10 days ago · Ukraine
Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years
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Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) examined six tiny, highly radioactive fragments that were released from the destroyed reactor in Ukraine in the wake of the incident. Analyses show that these "hot particles" are far more stable than had…
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Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years
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