Industrial Archive

The reactor in one of the units lost its cooling water, heat built up, and radioactive gas burst out and spread all over Europe and parts of the USSR. On the April 26, 1986, a nuclear power station at...

Yellowstone is the oldest and perhaps most famous national park in the world. Established in 1872, it covers over two million acres of Wyoming and spreads into neighboring Idaho and Montana. Over the years it has gradually become valued...

Once a Chinese state enterprise, the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation had been transferred to the private sector before its plant in Tielng became the scene of a terrible accident in April 2007 – the worst to befall the modem...

Black gold has proved both a boon and a curse to the West African republic of Nigeria. The world’s eighth most populous country is a major oil producer, has membership of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) and...

Silesia is Poland’s industrial heartland and the region’s coal mines – employing more people than any other sector and fueling 90 per cent of the country’s electricity generation – are vital to the national economy. But it’s a dangerous...

Anywhere in or around the Number 101 Petrochemical Plant in Jilin was definitely not the place to be on November 13 2005. For that was the day when explosions ripped through the state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation’s facility when...