GK
NUCLEAR SCIENCE
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Question
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Chernobyl
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Fukushima
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Three Mile Island
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Hiroshima
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Detailed explanation-1: -Serious nuclear power plant accidents include the Fukushima nuclear disaster (2011), the Chernobyl disaster (1986), the Three Mile Island accident (1979), and the SL-1 accident (1961).
Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution. Talcher is not a Nuclear Power Centre of India.
Detailed explanation-3: -The earthquake triggered a powerful tsunami, with 13-to 14-meter-high waves damaging the nuclear power plant’s emergency diesel generators, leading to a loss of electric power.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor, near Middletown, Pa., partially melted down on March 28, 1979. This was the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public.