Concept
A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a steady rate.
Radioactive decay
atomic nucleus spontaneously loses energy by emitting ionizing particles and radiation.
Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Located 4km south-east from Pripyat.
The city was founded in 1970 to house the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers
Population: 43’000
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, the largest civil nuclear disaster in history.
The night of the 1986th On 26th April.
It resulted in 500 times more radioactive pollution than the U.S. atomic bombs that were dropped on Japanese cities in the end of WW II
In emergency relief participated approximately 600 000 people from the former Soviet Union
World Health Organization estimates that 170 000 died early
In the next ten years, about ten thousand people who were born during the accident or after it can be diagested with thyroid cancer.…
