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 ...

Construction work has begun on the outer containment building for the third new unit at the Leningrad nuclear power plant, ...

Leningrad 1, the oldest operating RBMK unit, has been reconnected to the grid after the completion of work to resolve deformation of its graphite moderator. Leningrad 1, the oldest operating RBMK unit ...

The melt trap housing has been installed at Russia’s Leningrad NPP Unit 7, a key passive safety system designed to contain ...

Workers have begun building the outer containment for Russia’s Leningrad NPP unit 7, a key safety structure to be completed ...

(Bloomberg) -- Monitors from the United Nations atomic watchdog said Rosatom Corp. is elevating the risk of a radiological emergency by continuing to operate a nuclear power plant on Russian soil that ...

18 January 2007 – Leningrad nuclear power station [LAES] will start modernizing its No 3 power unit in order to extend its service life beyond 2009, when it is due to expire. Specialists will also ...

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 ...