Rosatom has announced completion of life-extending modernisation work at unit 3 of the Smolensk nuclear power plant, the last of three RBMK-1000 reactors at the site in western Russia. The other two ...

Russia's Petrozavodskmash has completed the manufacture of a serial batch of modified TUK-109T containers for the transport of used nuclear fuel from RBMK-1000 reactors. Petrozavodskmash is a branch ...

In response to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, countries such as Germany and Switzerland are preparing to phase out aging nuclear power plants. The Russian State Atomic ...

Was the Chernobyl disaster preventable? If the RBMK reactor had been designed differently, the explosion that shook the world might never have happened. But what were its fatal design flaws, and why ...

The second unit of the Leningrad NPP with the RBMK reactor is being prepared for decommissioning. The removal of nuclear fuel from the power unit has been completed. All fuel assemblies (fuel ...

The world has learned many lessons from the Chernobyl disaster, a devastating nuclear power plant accident that recently rejoined our cultural conversation thanks to a new series on HBO. Though many ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine on Thursday of trying to strike Russia's Kursk nuclear power station in an overnight attack. He provided no documentary evidence to back up ...

Acting Kursk Governor Alexei Smirnov told Putin that the situation at the Kursk plant, which has four Soviet graphite-moderated RBMK-1000 reactors, was 'stable'.

The purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group’s Summary Report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident (INSAG-1), published ...

Putin says Ukraine tried to strike nuclear power plant The Kursk plant is one of Russia's top nuclear power stations Situation is stable at the Kursk plant, governor says IAEA has been informed, Putin ...

MOSCOW, Aug 22 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine on Thursday of trying to strike Russia's Kursk nuclear power station in an overnight attack. He provided no documentary evidence to ...