by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 8, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Regulation, Risk Management
In a statement on the social media platform X, Rafael Mariano Grossi confirmed at least three direct hits against the ZNPP main reactor containment structures took place. “This cannot happen,” he said KYIV, Ukraine: The head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 29, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Features, Health, Risk Management, Technology
Managing the ever-growing volume of radioactive wastewater held in more than 1, 000 tanks has been a safety risk and a burden since the plant was wrecked by a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. The tanks are already filled to 98% of their...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 4, 2022 | International News
The plant’s reactor is a different type than the one used at Chernobyl, and there should be little risk if the containment vessel is not damaged and outside power can be restored, said Jon B. Wolfsthal, a former senior director for arms control and nonproliferation at...
