What Exactly Happened at Chernobyl?
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Reactions Science Videos | August 15, 2019
On April 26, 1986, the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl Power Complex nuclear reactor 4 exploded. This week on Reactions, we talk about the chemistry behind this catastrophic event.
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Nuclear reactors
World Nuclear Association sequence of events at Chernobyl
RBMK reactor
Chernobyl accident
Xenon poisoning
UNSCEAR’s assessments of the radiation effects
33 years since Chernobyl
Chernobyl disaster
Estimated deaths from Chernobyl
RBMK reactor locations
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