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That depends on what part you entered and how long you remained there. Only inside the actual core itself would the dose rate be high enough to kill you "instantly", even in the containment building itself of a properly functioning reactor the shielding is good enough that the dose rate is low enough that you could actually live there many weeks before the accumulated dose was large enough to begin to cause radiation sickness, anywhere else in the reactor facility the dose rate is so low that it is not even conclusively proven that remaining there as long as you like would give you a dose large enough to detectably shorten your life (but they do monitor workers and if their total accumulated radiation dose exceeds a specified level the company is required to either move them to equivalent work that will not expose them or give them paid vacation for specified time periods).

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How do you make a student model of nuclear energy?

This depends on whether you mean a visual representation of a power plant, or a conceptual representation of its principles. For a visual representation, I would get the plans of the simples plant I could find. There is a link to a Wikipedia article below that might help. I recently went to an off site open house by a power plant, and they had very nice models of the reactor and so on there; perhaps a the staff at a nearby plant might help. There was a very interesting representation of the principles of the chain reaction on television when I was young, perhaps Disney did it. In it, atoms were represented by mouse traps and ping pong balls. Hundreds of mouse traps were put in a gymnasium, set with two ping pong balls on each. When this was done, a ping pong ball was tossed in, and in seconds, the air was full of ping pong balls. This was analogous to a nuclear chain reaction, but was not moderated. I wonder whether the principle of moderating a nuclear reaction could be illustrated by hanging things such as pieces of clothes line from above so they almost touched the ping pong balls, limiting how far they could go. Perhaps someone else could provide other ideas.


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