Nuclear Accident in Chernobyl

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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

Chernobyl after the disaster…

Whole cities had to be abandoned due to radiation…

Before

After

Evacuation

Effects: Red Forest

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.

400m away from the reactor:

0.623 rt/m2

Average radiation level of aNon-contaminated area:

0.010 rt/m2

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

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)

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)

• Buried the reactor

• 25 years later:

Solutions: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine

General Map of Chernobyl Fallout Throughout Europe

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.