Only a handful of reactors in the entire world supply anywhere near that percent of its national energy GDP. Back in Russia, the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant's employed RBMK-1000s are much the same ...

Russia still has ten operating nuclear reactors that are similar to the one involved in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The type of reactor that exploded during Chernobyl, known as an RBMK, has been ...

The agency warned of particularly “serious consequences” if the fueled core of a so-called RBMK reactor were hit while in operation. Impacts from attack drones were observed on site, according ...

In the "RBMK" type of reactor, like Chernobyl's, those steam pockets, or "voids", reduce the absorption of neutrons, which, you'll remember, means there are more neutrons around to set off nuclear ...

At low power, though, RBMK-1000 reactors become very unstable. In the run-up to the Chernobyl accident on April 26, 1986, operators were doing a test to see if the plant's turbine could run ...

In one of the most remarkable online solicitations, a Ukrainian eBay vendor on May 31 asked $2,800 for what he claimed was an "original Soviet USSR Chernobyl nuclear reactor RBMK-1000 core ...

The effects of these design deficiencies were made more prominent due to the size of the reactor core. Moreover, the RBMK was designed without containment because of its colossal size. The designers ...

Although light water reactors are inherently safer than the Russian RBMK reactor, the book drives home the sense of communal responsibility that must pervade all nuclear plant operation. It’s ...

Even as the West cuts back, Russia plans to triple its nuclear power generating capacity with a $25 billion expansion strategy that by 2030 will increase the number of operating reactors from 29 ...