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Sampling Chernobyl’s Elephant’s Foot Reveals AK-47s and Radioactive Dust

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15
set

After a botched turbine test on the night of April 26, 1986, operators at Chernobyl’s Unit 4 disabled the remaining safeties and let the bottom of the RBMK core run free. A steam explosion flipped the reactor lid. Fuel, zirconium cladding, steel, graphite, sand, and concrete liquefied, burned through two meters of reinforced floor, and […]

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Brenda Fricker, Oscar winner known for roles in “My Left Foot” and “Home Alone 2,” dies at age 81

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17
jul

Brenda Fricker, the Irish actor who won an Academy Award for 1989’s “My Left Foot,” played the Pigeon Lady in “Home Alone 2” and appeared in “A Time to Kill” and “So I Married an Axe Murderer,” has died, her agent confirmed to CBS News on Friday. She was 81. Fricker died Thursday night in […]

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