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They will never really know the exact events in Chernobyl. The answer is most likely yes, but it was so sudden and all of the records were obviously destroyed. It has been shown that there were many inexperienced workers at the plant.
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∙ 14y agoYes. If the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine had been better designed, and if the reactors had all been operated only within the parameters for which they were designed, there would almost surely have been no serious problems. There was NO nuclear explosion. The first explosion was the buildup of high pressure steam which blew the top off a reactor, and the second explosion was hydrogen gas which had formed in the reactor core. The staff had been ordered to conduct a cooling water test of reactor 4 during a scheduled maintenance shutdown. The test experiment was badly timed, inadequately researched and poorly conducted. The reactor was operated at levels beyond normal safe conditions throughout the experiment. Also, the reactors at Chernobyl had no containment buildings to prevent the release of radioactive materials in the event of a malfunction. At the beginning of the experiment, the staff shut down many of the reactor's safety systems, and more were shut down as the experiment proceeded. The reactor's control rods were inserted to reduce the reaction rate but were accidentally inserted too far, causing the reactor to shut down too rapidly. Then the control rods were removed too far, causing the reaction rate to increase dangerously. The physical structure of the reactor core failed, making it impossible to re-insert the control rods and the reaction raced out of control. The steam explosion further damaged the core and the hydrogen explosion blew the core apart. The core was constructed of flammable graphite which caught fire. The buildings at the Chernobyl plant were roofed with a flammable petroleum product which caught fire. The explosions and fires carried radioactive material into the atmosphere across Europe all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
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∙ 14y agoYes. The Chernobyl disaster was a chain of mistakes, and they could and should have stopped long before they caused the explosion.
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Could the accidents of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have been avoided yes or no?
Yes
What happened to the chernobyl nuclear power station?
it leaked but now they fixed it all up so people could visit it again
How does nuclear power hurt when it explodes?
A nuclear power station can not create a nuclear explosion. What CAN happen is that hydrogen could build up inside of the containment dome and if the build up becomes too intense, it can cause a hydrogen explosion, like the one in Japan recently. This explosion is dangerous only if you are close to it and are hit by the concussion or by the debris that is flying from the explosion. If this explosion is too large, it can damage the containment dome surrounding the reactor and this, in turn, releases some radioactive gases.
What happens when a nuclear reactor in a nuclear submarrine explodes?
It can't explode like a nuclear bomb. It could have a steam explosion, as can any steam power plant. It is also possible for it to build up hydrogen gas if it runs too hot and damages its fuel rods, the hydrogen could explode.
What if a nuclear reactor exploded?
If a nuclear reactor explodes, there can be radiation leakage in the atmosphere which could be dangerous for people. The Fall-out would not only damage the country that it is in but the whole world. The worst part is not the explosion but the Fall-out that comes after. This is really bad because The Radiative Fall-out never Goes away
Could the accidents of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have been avoided yes or no?
Yes
How did the explosion at Chernobyl compare to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The bombs dropped in Japan were designed to produce a large nuclear explosion which produced heat and blast waves. At Chernobyl an operating reactor lifted its top off due to a surge in pressure, and this flung out radioactive debris, not as a result of a nuclear explosion but due to mechanical forces. There was approx. 400 times the amount of radiation released from Chernobyl than there was from the two bombs dropped on Japan.
What city is like the city of Chernobyl today?
One city that is often compared to Chernobyl in terms of current state is Pripyat, which was affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Pripyat remains abandoned and is a ghost town due to high radiation levels. The area has become a popular tourist destination for those interested in exploring abandoned spaces and learning about the effects of the disaster.
What are they doing to fix the nuclear explosion in japan?
There was no nuclear explosion in the Japanese reactors. The explosion(s) that damaged/destroyed the Japanese reactors were either steam explosions and/or hydrogen/oxygen gas explosions.A steam explosion is what destroyed the Chernobyl reactor. It is caused when cooling water flash evaporates.A hydrogen/oxygen explosion is caused when water decomposes on contact with overheated zirconium cladding on fuel pellets, releasing hydrogen gas. If enough accumulates and a spark happens it explodes. Three Mile Island began accumulating hydrogen like this but it was vented before it could explode.
Can an improperly managed nuclear plant explode like a nuclear weapon?
No. A nuclear weapon requires a critical amount of highly enriched fuel to be rapidly brought together to cause a sudden explosion. Nuclear plants use low enriched fuel which could never cause a nuclear explosion, and this fuel is dispersed through the reactor in any case so it could not suddenly come together. Any nuclear plant explosions (like Chernobyl) are caused by the presence of high pressure steam and water circuits, not the fact of it being a nuclear plant, though certainly if there is an explosion of a pressure circuit and hence a loss of coolant, and disruption of the nuclear reactor, radioactivity may escape from the plant. This is the chief preoccupation of designers and operators, to keep the plant safe and prevent this ever happening.
Why is japan facing a potential nuclear meltdown?
because, the nuclear reactors in the facility need to be cooled with water but since the power went out they cant cool it down and if they don't, it could cause an explosion causing radiation to spread across the area like in chernobyl and it will have to stay uninhabited because the radiation will stay for thousands of years
Can you give me the image of the nuclear weapon?
You could kindly refer to the links below for the images of nuclear weapon designs and their explosion consequences.
What happened to the chernobyl nuclear power station?
it leaked but now they fixed it all up so people could visit it again
What can cause a nuclear power plant blow up?
A steam explosion from flash evaporation of coolant water. This is what blew up Chernobyl.A chemical hydrogen/oxygen gas explosion caused by build up of hydrogen gas in the plant when water decomposes on contact with overheated zirconium fuel rod cladding.A nuclear explosion in a nuclear reactor is not possible, the fuel cannot be assembled into a supercritical mass configuration fast enough (~1ms) as this would require explosives. If the reactor core did suddenly go slightly supercritical, the energy release would simply cause a brief partial meltdown, restoring the material to a subcritical configuration. This could trigger a steam explosion that ejected parts of the reactor core (as happened at Chernobyl) but no nuclear yield would occur.
Where was chernobyl?
Chernobyl started from an inherently unstable design, it's considered a breeder reactor, really good at making weapons grade plutonium but functionally unstable. The actual incident occurred during testing of the reactor to see how far it could be pushed.
Which type of nuclear detonation creates a huge crater and carries millions of tons of earth into the air in a mushroom could?
Any type of nuclear explosion will have this effect.
How does nuclear power hurt when it explodes?
A nuclear power station can not create a nuclear explosion. What CAN happen is that hydrogen could build up inside of the containment dome and if the build up becomes too intense, it can cause a hydrogen explosion, like the one in Japan recently. This explosion is dangerous only if you are close to it and are hit by the concussion or by the debris that is flying from the explosion. If this explosion is too large, it can damage the containment dome surrounding the reactor and this, in turn, releases some radioactive gases.
