Nuclear Fission Reactions Are Happening at Chernobyl Again0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 11, 2021
Scientists are scrambling to neutralize the threat.
Scientists are scrambling to neutralize the threat.
Since the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, an area of more than 4,000 square kilometres has been abandoned. That could be about to change, as Victoria Gill discovered during a week-long trip to the exclusion zone.
The word Chernobyl likely conjures up eerie images of buildings long-abandoned by residents who fled the nuclear fallout.