A concrete sarcophagus was built around the damaged rector but it leaks and has cracks in the walls. Uranium isotopes are water soluble and are polluting the ground water. The whole edifice is in dire need of replacement.
The RBMK reactors at Chernobyl were probably the most unsafe reactors ever designed and built. They should never have been built.
There are a few dangers that are inherent in a nuclear reactor. The major danger inherent in a nuclear reactor is the effects of radiation. Radiation poisoning can be extremely deadly and harmful. Other inherent dangers include radioactive waste and the potential catastrophic damage of an accident such as at Chernobyl.
a completely mixed reactor. the concentration in the reactor is the same that flows our of the reactor
Chernobyl was a Nuclear Power Plant.
Most nuclear power plants are quite safe. The only ones that were inherently unsafe ware the Soviet-made power stations similar to Chernobyl, which did not include a reactor containment building. The nuclear powerplant at Fukushima Daichi in Japan was crippled not by a failure of the nuclear reactor, but by the tsunami following the magnitude 9+ earthquake. The plant survived the earthquake, and the plant operators shut down the reactor, but a nuclear reactor generates a LOT of heat, and takes a while to cool off. When the reactor isn't providing power to run the coolant pumps, external power must be supplied to run the pumps to cool the reactor. Fukushima Daichi had backup diesel generators for this purpose, and power from the electrical grid as a backup - but the tsunami knocked out the generators and knocked down the power grid all along the coastline. The new reactor designs are not susceptible to failure when the coolant pumps go offline.
Reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded on April 26, 1986.
the happenings in Chernobyl were that the nuclear reactor 4 blue up sending a plume of radiation over chernobyl killing lots of peeps
The Chernobyl Reactor is still active.
The Chernobyl reactor lid weighed about 1,000 tons when it was in place.
this was rote by amandaTHE Chernobyl Disaster was caused by a reactor.
The school in Chernobyl, Pripyat, was located around 1.5 kilometers (0.93 miles) away from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant reactor that exploded in 1986.
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the reactor accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The #4 reactor is the reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Pripyat, Ukraine) that exploded on April 26, 1986. It is still the worst nuclear accident to ever take place anywhere.
No, nothing happened like melting of people in Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident.
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One reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted down in the 1986 disaster.