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Sometimes the workers at nuclear power plants do get contaminated. In general the contamination is mild, and most workers never experience such a thing. A few have been seriously injured by radiation, but, aside from the Chernobyl and Kyshtym disasters and the Windscale Fire, this has very rarely happened.
Aside from the three accidents mentioned above and contamination from nuclear bombs, the worst radiation contamination problems have been outside the nuclear industry. The so called Radium Girls are one example, in which contamination killed a number of workers at different industrial facilities in the United States during the 1920s. The worst recent contamination problem was the Goiania accident, in Brazil in 1987, in which radioactive cesium was distributed from abandoned medical equipment.
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Can workers in nuclear power plants be seriously affected by radioactivity in uranium?
In a nuclear power plant (nuclear reactor) the radioactivity of uranium is not a problem in normal work conditions.
How is a nuclear power plant safe?
How is a nuclear power plant safe?
Can you shut down a nuclear power plant?
Yes, nuclear power plant can be shut down.
What nuclear reaction is used to the Bataan power plant?
The nuclear reaction used in the Bataan power plant is nuclear fission.
What produces energy for a nuclear power plant?
The energy source for a nuclear power plant is the fissioning of nuclear fuel, which is normally uranium.
Who was involed in the chernobyl nuclear power plant?
workers and people :)
How could workers at a nuclear power plant be safer than workers at a coal-firing plant?
if i knew i wouldnt be looking for the answer
How is the Japanese Government planning to deal with contaminated ground water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant?
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Can workers in nuclear power plants be seriously affected by radioactivity in uranium?
In a nuclear power plant (nuclear reactor) the radioactivity of uranium is not a problem in normal work conditions.
What is going to happen to the Japanese workers in the nuclear power plant?
The likelihood of the 50 workers that stayed is they will die from radiation exposure.
Existing nuclear power plant?
what is the existing of nuclear power plant?
How is a nuclear power plant safe?
How is a nuclear power plant safe?
What is the positive of nuclear power plant?
what is negative of the nuclear power plant
Where is the Nuclear Fission Power plant in Alaska?
There is no nuclear power plant in Alaska.
Is it possible that a nuclear power plant inspector get contaminated say some radioative materialparticles on his clothes and you sit next to the inspector in the airplane and you can get contaminated?
Yes. That's why nuclear inspectors put on coverings over everything except their eyes when they go into the plant, and then shower and put on their regular clothes and shoes on their way back out.
What kind of fallout will we see from a nuclear power plant?
Nuclear Fallout comes from a nuclear power plant.
Where is the method of producing electricity from a nuclear power plant used?
In a nuclear power plant
