The Meltdown of Chernobyl

Have you ever thought of what would happen to you if there was a nuclear bomb that blew up near you? If so, have you wondered what would happen? Not just to you, but to everything around it, the atmosphere? All the radiation fumes would be floating in the air, what are the affects? You would never think it would happen that a plant would blow up either, because they got the best trained workers there. But you’re wrong. Millions of people had to suffer from the greatest nuclear accident, Chernobyl.

The nuclear explosion of Chernobyl was without a doubt the world’s greatest nuclear accident. It happened on Saturday April 26, 1986. There was only about three percent of the reactors core that escaped the bomb, but there was enough nuclear power that was let out to kill people around it. It also damaged and killed food and crops that were worldwide.

The nuclear explosion happened where it received its name from the town Chernobyl. Chernobyl was a small town in the Ukraine that was near the Belarus border. The town’s population was about twelve thousand five hundred. Two rivers ran past the Pripyat River and the Dniepr River that went right past the nuclear power station.

The USSR generated about ten percent of the world’s nuclear power, only using forty three reactors in 1986. There was twenty seven thousand Mega Watts of electricity that was produced. Along with another thirty six reactors they were still under production to produce thirty seven thousand Mega Watts of electricity. While they were still planning there were another thirty four reactors that would eventually equal up to thirty six thousand Mega Watts of electricity. During the year of the nuclear bomb accident there were four of the reactors in the Chernobyl ...

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...ted with 200 rad which is 2 Gy.

Worldwide effects from Chernobyl were reported in the Northern Hemisphere. Europe was the only place that was affected with human health. The United States, Canada and Japan set up monitors to check Students from schools and they also were set up to check any tourists.

The Chernobyl accident put a stop to the developing plans for the future nuclear power plants near and around the area. There have been no new nuclear power plants that have been built because of what happened on Saturday April 26, 1986. This had caused the final withdrawing for nuclear power.

This is not the only nuclear explosion that has happened on the world. It isn’t the last one either. If there ever are warnings people should take precaution and follow the best outcome for them. Nobody wants to go through what the people went through during Chernobyl.