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Chornobyl 40 Years On
In April of 1986 I was three years old. I have no memory of those days, of the fear and confusion surrounding the events at a Soviet power station in Ukraine. No one knew what the impacts would be; it was the first time in human history that the core of a recently operating nuclear…
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TMI
The Three Mile Island accident is regarded as the worst civilian nuclear event in US history. Due to a combination of equipment failure and operator error, a reactor core that had only been online for 3 months was destroyed, resulting in a radiation release and widespread panic. TMI Unit 2 began commercial operation on Dec…
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Nuclear Power 101
When Einstein discovered that a small amount of mass can be converted into enormous amounts of energy, he set the stage for nuclear power. The first reactor was built under the squash courts at the University of Chicago by Enrico Fermi. It went critical on December 2, 1942. By Melvin A. Miller of the Argonne…
Sleepy Neutron's Nuclear Knowledge 