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CHERNOBYL

By Eider Fernández

  • PRIPYAT BEFORE THE NATURAL DESASTER

    PRIPYAT BEFORE THE NATURAL DESASTER
    -Pripyat was founded in 1970 expressly to give home to the workers of the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and their families.
    -This town was chosen because of its dense population and easy access to aquatic resources.
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    CHERNOBYL

  • THE POPULATION OF CHERNOBYL

    THE POPULATION OF CHERNOBYL
    After starting up the first reactor in 1977, the city of Chernobyl had 14,000 residents and in just 16 years it grew to more than 40,000 people.

  • CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

    CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
    It was supposed to be the biggest plant in the world with 12 reactors. 4 reactors were already in operation and another 2 were under construction. Before the Chernobyl accident, the nuclear power plants were seen as safer than other types of power plants, and were presented as an achievement of Soviet engineering.

  • THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER, WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

    THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER, WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
    -The Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident occurred the 26 of April in 1986.

    -It was the biggest nuclear energy disaster in the history of the humanity. The fourth reactor of the nuclear power plant exploded causing a lot of victims and natural damages that are still being noticed today. https://youtu.be/w8kwBAc_FrA

  • EXPLANATION OF WHAT HAPPENED

    EXPLANATION OF WHAT HAPPENED
    1-First the steam that went to the turbines was cut off and the generators could not produce enough energy.
    As a result, the refrigerant stopped reaching the reactor and the steam accumulated in the boilers, until one of them exploded, opening a hole in the roof of the reactor hall and exposing the graphite bars.
    2- The graphite overheated and when it contact with the air it exploded, generating a second explosion.

  • AFTER THE CHERNOBYL EXPLOSION

    AFTER THE CHERNOBYL EXPLOSION
    Firefighters immediately went to the area of ​​the explosion but they didn’t know the danger that it cause and that they would die weeks later.

  • LIQUIDATORS

    LIQUIDATORS
    Around 600,000 people participated, this consisted in cleaning one of the areas affected by radiation for 2 or 3 minutes. Around 60,000 liquidators died and 165,000 fell ill.

  • PRIPYAT EVACUATION

    PRIPYAT EVACUATION
    The evacuation of Pripyat took place the day after the accident, on the afternoon of April 27, on trains, ships and buses.

  • CHERNOBYL CONSEQUENCES

    CHERNOBYL CONSEQUENCES
    -Most deaths and illnesses were caused by the radiation that they received through the food and by breathing.
    -Most people developed cancer, leukemia, and psychological illnesses.
    -Genetic damage and malformations developed in many countries.

  • ZONES AFFECTED BY RADIATION

    ZONES AFFECTED BY RADIATION
    The experts says that the radioactivity won't disappear for 24.000 years.

  • PRIPYAT NOWADAYS

    PRIPYAT NOWADAYS
    -Pripyat is a ghost town in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in the north of Ukraine, in the Kiev region, near the Belarus border.
    -Chernobyl was very affected by the II World War and became the ship repair base on the Pripyat River.

  • CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE

    CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE
    -One of the most important areas in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is the Pripyat amusement park.

  • PRIPYAT RIVER

    PRIPYAT RIVER
    The town has that name due to the river that runs through the city.

  • CHERNOBYL THESE DAYS

    CHERNOBYL THESE DAYS
    -Today around 500 people live in Chernobyl. Many of them returned because they weren't admitted in another places.
    -Some animals have mutated because of the radiation (wolfs,cows, radioactive spiders...)