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May 11, 2021 10:02 PM EDT Nuclear fission reactions have begun to flame up again in an isolated basement room deep inside the ruined pits of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 35 years since the world s worst nuclear disaster. (Photo : Pixabay) According to Science Magazine, Ukrainian scientists from the Institute for Safety Problems in Nuclear Power Plants (ISPNPP) recently discovered an extraordinarily high number of neutrons emitting from an inaccessible room in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant indicating that a fission reaction has begun to reoccur. Neil Hyatt, a professor of nuclear materials chemistry at the University of Sheffield and a member of the UK s Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, described it as like the embers in a barbecue pit. On April 26, 1986, most of the contents of the Unit Four reactor s core melted down in extreme searing heat, allowing 170 tons of irradiated uranium to pour into the reactor hall s basement spaces, where it slowly cooled and h

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