The Chernobyl core inlet paradox explained. A nuclear engineer reacts to That Chernobyl Guy and explores the reactor physics ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

The catastrophic disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 was caused by an explosion at the Reactor 4 Unit. This expelled a sizeable quantity of radioactive material into the surroundings ...

Chernobyl was back in the news recently as the decrepit nuclear plant changed hands during Russia's invasion of Ukraine and power was briefly cut. The unstable situation raised fears that pools of ...

The protective shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant can no longer contain radioactive material from the sites’ 1986 disaster after being crippled in a drone strike, the UN nuclear watchdog said ...