Chernobyl disaster

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 The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was built between
1970 and and 1983, and located in the then-Soviet
controlled Ukraine, 68 miles north of Kiev. The plant
contained four nuclear reactors by the time of the disaster,
while the construction of two more reactors was planned.
 On April 26th, 1986, at 1:23am, Chernobyl’s engineers disabled some of the reactor’s safety
How did the Chernobyl features while it was still running—as part of a safety test. A combination of human error and
explosion happen? design flaws lead to a fire and then an explosion that blew the lid off of reactor Number 4,
exposing the nuclear core and releasing into the atmosphere 400 times more radiation than was
emitted when American forces dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima during World War II. 3
 The supervisors

Alexander Akimov Anatoli Diatlov Leonid Toptunov

Supervisor Deputy chief-engineer Supervisor

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 What happened in the
aftermath?
Authorities did not begin to evacuate communities around
Chernobyl until the afternoon of April 27th, more than 24 hours
after the explosion. As authorities expanded the evacuation
zone, more than 300,000 people were placed on buses and
evacuated away from the most contaminated areas.

Despite the fact that a concrete “sarcophagus” was placed over

the destroyed reactor No. 4 to contain the radiation, the other
reactors continued to operate, with employees at the site working
five-hour days and spending half of each month outside the
exclusion zone in order to minimize their exposure to radiation.
The plant wasn’t completely shut down until 2000, and a new,
steel sarcophagus was placed over the entire site in 2017.

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 Facts
On first of may the radiations affected Romania, especially to Iaşi, Suceava, Târgu-Mureş, Galaţi andTulcea.
In terms of surface area, Belarus and Austria were most affected by higher levels of contamination
However, other countries were seriously affected; for example, Ukraine, Finland and Sweden were contaminated
to high levels. More than 80% of Moldova, the European part of Turkey, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria and the
Slovak Republic were contaminated to lower levels. Germany and UK were similarly affected. 8
 Radiation reading,
Event
millisievert (mSv)

Single dose, fatal within weeks 10,000.00

Typical dosage recorded in those Chernobyl workers who
6,000.00
died within a month
Single does which would kill half of those exposed to it within a
5,000.00
month

Single dosage which would cause radiation sickness, including

Howcelltocount.
nausea, lower white blood make your PowerPoint1,000.00
Not fatal.

Accumulated dosagemore effective

estimated to cause a fatal cancer many years
1,000.00
later in 5% of people
Max radiation levels recorded at Fukushima plant 15 March 2011,
400.00
per hour
Exposure of Chernobyl residents who were relocated after the
Radiation Levels blast in 1986
<100.00

Recommended limit for radiation workers every five years 100.00

Lowest annual dose at which any increase in cancer is clearly

100.00
evident
CT scan: heart 16.00
CT scan: abdomen & pelvis 15.00
Dose in full-body CT scan 10.00

Airline crew flying New York to Tokyo polar route, annual exposure 9.00

Natural radiation we’re all exposed to, per year 2.00

CT scan: head 2.00
Spine x-ray 1.50

Radiation per hour detected at Fukushimia site, 12 March 2011

Mammogram breast x-ray

1.02
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