The footage of the incredibly dangerous 'Elephant's Foot' in the ruins of Chernobyl is really rather scary since you know ...

But if the fuel rods become fully molten, then you’ve got a meltdown on your hands. The largest formation of corium in existence occurred during the Chernobyl disaster. In fact, so much corium ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California say they’ve unraveled the mystery of why Earth’s inner core has been slowing, gradually altering the length of a ...

When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl ... computer descended from some of these earlier computers. With 20K of core memory, we won’t be impressed today, but that was respectable for the ...

Buried deep within Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, the Elephant’s Foot remains one of the most radioactive objects on Earth. Formed from molten reactor material, it stands as a grim reminder of nuclear ...

“There’s this driving sense of urgency,” she says. Before the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, molten-salt reactors seemed too expensive and safer than necessary ...