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Nuclear Accident in Chernobyl
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Environmental Issue_____________________________________________________
Causes EffectsEvent
(Important Facts)
Solutions?
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Event: Important Information: Chernobyl (Ukraine)
• April 26, 1986 Nuclear accident• Estimates: up to 5,000 will die due to cancer from radiation
• 336,000 had to be resettled
• Most areas now considered safe
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Chernobyl after the disaster…
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Whole cities had to be abandoned due to radiation…
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Before
After
Evacuation
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Effects: Red Forest
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The Pripyat Fun Fair was scheduled to begin May 1st. The ferries wheel remains one of the most irradiated parts of Pripyat since the disaster, making it still dangerous today.
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400m away from the reactor:
0.623 rt/m2
Average radiation level of aNon-contaminated area:
0.010 rt/m2
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Event: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine
• Cause:
communist government was not careful
defective reactor design that was operated with poorly trained workers
• Effect: Nuclear accident at Chernobyl
Land evacuation and contamination (Europe farmers, )
Heath issues- high rates of cancer, birth defects, death
Nuclear Fallout- radioactive particles stirred up by or resulting from a nuclear explosion and descending through the atmosphere
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Chernobyl Nuclear DisasterApril 26, 1986
• spread to surrounding countries by air currents.
• still effects people and land TODAY!
•worst in history
Event: Important Information: Chernobyl (Ukraine)
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Chernobyl Disaster, cont.• Most deaths were attributed to nuclear fallout which was
more than 400 times more than the amount of nuclear fallout caused by the bomb over Hiroshima.
• Evacuation and resettlement of over 360,000 people.
• Thousands of people exposed to radiation at risk to cancer
• Firefighters did not know that the fire they were fighting contained deadly amounts of radiation poison.
• Most of these men died within 3 months after the accident.
Event: Important Information: Chernobyl (Ukraine)
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• Buried the reactor
• 25 years later:
Solutions: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine
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General Map of Chernobyl Fallout Throughout Europe
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Chernobyl
• people don’t really know how much damage was done even today!
• agriculture in other parts of Europe suffered
• affected land useless in the Ukraine.
• payments to victims
• loss of jobs due to closed reactors
• high medical costs.