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What was the name of the event in which a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania nearly meltdown?
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∙ 10y ago
Umm... I think it was the Three Mile Island accident
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Can land water or air be polluted by nuclear energy?
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What is a sentence using nuclear energy?
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What was the event that is believed to bring the world most closley to nuclear war?
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In what state is Gettysburg national park?
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What is the difference between a nuclear bomb and a nuclear meltdown?
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What nuclear event happened in 1957?
In 1957 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics exploded its first nuclear bomb. This event sparked the Cold War and would lead to the near-extinction of humanity. Until this event, the United States had held a monopoly on nuclear technology.
What nuclear event happened in 1945?
The US dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
Cellular event happen by removing nuclear envelope?
The cellular event that happens by removing the nuclear envelope is cell division. Cell division happens during Prophase.
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Cuban Crisis
What cellular event did you represent by removing the nuclear envelope?
Prophase
