1. Chernobyl
Formin, test were being carried out disregarding the safety system of the reactor; the nuclear equipment was supposed to be fully de-energized, the already spinning turbines would produce energy while the plant was down. The point of this test was to see if power was cut off to the equipment, which can happen in normal operations, would the plant still produce efficient energy. ... The source of power in the nuclear reactor is uranium ions. ...
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