Why Is It So Hard to Stop Meltdowns?

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Chapters
00:00 Let’s Talk About Meltdowns
00:59 How Nuclear Energy Works
02:30 How a Meltdown Progresses
05:10 Why Meltdowns Happen
06:27 How Scary Is It?
07:57 Our Amazing Sponsor - Brilliant
09:06 How Do We Prevent Meltdowns
11:18 Meltdown-Proof Reactors