learned?

Between changing risk perceptions and new equipment developed to cope with extreme hazards, these major disasters have had a ...
New Scientist

Chernobyl cooling systems have lost power but meltdown risk is low

An electrical outage at Ukraine’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has taken spent fuel cooling systems offline, leading to a potential risk of overheating and the release of dangerous levels of ...