The Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011 and the worst nuclear accident ever, in Chernobyl, now Ukraine, in 1986, expanded the world’s understanding of the destruction that a nuclear war or ...

Explore the heart of the Chernobyl disaster through high-detail 3D animations that expose why the Soviet reactor was vulnerable to one of history’s worst nuclear catastrophes. Witness a side-by ...

It’s not a detailed 3D render of any particular nuclear power plant and doesn’t have a specific meltdown event in mind, although it does mention both Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Food from Fukushima is also subjected to monitoring and testing by the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, to ensure safe standards.

Chernobyl, 1986 (Former Soviet Union, Ukraine) Location: Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Unit 4; northern Ukraine, former Soviet Union Date: April 26, 1986 at 1:23 a.m. (Unreported until April 28 ...

While safety has remained a concern for much of the general public—many of whom recall Chernobyl and, more recently, Fukushima—a raft of technologies are helping ensure that today’s nuclear ...

There is no danger of an accident like that at Chernobyl in 1986, but a meltdown like that at Fukushima, in Japan, remains possible. The heat from decaying fission products must be removed from ...

The New Safe Confinement sarcophagus covers the destroyed reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power station on November 29, 2016 in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Brendan Hoffman–Getty Images ...

The Chernobyl plant, which closed in 2000, has fuel rods containing 230 kilograms (500 pounds) of uranium, and they are submerged in water at least 15 meters (49 feet) deep, with an active cooling ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) successfully developed a way to 3D scan and visualize the radiation data from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster by combining a Compton camera, radiation meter ...

Dramatizing the Chernobyl Disaster, for Its Survivors Unlike the recent HBO series, the Russian-language feature film “Chernobyl 1986” explores the human toll of the power plant explosion.