Chernobyl Accident

Sofia
Velasco
Nuclear Power
Overview
Theory of Relativity
Discovery of Nuclear
Fission
The Manhattan Project
Chernobyl Accident
Background
Ukraine
1986
Flawed reactor
Inadequately trained
personnel
 Chernobyl Accident
Environmental & Health Effects
Deaths
Thyroid cancer
ARS
Forests

And at 21 I had cancer, yeah. You know, a lot of my relatives and a lot of
friends of mine who were a little bit older, maybe like 40s and 50s, dying from
cancer right now. - Mr. Litvinov, a Chernobyl survivor
Closure of Chernobyl Plant

$400 million USD

2000
What has been learned
from Chernobyl

Safety Fail-Safe
Investment &
Association Nuclear
Modification
s Power
 Chernobyl is like the war of all
wars. There's nowhere to hide.

Not underground, not underwater,

not in the air.
- Svetlana Alexievich
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