Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) examined six tiny, highly radioactive fragments that were released from the destroyed reactor in Ukraine in the wake of the incident. Analyses show that th...
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-10-chernobyl-particles-reveal-unexpectedly-stable.html)