To give people the most intimate RBMK experience, the [Chornobyl Family] has been working tirelessly at not only replicating ...

Leningrad 1, the oldest operating RBMK unit, has been reconnected to the grid after the completion of work to resolve deformation of its graphite moderator. Leningrad 1, the oldest operating RBMK unit ...

This video breaks down the Chernobyl disaster by focusing on the machine at its core: the RBMK reactor. We explain how nuclear reactors work in principle, then show what made the RBMK different - from ...

The Lithuanian state-owned company leading the decommissioning of the Ignalina nuclear power plant, Altra, has launched an international tender for the design and dismantling of the reactor cores of ...

18 January 2007 – Leningrad nuclear power station [LAES] will start modernizing its No 3 power unit in order to extend its service life beyond 2009, when it is due to expire. Specialists will also ...

MOSCOW, Aug 22 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine on Thursday of trying to strike Russia's Kursk nuclear power station in an overnight attack. He provided no documentary evidence to ...

The trouble with nuclear technology, of any kind really, is that it depends on sensible and even intelligent decisions being made by supremely fallible human beings. The consequences of even a simple ...

During the 1990s the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant – formerly the Chernobyl NPP – continued operating with its remaining three RBMK reactors, but of course the 1970s-era automation with its very ...