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Q: What type of radiation was leaked in the chernobyl disaster?
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For what type of disaster is Chernobyl famous?

Chernobyl is famous for the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.


How much emissions do nuclear reactor produce?

In normal operation, virtually none. In a bad accident like Chernobyl, a great deal. Fortunately only one Chernobyl type disaster has ever happened.


What did people learn from the Chernobyl disaster?

Human error at any level of technology development or use is the biggest cause of major accidents with the technology, regardless of type of technology.


What type of radioactivity was emitted from chernobyl?

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What are facts about radiations?

People emit more radiation than their cell phones do. Most of the radiation people are exposed to daily is not harmful because it is non-ionizing. Inside the Chernobyl reactors grows a type of fungus that actually thrives on radiation. A toy released in the 1950s had uranium samples in it.


What type of mutations were caused by the chernobyl accident?

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What type of disaster is a Tornado?

A natural disaster. More specifically a meteorological (weather) disaster.


How far did the chernobyl radiation spread?

Given the topic this question is listed under, I think you might be confusing Chernobyl with the bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII. Chernobyl was a nuclear accident at a plant in the Ukraine which took place on April 26, 1986.


What type of radiation does radioactivity produces?

The Type Of Radiation That It Produce Is The Gamma Ray!


Infrared radiation is what type of energy?

Infrared radiation is a type of electromagnetic energy


How is nuclear pollution caused?

It can be caused by reactor accidents that release radioactivity, like the Chernobyl disaster. Fortunately that type of incident is most unlikely with the US and EU designs of reactors. It can also be caused by nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, but these are now banned by international agreement


What type of reactions or fuel did the Chernobyl nuclear plant use?

Nuclear Fission