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Dramatizing the Chernobyl disaster, for its survivors
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Dramatizing the Chernobyl disaster, for its survivors

Unlike the recent HBO series, the Russian-language feature film “Chernobyl 1986,” now on Netflix, explores the human toll of the power plant explosion.
It spied on Soviet atomic bombs. Now it's solving ecological mysteries
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It spied on Soviet atomic bombs. Now it's solving ecological mysteries

Imagery from the Cold War’s Corona satellites is helping scientists fill in how we have changed our planet in the past half century.
Six years after Fukushima, robots finally find reactors’ melted uranium fuel
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Six years after Fukushima, robots finally find reactors’ melted uranium fuel

The Japanese government and companies used radiation-hardened machines to search for the fuel that escaped the plant’s ruined reactors.
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