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Chernobyl: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words By Mary Brugge and Lauren Cervantes

Chernobyl: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words By Mary Brugge and Lauren Cervantes. Pulse.pharmacy.arizona.edu. Chernobyl reactor 4.

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Chernobyl: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words By Mary Brugge and Lauren Cervantes

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  1. Chernobyl: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words By Mary Brugge and Lauren Cervantes

  2. Pulse.pharmacy.arizona.edu Chernobyl reactor 4 This is a diagram of a RBMK reactor, the same design as Chernobyl’s Reactor 4. As a result of the power surge, the radio active fuel and core materials were released into the air. This led to a fire because the graphite moderator was highly combustable.

  3. bostonglobe.com The aftermath This picture was taken 3 days after the largest nuclear disaster in history. The destroyed reactor is shown in front of the chimney.

  4. Bostonglobe.com Clean-up On June 13, 1986 a helicopter flies over the abandoned plant spraying a decontaminant in an effort to clean the area.

  5. Pripyat Wilmothighschool.com An abandoned ferris wheel remains neglected in the ghost town of Pripyat, which is less than 2 miles away Chernobyl. The newly built amusement park was supposed to be debuted during the May Day celebration, two weeks after the Chernobyl disaster.

  6. Bostonglobe.com Ghost town Even after 25 years, Pripyat (which used to be the home of 50,000 people) remains uninhabitable.

  7. Vehicle Graveyard Chernobyl-disaster.com The Vehicle Graveyard near Chernobyl contains many vehicles that were used in the clean-up.

  8. Pixelpress.org (photoessay) Radiationpoisoning: Theaftermath Michael and Vladimir , 16 years old, are twin brothers from Belarus. Michael, who has hydrocephalus, is five minutes older than Vladimir, who is deaf.

  9. pixelpress.org Some areas in the closed zones near Chernobyl still have dangerously high levels of radiation. They will remain closed for up to900 years.

  10. Pixelpress.org Mentally handicapped children Three out of four children in Belarus are born unhealthy in heavily affected areas. Because some families are unable to care for their mentally handicapped children, they are put in to state institutions.

  11. Bostonglobe.com A woman is screen for thyroid cancer in the Ukraine.

  12. Bostonglobe.com Chernobyl today After the explosion, a ‘sarcophagus’ around reactor 4 was quickly constructed. A Geiger shows the readings of the radiation levels in the air.

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