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Describe Chernobyl Disaster​

Answer 1

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Chernobyl Disaster

Chernobyl disaster is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.

It occurred on 26 April, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the town

of Pripyat in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). The accident resulted in the

release of a very large amount of radiation into the atmosphere in the form of both

particles and gaseous rays. This was the most significant release of radiation into the

environment to date over an extensive area. The plume of radioactive fallout landed

over large parts of Western Soviet Union and much of Europe. About 70 per cent

of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus.

Chernobyl disaster has raised concerns about the safety of nuclear power plants.

The Chernobyl disaster had the following serious impacts:

1. Fifty workers-reactor staff and emergency workers-died of acute radiation

syndrome as a direct result of radiation from the disaster. It is estimated that

about 4,000 persons may have died from cancer resulting from exposure to

radiation attributed to the accident.

2. Incidence of thyroid cancer among children in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia

rose sharply. The average thyroid cancer rate among children in Ukraine went

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by 8 times in the decade following the disaster.

3. The lives of a very large number of people were affected by the nuclear accident.

Over 3,50,000 people were evacuated and resettled from the most severely

contaminated areas of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. But millions of people

continued to live in the contaminated area affected somewhat by low doses of

radiation

However, psychological effects of the disaster in some way have done more

damage than the disaster itself. The anxiety and stress of living in the affected

areas and the apprehension that they have been affected by radiation, has

had a severe psychological impact like mental depression of the people. People

who were uprooted and resettled in the areas away from their traditional

residence were also psychologically affected.

4. There were serious environmental consequences on local ecosystems. The

disaster led to contamination of the soil surface, affecting the local food supply,

plants, insects and mushrooms. Contamination also affected closed bodies of

water such as lakes and ponds.

5. Forest of pine trees within the 10 km zone of the disaster was bulldozed and

buried. Pine trees died due to extremely heavy radioactive fallout. The site

of the forest (known as 'Red Forest') remains one of the most contaminated

areas in the world.

Answer 2

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The Chernobyl disaster was caused by a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986, at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR.It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and was caused by one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan.