Essays on Chernobyl

Attention Getter: There are currently 442 active nuclear power reactors worldwide according to the Nuclear Energy Institute. Of all of the reactors worldwide, 14 have been classified as accidents where the public has been exposed to radiation. The most devastating of these incidents was the …

The world’s greatest nuclear disaster happened at Chernobyl, located in Ukraine, in the early morning hours of April 26, 1986. After watching the Chernobyl miniseries, it can be said that the lack of public knowledge regarding radiation effects and with the Soviet Union trying to …

On April 26 1986, the reactor Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was not working properly. When workers tried to fix this problem in reactor 4 by shutting down the its power regulating system and its emergency safety systems, this caused the most …

Debby and Eric Berggren had some questions for us about the Chernobyl disaster. We did not know a lot about the disaster so we did some research. Basic information we learned was that the Chernobyl disaster was in the northern part of Ukraine just north …

Radiation can be utilized in medical research, but when it is present in excessive amounts in the environment, it can have severe negative effects. One of the worst nuclear accidents in history occurred in April of 1986 at the Chernobyl power plant. This catastrophic event …