Chernobyl

Teacher: Erisa Gashi-Shabani

15/11/2022 Date

Student: Blend Halimi

CHERNOBYL

The Accident

The Spreadness

The Consequences

Chernobyl

• The construction of Chernobyl nuclear power plant of V.I Lenin started in 1970. At the same time Pripyat, a satellite city bearing the same name as the nearby river was erected in the vicinity and after the launch of the first reactor in 1977 the city of Pripyat was populated with 14000 inhabitants. The families of the workers of Chernobyl.

• The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the environment with the deposition of radioactive materials in many parts of Europe.

• The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel.

• Soviet authorities started evacuating people from the area around Chernobyl within 36 hours of the accident. In 1986, 115000 people were evacuated.
• 31 people died within a few weeks of the accident from the inital steam explosion.
• In 2018 UNSCEAR reported that the accident was responsible for nearly 20000 of thyroid cancer.
• The area of Chernobyl is uninhabitable for at least 3000 years.

Consequences

• The explosion of Chernobyl brought up radioactive substances to the altitude of 1.5 km in the air. At this height, wind from the southeast took the radioactive cloud as far as Scandinavia. The cloud flew over Scandinavia and turned back to USSR(Ukraine again) over the course of the day of the Chernobyl accident, the direction of the wind changed westward. The second contaminated cloud thus flew via Poland to Czechoslovakia and further to Austria. As far as today it is reported that there is no place in the world where radioactive clouds from Chernobyl were not present.

THe Spreadness

Jeremy Robinson

This is what they mean by '"ghost town" ,she thought. It truly feels like a placefrozen in time.

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