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Breakthrough at Fukushima: Robot retrieves melted nuclear fuel fragment 13 years after tsunami disaster
More than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, TEPCO has successfully extracted a…
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Inside the Navajo Church Rock Nuclear Disaster, the largest radioactive disaster in US history that's somehow often forgotten
It happened just four months after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. It was the largest accid…
James Pasley
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Critics are calling Marvel's newest movie a 'Chernobyl-level disaster'
The latest Marvel movie from Sony starring Dakota Johnson is being lambasted by critics.
Jason Guerrasio
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The time in 1978 when a Soviet nuclear-powered satellite crashed into Canada and scattered radioactive debris everywhere
Almost 50 years ago, a nuclear-powered satellite crashed, leading to an extensive cleanup effort. I…
Chris Panella
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1 million tons of contaminated radioactive water still plagues Japan nearly a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Japan's Fukushima region has come a long way since 2011 when a massive tsunami damaged the nuclea…
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South Korea and China are unhappy with Japan's decision to release radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean
China and South Korea, along with Japanese fishing unions and Weibo users, expressed concern that r…
Cheryl Teh
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Putin says Russia got its troubled nuclear-powered cruise missile to work after years of failure and a deadly disaster
The Russian leader called it a successful test of the Burevestnik missile, which has suffered repea…
Chris Panella,Ryan Pickrell
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Russian troops took highly radioactive 'souvenirs' looted from Chernobyl, Ukraine says
Looted Items likely taken by Russia from Chernobyl could cause radiation burns, sickness, and irrev…
Alia Shoaib
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Russian soldiers at Chernobyl spent a month sleeping in a radioactive forest, exposed themselves to potentially dangerous levels of radiation, and ignored their own nuclear experts: report
Ukrainian officials have said Russian troops showed signs of radiation sickness at Chernobyl, one o…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Japan released treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean. Experts say it's safe, but one would avoid the fish.
Japan is releasing treated water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean. Some are conce…
Rupendra Brahambhatt
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Chernobyl scientists accused looters of stealing radioactive material from labs there
The experts said a small amount of radioactive calibration material and radioactive waste was missi…
Marianne Guenot
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Chernobyl's nuclear fuel is smoldering. To prevent another accident, researchers are studying the site's radioactive lava.
In a lab, scientists recreated the lava produced by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. They hope to fi…
Aria Bendix
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There's a thriving population of radioactive animals that have taken over the abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone, even though the area is toxic for humans
On April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located in the then-So…
Katie Canales
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Fighting near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant damaged a building housing radioactive waste and fresh fuel, watchdog photos show
IAEA chief Rafael Mariano Grossi said after last week's mission that the "physical integrity of the…
Jake Epstein
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Ukraine shares video it says proves Russian troops dug trenches in Chernobyl, disturbing radioactive soil
An undated video shared by Ukrainian military on Twitter shows dug-up soil in a forest a few miles …
Marianne Guenot
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Workers at Chernobyl site say Russian soldiers drove through the highly-radioactive 'Red Forest' with no protective gear
Two unnamed Ukrainian workers told Reuters that Russian soldiers drove armored vehicles through the…
Marianne Guenot
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Nuclear power could transform the US energy grid — but decades of roadblocks and rising prices are standing in the way
Experts say relying more nuclear power could reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, especially as t…
Avery Hartmans
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Russian troops seize Chernobyl's remnants after a battle, risking Western efforts to contain one of the world's most radioactive sites
"Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the #Chornobyl_NPP," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Z…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Rural Ohio is facing comparisons to Chernobyl after a massive chemical leak caused by a train derailment. Here's what the disaster really has in common with the nuclear accident.
Although the intense imagery suggests Ohio might have a mini Chernobyl on its hands, the scale of C…
Hannah Getahun
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Romania grapples with hundreds of Ukrainian children arriving alone every week — and fear of a nuclear disaster
Romanian officials told Insider that more than 500 children from Ukraine arrived in the country las…