That would vary with reactor design, where the original problem occurred, operator training and response to the problem, and many other variables. An accident can vary from a tiny release of radioactive gasses that is stopped immediately, through steam ejection of a fuel rod whch impales a single worker onto the ceiling, through a massive steam explosion followed by a graphite fire (all three of these have happened), to a worst case complete core meltdown that melts down to the water table causing massive contamination of drinking water for hundreds of miles (this has not happened).
The Chernobyl Power Complex refers to the nuclear power plant that used to be in Chernobyl, Ukraine. It operated with four nuclear reactors to supply power to the region.
The exact contents of radioactive waste from a nuclear power plant and radioactive fallout from a nuclear weapon can vary widely but are likely to be similar in their primary isotopes.The major difference between the radioactive waste from a nuclear power plant and radioactive fallout from a nuclear weapon is that the waste is normally contained and will not enter the environment (unless an accident happens) while the fallout is dispersed into the environment and is carried by the wind (sometimes all the way around the world multiple times).
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No, nuclear radiation has existed sense the first stars in the early universe began fusing hydrogen. Nuclear power is an industry created by man only in the early 1950s.
Nuclear fission has been used in nuclear bombs and is currently being used in every nuclear power plant on the earth.
The Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Nuclear power accidents are a disaster. The 1986 nuclear accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine was a catastrophic accident.
There are many ways a nuclear accident may occur, however most nuclear power plant accident occur due to problem in an reactor.
the reactor accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine is the only accident in the history of commercial nuclear power to cause fatalities from radiation. It was the product of a severely flawed Soviet-era reactor design and human error.
Nuclear power can be bad and good for the earth it depends on what happens
Chernobyl is famous for the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.
what event caused many Americans to worry about nuclear power
Nuclear Fission
Many americans lost faith in nuclear power(apex)
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Carry on normally in most cases