The Chernobyl

Disaster

Yavuz Efe Sancak

Prep-G 4968
The Disaster

On April 26, 1986, the Number Four RBMK reactor at the

nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, Ukraine, went out of
control during a test at low-power and demolished the
reactor building.
The explosion released large amounts of radiation into
the atmosphere.
784.320 hectares have been taken from production.
Timber production was stopped in 694,200 hectares of
forest. It cost 16 billion rubles.
Pripyat

Pripyat was a civilied city.A lot of employee were living

there.
There was a lot of flats,because there wasn’t other city
near the NPP.
The city was near to the Chernobyl NPP and Dnyeper
River.
When the disaster became,city was abandoned,people
left their houses and dreams.
Some
photos of
Pripyat
The Shield

The Chernobyl NPP was covered with a steel shield in

2016.
The shield was 275 meters wide,108 meters long and
36000 tons.
The shield was expected to prevent radioactive pollution.
It cost 1.6 billion dollars.
Affects Of Disaster

4000 people took high doses of radiation,so 64 people

died in NPP.
3890 people died by tyroid cancer or leukemia.
The radiation expanded to Europe,Scandinavia and
Turkey.
Plants got harmed and people got cancer in Black Sea.

Chernobyl Tourism

Some touring agencies still organize tours to Pripyat.

Tourists come from other countries for seeing the
buildings and differences.
They must take a radiation dedector because eveything is
still radioactive.
Sources
 https://www.iaea.org/
newscenter/focus/chernobyl/faqs
 https://www.who.int/news/
item/05-09-2005-chernobyl-the-true-scale-of-the-
accident
Yavuz Efe Sancak
Prep-G
4968