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Environmental Impacts of the Chernobyl Disaster

Explore the environmental and health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, with insights on nuclear reactor design, vegetation growth post-accident, and resources for further reading.

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Environmental Impacts of the Chernobyl Disaster

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  1. Environmental Impacts of the Chernobyl Disaster Sara Hebden Honors 380 10/4/10

  2. Chernobyl The Chernobyl nuclear facility is located in Ukraine about 20 km south of the border with Belarus. At the time of the accident, the plant had four working reactors (units 1, 2, 3, and 4).

  3. Nuclear Reactor Design Plant contained four of these reactors.

  4. Photos of the devastation:

  5. Environmental and health effects of the Chernobyl accident:

  6. (cont.)

  7. Hope Many years after the accident, vegetation creeps through concrete.

  8. And more:

  9. Resources (full bibliography on PBL briefing): • http://iguide.travel/Chernobyl/Sights • http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=13&sid=9f9e564f-6f68-489a-8bc9-13f1dcbc53d5%40sessionmgr14 • http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/detail?vid=2&hid=13&sid=d4b1ca6d-08d2-4dec-b4a8-a031d5f4ea75%40sessionmgr10&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=9507187650 • http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=13&sid=97c1a445-b625-4bec-b1fc-58a450738c0b%40sessionmgr10 • http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=13&sid=b6748e99-735e-40aa-97d4-66bf262c82db%40sessionmgr13 • http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.html • http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=9&sid=4c5579c2-744c-4eb4-8400-385526094a51%40sessionmgr11 • http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=9&sid=57ca5fe6-e4ce-4292-81b7-dafa3a7cc550%40sessionmgr13 • http://www.greenfacts.org/en/chernobyl/index.htm#il1 • http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2006/09/13/lost-city-of-chernobyl/

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