On April 25, 1986, the reactor staff at Chernobyl began a safety test.
Resulted in series of explosions and a fire in the core of the reactor and a large cloud of highly radioactive particles exploded in the atmosphere and was blown across Europe.
The explosion released more radiation than the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima in 1945.
Most of the explosive material was deposited close by as dust and debris, but the lighter material was carried away by wind over the Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and to some extent over Europe and Scandinavia.
30 years after the incidence, Chernobyl day tours are now being offered from Kiev to the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Finally, you visit Pripyat, the town which was evacuated because of poisonous radiations.
A floating nuclear power plant in Russia will soon begin a 4,000-mile journey across the Arctic Ocean.
Construction of the plant started more than a decade ago.
This month, it's expected to arrive in the port of Pevek, where it will supply power to a remote region of Russia.
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This month, it is finally slated to arrive, but first the plant must complete a 4,000-mile ocean voyage.
The plant, called Akademik Lomonosov, is expected to supply electricity to an estimated 100,000 homes in a remote, far-east region of Russia — Pevek is an Arctic port and the nation's northernmost town.
A publication titled, “Global Nuclear Reactor Construction Market Size 2017, Segmentation By Service Type (Equipment, Installation), By Reactor Type (Pressurized Water, Pressurized Heavy Water, Light Water Graphite, Gas Cooled, Fast Reactor, Boiling Water), By Region (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Central & South America, MEA) and Forecast to 2025” has recently been added to the Adroit Market Research repository.
The report further comprises in-detail profiles of the major players operating across the nuclear reactor construction market value chain.
Additionally, the study consists of a competitive landscape section that covers key data points such as nuclear reactor construction market share by company (2017) and strategy framework.Request for sample copy of the report at: https://www.adroitmarketresearch.com/contacts/request-sample/586The global nuclear reactor construction market size is expected to be valued at approximately USD 99.80 billion by 2025.
This provision will require the construction of nearly 1000 GW(e) of new nuclear capacities, based on factors such as reactor retirements and the growth of electricity demand.
In order to achieve this target, the global nuclear sector would require a level playing field, harmonized regulatory structures and processes, and an effective safety paradigm.The global nuclear reactor construction market shares are captured by prominent players including Areva Group, KEPCO, Rosatom, General Electric Company (GE), Mitsubishi Industries and others.
Mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures and technology development & licensing are some of the key strategies implemented by these key players over the recent years.
increasing R spending in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries and increasing purity requirements among end users of track etched membranes.
However, the high cost of production and the limited supply of track etched Membranes are major factors that are expected to restrain the growth of this market during the forecast period.How much is the Track etched Membrane Market worth ?The track etched membrane market is expected to reach USD 813.1 million by 2023 from USD 476.0 million in 2018, at a CAGR of 11.3% from 2018 to 2023.Scope of the Report:The research report categorizes the track etched membrane market into the following segments and subsegments:Track Etched Membrane Market, By ProductMembrane FiltersCapsule & Cartridge FiltersOther Track Etched Membrane ProductsTrack Etched Membrane Market, By MaterialPolycarbonatePolyethylene TerephthalatePolyimideTrack Etched Membrane Market, By ApplicationCell BiologyMicrobiologyAnalytical TestingOther ApplicationsTrack Etched Membrane Market, By End UserPharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical CompaniesAcademic and Research InstitutesFood and Beverage CompaniesHospital and Diagnostic CentersTrack Etched Membrane Market, By RegionNorth AmericaUSCanadaEuropeGermanyUKFranceItalySpainRest of Europe (RoE)Asia PacificRest of the WorldThe commercial production of track etched membranes is almost always a secondary operation, and the production time is dependent on the time consumed by the primary operation of the facility.
Facilities for beaming or irradiation are limited and in most cases are operated by government agencies, universities, or research laboratories.
Although track etched membranes can be produced with a precisely determined pore size, shape, and distribution, their conventional production is very expensive for large-scale separation processes.Heavy ion irradiation of thin polymer films at a nuclear reactor or large accelerator facilities, which involves large capital costs, is generally the key initial manufacturing stage for track etched membranes.
This cost is prohibitive or unaffordable for most consumers of Industrial Filtration systems.
Moreover, considering the high costs, end users such as diagnostic laboratories and research institutes prefer the use of low-cost alternatives such as depth filters.
After Ukrainian Freedom and their splinter from the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian team played their first match against Hungary on 29 April 1992.
Their major success on the world stage was getting their way to the quarter-finals in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which also marked the team’s first entry into the finals of a major tournament.
As the host country, Ukrainian’s automatically qualified for Euro cup 2012.
As they finished in third place in their qualifying group due to their bad performances.
This marked the first time in Ukraine’s five play-off presences that it managed to win such a tie, previously having been unsuccessful in the play-off ties for the Euro 2000, 2002 World Cup, 2010 World Cup and 2014 World Cup.
The Ukrainian team has to compete with Luxembourg, Serbia, Portugal, and Lithuania in the euro cup 2020 qualifiers.
On February 10, 1996, after three hours, world chess champion Garry Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second.
Man was ultimately victorious over machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with three wins and two ties and took home the $400,000 prize.
An estimated 6 million people worldwide followed the action on the Internet.Kasparov had previously defeated Deep Thought, the prototype for Deep Blue developed by IBM researchers in 1989, but he and other chess grandmasters had, on occasion, lost to computers in games that lasted an hour or less.
The February 1996 contest was significant in that it represented the first time a human and a computer had duked it out in a regulation, six-game match, in which each player had two hours to make 40 moves, two hours to finish the next 20 moves and then another 60 minutes to wrap up the game.Kasparov, who was born in 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan, became the Soviet Union’s junior chess champion at age 13 and in 1985, at age 22, the youngest world champ ever when he beat legendary Soviet player Anatoly Karpov.
Considered by many to be the greatest chess player in the history of the game, Kasparov was known for his swashbuckling style of play and his ability to switch tactics mid-game.In 1997, a rematch took place between Kasparov and an enhanced Deep Blue.
Kasparov won the first game, the computer the second, with the next three games a draw.
