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Nuclear meltdown, an Uncommon card
A nuclear meltdown is a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 138
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 138 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Nuclear meltdown quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Nuclear meltdown card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This differs from a fuel element failure, which is not caused by high ______.
Answer
temperatures. This differs from a fuel element failure, which is not caused by high temperatures. From the Nuclear meltdown article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Nuclear meltdown. Nuclear meltdown 78 · Potential energy 75 · David Gelernter 72 · Mecha 69 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The term nuclear meltdown is not officially defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency, however it has been defined to mean the accidental melting of the core or fuel of a nuclear reactor, and is in common usage a reference to the core's either complete or partial collapse.
- A core meltdown accident occurs when the heat generated by a nuclear reactor exceeds the heat removed by the cooling systems to the point where at least one nuclear fuel element exceeds its melting point.
- This differs from a fuel element failure, which is not caused by high temperatures.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nuclear meltdown article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Nuclear meltdown
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Nuclear meltdown (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Digital Globe, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
