A nuclear engineer reacts to claims about the Chernobyl reactor and its core inlet behavior, separating myth from real reactor physics. The discussion explains what actually happened and why certain ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

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 ...