Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 25 views

    Chernobyl

    Uploaded by

    Anuchka Sweeta Durjan
    The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was caused by a flawed Soviet reactor design and mistakes made by the plant operators. It resulted in explosions and fires that released radioactive material into the atmosphere. At least 30 plant workers and firefighters died within three months from acute radiation poisoning, and more deaths occurred later from long-term effects. While no major public health impact was found, the accident contaminated large areas of Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and beyond.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Chernobyl

    Uploaded by

    Anuchka Sweeta Durjan
    25 views1 page
    The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was caused by a flawed Soviet reactor design and mistakes made by the plant operators. It resulted in explosions and fires that released radioactive material into the atmosphere. At least 30 plant workers and firefighters died within three months from acute radiation poisoning, and more deaths occurred later from long-term effects. While no major public health impact was found, the accident contaminated large areas of Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and beyond.

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was caused by a flawed Soviet reactor design and mistakes made by the plant operators. It resulted in explosions and fires that released radioactive material into the atmosphere. At least 30 plant workers and firefighters died within three months from acute radiation poisoning, and more deaths occurred later from long-term effects. While no major public health impact was found, the accident contaminated large areas of Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and beyond.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    25 views1 page

    Chernobyl

    Uploaded by

    Anuchka Sweeta Durjan
    The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was caused by a flawed Soviet reactor design and mistakes made by the plant operators. It resulted in explosions and fires that released radioactive material into the atmosphere. At least 30 plant workers and firefighters died within three months from acute radiation poisoning, and more deaths occurred later from long-term effects. While no major public health impact was found, the accident contaminated large areas of Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and beyond.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 1

    Chernobyl

     The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with
    inadequately trained personnel. 
     The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into
    the atmosphere and downwind. 
     Two Chernobyl plant workers died on the night of the accident, and a further 28 people died
    within a few weeks as a result of acute radiation poisoning. 
     UNSCEAR says that apart from increased thyroid cancers, "there is no evidence of a major
    public health impact attributable to radiation exposure 20 years after the accident." 
     Resettlement of areas from which people were relocated is ongoing. 

    The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyla nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the product of a flawed
    Soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operators b.  It was a direct
    consequence of Cold War isolation and the resulting lack of any safety culture.

    The accident destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor, killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and
    several further deaths later. One person was killed immediately and a second died in hospital soon after
    as a result of injuries received. Another person is reported to have died at the time from a coronary
    thrombosisc. Acute radiation syndrome (ARS) was originally diagnosed in 237 people on-site and involved
    with the clean-up and it was later confirmed in 134 cases. Of these, 28 people died as a result of ARS
    within a few weeks of the accident. Nineteen more subsequently died between 1987 and 2004 but their
    deaths cannot necessarily be attributed to radiation exposure d. Nobody off-site suffered from acute
    radiation effects although a large proportion of childhood thyroid cancers diagnosed since the accident is
    likely to be due to intake of radioactive iodine fallout d. Furthermore, large areas of Belarus,
    Ukraine, Russia and beyond were contaminated in varying degrees. See also sections below
    and Chernobyl Accident Appendix 2: Health Impacts.

    The Chernobyl disaster was a unique event and the only accident in the history of commercial nuclear
    power where radiation-related fatalities occurred. However, the design of the reactor is unique and the
    accident is thus of little relevance to the rest of the nuclear industry outside the then Eastern Bloc.

    On 26 April 1986, at 01:23, reactor four suffered a catastrophic power increase, leading to explosions in
    its core. This dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere and
    ignited the combustible graphite moderator. The burning graphite moderator increased the emission
    of radioactive particles, carried by the smoke, as the reactor had not been encased by any kind of
    hard containment vessel. The accident occurred during an experiment scheduled to test a potential
    safety emergency core cooling feature, which took place during the normal shutdown procedure.

    You might also like