After 35 years, Chernobyl’s nuclear fuel is ‘smoldering’ again

Thirty-five years after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded in the world’s worst nuclear accident, nuclear reactions are again being detected in an inaccessible basement room called 305/2. Room 305/2, located below the Unit Four reactor is now a vat containing tons of semiliquid nuclear mush, made up of uranium, zirconium, graphite, and sand that […]