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    Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion...
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    unit 2 containment vessel". World Nuclear News. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018. Kawahara, Chikako (20 January 2018). "Melted nuclear fuel seen...
    191 KB (18,251 words) - 03:56, 8 June 2024
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    Daiichi nuclear power plant to maintain control, the reactor cores in units 1–3 overheated, the nuclear fuel melted and the three containment vessels...
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  • The three primary objectives of nuclear reactor safety systems as defined by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission are to shut down the reactor, maintain...
    18 KB (2,219 words) - 02:50, 16 November 2023
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    accident crystallized anti-nuclear safety concerns among the general public and led to new regulations for the nuclear industry. It accelerated the decline...
    139 KB (16,832 words) - 16:46, 22 May 2024
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    Laboratories (July 2006). "Containment Integrity Research at Sandia National Laboratories – An Overview" (PDF). U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. NUREG/CR-6906...
    50 KB (4,602 words) - 15:27, 6 June 2024
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    Shielded nuclear radiation containment chambers are commonly referred to as hot cells. The word "hot" refers to radioactivity. Hot cells are used in both...
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    from the radiation hazards associated with nuclear operations. One of those barriers is known as the containment building which houses the fuel, the reactor...
    15 KB (1,518 words) - 08:09, 7 January 2024
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    French nuclear safety authority (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire, ASN) reported that a quarter of the welds inspected in the secondary containment steel liner...
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    Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (commonly abbreviated as TMI) is a closed nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania on the...
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    Nuclear fallout is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of...
    81 KB (9,592 words) - 21:57, 1 June 2024
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    confined within the reinforced concrete containment structure. These containment structures, found at all nuclear power plants, were designed to successfully...
    160 KB (16,822 words) - 18:08, 7 June 2024
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    radioactive than U-235. Since nuclear fission creates radioactivity, the reactor core is surrounded by a protective shield. This containment absorbs radiation and...
    57 KB (6,305 words) - 11:54, 30 May 2024
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    A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear...
    92 KB (10,839 words) - 23:40, 7 June 2024
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    and effectively terminated the nuclear chain reaction. This explosion also compromised more of the reactor containment vessel and ejected hot lumps of...
    272 KB (29,494 words) - 20:55, 2 June 2024
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    Commission. In July, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) started construction, and in October 2021, the containment vessel bottom of the first of two...
    96 KB (10,949 words) - 11:13, 23 May 2024
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    24 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine Daams, Dr. Johanna. "Nuclear Reactor Containment Design (chapter 3, module A)" (PDF). canteach.candu.org. Archived...
    103 KB (9,337 words) - 12:58, 30 May 2024
  • At its peak in 1982, nuclear power in the Soviet Union accounted for 6.5% of total electricity consumption and the total nuclear capacity installed was...
    12 KB (745 words) - 13:34, 28 April 2024
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    include the completion and installation of the Containment Liner Plate (CLP) in the Unit 1 Reactor Containment Building (RCB) in November 2013; the installation...
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  • strategic nuclear forces and nuclear energy development." Its headquarters are in Xicheng District, Beijing. The Ministry of Nuclear Industry built China's...
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