Sentences with phrase «explosion at a nuclear plant»

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Large transformer explosion at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

In late April 1986, Sladek was hobbling around her home with a broken leg, the result of a skiing accident, when she heard a news report about an explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.

Children living near the site of Tomsk - 7 are being evacuated as the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that plutonium was released by the explosion at the Siberian nuclear plant earlier this month.

Just after 6 AM local time on Tuesday in Japan, a sound like an explosion was heard near the suppression pool of reactor No. 2 at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

April marks the 30th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear power disaster, the explosion and fire at a reactor at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union.

And the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 suggested the practice of overcrowding pools for the storage of spent nuclear fuel rods — that has caused fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, which stores far less used fuel than typical U.S. plants — could prove dangerous.

In fact, atmospheric pressure rapidly increased eightfold before the explosion in reactor No. 1 on March 12 (nuclear power plants typically operate at roughly 4 atmospheres of pressure).

A fresh explosion has rocked the nuclear reprocessing plant at Chelyabinsk in Russia, releasing 7.4 million becquerels of radioactivity up a ventil - ation shaft.

The Swedish Defence Research Institute says it has detected traces of the explosion last month at a nuclear reprocessing plant near Tomsk in Siberia.

Hydrogen and steam explosions pose ongoing risks at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, where three such events have already occurred in the past five days

Oil leaked into the Hudson River on Sunday after a transformer fire and explosion a day earlier at the Indian Point nuclear plant north of New York City, putting the local environment at risk

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In the months and years after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, scientists were able to track the spread of radioactive material in the atmosphere and the ocean around the globe.

In this made - for - TV movie, a potentially dangerous explosion at a nuclear power plant is kept under control.

After a fictional second explosion at Chernobyl, the land surrounding the nuclear plant has become a wasteland known as the Zone, where mutant creatures and humans roam and the laws of nature no longer apply.

The power came back on Saturday in the control room of Reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where the tsunami caused explosions and fires after the earthquake in Japan.

After the great 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered leaks and explosions at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex (problems continue), pressures intensified on the operators of America's nuclear plants to demonstrate they can be run safely.

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