This dangerous cycle intensified, eventually leading to steam explosions and the melting of the reactor core. Source: (AP) The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was once a symbol of technological ...

When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl ... era control computers. The reactor’s V-30M computer descended from some of these earlier computers. With 20K of core memory, we won’t be impressed ...

Four Russian nuclear power units with first generation RBMK-1000 reactors have been closed after 45 years of service and ...

not less Chernobyl used Soviet-made RBMK-1000 reactors. They use graphite to hold the nuclear core's reactivity in check and keep a continuous reaction occurring. The design has since been deemed ...

This year marks Chernobyl’s 25th anniversary ... Longer term impact: Once the core is damaged and seawater is poured over reactors to cool them, Fukushima 1 (and possibly a plant in Tokai ...

The Chernobyl accident ultimately displaced some ... When power was lost, the ability to cool the reactor core was gone. The new APR reactor relies on natural forces like gravity, natural ...

Is the probability as high as Chernobyl, no. MR. WATTENBERG ... The accident at Three Mile Island did result in a partial melt of core, the reactor containment system worked, it did its job.

Three months earlier, the core of a reactor had opened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, sending plumes of radioactive material coursing through the air. As the plant's newly-appointed deputy ...

The damaged core was reported to have emitted radiation ... April — Runaway reactions during a test at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near Kiev, located in the what was then the Soviet Union ...

Vasilii Markin worked at Chernobyl loading and unloading the ... which they feared might collapse from the heat of the burning reactor core. He claims the KGB told him not to tell anyone ...

The result of both accidents was a nuclear meltdown, where overheating causes the core materials to melt leading ... could find their way outside of the reactor and into the environment. In the case ...