Radiation safety

Russian Scientists Find Solution to Rule Out Chernobyl-Like Nuclear Accidents

Russian specialists have developed technical proposals for the creation of a small-size nuclear facility that completely rules out the possibility of an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction like the one that led to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a report published by the Russian Academy of Sciences said on Monday.

According to the report, the Krylov State Research Centre in St. Petersburg developed technical proposals for a small-size (33 feet wide and 115 feet long) nuclear facility with 25 megawatt useful power, which includes a particle accelerator and a sub-critical nuclear reactor with 200 megawatt heat power.

In future, such facilities could be used to "burn out" long-life radioactive waste, which is important from the environmental viewpoint, the report added.