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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 ...
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40 Years After The Disaster, Chernobyl's Nuclear Plant Is A Tragic Time Capsule

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Control panel for Reactor 4 of the dilapidated Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year ...

Wasteland turned wildlife hotspot: Nearly 40 years after Chernobyl, nature and science are both thriving in the poisonous land

Back in 1986, when reactor no. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded on April 26, 1986, it sent radioactive fallout ...
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Ukrainians thought they had reduced the risks at Chernobyl. Then Russia invaded

The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart in the dead of night.The first, at 1:23 a.m. April 26, 1986, spread a cloud of deadly radiation that raised fears across ...
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Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, its legacy still resonates

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...