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Helicopter pilots who saved millions at Chernobyl - they flew straight into the radiation

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, the Soviet Union rushed thousands of volunteers into a lethal radiation zone. Among them ...
Hackaday

Inside SKALA: How Chornobyl’s Reactor Was Actually Controlled

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 ...

Fifteen years after Fukushima and 40 years after Chernobyl, what have we learned?

Between changing risk perceptions and new equipment developed to cope with extreme hazards, these major disasters have had a profound impact on nuclear safety management.
The New York Times

High Above Chernobyl, Workers Grapple With Ice, Fire and Nuclear Fears

After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage of the world’s worst nuclear accident. The breach at the Chernobyl nuclear ...