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 ...
The arch-shaped New Safe Confinement structure built over the remains of Chernobyl's destroyed unit 4 suffered such extensive damage in a drone strike in February that it may not be possible to ...
Lewis Blackburn receives funding from EPSRC through the provision of a Doctoral Prize Fellowship. The catastrophic disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 was caused by an explosion at ...