The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 209, Issues 4-6National Geographic Society., 2006 - Geography |
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Page 38
... reactor four . The graphite - core reactor , a Soviet design , had an in- herent instability , and in seconds the nuclear chain reaction raced out of control . The reac- tor's cooling water flashed into steam , blasting apart the fuel ...
... reactor four . The graphite - core reactor , a Soviet design , had an in- herent instability , and in seconds the nuclear chain reaction raced out of control . The reac- tor's cooling water flashed into steam , blasting apart the fuel ...
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... reactor , cultivation stops entirely . Fields give way to for- est , dark , fragrant , and still unsettling on my fourth visit in ten years to the exclusion zone , a tightly controlled area almost twice the size of Luxem- bourg . The ...
... reactor , cultivation stops entirely . Fields give way to for- est , dark , fragrant , and still unsettling on my fourth visit in ten years to the exclusion zone , a tightly controlled area almost twice the size of Luxem- bourg . The ...
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... reactor there today . But just before Christmas 1979 , staggered by construction costs , Entergy ( then called Middle South Utilities ) pulled the plug on the second silo . Even so , the one reactor that was completed drained the ...
... reactor there today . But just before Christmas 1979 , staggered by construction costs , Entergy ( then called Middle South Utilities ) pulled the plug on the second silo . Even so , the one reactor that was completed drained the ...
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Inside Chernobyl 32 Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded blanketing | 36 |
Glen Canyon Revealed 64 A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest | 72 |
COVER U S soldiers patrol devastated Market Street in San Francisco | 120 |
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