ZME Science

The Hiroshima Bomb Created a Strange Alloy Never Seen on Earth From Vaporized Buildings and Metal

Incident-light image of the hiroshimaite sample containing iron-chromium alloys, left, and its polished surface under reflected light, right. Credit: Bindi et al., 2026 A grain of metal scarcely wider ...
Prescott eNews

Inside the Next-Gen Nuclear Power Revolution in Idaho’s High Desert – The Epoch Times

History was made with the flip of a switch at 12:30 a.m. on June 4, under partly cloudy skies and a waning three-quarter moon in Idaho’s Arco Desert, when a prototype reactor sustained a nuclear chain ...

Quote of the day by Valery Legasov: 'Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid' and how continuous deception led to the Chernob…

A technician inside a nuclear control room looks at a radiation meter that reads exactly 3.6 Roentgen (Unit of measurement ...
Radio France Internationale

Chernobyl, 40 years on: the disaster that triggered the downfall of a superpower

As radiation spread across Europe in April 1986, so did the truth about a political system built on silence. Four decades on, RFI spoke to history and politics professor Oleg Kobtzeff about how the ...
Reason

Chernobyl Wasn't a Nuclear Disaster—It Was a Communist Disaster

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...
heise online

Missing Link: 40 years ago, the Chernobyl reactor exploded

On Saturday, April 26, 1986, at 1:20 a.m., the world was still in order. For a few more minutes: In the control room of Unit 4 of the Chernobyl power plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, ...
Sky

'I thought it was a nuclear bomb': Inside the night Chernobyl exploded

"I thought it was a direct hit with a nuclear bomb." The reactor core is open, spewing radioactive poison into the sky as an inferno rages. The disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was ...
THE WEEK

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years on

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...
Los Angeles Times

Chernobyl, 40 years later: Ukrainians thought they had reduced the risks. Then Russia invaded

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As Ukrainians mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, last year’s Russian drone attack ...
The New Yorker

A Chernobyl Widow’s Tragedy, Forty Years Later

Nataliia Khodymchuk’s last evening at home was like many that had come before. She stayed in the neat confines of her three-bedroom apartment in Kyiv, slicing garlic to preserve and knitting socks and ...
Le Monde.fr

'At Chernobyl, everything seemed to be cracking and melting': A former Ukrainian 'liquidator' recounts the disaster 40 years later

FeatureHalyna Kharshenko went to work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, unaware of the scale and severity of the explosion that had just occurred. The next day, she had to be ...
The Irish Times

Adi Roche: My nightmare is that the next Chernobyl event occurs at Chernobyl itself

At exactly 01:23 on the morning of April 26th, 1986, a chain of events in Reactor No 4 at Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine triggered the world’s worst nuclear disaster. The first of the ...