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Saturday, May 19, 2012

What Happens During a Nuclear Meltdown?: Scientific American

  1. What Happens During a Nuclear Meltdown?: Scientific American

    www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nuclear-energy-primer
    Mar 15, 2011 – Nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi station in Japan are critically endangered but have not reached full meltdown status. Our nuclear ...
  2. What Is Nuclear Meltdown? - Business Insider

    articles.businessinsider.com/.../29995952_1_nuclear-reactor-nuclear-...
    Mar 12, 2011 – There has been an explosion at Fukushima Nuclear Plant. Meltdown has not occured, but it is a definite possibility. Here's a primer from ...
  3. Nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant - Telegraph

    www.telegraph.co.uk › NewsWorld NewsAsiaJapan
    May 12, 2011 – One of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant did suffer a nuclear meltdown, Japanese officials admitted for the first time ...
  4. Video: Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown | Watch FRONTLINE Online ...

    video.pbs.org/video/2202847024Feb 27, 2012 - 55 min
    In the desperate hours and days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the fate of thousands of Japanese ...
  5. Hazards of Storing Spent Fuel - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

    www.nytimes.com/.../the-explosion-at-the-japanese-re...Mar 14, 2011
    Sources: Nuclear Energy Institute; David A. Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists; Margaret Harding, 4 ...
  6. TEPCO Data Reveals Nuclear Meltdown in Reactor 4 Spent Fuel

    michelekearneynuclearwire.blogspot.com/.../tepco-data-reveals-nucle...
    2 days ago – The latest TEPCO handout reveals the release of radioactive iodine 131, and hence a nuclear meltdown, at the Fukushima nuclear reactor 4 ...
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  7. FP Explainer: What Happens During a Nuclear Meltdown? - By ...

    www.foreignpolicy.com/.../what_happens_during_a_nuclear_meltdo...
    Mar 14, 2011 – It's an inexact term, but "meltdown" generally refers to the complete melting of a plant's nuclear fuel rods. These rods are about half an inch in ...
  8. "NUCLEAR MELTDOWN" AIRS MAY 18TH AND MAY 22ND ON ...

    www.cnbc.com/.../NUCLEAR_MELTDOWN_AIRS_MAY_18TH_A...
    May 10, 2011 – (ALL TIMES ARE IN ET) "Nuclear Meltdown" will air Wednesday, May 18th at 10pm and 1am (pre-empts "American Greed"). It will repeat on ...
  9. One Year Later, 'Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown' : NPR

    www.npr.org › NewsWorldRebuilding Japan
    Feb 28, 2012 – A small group of engineers, soldiers and firemen risked their own lives to help prevent a complete meltdown after the quake and tsunami hit.
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