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A meltdown is both good and bad:
- Good reactor design uses the meltdown to disassemble the fuel into a subcritical mass, causing the reactor to automatically shutdown.
- Bad reactor design can allow the fuel to enter places it should not go, possibly causing steam explosions, contamination outside the reactor containment, etc.
What else can I help you with?
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.
What happen to the nuclear power plant in the tsunami in 2011?
One of the Japanese nuclear Power plant was unstable so a chemical mixed in it and boom! The whole thing blew up!!
What would happen to a nuclear plant if the fission reaction goes critical or out of control?
There are emergency safety system that could be used to bring the nuclear plant again under control.
What would happen if an atomic bomb was dropped on a nuclear power plant?
Big boom!!
What will happen to you if the nuclear plant radiate in front of you?
if you get too much radiation you will die, simple as that.
What would happen if A nuclear Power plant was struck by a loaf of bread?
I would eat it!
Is the nuclear power plant going to explode in Japan?
We shall have to wait on events It Did.
Where did the largest nuclear plant melt down happen?
The largest nuclear plant meltdown happened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. The explosion and subsequent fire released large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere, resulting in one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.
What might happen to a nuclear power plant if the containment structure was damaged?
It could release radiation.
What is going to happen to the animals in the desert if their no water in the desert what will happen to the plant and animals?
die
Can nuclear energy kill people?
Yes it can. If a nuclear power plant melts down radioactive material is put into the atmosphere, land, water. A good example of this is in Russia where Chernobyl had a meltdown. Nothing can live there today and won't for another 100 years.
What is the function of a nuclear reactor of a nuclear plant?
simply, the nuclear reactor is the source of heat (or steam) for the nuclear power plant.
