Environmental News For The Week Ending 23May 2019
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Covid totals continue to fall, both in the US and worldwide. New US cases during the week ending May 22nd were down 22.0% from those testing positive during the week ending May 15th, and down 64.2% from our mid-April surge high; this week s new cases were also the lowest for a 7 day period since that ending June 19th of last year. US deaths attributed to Covid this week were down 7.1% from the prior week, and less than a sixth of the death rate during the peak weeks of January. US Covid deaths were also the lowest since t
Chernobyl is showing signs of a possible new nuclear accident
Chernobyl is showing signs of a possible new nuclear accident, scientists say. Nuclear reactions are smoldering again https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/energy/553844-chernobyl-is-showing-signs-of-a-possible-new-nuclear
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Radioactive waste is smoldering in a part of Chernobyl that is unreachable.
Two chemical experts heed caution of another explosion.
The fatal 1986 explosion left the place a ghost town.
Scientists are warning that another explosion could occur in Chernobyl due to the spike in neutron numbers in an underground room called 305/2.
The numbers may indicate that new fission reactions are taking place, and there’s a possibility the smoldering nuclear reaction in a room that’s currently unreachable could lead to an explosion, Business Insider reported.
14 May 2021
Tons of nuclear fuel in the wrecked plant s basement has started to react again, and it s showing no signs of stopping.
The concrete structure known as The Shelter seals in the remains of Chernobyl s ruined Unit Four reactor.
(Image credit: Getty)
Nuclear reactions are smoldering again in an inaccessible basement of the wrecked
Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, according to news reports.
Researchers monitoring the plant which infamously exploded in a deadly 1986 meltdown have detected a steady spike in the number of neutrons in an underground room called 305/2. The room is full of heavy rubble, concealing a radioactive mush of
While Chernobyl officials reportedly hoped that the installation of the New Safe Confinement in November 2016 would help curb the problems related to the.
feed to stay on top of the news. [It is] like the embers in a barbecue pit, Neil Hyatt, a professor of nuclear materials science and engineering at the University of Sheffield Lecturer, told Science magazine.
Fellow scientist, Maxim Saveliev, a senior researcher with the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants (ISPNPP) in Kyiv, Ukraine, agrees with Hyatt, saying there are many uncertainties, but we can t rule out the possibility of [an] accident.
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident near the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, close to the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR. The April 26, 1986 disaster is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history for the amount of money it cost and the number of lives lost. The Chernobyl disaster is one of two energy-related accidents that were rated a level 7, the maximum.