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Scientist of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, December 15, 2025. Anatoly Doroshenko

Physics

The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor

Ever since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists have needed to monitor radioactive conditions inside. That job currently falls to Anatoly Doroshenko, who explains the dangers and importance of his work to 91av

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Chernobyl 2022

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Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster

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Chernobyl cooling systems have lost power but meltdown risk is low

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Technology

US to fire up small reactors in 2026 as part of 'nuclear renaissance'

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The US is unlikely to test nuclear weapons, despite what Trump says

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Technology

Modular nuclear reactors sound great, but won't be ready any time soon

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Nuclear fusion gets a boost from a controversial debunked experiment

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Chemistry

How superheavy chemistry could rearrange the periodic table

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Physics

Could Israel's bombing trigger a nuclear accident in Iran?

Attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities have already triggered at least one internal radiation leak, but should we be concerned that Israeli bombing could cause a larger nuclear accident?

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Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

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Environment

Fusion power may never happen if we don't fix the lithium bottleneck

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Society

This is how to avoid annihilating ourselves in a nuclear war

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Chemistry

New way to pull uranium from water can help China's nuclear power push

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