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    A nuclear meltdown (core meltdown, core melt accident, meltdown or partial core melt) is a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage...
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    Japan's Nuclear Meltdown", Season 2012, Episode 4, PBS Frontline Video of the Unit 1 explosion Video of the Unit 3 explosion Webcam Fukushima nuclear power...
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    The world's first nuclear reactor meltdown was the NRX reactor at Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, Canada in 1952. The worst nuclear accident to date...
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    and incidents List of nuclear meltdown accidents List of military nuclear accidents List of orphan source incidents List of nuclear and radiation accidents...
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    created in a nuclear reactor core during a nuclear meltdown accident. Resembling lava in consistency, it consists of a mixture of nuclear fuel, fission...
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  • strikes the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California, causing a nuclear meltdown. In minute 24, America initiates a nuclear attack on North Korea after...
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    = 7.3). Nuclear technology portal Nuclear meltdown Core damage frequency Fuel element failure Loss-of-coolant accident Nuclear power Nuclear power debate...
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    generators led to loss of coolant and subsequent Nuclear meltdown of three reactor cores. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster led to an uncontrolled release...
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    books about the Chernobyl meltdown List of industrial disasters Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents Nuclear fallout effects on an ecosystem –...
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    a nuclear meltdown. Sacrificing their own lives, the engineering crew jury-rigged a secondary coolant system and kept the reactor from a meltdown. Twenty-two...
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    fall onto the reactor hall, causing a nuclear meltdown. On 26 April 1986, reactor No. 4 suffered catastrophic meltdown resulting in a core explosion and open-air...
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  • Look up meltdown in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meltdown may refer to: Nuclear meltdown, a severe nuclear reactor accident Meltdown (security vulnerability)...
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    United States commercial nuclear energy when, on March 28, 1979, TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown. According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)...
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    2011). "Japan nuclear plant confirms meltdown of two more reactors; Fukushima Daiichi operator accused of delaying announcement of meltdowns in reactors...
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    Nuclear Meltdowns (2013) Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (2012) The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons...
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  • Fukushima No. 2 plant was 'near meltdown' Nuclear power plant accidents: listed and ranked since 1952 Timeline: Nuclear plant accidents ProgettoHumus –...
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    Nuclear technology portal Nuclear meltdown Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents Nuclear power Nuclear reactor technology "Nuclear reactor...
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  • rebar triggered the alert and notified Mexico's National Commission on Nuclear Safety and Safeguards [es] (CNSNS) on January 18. CNSNS confirmed a wide...
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    fatalities in the history of U.S. nuclear reactor operations. There was also a partial meltdown at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan...
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    A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plants for electricity...
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    radiation. Part of the wall was removed and sent to the Institute for Nuclear Research, where the caesium capsule was removed, identified by serial number...
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    Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna...
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  • The China Syndrome (category Anti-nuclear films)
    safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. "China syndrome" is a fanciful term that describes a fictional result of a nuclear meltdown, where reactor components...
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    Chernobylite (category Nuclear and atomic physics stubs)
    the Chernobyl disaster, a lava-like glassy material formed in the nuclear meltdown of reactor core 4. Chernobylite is highly radioactive due to its high...
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  • to: "China syndrome", a nuclear meltdown scenario so named for the fanciful idea that there would be nothing to stop the meltdown tunneling its way to the...
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    system and were able to prevent a reactor meltdown. Although they were able to save themselves from a nuclear meltdown, the entire crew, including Arkhipov...
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    8.5+ magnitude Note:This only ranks immediate costs, for example, nuclear meltdown and climate and fossil fuel costs, as well as other ongoing costs from...
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    One, was a United States Army experimental nuclear power reactor which underwent a steam explosion and meltdown on January 3, 1961, killing its three operators:...
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    Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant)...
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    to Meltdown is a pseudo-3D action game in which the player controls Homer as he races to the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to prevent a nuclear meltdown...
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