In 1986, a nuclear reactor accident occurred in Chernobyl in what was then the Soviet Union. The explosion spread highly toxic radioactive chemicals, such as plutonium, over hundreds of square miles, and the government evacuated the city and the surrounding area. To see why the city is now ...
Chernobyl is still a death zone. New pictures emerge from the inside of the sarcophagus. The reactor core has melted into a radiating lump. The radiation levels are still fatal. And the sarcophagus is falling apart. Radiation is escaping at many places. It was the worst nuclear accident of ...
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant could have been worse. Only one reactor was affected and only a small percentage of the core was released. The effect of fallout was less than it might have been because the initial plume did not encounter rain until it reached Sweden, so ...
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Aerial view of Reactor Four The disaster began during asystems test at reactor number fourof the Chernobyl plant. There was a sudden surge of power output, and when an emergency shutdown was attempted a more extreme spike in power output occurred, which led a reactor vessel to rupture and ...
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The worst nuclear accident in history was the April 1986 catastrophe at Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the then-USSR, which was caused by a combination of system breakdowns, design flaws and badly trained personnel. During a routine test, the reactor suddenly surged, and the control...
Though much has been made of the lack of a “safety culture,” lack of containment, and violations of procedures by operators, the specific cause of the Chernobyl explosion and subsequent release of radioactive material from the Chernobyl reactor was a shutdown system that initiated a positive ...
(方程式) of more familiar tourism." For many people, these sites offer a way to think about the mistakes of the past and the lessons we can learn from history. For example, Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, is one of the most popular dark destinations. When its nuclear reactor (核反应堆) ...
A prototype reactor was demonstrated at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1943, and by 1945 three full-scale reactors were in operation at Hanford, in Washington State. These were dedicated to plutonium production for nuclear weapons; however, the first large-scale commercial reactor generating electrical ...