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Under specific circumstances, it has been possible for a nuclear reactor to fail catastrophically. Revisit the serious nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island in the U.S., Chernobyl in the Soviet Union, and Fukushima in Japan, drawing lessons on the fallibility of safety features and human operators. Track the cascading sequence of failures in each accident.
3) The warning
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Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no place to run in a community that's been taken--and is being intentionally kept--off the grid. A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly discover that their hometown is not as it was before. Downed...
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In 1984, while grappling with her parents' divorce and her mother's remarriage to an African-American man, sixteen-year-old Laura wins a walk-on role in the nuclear holocaust movie being filmed in her Arkansas town, but when the scripted nuclear explosion occurs, nobody seems to know if a real nuclear bomb has detonated or not. Inspired by a real event.
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"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced...
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The fight to survive has torn them apart, turned them against each other, and taken the lives of their closest friends. Last season, a new, even more dangerous threat arose: the A.I. that ended the world was building an army dedicated to controlling all sentient life on Earth. No longer a battle between warring factions; it was a fight for humanity itself. The 100 face their darkest chapter yet.
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Examines the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant following the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan. Highlights the history of nuclear power and the long-lasting effects of the disaster that could linger far into the future. Includes a timeline, a glossary, resources for further information, text-related questions, and color photographs.
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The fight to survive has torn them apart, turned them against each other, and taken the lives of their closest friends. Last season, a new, even more dangerous threat arose: the A.I. that ended the world was building an army dedicated to controlling all sentient life on Earth. No longer a battle between warring factions; it was a fight for humanity itself. The 100 face their darkest chapter yet.
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After 125 years in cryosleep, our heroes wake up to a new home, a place where they can try again. Clarke and Bellamy lead a group down to this mysterious world to start anew, but not everything on Sanctum is as perfect as it seems. Despite their determination to do better, threats both seen and unseen will once again force them to fight for their lives and the future of humanity.
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Documents the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and State of California response to a simulated nuclear weapon accident near a hypothetical California town. This video summarizes the highlights of six days of field exercise play, involving over 600 accident response personnel. Note: This historical recording may contain variations in audio and video quality based on the limitations of the original source...
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"A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world seeks to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change,...
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"Winner of the 2018 National Eisteddfod Prose Medal and the 2019 Llyfr y Flwyddyn (Wales Book of the Year) After nuclear disaster, Rowenna and her young son, Dylan, are among the rare survivors in rural northwest Wales. Left alone in their isolated hillside cottage, after others have died or abandoned the towns and villages, they must learn new skills in order to remain alive. With no electricity or modern technology they must return to the old ways...
15) Nuclear disaster
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This book traces the possible consequences of a global event such as a nuclear disaster, with ideas and evidence based on similar scenarios that are a part of fact and fiction.
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"On March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake ever measured in Japan occurred off the northeast coast. It triggered a tsunami with a wall of water 128 feet high. The tsunami damaged the nuclear power plant in Fukushima triggering the nightmare scenario--a nuclear meltdown. For six days, employees at the plant worked to contain the meltdown and disaster workers scoured the surrounding flooded area for survivors. This book examines the science behind...
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Ninety-seven years after nuclear Armageddon destroyed the planet, humanity's sole survivors live on the Ark, an aging space station experiencing overpopulation and inadequate resources. When faced with difficult choices, the Ark leaders decide to send 100 juvenile prisoners back to Earth to test its living conditions.