Higgsino physics published a straightforward (if not exactly simple) animation showing what went wrong at Chernobyl. It's like a physics equivalent to those "every day from your favorite war" ...

In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet Union) exploded, creating what many consider the worst nuclear disaster the ...

Was the Chernobyl disaster preventable? If the RBMK reactor had been designed differently, the explosion that shook the world might never have happened. But what were its fatal design flaws, and why ...

On April 25 and 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history unfolded in what is now northern Ukraine as a reactor at a nuclear power plant exploded and burned. Shrouded in secrecy, the incident ...

Two seminal events in 1986 had global repercussions on engineering standards and the proper application of engineering judgment. The first–the space shuttle Challenger explosion on Jan. 28–had an ...

At the Soviet north nuclear power plant there is an accident: the destruction of the technological channel of the RBMK reactor. A special commission comes here and finds out that, on the one hand, the ...