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Yes, If the explosion is on or above the surface of the earth the immediate area is subjected to intense heat and will melt into glass. Also the explosion will disperse radioactive products into the air and this plume will settle out in time polluting the land where it falls.
When the explosion is subterranean (the only type allowed once the damage of surface testing was obvious) then the distributed radioactive pollution problem is mitigated but the explosion hollows out a chamber under the ground and causes a pockmark depression above the test site. The earth is big these, these pockmarks are not serious but problems could occur were groundwater to seep through the test area (a risk that is enhance due to the fracturing caused by the explosion) and carry radioactivity to other places.
All in all it is best not to test bombs, if you must then use a computer to simulate/model the explosion rather then setting a bomb off.
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Where in Ukraine was there a nuclear explosion?
Chernobyl, however it was not a nuclear explosion. It was a steam explosion that blew the roof off the reactor building and ejected roughly a third of the reactor contents, followed by a graphite fire ignited when air hit the hot graphite moderator of the damaged reactor.
What are the method of controlling nuclear explosion?
nuclear explosion?
What damage did the chernobyl disaster do to buildings?
It severely damaged the reactor building and others on the power plant site, but outside the site no damage. Perhaps you think it was a nuclear explosion-it wasn't, it was a steam explosion and whilst it destroyed the reactor it didn't have anything like the blast and heat waves from a nuclear explosion.
What happened some years ago in Russia from nuclear explosion?
When and what explosion? One of the nuclear test shots. If so which?Remember Chernobyl was not a nuclear explosion, it was a steam explosion and graphite fire.
Where did the Japanese nuclear explosion occur?
The only nuclear explosions in Japan were the two in WW2, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.However I believe you meant the Japanese nuclear reactorexplosion, which was not a nuclear explosion it was either a steam explosion and/or a hydrogen/oxygen chemical explosion. That occurred at Fukushima.
Is it possible for a nuclear plant to experience a nuclear explosion?
no
What do you call the explosion called from an atomic bomb?
a nuclear explosion
Nuclear explosion in Germany in 1990-1992?
No such explosion ever happened.
What 2 types of energy does nuclear bombs use?
Chemical energy- to begin the explosion- and nuclear energy- the main explosion.
Was their ever a nuclear explosion in Belarus?
no.
What is meant by nuclear cold test?
testing without nuclear explosion
When was the first controlled nuclear explosion in the US?
Nuclear explosions are not controlled. Nuclear reactors are controlled.The first controlled nuclear reaction in the US was on December 2, 1942.The first nuclear explosion in the US was on July 16, 1945.
