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What is the cause of this accident ?

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As a result of this tragic accident, the radioactive emission spread over an area of about 3000 sq km and nearly ten crore of people had to be rehabilitated. Uranium was used as fuel in the plant for the generation of electricity. On the day of the accident, due to the lack of proper safety measures, uranium fuel in the atomic reactor, being exceedingly heated, caused the explosion
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