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The Chernobyl nuclear plant reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, releasing radioactive material across Ukraine and large parts of Europe.
The Chernobyl RBMK reactor must not be run below approximately 25% of its normal output to avoid a runaway power increase.
During the 1986 incident, operators at the Chernobyl plant ran the reactor at about 6% of its normal power, causing a massive power excursion.
The power output of the Chernobyl reactor increased from 6% of normal to approximately 480 times normal in three seconds during the 1986 accident.
The Chernobyl accident caused several thousand cases of thyroid cancer due to the population's uptake of radioactive iodine.
Germany is now reconsidering its decision to exit nuclear power and is exploring the possibility of reactivating recently closed nuclear plants.
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have pinpointed a leaky blood-brain barrier caused by frequent trauma as a potential driver of chronic brain damage in athletes.
Sub-concussive blows, which do not produce immediate symptoms, are believed to be more significant and impactful to brain health than individual concussions.
Research on retired athletes found ongoing brain and blood-brain barrier dysfunction, with leakage of inflammatory proteins into the brain, even years after retirement.
Ash dieback disease, an invasive fungal infection, threatens as many as three-quarters of the UK's more than 120 million ash trees.
A new method developed at the John Innes Centre reduces the germination time for ash tree seeds from several years to a couple of weeks.
Dozens of people, primarily emergency firefighters, were killed in the immediate aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.