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Cooling Towers of a Nuclear Power Plant

How a Nuclear Meltdown Works

Source: How Stuff Works

Nuclear meltdowns are very rare but dangerous. Read about how nuclear reactors work and what causes a meltdown.

This entry was posted in Dealing with Disaster and tagged Culture & Society, Historic Figures, Science & Nature, Technology on January 1, 2020 by Mikki Gibson.

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