 | Term | Definition |
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Key Card |
I= Internet Source --- B= Book Source |
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Source Card |
1-13 all from http://www.american.edu/TED/chernob.htm ---- 14-18 from The Nuclear Diasaster at Chernobyl by Robin Cruise---- 19 from EBSCO---- 20 from Chernobyl: The End of the Nuclear Dream by Nigel Hawkes, Geoffrey Lean, David Leigh, Robin McKie, Peter Pringle, Andrew Wilson |
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Economic Losses for USSR and Europe (I) |
Unquantifiable |
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Where people were first noted of adnormally high levels of radiation (I) |
Sweden (a plant recorded some high readings) |
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Number of days it took to distinguish the fire (I) |
twelve |
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number of towns and villages evacuated (I) |
186 (2 towns, 184 villages) |
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amount of time it took too evacuate those places (I) |
36 hours |
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total number of people evacuated (I) |
180,000 |
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related nuclear cases (I) |
Japan Sea nuclear dump, Japan plutonium dump, arctic dump, mocho dump, temelin dump, komso dump, andreeva bay dump, ural dump, siberia nuking, estonia dump, ireland dump, russia nuking |
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number of nations affected (I) |
26 |
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number of countries that had serious economic losses (I) |
24 |
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areas affected by the radiation plume (I) |
Soviet Union, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, West Germany, East Germany, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, England and Ireland |
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cities which no one can enter besides workers (I) |
Pripyat, Chernobyl, Chechersk, Kiev, Slavgorod, Vetka, Vyshkov, Zlynka, Novosybsk and Krasnopol |
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number of reactors that were being built at the V.I. Lenin Power Station at the time of the explosion (B) |
two |
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name of the type of reactors they were using at the V.I. Power Plant (B) |
RBMK-1000s (the 1000 means that it can reach up to 1000 megawatts) |
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what the uranium rods were regulated with (B) |
graphite (very dangerous) |
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The man in charge of the firefighters that fought the fire at Chernobyl (B) |
Lt. Colonel Leonid Telyatnikov |
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(no term, just a statement)(B) |
the soviets denied there ever being an accident, then said there was a little mishap, nothing more |
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one of the deranged parts of a girl born durin the explosion (EBSCO) |
she can only look up |
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quote from Einstein on nuclear power (B) |
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking." |
