Can you tell me in one brief sentence what happend to Chernobyl?
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during a power-down test, a water valve stuck, the core overheated and exploded
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It gets hotter, expands, and thins.  Eventually the radiation gets past it.  \n\nIf there is enough buildup of radiation from the core, you can have explosive effects.
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I love nuclear power - Chernobyl was run by a bunch of resentful communists - with very little grasp of anything technological - now they have 2 heads and 12 fingers to show for it!
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It happened to the Soviet Union.  Don't be complacent...anything can happen.
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm
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You will find all sorts of information by searching "Chernobyl radiation effects."  It's looks rather interesting & so I'm going to read it all now.  It gives many different web sites to chose from.
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The Tunguska Event.\n\nA huge non-nuclear, sub atomic explosion in the skis over Siberia. \n\nThe theories around the cause of the explosion are varied;\n\nStray Anti-Matter particle.\nComet/ Meteor overheating and exploding on entry.\nSolar Particle disruption caused by mass sunspot activity.\nBy product of a Solar Mass Ejection event. \nA Primordial Black hole.\n\nOne theory I read stated that according to the "math" the instantaneous opening and collapse of a wormhole would release the same amount of energy.\n\nAny way, it happened in 1906, but a "rescue" mission wasn't sent for 10 years because at the time that part of Siberia was so remote they had to build railways roads and bridges to get there.
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They realise they should have turned right at Warsaw.\n\nSeriously, it would result in enormous climate changes, tectonic plates could be affected resulting in earthquakes, harmful radiation from the sun could seep through - the Earths magnetic field behaves like a shield, hence the northern lights. \n\nPolarity changes have happened before on Earth and scientists believe we are overdue for another one.\n\nSo, something else to add to the list of 'Armageddons' we seem to have stacking up against us. No point worrying really, if one catastrophe doesn't get you, then another one will!
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well depending on how well it's built, the same thing that would happen to any reactor hear in the US if it core was breached. You would have a radiation leak
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The entire island was bulldozed, all buildings removed down to the foundations, everything taken off the island and the whole place was abandoned and turned into a wildlife sanctuary.\n\nThey did this when the last of the chemical weapons was destroyed a couple years ago.
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This all comes down to human performance.  The cast of likely culprits would be in the 100's.  Ultimately, if you want to be  a hard nose about it, it was the fault of the shift reactor operator at the time that it happened.  That would only be because his license was the "One" that was allowing the plant to be operated at that moment.  The utility is responsible along with the operator for all consequences of operating the plant.
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I suspect you're referring to the "China syndrome," where a nuclear meltdown could supposedly bore all the way through the earth to the opposite side. This cannot happen. Any meltdown will only bore through the ground until it hits the water table, at which time it will be discharged back into the atmosphere with the steam. Even if there were no water table, the fissile material would stop when it reached the earth's core, since it cannot fight upward against gravity.\n\nThe accident at Chernoybl, if I remember correctly, never even reached the water table. It was controlled by the containment facility.
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Pip, making a nuclear bomb is very very very hard!  Especially out of 10000 smoke alarms!  I'd be interested to know which 'news channel' this was.
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Because if there was an incredible mutation from the Chernobyl accident then there would have been one caused by the natural background radiation which exists everywhere on the planet (some areas of the planet actually have more radiation than some areas around Chernobyl that were deemed contaminated and yet the people living in them get by just fine).
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Hi Deep\nhey, dude. i got like some bad news for you man. Like that was along time ago dude. like I doubt there are like maybe 5 people left from back then, dude. I mean it was like ,well dude, you know it was a really really long time ago, dude. and it was in russia , dude, and DUDE you know.\nDID YOU EVEN DO ANY PRELIMINARY RESEACH IN  AND OR ON THIS !\nI WILL SAY I AM VERY SUPRISED YOUR PARAGRAPH AND SPELLING UP ABOVE LOOKS VERY GOOD.
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Here you go try this or watch the history chanel for a good story on Chernobyl!!!
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ask a communist country how well that little experiment went