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well Chernobyl  was kind off a disaster...
I may be wrong, but I dont think that Chernobyl was actually a nuclear explosion (mushroom cloud, levelled town, and what not). I believe it was just a standard explosion which resulted in massive amounts of radioactive fallout.
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By 1:23:47 the reactor jumped to around 30 GW thermal, ten times the normal operational output. The fuel rods began to melt and the steam pressure rapidly increased, causing a large steam explosion. Generated steam traveled vertically along the rod channels in the reactor, displacing and destroying the reactor lid, rupturing the coolant tubes and then blowing the lid off the reactor.[9] After part of the roof blew off, the inrush of oxygen, combined with the extremely high temperature of the reactor fuel and graphite moderator, started a graphite fire. This fire greatly contributed to the spread of radioactive material and the contamination of outlying areas.

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RE: nuclear bombs :(
it still burns to this day.


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RE: nuclear bombs :(
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Originally posted by foaly
well Chernobyl  was kind off a disaster...
A disaster that spread radioactive dust over Western Europe, but as Volv correctly points out, the explosion was due to extreme coolant pressure. In fact, any nuclear powerplant that goes into 'meltdown' does something similar: an explosion caused by extreme coolant pressure.
Some modern designs of reactor are actually designed so an unmonitored reactor shuts itself down. I forget what the design is called, but I know I'd rather have that than the designs used at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.
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"The area affected by the explosion will not be safe for another 600 years."

Great. There goes my summer vacation.
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Am I the only one that's surprised that over 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster that there's still no superheroes?

credit to Jimmy Carr for that joke
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RE: nuclear bombs :(
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Am I the only one that's surprised that over 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster that there's still no superheroes?

credit to Jimmy Carr for that joke
But let's me serious for a moment.  If there were any superheroes, they would be Russian or Ukrainian.  And since when did the West care about Russian or Ukrainian superheroes?  They never did.  Ergo, there might be superheroes saving the day in Ukraine, but we just don't give a damn.
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