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  • Americas worst nuclear disaster; Three Mile Island

    hi kids, today we’ll see how three mile island (tmi) happend. Background The Three Mile Island Generating Station (TMI) is a former nuclear power plant located in Pennsylvania, United States, near the town of Harrisburg. The plant consists of two total units: TMI-1 and TMI-2. They began construction on May… Read More… ⇢

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  • Lessons Learnt from Chernobyl

    hi kids, today we’ll see how Chernobyl affected NPPs. Background Of course, to understand what lessons we have learned from Chernobyl, we have to know what happened at Chernobyl itself. Chernobyl NPP was located near the town of Pripyat, north of the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union. The… Read More… ⇢

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  • The Story of Chalk River

    hi kids, today we’ll talk about the two accidents at Chalk River Laboratories. Background Chalk River Laboratories were drawn up in the 1940s, during the Second World War. It is located near the town of Chalk River, Ontario (Canada). Though the site did supply the United States with plutonium during… Read More… ⇢

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  • Xenon-Poisoning in Reactors

    hi kids, today we’ll see how xenon affects reactors. (short one today) We all know how a nuclear reactor works. Or at least, the basics of it. A neutron hits a uranium atom, splits it into two which creates heat, and that heat boils water to spin the turbines that… Read More… ⇢

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  • Japan’s Forgotten Fukushima; Tokaimura

    hi kids, today we’ll talk about the forgotten Fukushima of Japan. Background The Tokaimura Nuclear Accidents refer to two separate accidents. One in 1997 and another one in 1999. The accidents took place in a chemical processing facility in the CTB in the JCO site in Tokaimura, a large village… Read More… ⇢

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  • The Forgotten Chernobyl of 1957; The Kyshtym Disaster

    hi kids. let’s look at the untold story of Kyshtym today (i spelt it wrong so many times) Introduction The Kyshtym disaster (Кыштымская авария) was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium reprocessing production plant for nuclear weapons located in the closed city… Read More… ⇢

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  • America’s first nuclear accident; SL-1

    Hi kids, today we’ll look at the SL-1 nuclear accident in the US. Background The Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number 1 (SL-1), operated by Combustion Engineering for the Atomic Energy Commission, initially the Argonne Low Power Reactor (ALPR), was an experimental nuclear reactor at the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS) in… Read More… ⇢

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  • Westinghouse vs KHNP

    hi kids, today we’ll be looking at the dispute between the Westinghouse Electric Company (United States) and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP, along with its parent company, KEPCO). It will be a short one for today. The dispute between Westinghouse and KHNP was centered on the intellectual property rights… Read More… ⇢

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  • The People who dug a hole in Chernobyl

    hi kids, we’ll talk about one of the liquidation efforts of chernobyl today. Background On the 26th of April 1986, unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) exploded during a safety test. As a result, hundreds of thousands of radioactive materials were released into the air, and the… Read More… ⇢

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