Reactor decay heat shown as % of thermal power from time of sustained fission shutdown using two different correlations. Due to decay heat, solid fuel power reactors need high flows of coolant after a …

Dec 25, 2025 · Chernobyl disaster, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. Between 2 and 50 people were killed …

Apr 24, 2018 · Chernobyl is a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that was the site of the worst nuclear accident in history when a routi...

Chernobyl: Created by Craig Mazin. With Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Adam Nagaitis. In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear …

Feb 26, 2023 · Following the April 1986 nuclear disaster, Chernobyl today is a highly radioactive area abandoned by humans but surprisingly full of wildlife.

What happened at Chernobyl? (short version) Because Xenon built up due to a rapid shut-down mainly caused by nearby coal plant problem, operators at Chernobyl retracted the control rods all the way …

Apr 15, 2019 · Critical missteps and a poor reactor design resulted in history’s worst nuclear accident.