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Wuhan institute of virology. i dunno about you, senator, but this makes my blood boil. we could have actually paid for this. >> heres what we knew from the very beginning, right? this is what we knew from the very beginning. it lends to some level of inclusion at least. you have a virus that we know the chinese are experimenting with in that lab in a lab that we know that has safety problems. we know for a fact that messing around with viruses has led to outbreaks in the past but that happens wi...

Environmental News For The Week Ending 23May 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Covid totals continue to fall, bo...

Chernobyl is showing signs of a possible new nuclear accident Chernobyl is showing signs of a possible new nuclear accident, scientists say.  Nuclear reactions are smoldering again   https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/energy/553844-chernobyl-is-showing-signs-of-a-possible-new-nuclear   . Radioactive waste is smoldering in a part of Chernobyl that is unreachable. Two chemical experts heed caution of another explosion. The fatal 1986 explosion left the place a ghost town. S...

14 May 2021 Tons of nuclear fuel in the wrecked plants basement has started to react again, and its showing no signs of stopping. The concrete structure known as The Shelter seals in the remains of Chernobyls ruined Unit Four reactor. (Image credit: Getty) Nuclear reactions are smoldering again in an inaccessible basement of the wrecked Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, according to news reports. Researchers monitoring the plant — which infamously exploded in a deadly 1986 meltdown �...

While Chernobyl officials reportedly hoped that the installation of the New Safe Confinement in November 2016 would help curb the problems related to the...

feed to stay on top of the news. "[It is] like the embers in a barbecue pit," Neil Hyatt, a professor of nuclear materials science and engineering at the University of Sheffield Lecturer, told Science magazine. Fellow scientist, Maxim Saveliev, a senior researcher with the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants (ISPNPP) in Kyiv, Ukraine, agrees with Hyatt, saying "there are many uncertainties, but we cant rule out the possibility of [an] accident." The Chernobyl disaster was a n...

May 15, 2021 05:30 PM EDT Tons of nuclear fuel in the wrecked basement of the plant has started their reaction again, and its displaying no signs of stopping. (Photo : Getty Images) Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant  In Ukraine, nuclear reactions are smoldering again in a basement of the wrecked Chernobyl nuclear power plant that is unreachable, according to news reports. Researchers keeping an eye on the plant - which exploded infamously in a 1986  lethal meltdown - have identified a stable spik...

AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky Nuclear reactions are smoldering again in an inaccessible basement at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Its a "possibility" that another nuclear accident could take place, a researcher told Science magazine. Any potential explosion, however, would likely be less catastrophic than the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Nuclear reactions are smoldering again in uranium fuel masses deep inside an unreachable basement room of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...

The New Safe Confinement arch over what was once Reactor Four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine is the worlds largest mobile steel structure. Image from: Clay Gilliland/Flickr/cc Scientists monitoring the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine are detecting increased fission reactions inside an inaccessible chamber built around the radioactive ruins of a reactor that suffered a catastrophic meltdown in 1986—and they arent sure why. New Scientistreported this week tha...

Dont show me this message again✕ Danger zone? The ‘new safe confinement’ over the reactor at Chernobyl (Simon Calder) Scientists in Ukraine were alarmed last week to encounter unexpected fission reactions erupting deep within the bowels of the abandoned Chernobyl power plant, scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster when a spectacular meltdown occurred on 26 April 1986, leading to mass evacuations and a failed Soviet cover-up. Experts from the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclea...