Making matters worse, the two units in operation use the same so-called RBMK technology that melted ... which means that the reactor’s core is pretty exposed,” Grossi said in an interview ...

Three months earlier, the core of a reactor had opened at the ... the Soviet Union might have stopped operating all of its RBMK reactors (the kind used at the Chernobyl plant).

Russia’s Federal Environmental, Technological & Nuclear Surveillance Service (Rostekhnadzor) has issued a licence to nuclear ...

INSAG stands by the general conclusions of INSAG-1 about the accident’s causes and their implications for the safety of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However, ...