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Don't 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 Nuclear Power Plants (ISPNPP) in Kiev reported a 40 per cent increase in neutron emissions from 2016 leve...

Share Radioactive corridors where Reactor No.4 malfunctioned in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - and the levels of radiation are fifty thousand times higher than normal At the time, emergency crews responding to the accident used helicopters to pour sand and boron on the reactor debris to extinguish fires. The sand melted with uranium fuel rods and their zirconium cladding, as well as graphite control rods, to form a lava.  The lava flowed into the reactor hall's basement rooms and hardened into highly radioactive formations called lava-like fuel containing materials (LFCMs). A few weeks...

Don't show me this message again✕ Scientists monitoring the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have discovered fission reactions erupting within an inaccessible chamber in the ruins of the complex, raising concerns that a further explosion at the site could take place. Anatolii Doroshenko of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants (ISPNPP) in Kiev reported a 40 per cent rise in neutron emissions from the chamber since 2016 during discussions last week about the possibility of dismantling the old reactor, according to He and his colleagues are now studying ...