Chernobyl Informative Speech

Bang, crash boooommm!!!! It came from reactor 4. No one thought it was coming. But when it did …. Wait wait, wait, I’m getting ahead of myself, let's go back to the start of all of this. First I’m going to tell you how a nuclear power plant works. How one of the greatest nuclear disasters this world has ever seen happened, and how someone was able to survive this great nuclear disaster known as Chernobyl. I myself think that to everybody at that time was shocked and surprised that something like that could happen, because there had been nothing on that scale before.

How does a nuclear power plant work? Okay let's start out with the basics of how a nuclear power works. You have a nuclear reactor, tubes that carry superheated radioactive

April 26, 1986, it was a beautiful warm evening with a clear night sky. The government had demanded the plant run some diagnostics on reactor 4. They wanted to see if the reactor could run on low power and see if the reactor could sustain power under the stress of making power for a pump. At 1:20 am the testing began, shortly after the test started the generator could not handle the extra stress, it began to heat rapidly, they tried to insert the uranium control rods with graphite tips to help slow down the process, but it caused power levels to rise dramatically instead of lowering the fission reaction. So the water had heated so rapidly, causing the steam pressure to build, that it had blown up the tanks on the roof and causing the roof to collapse. Then it blew the 30,000 metric ton cap off of the reactor. Following the explosions, tons of radioactive dust was shot into the atmosphere. That radioactive dust set into motion the devastation that affected workers and townspeople, those effects can still be seen to this

He was supervising the testing of reactor 4 when he noticed things going horribly wrong. All of the monitoring equipment went to Defcon 5, alarms began sounding ,the workers began retreating to the bunkers. Sasha was in the doorway of the control room making sure his coworkers got into the safety of the bunker. Sasha and other workers did not make it to the bunker before the reactor blew at 1:23 am, 3 minutes after the testing began. After the explosion Sasha went to look for his co-workers who didn’t make it to the bunker, he saw 2 vaporized bodies by the reactor, one of them being his colleague Khodemchuk. First responders began showing up to the scene shortly after the explosion. Firefighters tried to battle the flames and fire, they were unable to get the fire under control for 10 days. By 6 am Sasha Yuvchenko could no longer walk, he started to vomit uncontrollably and his skin started to turn violet black. He went the hospital and he was sent straight to Moscow with 128 other people with radiation poisoning. The right side of his body where he had leaned up against the doorway to the control room had the most exposure to radiation. He had microsurgery in Berlin and later had to have part of his arm amputated. He spent 3 years in hospital having multiple surgeries and therapies, with some bumps along the way. The Right side of his body was covered