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On April 26, 1986, a catastrophic nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, which was then still under the governance of the USSR.

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1. What happened at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (https://www. livescience. com/39961-chernobyl. html.)?

2. How did the USSR respond to the catastrophe? (https://www. rbth. com/history/328141-chernobyl-catast rophe-questions-and-answers.)

3. Read this article (https://www. nytimes. com/1986/04/29/world/soviet-announc es-nuclear-accident-at-electric-pla nt. html) from The New York Times on April 29, 1986.
a. What evidence did scientists have that a meltdown had occurred?
b. Do you think you would have been upset about this if you’d been living
in Scandinavia at the time?

4. Go through the photo's (https://www. cbsnews. com/pictures/horrifying-photos-of-c hernobyl-and-its-aftermath/.) and pick a photo that stands out to you. Explain why this photo is important.

5. How far did the radiation from Chernobyl spread? (https://www. unscear. org/unscear/en/chernobylmaps. html)

6. Watch this TED talk (https://www. ted. com/talks/holly_morris_why_stay_in_ chernobyl_because_it_s_home?languag e=en.). Why did some people stay around Chernobyl?

7. Read this article (https://www. businessinsider. com/birth-defects-related-to-cherno byl-2016-4). Do you think that the explosion at Chernobyl contributed to the birth defects?

answer:

1.On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident happened at the Chernobyl plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the No. 4 reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere. ... With the flow reduced, the cooling water in the reactor began to boil and turn to steam.

2.How did the USSR react to the catastrophe? Treating the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant site with a decontaminating solution. Around 600,000 people took part in minimizing the consequences of the disaster. ... More than 600,000 Soviet people took part in putting out fires, clearing territory, and building the sarcophagus.

3.a. What evidence did scientists have that a meltdown had occurred?

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5.What were radiation-induced effects on plants and animals? Increased mortality of coniferous plants, soil invertebrates and mammals and reproductive losses in plants and animals were seen in high exposure areas up to a distance of 20-30 kilometers.

6.After the accident, in 1988, the raion was disestablished and administration was transferred to the neighboring Ivankiv Raion. Although Chernobyl is mostly a ghost town today, a small number of animals and people still live there, in houses marked with signs that read, "Owner of this house lives here".

7.Wertelecki found that among all 96,438 babies born in Rivne between 2000 and 2006, the rate of neural tube defects — serious anomalies of the brain and spine, including spina bifida — were higher than the average for Europe.

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