Workers in Ukraine will soon begin the task of moving a 31,000-ton steel cover over the radioactive ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. The massive structure -- called the New Safe Confinement (NSC) ...
It's been 32 years since the Chernobyl disaster, a nuclear reactor meltdown caused by a mix of design flaws and human error. The event immediately killed dozens and ...
Two seminal events in 1986 had global repercussions on engineering standards and the proper application of engineering judgment. The first–the space shuttle Challenger explosion on Jan. 28–had an ...