FORGOTTEN HISTORY on MSN

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.
Newsweek

Chernobyl Nuclear Radiation Shelter At Risk of Collapse

The protective radiation shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant—designed to contain radiation from Reactor 4, which was damaged during the 1986 explosion—could collapse if it’s struck again by ...

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 profound impact on nuclear safety management.
WPRI 12

A drone pierced the outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. Radiation levels are normal

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP ...
BGR

Can A Nuclear Meltdown Be Stopped?

Few manmade threats inspire as much fear as the potential of a nuclear meltdown. The fact that "Chernobyl," once an obscure Ukrainian town, is now globally recognized as a synonym for catastrophe ...