EuropesEnvironmentalProblems.pptVIP

Name: ____________________ Date: _________ Period: ______ TOC# ______ Causes Effects Event (Important Facts) Solutions? Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster ______ Nuclear accident Estimates: up to _______ will die from ________ radiation. _________ had to be resettled. Radiation spread throughout other countries by air currents. _________ issues- high rates of _______, birth defects, ________ Land ___________ and contamination (Europe farmers) ________ with poorly trained workers. _________ reactor design ___________ government was not careful Economic impact on East and North _______ _________: radioactive particles stirred up by or resulting from a nuclear explosion and descending through the atmosphere Name: ____________________ Date: _________ Period: ______ TOC# ______ Causes Effects Event (Important Information) Solutions? Event: Important Information: Chernobyl (Ukraine) April 26, 1986 Nuclear accident Estimates: up to 5,000 will die due to cancer from radiation 336,000 had to be resettled Most areas now considered safe Chernobyl Chernobyl after the disaster… Whole cities had to be abandoned due to radiation… Before After Evacuation Effects: Red Forest The Pripyat Fun Fair was scheduled to begin May 1st. The ferries wheel remains one of the most irradiated parts of Pripyat since the disaster, making it still dangerous today. 400m away from the reactor: 0.623 rt/m2 Average radiation level of a Non-contaminated area: 0.010 rt/m2 Event: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine Cause: communist government was not careful defective reactor design that was operated with poorly trained workers.? Effect: Nuclear accident at Chernobyl Land evacuation and contamination (Europe farmers, ) Economic impact on East and North Heath issues- high rates of cancer, birth defects, death Nuclear Fallout- radioactive particles stirred up by or resulting from a nuclear explosion and descending through the atmosphere Chernobyl Nuclear DisasterApril 26, 1986 spread to su