Nuclear Power Plant Chain Reaction

TEPCO, Fukushima plant

Fukushima nuclear plant operator restarts reactor at another plant, reviving safety concerns

The world’s largest nuclear power plant restarted Wednesday in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as resource-poor Japan accelerates atomic power use to ...

Japan Today · 1h

TEPCO to shut down just-restarted reactor at Niigata plant after alarm goes off

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TEPCO's just-restarted nuclear plant to suspend operations: operator

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Japan restarts world's largest nuclear plant as Fukushima memories loom large

Japan has restarted a reactor at the world's largest nuclear plant nearly 15 years after a disaster at the Fukushima power plant forced the country to shut all its nuclear reactors.

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TEPCO restarts 1st nuclear reactor since Fukushima under close scrutiny

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Japan's TEPCO restarts nuclear reactor first time since Fukushima

MIT Technology Review

How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons. Those bump into other atoms, splitting them and causing them to emit more neutrons, which bump into other atoms, continuing the chain reaction.

Man's 81-day gruesome radiation death as his skin fell off and he lost ability to eat

The disaster was triggered by one mistake, under the pressure of a deadline, and it unleashed a deadly radiation and chaos. Hisashi's colleague Masato Shinohara and supervisor Yutaka Yokokawa poured 16kg of uranium into a processing tank, far exceeding the safe limit of 2.4kg.