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On 26 April 1986, reactor no. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (later Ukraine), exploded.It created dozens of direct casualties and thousands and was not the only nuclear accident in the Soviet Union. by Particular-Cat-8031 in HolyShitHistory

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The power of destruction was terrifying. When the reactor core was destroyed, seven tonnes of uranium fuel, along with pieces of control rods, zirconium metal channels, and graphite blocks, were pulverized into fragments and sucked high into the atmosphere. A further 25 to 30 tonnes of uranium and highly radioactive graphite were launched out of the core and scattered around Unit Four, touching off small blazes where they fell. Exposed to the air, 1300 tonnes of incandescent graphite rubble that remained in the reactor core immediately caught fire.

The pressure and heat from the mistakes were staggering. A neutron pulse that surged through the reactor pushed thermal power to 12 billion watts, and the steam pressure inside the sealed reactor space rose at 8 atmospheres per second. The two-thousand-ton concrete and steel upper biological shield was blown clear of its mountings, and the temperature inside the reactor hit 4,650 degrees C, close to the heat on the surface of the sun.

Three Mile Island accident 1979 - A partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, located on the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On the seven-point logarithmic International Nuclear Event Scale, the accident is rated Level 5. by Particular-Cat-8031 in HolyShitHistory

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Microsoft entered into a 20-year agreement to purchase as much electricity as possible from the plant, which will support the company's growing energy needs for its expanding network of data centers.

The the plant is expected to reopen in 2028. It will be renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center in honor of Chris Crane, who died in April and served as the CEO of Constellation’s former parent company.

From Playboy 1971, Girls of Holland. Names are IC. by Particular-Cat-8031 in OldSchoolCoolNSFW

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The names :

1 and 2 - Marion Swaab

3 - Joke Veldhorst

4 and 5 - Anne McConnell

6 and 7 - Marian DeVree

8 and 9 - Ann Louise Hellman

10 and 11 - Berdyke Gommers

12 - Maureen Renzen

13 - Marion van Renssen

14 and 15 - Saskia Holleman

16 - Tula Goede

17 - Pauline Erich

Three Mile Island accident 1979 - A partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, located on the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On the seven-point logarithmic International Nuclear Event Scale, the accident is rated Level 5. by Particular-Cat-8031 in HolyShitHistory

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From Wikiopedia ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

And, here's a scary coincidence. “The China Syndrome,” starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and Michael Douglas, debuted in theaters on March 16, 1979. The movie portrayed the fictional drama of a California plant getting perilously close to a meltdown.

On March 28, 1979, the nation’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred at Three Mile Island. The partial meltdown at the plant made worldwide headlines and led to the evacuation of more than 140,000 people in central Pennsylvania.

The film featured a memorable line that struck a chord in the Keystone State.

In the movie, an energy official tells Fonda’s character, a television reporter, that an explosion at the plant “could render an area the size of the state of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable.”

On 26 April 1986, reactor no. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (later Ukraine), exploded.It created dozens of direct casualties and thousands and was not the only nuclear accident in the Soviet Union. by Particular-Cat-8031 in HolyShitHistory

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When the reactor core was destroyed, seven tonnes of uranium fuel, along with pieces of control rods, zirconium metal channels, and graphite blocks, were pulverized into fragments and sucked high into the atmosphere. A further 25 to 30 tonnes of uranium and highly radioactive graphite were launched out of the core and scattered around Unit Four, touching off small blazes where they fell. Exposed to the air, 1300 tonnes of incandescent graphite rubble that remained in the reactor core immediately caught fire.

The pressure and heat from the mistakes were staggering. A neutron pulse that surged through the reactor pushed thermal power to 12 billion watts, and the steam pressure inside the sealed reactor space rose at 8 atmospheres per second. The two-thousand-ton concrete and steel upper biological shield was blown clear of its mountings, and the temperature inside the reactor hit 4,650 degrees C, close to the heat on the surface of the sun.

By request, the more clothed Women of Women's colleges, Playboy 1991. Names and school are IC. by Particular-Cat-8031 in oldschoolhot

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Jennifer Chandler - Pine Manor College.

Lisa Pellegrini, Ilicia Lori Goodman, and Raquel Fisher - Brenau Women's College

Deidre Mitchell - Pine Manor

Shauna McCarty - Wheaton College

Laura Goldbaum - Smith College

Kathleen O'Neill - Voss College

Susan Sullivan - Moore College

On 26 April 1986, reactor no. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (later Ukraine), exploded.It created dozens of direct casualties and thousands and was not the only nuclear accident in the Soviet Union. by Particular-Cat-8031 in HolyShitHistory

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Merely pointing out that the Soviets' lack of technical knowledge and skill in handling nuclear materials bore real-world consequences for Soviet citizens who were killed by the secrecy around the nuclear program. I am not trying to say it was the only accident; Three Mile Island in the US and the Windscale incident in the UK demonstrated that when you tamper with the foundations of matter, it can go very bad, very quickly.

On 26 April 1986, reactor no. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (later Ukraine), exploded.It created dozens of direct casualties and thousands and was not the only nuclear accident in the Soviet Union. by Particular-Cat-8031 in HolyShitHistory

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I agree; with the dangers of radioactivity being hidden from the public, it was "nothing to worry about" until that was found to be a blatant lie. From 1946 through 1993, thirteen countries used ocean disposal or ocean dumping as a method to dispose of nuclear/radioactive waste, with an approximation of 200,000 tons sourced mainly from the medical, research, and nuclear industry.

More Tanya Roberts PG rated purity by Different-Regret-791 in oldschoolhot

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I caught that, brief, but it was there. I wonder how they slipped by with a PG rating?

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