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Chernobyl Disaster

Chernobyl Disaster. Caitie Lukich. What, When, Where?. Largest nuclear power plant disaster in history April 26, 1986 Chernobyl, Ukraine Just outside of Kyiv (capital). Where?. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is located near Pripyat in central Ukraine. Why?.

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Chernobyl Disaster

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  1. Chernobyl Disaster CaitieLukich

  2. What, When, Where? • Largest nuclear power plant disaster in history • April 26, 1986 • Chernobyl, Ukraine • Just outside of Kyiv (capital)

  3. Where? • Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is located near Pripyat in central Ukraine

  4. Why? • Series of explosions destroyed reactor 4 in the power plant • 10 day blaze of fire • Hundreds of staff and firefighters • 50+ emergency workers killed • Radiation • Towns evacuated overnight (300,000 people)

  5. Aftermath • Area surrounding the plant was evacuated • 19 mile exclusion zone • Reports predict 4,000 – 200,000 cancer related deaths

  6. INES • International Nuclear Event Scale • Chernobyl Level 7

  7. 20 years later… • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYeFLZqh3Q

  8. Works Cited • http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/the-chernobyl-disaster-25-years-ago/100033/ • http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/chernobyl-bg.html • http://www.tour2chernobyl.com/about-chernobyl.html • http://www-ns.iaea.org/tech-areas/emergency/ines.asp

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