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Dogs living around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster are turning blue, but scientists think the explanation is rather simple

Shutterstock When the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had a meltdown, it was a terrifying event for people around the world. As ...

Can A Nuclear Meltdown Be Stopped?

Nuclear power has a lot of potential, but many fear the dangers of nuclear meltdowns. Fortunately, some new reactors might ...
Malay Mail

Chernobyl’s safety shield was meant to last a century — war has changed that

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless ...
Futurism

YouTuber Clambers Inside Chernobyl’s Nuclear Sarcophagus

In October 2021, months before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, YouTuber Kyle Hill got a rare glimpse inside the New Safe Confinement (NSC) “sarcophagus” at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. It’s a ...
AFP on MSN

Inside Chernobyl, Ukraine scrambles to repair radiation shield

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey ...
Business Insider

Chernobyl's stray dogs are 'genetically distinct' 40 years after the massive nuclear radiation leak, scientists find

Almost 40 years after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, hundreds of feral dogs still live in the abandoned area surrounding the ruins of the Ukrainian power station. The canine population is now the ...
The New York Times

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (1986)

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost protective shield in February. By Kim Barker Each day of war risks a ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Chernobyl is still changing: Four enduring stories and a recent one

“One of the atomic reactors has been damaged,” a Radio Moscow broadcast announced about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 28, 1986—nearly three days after the accident. “Measures are being ...
Newsweek

Russian Forces Have Fully Left Chernobyl Nuclear Plant, Ukraine Says

A Ukrainian state-owned nuclear company announced Thursday that Russian forces had left the Chernobyl plant after more than a month of occupying it. In an online post, the company Energoatom said ...