- •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
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”
•U.S. reaction to Chernobyl, 1986
–Blamed on Communism, graphite reactor
•Also Soviet reaction to Three-Mile Island, 1979
–Blamed on Capitalism, pressurized-water reactor
•No technology 100% safe
–Three-Mile Island bubble almost burst
Three-Mile Island, PA 1979
Health around TMI
•In 1979, hundreds of people reported nausea, vomiting, hair loss, and skin rashes. Many pets were reported dead or showed signs of radiation
•Lung cancer, and leukemia rates increased 2 to 10 times in areas within 10 miles downwind
•Farmers received severe monetary losses due to deformities in livestock and crops after the disaster that are still occurring today.
Plants near TMI
-lack of chlorophyll -deformed leaf patterns -thick, flat, hollow stems -missing reproductive parts
-abnormally large
TMI dandelion leaf at right
Animals Nearby TMI
• Many insects disappeared for years.
–Bumble bees, carpenter bees, certain type caterpillars, or daddy-long-leg spiders
–Pheasants and hop toads have disappeared.