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The company is still remediating properties, crops, and testing samples for contamination from a spill in early April.
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In this video, we uncover the reasons behind the pipe cutting at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a decision that has puzzled many. Delving into the technical and safety aspects, we explain why ...
After the catastrophic Chernobyl nuclear disaster, countless pieces of equipment and machinery were used in the cleanup and containment efforts. But what exactly happened to all that equipment ...
Watch the Launch Trailer for Backrooms Cleanup Crew, a multiplayer cleaning simulation game developed by On The Bridge Games. Players will team up with their crew to clean up the aftermath of ...
Nevertheless, the crew had to switch off the safety systems in the early hours of April 26, in order to carry out the routine safety test on the reactor. But flaws in its design and a poor ...
Two workers were killed by the explosion and 28 firemen and emergency clean-up crew died from acute radiation poisoning over the first three months after the disaster.
Dogs have lived in the area since the disaster, fed by Chernobyl cleanup workers and tourists. Some 250 strays were living in and around the power plant, among spent fuel-processing facilities and ...
Trenches in Chernobyl may appear as one of those peculiar shards that kaleidoscopically and only momentarily make up the category of ‘current events’. Still, it is imperative to think through the ...
"The goal of Chernobyl's cleanup is to have no more Chernobyl," Hill said. There are still an estimated 200 tons of radioactive fuel inside what's left of the reactor, and cleanup will still take ...
Reactor 1 was shut down in 1996 and Reactor 3 was decommissioned in 2000. If the cost of human lives didn’t wake the government, it was the cost of the cover-up that led them to confront the true ...
The Chernobyl disaster occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat, in the north of Ukraine, in what was then the Soviet Union.