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How is the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl related to Japan's earthquake?
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They both cuased nuclear melt downs in power plants.
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What famous disaster happened at Chernobyl in Russia?
There was no famous disaster (or anything else) at Chernobyl in Russia as there is no such place. However for the disaster that occurred in Chernobyl in the Ukraine, please see the related question.
The world's nuclear power plant disaster occured in chernobyl a northern city in it became an independent from the former USSR in 1991?
The Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster happened in 1986, when the Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. Now it is an independent country, though still closely related to Russia.
What is the most famous nuclear disaster in Europe?
The most famous Nuclear disaster in Europe was the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster in Ukraine. Nuclear radiation from an explosion in one of the four reactors leaked into the surrounding area and the near by city of Pripyat. Over 50,000 people had to be evacuated. 50 workers and firemen were killed and thousands of others died of cancers related with being exposed to the radiation from the disaster. Chernobyl and Pripyat are still heavily radioactive today and can still cause nuclear mutations if exposed for to long.
What is the main natural disaster that occurs in Asia?
earthquake and related tsunami.
Were did the worst nuclear disaster in history occur?
Chernobyl, Russia on April 26th, 1986. A nuclear power plant exploded and the nuclear radiation spread all across Russia and many parts of Europe. There were 31 recorded deaths that were directly related to the accident and an estimated 30,000-60,000 cancer related deaths linked to it over the years.
Standing in a doorway and bolting down house foundations are related to which type of natural disaster?
Earthquake
How focus and epicenter related?
The focus and epicenter are both "earthquake points". The focus is the point of origin of an earthquake or underground nuclear explosion while the epicenter the very center or focal point.
What is a good sentence with the word catastrophe in the sentence?
Here is an example sentence with the word "catastrophe":The Chernobyl disaster was truly a catastrophe, 350400 people had to evacuate from their homes and thousands suffered from radioactive related diseases.
What were the effects of the Chernobyl accident on the people?
31 people were killed in the immediate accident and 1,800 children have thus far been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. In a study published in May 2001Many people living in and around Chernobyl before the disaster suffered radiation poisoning and related radiation illnesses such as cancer.
Is what happening in Japan technology related?
Absolutely. There was an earthquake of magnitude 9 which hit 4 nuclear power plants. Nuclear power is definitely technology, so the answer is yes.However, what most media focus on is some nuclear plants that withstood an earthquake a twice the designed magnitude, and nothing really serious happened. The earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed more then 10.000 Japanese and made many more homeless, so that should be much more important. And earthquakes and tsunamis are not technology related, so, if you consider the death toll, no what is happening in Japan is not technology related.
What nuclear reactor did the world's worst nuclear disaster take place at in Ukraine in 1986?
people got involved.. it sucks, but yeah, blame the humans. this is why nuclear is not everywhere, because there are people everywhere to screw it up to tell you what happened with Chernobyl, first you have to understand how a nuclear reactor works. in a nutshell, you have a fissionable material, it is condensed, and condensed until it produces heat on its own. these heat rods are kept in sheaths like a sword, and they keep the material cool.. there are many rods, and the more rods in the pool brought out, the higher the temperature of the water in the pool. it makes steam, and the steam spins a turbine to make electricity, and the power goes to your home. Chernobyl happened because they were testing how to make more energy. see, they probably had a similar problem there, that they have here. People want power for their cell phones, and ipods, but they dont want to produce it, they dont like coal, they dont like nuclear. The people wouldnt allow another reactor to be built, so they were testing how the reactor would respond with more rods out of the sheathes than what was considered safe operation. (we have 50 rods, why do we only use 10 at a time? sort of thing) so they had the normal 10 rods extended out into the pool to heat the water, then they told the computer to bring a couple more out, and a couple more, and they were really impressed, they were boiling twice the water in half the time, it was an exponential increase with just a few more rods, not double. but what happened is that they didnt understand that the rods can heat up themselves, because they are so dense, but they can also heat the other rods, and they did. the rods got so hot they warped, then when they tried to put them back into the sheathes, they couldnt, and the reactor got so hot they couldnt put water into it fast enough to keep it cool, and it blew. Chernobyl is still poisoned today. when the 20 or so rods out of the 50 blew, it didnt use all the material and detonate like an atomic weapon, but it detonated some, but blew the rest around, like a dirty bomb. the radiation is nearly gone, but all the plants an animals an people are dead/dying/toxic due to exposure. nuclear is a wonderful source of energy, this is why the navy has reactors in nearly all the aircraft carriers, there are safeguards in place, and people are not allowed to mess with it. on land, its a different story, and its all about the money money money, and safeguards are put by the wayside. if they can produce double the power using a fraction more rods, they will. and this is how greed destroyed a beautiful town and lives, and the complete nuclear industry
What were the effects of the chernobyl nuclear disaster?
To put it simply radioactive fallout. You can't inhabit the area any more. There is no drinkable water left. It killed many people and many more were disfigured and have contracted cancer and other related diseases, even now Clarification, there was no nuclear explosion at Chernobyl. The explosion that blew the roof off the reactor building was a steam explosion. Also all the fallout distributed was carried by the smoke of a graphite fire, started when the steam explosion exposed the reactor's hot graphite moderator to air (sudden release of Wigner Energy in the graphite probably also helped ignite it).
