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    The effects of a nuclear explosion on its immediate vicinity are typically much more destructive and multifaceted than those caused by conventional explosives...
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    Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, near the Belarus border in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuclear energy...
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    water to nuclear-caused fires. The report considered attempting to stop the spread of fires by creating firebreaks by blasting combustible material out...
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  • the nuclear power industry that are active along the nuclear chain, from uranium mining, processing and enrichment, to the actual operating of nuclear power...
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    2018. "La Marina de Brasil avanza en el desarrollo y producción de combustible nuclear". Zona Militar (in Spanish). 6 January 2022. "IAEA Director General's...
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  • vibrated. About nine o'clock in the morning of 30 May 1626, an explosion of combustibles at the Wanggongchang Armory in Ming-era Beijing, China, destroyed almost...
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  • FBFC (Franco-Belge de Fabrication du Combustible, French-Belgian fabrication of fuel) is a nuclear fuel producing company. From 1977 onwards its headquarters...
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    with an easily combustible material and then igniting it to produce explosive force. These weapons are the most powerful non-nuclear weapons in existence...
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  • shelter, Dr. A. Broido suggests putting the intake vent as far from combustible materials as possible. The importance of water to basic survival is discussed...
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    permanent sealing material. The temporary sealing material was highly combustible, and caught fire. Efforts were made by the workers to extinguish the...
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  • Center in São Paulo (CTMSP) Argentina Bariloche Atomic Center (CAB) Combustibles Nucleares Argentinos (Conuar) Constituyentes Atomic Center (CAC) Ezeiza Atomic...
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    signe un accord inédit avec Framatome pour s'affranchir du combustible russe". World Nuclear News. 30 December 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2023. "Bulgaria...
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  • Banco de la Nación Argentina Banco Hipotecario Casa de la Moneda Combustibles Nucleares Argentinos CONUARSA Compañía Nacional del Mercado Mayorista de Electricidad...
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  • notable military accidents involving nuclear material. Civilian accidents are listed at List of civilian nuclear accidents. For a general discussion of...
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    Fuel (section Nuclear)
    smokeless fuel. They are also used to start a coal fire. Liquid fuels are combustible or energy-generating molecules that can be harnessed to create mechanical...
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  • This page describes how uranium dioxide nuclear fuel behaves during both normal nuclear reactor operation and under reactor accident conditions, such...
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  • history of France's civil nuclear program traces the evolution that led France to become the world's second largest producer of nuclear-generated electricity...
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    Ionizing radiation (US, ionising radiation in the UK), including nuclear radiation, consists of subatomic particles or electromagnetic waves that have...
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    one-third of its fuel. A radioactive fire occurred in 1971, involving combustible primary reactor coolant (NaK) contaminated with mixed fission products...
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  • degradation over short time spans. In contrast, some materials are merely combustible or flammable if they burn without exploding. The distinction, however...
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    decommissioned in the future. Franco-Belge de Fabrication du Combustible (FBFC) making nuclear fuel assemblies; The Dessel site was selected in June 2006...
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    from petroleum, 36% from natural gas, and 9% from coal. Electricity from nuclear power supplied 9% and renewable energy supplied 9%, which includes biomass...
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    of the gloveboxes used to handle radioactive materials, igniting the combustible rubber gloves and plexiglas windows of the box. Metallic plutonium is...
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    Elisabeth (September 28, 2023). "Attention-Seekers and Autocrats Are a Combustible Mix". Foreign Policy. Retrieved October 19, 2023. "Maxay yihiin waxa...
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    organic (and some inorganic) material. It should not be stored near combustible substances. While ammonium nitrate is stable at ambient temperature and...
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    The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire...
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  • la empresa Lockheed Nuclear Products de EEUU y Uruguay estuvo sometido a las salvaguardias del OIEA, hasta que se fue el combustible del mismo, luego de...
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  • Duck and cover (category Nuclear warfare)
    of a nuclear explosion. Ducking and covering is useful in offering a degree of protection to personnel located outside the radius of the nuclear fireball...
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  • Kerosene, or paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum. It is widely used as a fuel in aviation as well as households...
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  • In 2021, Algeria contributed 0.4% to the global CO2 emissions from combustible fuels, based on data focused solely on emissions from fuel combustion...
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