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A 1,000-X-ray blob: Why Chernobyl’s Elephant’s Foot still terrifies scientistsNearly four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, the remnants of Reactor No. 4, especially the Elephant’s Foot—a dense, highly radioactive...
11 years later, fate of Fukushima reactor cleanup uncertainEleven years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was ravaged by a meltdown following a massive earthquake and tsunami, the plan...
Rise of the machines: Can robots be our saviour against COVID-19Once called ‘hype’, intelligent machines are increasingly playing a prominent role in a Covid ravaged world. As humans are confined to home...
Nuke blast may have triggered Chernobyl disaster: StudyThe steam explosion which ruptured the reactor vessel occurred some 2.7 seconds later, said De Geer, lead author of the study published in ...
How Japan could remove melted nuclear fuel it hunted for 6 yearsSearch for fuel has left a trail of dead experimental robots specifically designed to find and photograph the estimated combined 600 metric...
- Radioactive material from Fukushima nuclear reactor tracked 600 km away
Radioactive material found from the crippled Fukushima in tiny sea creatures and ocean water some 600 km off the coast of Japan.
Rise and fall of the Soviet Union RevisitedOf the many gems the thriving Soviet joke industry produced when the ‘worker's paradise’ was still in business, here goes one of the best.
- Tsunami in Japan: Quake-hit Japan faces new threat: Nuclear meltdown
Cooling systems failed at another nuclear reactor on Japan's devastated coast on Sunday hours after an explosion at a nearby unit leaking r...