In a statement issued on the 21st anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, a spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the world to remember the pain...
2005 Sept 6: The World Health Organization (WHO) [www.who.int] has just released a major study on the effects of the Chernobyl accident. The press release is Chernobyl: the true scale of the...
In the early hours of 26 April 1986, one of four nuclear reactors at the Chernobyl power station exploded.
Moscow was slow to admit what had happened, even after increased radiation was detected...
A large, impartial information, communication and networking platform, provided by Switzerland and the United Nations, on the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
The explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station on Saturday, April 26, 1986, was undoubtedly the world's greatest nuclear accident. While only about 3% of the reactor core escaped, it was enough...
Safe handling and disposal of spent nuclear fuel: Yucca Mountain is the site of America's first planned repository for spent nuclear fuel rods and solidified high-level radioactive waste. The...
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This volume of the report is of independent significance and contains an overview of the research program as well as results of investigations carried out to study the behavior...
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is an independent federal agency established by Congress in 1988. The Board's mandate under the atomic Energy act is to provide safety oversight of the...