Thirty-five years after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded in the world’s worst nuclear accident, fission reactions are smoldering again in uranium fuel masses buried deep inside a mangled reactor hall. “It’s like the embers in a barbecue pit,” says Neil Hyatt, a nuclear materials chemist at the University of Sheffield.
Thirty five years ago, on April 27, 1996, a DAY after the disaster, I was outside with my son, who was playing in the grass, while I was on the patio listening to AFN, the military radio station for Hahn AFB and we were living ...
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