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Chernobyls Constructions
The Chernobyl nuclear power plants were built in the wooded marshlands of northern Ukraine 80 miles north of Kiev. It's first reactor was made in 1977 the second in 1978 third in 1981 and fourth in 1983 the fifth was in construction while the explosion went off. The town Pripyat was built near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to house the workers and their families. -
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
This Nuclear power station, Chernobyl is located in the Ukraine and had been built to house power station employees and their families. On the 26th of April on 1986 during a usuall test the reactor heated over usuall and blew up releasing radfiation into the air. The reason for this explosion has been determined that the cause is the reactors opreating error. -
Evacuation of Pripyat
The town of Pripyat and everyone around was evacuated by officials moving 110,000 people that were in a 30km radius to another location. Those that were evacuated had only recieved a small radiation dose of 50mSv only effecting a few. -
Reactor 2 shut down
Even after the Unit 4 disaster they still used the other three Units.
But five years later a massive fire in the turbine of unit 2 caused them to shut down the unit due to fire and safety regulations. -
What will happen to the plant now that it is closed?
On December 15, 2000, the last reactor at the Chernobyl plant was shut down and began decommissing. This included removing any soil and water that may be radioactive. There are three reactors already in the process of decommpossing. The project was conducted under the supervision of the Ukrainian government -
Chernobyl: the true scale of the accident
After 20 years scince the accident, 100 scientist have cocluded that a total of up to 4,000 people will eventually die from the radiation of the nuclear power plant. Though from mid-2005 fewer than 50 deaths had been directly attributed to radiation from the disaster, almost all being highly exposed rescue workers. While another scientist concluded that 985,000 premature cancer deaths will be caused from Chernobyl. -
Chernobyl 20 years later
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This is a video of what many people belive happened as a 3-d model and what Chernobyl looks like today. -
Chernobyl today
Chernobyl videoThis video shows what the affects are of Chernobyls radiation after 20 years and what the radiation has done to the Ukraine overtime. -
Resettlement of some areas effected by chernobyl
The government of Belarus decided in July 2010 to resettle people in the areas effected by chernobyl. This is due to the effected area shrinking by 21%. They will have to find a way to have potable drinking water and fresh food to eat that aren't contaminated and will have to also demolish buildings that were contaminated. -
Ukraine struggles to complete Chernobyl containment shelter
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This video shows the process of Ukraine building a protective shelter over the forth reator and the trouble envolved along with the money needed to do so. -
Chernobyl scientists study the fukushima palnt meltdown
The Ukranian scientists who studied chernobyl have given reports on the Fukushima power plant accident. The good news is that unlike the Chernobyl accident in 1986, people who evacuated can go home soon. They also said that the government should not keep this from the people because when the rest of the world finally learned of the Chernobyl incident there was major backlash on the Ukraine goverment.
