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- •Fallout from Chernobyl
- •400 million people exposed in 20 countries
- •Chernobyl’s political fallout
- •Radiation and Health
- •8,000 deaths in 14 years
- •My grandmother, by Luda
- •Death of my life, by Marina
- •Chernobyl is war, by Irena
- •Beauty and the beast, by Helena
- •Nothing escapes radiation, by Irena
- •Chernobyl, our hell, by Eugenia
- •Self-portrait, by Natasha
- •“It Can’t Happen Here”
- •Three-Mile Island, PA 1979
- •Health around TMI
- •Plants near TMI
- •Animals Nearby TMI
- •Nuclear reaction
- •History of nuclear power
- •“Atoms for Peace”
- •Economic advantages
- •Emissions Free
- •Early knowledge of risks
- •States with nuclear power plant(s)
- •Nuclear power around the globe
- •Countries Generating Most Nuclear Power
- •Nuclear fuel cycle
- •Front end: Uranium mining and milling
- •Uranium tailings and radon gas
- •Uranium enrichment
- •Radioactivity of plutonium
- •Risks of enrichment and fuel fabrication
- •Nuclear Reactor Process
- •Technology depends on operators
- •Other reactor accidents
- •United States
- •Risk of terrorism
- •Nuclear Reactor Structure
- •Breeder reactor
- •Reprocessing
- •Back end: Radioactive wastes
- •Yucca
- •Transportation
- •“Mobile
- •Kyshtym waste disaster, 1957
- •Radioactive Waste Recycling
- •Summary
Fallout from Chernobyl
400 million people exposed in 20 countries
Chernobyl’s political fallout
•Stimulated Gorbachev’s glasnost (openness)
•Stimulated nationalism in Ukraine, Belarus, and other republics that lost clean-up workers.
•Growth of environmental opposition
•Questioning of the heart of technocratic power
–Soviet leaders were engineers, not lawyers
–USSR collapsed within 5 years.
Radiation and Health
• Health effects as a result of radiation exposure: -increased likelihood of cancer
-birth defects including long limbs, brain damage, conjoined stillborn twins -reduced immunity
-genetic damage
8,000 deaths in 14 years
3.5 million sick, one/third of them children
My grandmother, by Luda
Death of my life, by Marina
Chernobyl is war, by Irena
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