The haunting photograph he captured—depicting the wrinkled, molten mass in a dimly lit, decaying corridor—became one of the most infamous images of Chernobyl’s aftermath. Korneyev’s ...

The delegation, which included members of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's nuclear safety department, ...

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 ...

Named for its appearance, it formed from molten core material that escaped the reactor ... level reached 10,000 roentgens in the year of the Chernobyl accident - equivalent to a thousand times ...

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant operators say that the drone ... which allowed the other units at the plant to continue operating. It still contains the molten core of the reactor and an estimated ...

“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 ...

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 ...