chernobyl

Even the more easily grasped timescales involved in nuclear waste disposal pose huge technical, economic and social challenges

Nuclear waste: Planning for the next million years

It's over 30 years now since the Chernobyl disaster yet there is still no consensus on what to do about nuclear waste, writes RUBY RUSSELL

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Lessons for Japan from the Chernobyl catastrophe

The Fukushima nuclear plant crisis appears less dangerous than the 1986 Chernobyl disaster – but the risk of radiation spreading wide remains

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