When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...
The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not ...
While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...
A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ad hoc committee will organize the 2016 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium. Its focus will be on commemorating the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor ...
A nuclear engineer reacts to the tragic helicopter crash during the Chernobyl cleanup, as explained by That Chernobyl Guy. We ...
(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...