The RBMK reactor's dangerous positive void coefficient is highlighted, showing how overheating increases reactivity.

INSAG stands by the general conclusions of INSAG-1 about the accident’s causes and their implications for the safety of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However, ...

The two operational RBMK reactors in Kursk were both built before the Chernobyl meltdown, according to the IAEA’s PRIS database. The units are scheduled to continue generating electricity for ...

The second unit of the Leningrad NPP with the RBMK reactor is being prepared for decommissioning. The removal of nuclear fuel from the power unit has been completed. All fuel assemblies (fuel ...

Dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear plant aren’t radioactive mutants—but their genetic differences reveal a surprising story.

Much of the public is afraid of nuclear power. Four or five high-profile disasters over the last century — not to mention the ...

If the cleanup wasn't successful, he said, the Soviet Union might have stopped operating all of its RBMK reactors (the kind used at the Chernobyl plant). His personal mission became twofold ...

Fighting and shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine have intensified calls from the UN to access the facility to try to avoid a nuclear disaster similar to Chernobyl.