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March 12, 2011
Some have answered that "none of the nuclear power plants have exploded in Japan"
This is technically true. The explosion at the power plant was actually of hydrogen gas in a containment building. It was not a "nuclear" explosion. It was not an explosion of the power generation material. The water used to cool the nuclear rods became so hot that the hydrogen was split off the water molecules. Eventually enough hydrogen collected that it exploded. That is what you see in the video linked above.
There were two such explosions. This is the second.
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∙ 12y agoBecause of the earthquake and the tsunami that followed, Japan got a pretty good "shake" causing the nuclear plants to explode with the possibility of nuclear radiation leaking.
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∙ 13y agoa build up in hydrogen
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What caused Japan's reactor to blow up?
the reactor over heated and the fail safe shut down failed
Can a power plant can explode like a nuclear weapon?
No, a nuclear weapon needs a specific geometry to detonate, and it has to be held in this position by very high explosives to keep it in this shape. In a nuclear reactor, if the reactor core goes critical then the force of the expanding coolant will blow the reactor apart, preventing a nuclear blast.
Why nuclear reactor is used in operating a submarine?
This can be used to blow up enemy ships (e.g E12)
The worst nuclear power accident in world history occurred at?
Japan (Fukashima Plant I). Four Reactors blow and melt down. Radiation spread throughout all of Japan.
What effect did the japan earthquake have on the world?
it caused a tsunami which then hit Japan and causes a big nuclear center to blow up and everyone got scared because of the high radiation levels
What is good about nuclear fields?
Because you can blow people with the nuclear powers
What did they blow up during the trinity test?
The Trinity Test was the first test of a nuclear device. The bomb detonated at the trinity test was an implosion-type plutonium bomb nicknamed 'the gadget' the bomb was the same type of bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki Japan.
Does nuclear energy blow up?
No. Define "blow up". Power plants have malfunctions that can kill people, unrelated to nuclear fuel. Nuclear elements can be arranged to blow up but you have to get everything exactly right. More danger exists from exposure to the fuel, if it has been activated.
What can cause a nuclear power plant blow up?
A steam explosion from flash evaporation of coolant water. This is what blew up Chernobyl.A chemical hydrogen/oxygen gas explosion caused by build up of hydrogen gas in the plant when water decomposes on contact with overheated zirconium fuel rod cladding.A nuclear explosion in a nuclear reactor is not possible, the fuel cannot be assembled into a supercritical mass configuration fast enough (~1ms) as this would require explosives. If the reactor core did suddenly go slightly supercritical, the energy release would simply cause a brief partial meltdown, restoring the material to a subcritical configuration. This could trigger a steam explosion that ejected parts of the reactor core (as happened at Chernobyl) but no nuclear yield would occur.
What crisis happened in Japan?
Japan had an earthquake and tsunami which caused and radioactive blow.
What would happen if there were Nuclear membrane in a cell?
it will blow up
Can 1 nuclear missile blow up a country?
of course not
