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 ...

Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor. In their continuing efforts to build a full-sized, functional replica of ...

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, ...

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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.

Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained ...

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 ...

Rosatom has announced completion of life-extending modernisation work at unit 3 of the Smolensk nuclear power plant, the last of three RBMK-1000 reactors at the site in western Russia. The other two ...

The decision to issue a license to extend the service life was made after Rostechnadzor representatives conducted a comprehensive analysis and verification of the condition of equipment and ...

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 ...