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Coppelion (Japanese: コッペリオン, Hepburn: Kopperion) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomonori Inoue. The story follows three high school girls who were genetically engineered to be impervious to radioactivity and sent to Tokyo after the city was contaminated by a nuclear accident.
A nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "an event that has led to significant consequences to people, the environment or the facility." Examples include lethal effects to individuals, large radioactivity release to the environment, or a reactor core melt. [ 6 ]
The reactor stack explodes from the pressure before the operators could manually open the valves to vent steam, leading to a full nuclear meltdown. The explosion led to most of the crew being killed or injured. Jae-hyeok, who is one of the injured, hauls out several of the injured workers until he collapses from nuclear radiation poisoning.
A Boy and His Dog (1975) – the story of a boy and his talking dog in a post-apocalyptic world. Aman (1967) - the story of a UK-trained Indian doctor who moves to Japan to treat patients suffering after the nuclear attack. Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) – a 12-year-old boy becomes anxious after seeing a Minuteman missile on a school field trip.
As Japan prepares to mark the 13th anniversary of its worst-ever nuclear disaster, the man in charge of cleaning it up says his team is fighting to bring a sample out of the heart of the site's ...
Nuclear meltdown. A simulated animation of a core melt in a light-water reactor after a loss-of-coolant accident. After reaching an extremely high temperature, the nuclear fuel and accompanying cladding liquefies and flows to the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel. Three of the reactors at Fukushima I overheated because the cooling systems ...
A newly-announced Microsoft deal would reopen a retired reactor on the site of the worst nuclear power plant accident in U.S. history. Constellation Energy announced the agreement on Friday, Sept ...
Types of radioactive exposure after a nuclear attack. Radiation poisoning. Toggle Radiation poisoning subsection. Prodromal syndrome. Bone marrow death. Gastrointestinal death. Central nervous system death. Short-term effects (6–8 weeks) Toggle Short-term effects (6–8 weeks) subsection.