the safety of nuclear power plants in the Soviet Union is assured by a very wide spectrum of measures..." But, on April 26, 1986, Unit 4 of the Chernobyl reactor complex did go 'prompt critical' and exploded. Despite the nuclear industry's efforts to play down its significance, it ...
But nuclear waste experts say the Japanese are literally playing with fire in the way nuclear spent fuel continues to be stored onsite, especially in reactor 4, which contains the most irradiated fuel — 10 times the deadly cesium-137 released during the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. These ex...
meltdown at Chernobyl are well known case studies, as are a multitude of major airline disasters in which pilots failed to detect and correct errors in systems created without such flexibility in mind. A fascinating aspect of the game created by Mr...
Oct 2013 TEDGlobal 2013 Holly Morris: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home. 08:51Oct 2013 TEDGlobal 2013 Abha Dawesar: Life in the "digital now" 12:01Oct 2013 TEDxUdeM Mohamed Hijri: A simple solution to the coming phosphorus crisis 13:41Oct 2013 TEDGlobal 2013 Mariana Mazzucato: ...
This shows that the concept of the bomb is vague and corresponds to a power excursion in a reactor, similar to the explosion of the Chernobyl power plant. Even more cautious is the paragraph on plutonium. By mid-1940, the German physi- cists had learned from their own theoretical work [...