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    Chernobyl:One of the worst Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster, and it happened like a ninja in the dark, then how long will it last as the worst. Stated by facts sheet, 3 million have been affected. On the other hand, one most of them will come up later (31 people died stated by the Russians have either gotten cancer or mutated with 4 feet, two heads) With this story of the person will also come some of the causes both operator and how the reactor was built. Operator errors They ran the…

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    Why occurred on 26 April 1986 because an operator did something wrong. Most serious of the nuclear accidents. It will be managed by a dome that has s to build will be rolled over the reactor 4. It was initially kept a secret. Blame has been placed on people working in the factory and Most people affected were in the exclusion zone. Approximately 600,000-800,000 firefighters and emergency workers were on the scene. Statue was erected in honor of the fire men who gave there lives to save…

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    The unit number 2 of the nuclear power plant in Three Mile Island, located near the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suffered a serious accident on March 28, 1979. A small leak in the steam generator triggered the worst nuclear accident in history of the USA, and the second worst in the history of nuclear power. The causes must be attributed to the design of that plant that made it extremely unsafe. The loss of coolant caused an increase in core temperature that eventually ended up melting fuel…

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt stated that December 7, 1941 is “a date that will live in infamy.” Two dates that will also live in infamy in regard to nuclear catastrophe are April 26, 1986 (Chernobyl) and March 11, 2011 (Fukushima). Both involve an accident at a nuclear energy facility and was rated the highest on the nuclear severity scale. Nevertheless, there was numerous differences in the causes, responses, and impact of the accident. The most prominent similarity between the Chernobyl and…

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    devices used to give readings on the heat of the core. Now that the core had lost all the cooling water through the open valve it started over heating. The core’s temperature got to the point of which metal pipes that hold the nuclear energy they were making started melting. Nuclear energy, thought to be a great discovery only side effect is radiation poisoning, now starting to be released into the air on Three…

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    On April 26, 1986 in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, a failure in emergency shutdown procedures caused an eruption of Chernobyl’s fourth reactor. The nuclear explosion caused the initial death of a single person, but many later would die of the particles put into the atmosphere early that morning. Since Chernobyl was a nuclear plant, radioactive materials were dispersed into the air. Some of the products are very lethal, some are not, but they still affect the world even today. The…

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    The Chernobyl accident is one of the most serious engineering disaster in human’s history. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was the first nuclear power plant built inside Ukraine by the former Soviet Union, which was considered as the most secure and reliable nuclear power plant in the world. It consisted of four same reactors which was known as model RBMK-1000 and each capable of generating 1 gigawatt of electricity. The power plant provided a total of 10% of Ukraine’s electricity when the…

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    The Chernobyl disaster (1986) was probably the worst possible accident in a nuclear power plant. It was the biggest catastrophe ever happened since the beginning of operating nuclear power stations. It started by a total meltdown of the reactor core. The explosion and the consequent reactor fire, burning for 10 days, resulted in a vast emission of radioactive material, early deaths of 31 persons and adverse consequences for the public and the environment [198]. This Chernobyl disaster provided…

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    The Fukushima Dai’ichi Nuclear Power was one of 54 nuclear power plants operating throughout Japan in March of 2011. The plant contained 6 separate reactors designed by General Electric and maintained by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. Fukushima Dai’ichi lies about 140 miles northeast of Tokyo, Japan directly on the Pacific Ocean. At 1446 hrs (local JST) on Friday March 11, 2011, a Magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck 43 miles east of Sendai, Japan, (or about 65 miles northeast of Fukushima…

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    Boy Scout.” The book was about a boy named David Hahn who grew up in suburban Detroit. David was fascinated by science and while he was working on earning his Atomic Energy badge for boy scouts, David’s attention turned to nuclear energy. He started working on building a nuclear reactor in his backyard garden shed. Working as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. Government and from industry experts. David started following blueprints he found an old…

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