The world has learned many lessons from the Chernobyl disaster, a devastating nuclear power plant accident that recently rejoined our cultural conversation thanks to a new series on HBO. Though many ...

There's more bad mojo wrapped around the RBMK class nuclear reactor responsible for the Chorbobyl (Chernobyl) disaster than nearly any other machine in the world. Images of meltdowns, explosions, ...

Russia's nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has issued a licence valid to 2055 for the decommissioning of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant's first unit, which aims to set a template for such work on an RBMK ...

Rosenergoatom, the operator subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, is establishing a new experimental and demonstration engineering centre for the decommissioning of RBMK reactors.

Thirty-five years ago, radiation alarms went off at the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden. After an investigation, it was determined that the radiation did not come from inside the plant, but ...

The second unit of the Leningrad NPP with the RBMK reactor is being prepared for decommissioning. The removal of nuclear fuel from the power unit has been completed. All fuel assemblies (fuel ...

Was the Chernobyl disaster preventable? If the RBMK reactor had been designed differently, the explosion that shook the world might never have happened. But what were its fatal design flaws, and why ...

The Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster of April 1986 hit headlines around the world. With the story now revisited in a hit five-part miniseries courtesy of HBO and Sky, viewers are keen to find out more ...

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Soviet Ukraine suffered a critical failure on April 26, 1986. On the night of the incident, at 1.23am local time, Reactor Four of the Soviet power plant ...