A Fire at Chernobyl Is Releasing Large Amounts of Radiation
Dead Zone Ukrainian authorities say a forest fire is causing radiation levels to spike in the area of Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant that melted down in 1986. "There is bad news — in the center of...
View ArticleScientists Send Boston Dynamics Robodog Into Chernobyl
Radioactive Spot A team of engineers from the University of Bristol visited the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant last week to test out Spot, a four-legged robodog made by US-based robotics company Boston...
View ArticleAuthorities Seize "Atomik" Booze Made Near Chernobyl Disaster
Atomik Authorities in Ukraine have sized more than 1,500 bottles of a spirit made out of apples grown near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site, USA Today reports. The high proof booze, called Atomik,...
View ArticleScientists Fear New Disaster at Chernobyl Meltdown Site
Burning Out Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was destroyed decades ago in a horrific radioactive accident. But it turns out that nuclear reactions are still smoldering away inside, even now....
View ArticleCouple Gets Engaged at Site of Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown
Nuclear Bond What could possibly be more romantic than getting engaged to be wed at the site of a nuclear disaster? It's bad enough that Chernobyl tourism took off after after the seminal 2019 HBO...
View ArticleGreat, Ukraine is Doing Military Combat Drills in Chernobyl Now
Nuclear (Plant) War Threats of Russian invasion have led the Ukrainian military to a bizarre training location — the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. As CNN reports, swaths of international journalists...
View ArticleUkraine Says Russia Is Trying to Seize Chernobyl's Melted Down Nuclear Reactor
Fallout: 2022 In an ominous turn of events, Ukraine’s president says that Russian troops are trying to seize the sealed off Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Pripyat. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...
View ArticleChernobyl Meltdown Site Loses Power After Russian Invasion
Blackout The Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine was hit by a blackout after Russian forces caused significant damage to the facility last month, according to the International Atomic Energy...
View ArticleRussia Accused of Impeding Efforts to Fight Fires Near Seized Chernobyl Power...
Tree Ukraine Several forest fires have erupted near the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine, which was taken over by Russian troops late last month, The Guardian reports. According to a statement by...
View ArticleUkraine Says Russia Destroyed Lab That Monitors Chernobyl Radiation Levels
Looted The Ukrainian government says Russian forces have looted and destroyed the lab that was used to monitor radiation levels of nuclear waste at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, CNN reports — more...
View ArticleDirty Bomb Ingredients Reportedly Stolen From Seized Chernobyl Site
Dirty Bomb According to an alarming story by Science late last week, radioactive materials have gone missing from the Chernobyl disaster site that experts say could be used to make a "dirty bomb" — a...
View ArticleChernobyl Workers Say Russian Soldiers Entered Forbidden Zone, Inhaled...
Red Forest A grim part of the lore of the Chernobyl disaster involves a patch of pine trees that turned red after absorbing huge doses of radiation, becoming known as the "Red Forest." Now the Red...
View ArticleRussian Troops Suffer Radiation Poisoning at Chernobyl, Ukraine Says
Toxic Waste It sounds like Russian troops had no clue they were walking onto a deadly nuclear disaster site after being ordered to seize Chernobyl, which exploded in 1986 in what's now modern day...
View ArticleRussian Military Reportedly Panics, Flees Chernobyl After Radiation Poisoning
Nuclear Decay In yet another dramatic twist to the saga of the Russian invasion of Ukraine's impact on nuclear power infrastructure, Ukraine officials are now saying that the Russian military is making...
View ArticleUkraine Recaptures Chernobyl After Russian Soldiers Reportedly Suffer...
Company Retreat Russia shocked the world last month when it attacked two Ukrainian nuclear power facilities — including Chernobyl, the site of one of the world's worst nuclear disasters back in 1986 —...
View ArticleUkraine Says Idiot Russian Soldiers Tracked Radiative Material All Over...
Step Back Russian soldiers have really made a mess of Chernobyl, site of the 1986 nuclear disaster that killed 30 and left a nuclear wasteland behind. Ukrainian soldiers described their experience upon...
View ArticleUN Watchdog Says Radiation From Chernobyl "Abnormal" After Russian Attack
Abnormal Distribution The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' atomic watchdog, is warning that radiation levels at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster site have been rising...
View ArticleYouTuber Clambers Inside Chernobyl's Nuclear Sarcophagus
Duke Nukem In October 2021, months before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, YouTuber Kyle Hill got a rare glimpse inside the New Safe Confinement (NSC) "sarcophagus" at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. It's a...
View ArticleSomething Cool Is Happening to the Frogs at Chernobyl
Chernobyl is best known as the site of the worst nuclear reactor meltdown in history. But since the residents left after the 1986 catastrophe, it's also become one of the biggest nature reserves in...
View ArticleScientists Investigate Why Wild Boars Are So Radioactive
Niels Boar Wild boars have become so radioactive that German hunters aren't even bothering to pursue them anymore. And while the prevailing theory has been that the Chernobyl nuclear plant meltdown in...
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