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Power reactor

• It’s nothing but nuclear reactor . Used to generate electricity using


atomic energy by the process of nuclear fission
• Chicago Pile 1 was the world’s first nuclear reactor, built in 1942 by
Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi.
• Uranium 235 is used as the fuel of nuclear reactor
• This symbol is used to represent radio activity
Atom and nucleus
Radiation and radio activity
Uranium 235 (92)
Chernobyl disaster
26 April 1986

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that


occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of
Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet
Union.
The NRCRM estimate around five million citizens of
the former USSR, including three million in Ukraine,
have suffered as a result of Chernobyl, while in
Belarus around 800,000 people were registered as
being affected by radiation.

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