Worlds Worst Nuclear Disasters

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WINDSCALE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, ENGLAND

The windscale power plant was one of the first nuclear power plants built and was very faulty. It was build because Britain wanted to keep up with the United States Of America and make nuclear bombs.

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In the faulty nuclear power plant everything was going normal, the operators thought. But there was a problem the temperature sensor and they could only see the temperature in part of the reactor core, where the energy is made, and not seeing all of the temperature is fatal.

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The operators realise the temperature is wrong… too late. BOOM! Fires start. The reactor threatens to explode with the worst disaster possible, a meltdown, like what happened at Chernobyl plant.

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To stop the fire the operators order their men to push fuel rods down the channels to move them away from the fire, but the rods had bent because of the heat and were stuck. Eight brave men, dressed in protection suits pushed the burnt fuel rods down their channels away from the fire and it stops spreading but does not go out.

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To inspect the fire the operator Tom Tuohy climbed up to the inspection port and he could see a blue fire, the hottest fire, and the operators decide what to do.

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The operators decide to pump carbon dioxide (CO 2) on the fire and they hope that the gas will cut of the oxygen (0 2) and smother the fire to put it out. The operators pump carbon dioxide on the fire but the fire burns on.

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The operators decide to pump water on the fire, but it could produce steam which could turn into oxygen (0 2) and hydrogen (H 1) and blow the roof of the reactor. The operators turn on the hoses and a trickle of water hits the fire and… no explosion happened! The hoses are turned up and run for thirty hours. Windscale is safe!

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The heroes are the people who worked their, especially the eight brave men who pushed the fuel rods along their channels.

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT,UKRAINE, USSR

Chernobyl plant had 4 reactors and was in good condition, apart from 1 careless worker…

The disaster started with a test in reactor 1 and they powered up the test and slowed down the speed of the reactor and then sped it up. The test should have stopped BUT the careless worker didn't stop it. In thirty minutes there was FIVE fuel rods. The minimum safe is thirty. The operator realized and whispered his not appropriate last words.

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BOOM!! SMASH!! BOOM!! CRASH!! THUD!! BANG!! BOOM!!

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The explosion rocketed through the plant, it had reached meltdown and there was nothing anybody could do to stop it.

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The roof explodes and showers lumps of concrete and deadly reactor core made of uranium (U 92) and plutonium (PU 94). Ambulances and helicopters come to help and they try to pull workers out of the fifteen fires. Helicopters pour sand on the fires, trying to put them out.  

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The two closest towns Chernobyl and pripyat are evacuated. They take only what they can carry. They will never go home because it is so radioactive. It is so radioactive that it will glow green at night.

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The helicopters kept dropping sand on the fire trying to smother the fire and finally they do it!!! Only the reactor is still burning. After a while most of the pilots were too sick to carry on. They will probably get cancer or another disease.

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Finally they put out the fire. A huge cloud of radioactive waste drifts towards Europe and there are many concerns about food poisoning from vegetables and milk.

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The “Impossible clean up” and “Evacuate” begins and a 64 kilometer dead land around Chernobyl is made. A huge concrete coffin is made around chernobyl.

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The 64 kilometer dead land is made, exception only given for… the people who work there… the other reactors are still working.

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These are the worlds worst nuclear disasters!

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The main problem with nuclear disasters is secrecy because they want to not be disgraced by other countries but hiding things can be bad because in windscale it was four days before people got proper warnings not to drink milk.

Top 5 nuclear disasters.

Chalk river, Canada, partial meltdown in reactor core, no leak.

, USSR, waste container explodes, 30 villages disappear of maps, leak.

windscale, UK, fire in reactor, leak

Three mile island, USA, burn up, leak

Chernobyl, USSR, MELTDOWN!, Leak

Stellafeild is the new windscale