On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster took place. How has the area recovered, and what lessons does it hold?
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To safely enclose and robotically dismantle the 25-year-old makeshift confinement sarcophagus at Chernobyl, contractors are now erecting a massive steel structure weighing more than 29,000 metric tons
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Our nuclear primer explains the basics of reactor failures and how past nuclear accidents compare with one another
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Scientific American frequent contributor Charles Q. Choi traveled to the site and snapped these haunting images
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Radioactive fallout seems like the obvious health hazard from the explosion at Chernobyl, but linking it to medical problems has proved more complicated than anyone thought
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The Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative (GBFAI) is launching the 2013 Geoffrey Beene Global NeuroDiscovery Challenge whose
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