Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Chernobyl disaster facts


The accident released 200 times more radiation than previously thought, hundreds of times more than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.So day, 1 million people worldwide have died of radiation from Chernobyl, including more 110,000 janitors original 830,000. High doses of radioactive fallout reached much of Europe and the United Kingdom and 750 million people in the Northern Hemisphere was significant contamination.Since Chernobyl nuclear reactor fire Fukushima Daiichi captured third nuclear plant, the world is concerned. It is said that this crisis is seen as worse than Chernobyl.

Although some experts deny these allegations, noting that the radioactive material released in this crisis is less harmful than Chernobyl disaster.Doctor D. Olano said about the difference between Chernobyl and saying that the situation Japan.Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have been burdened with continuing and substantial decontamination and costs of health care of the Chernobyl accident. Fifty dead, all within the reactor staff and emergency workers are directly attributable to the accident. Estimates of total deaths attributable to the accident vary considerably. Despite the accident, Ukraine has continued to operate the remaining reactors at Chernobyl for many years.

The last reactor at the site was closed in 2000 after 14 years accident.Facility operators in violation of safety standards had been in control systems important in reactor number four Ukrainian plant and allowed to reach unstable, conditions of low power, according to a UN report. An outbreak has led to a series of explosions at 1:24, which flew in the steel reactor and heavy concrete lid and sent a cloud of radioactive dust blowing in the northern and western Europe, reaching Eastern States.Philippine authorities were forced to cancel a text hoax that caused some offices and classrooms to close after it warned against thyroid problems and dangers of walking outside without a raincoat.
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