Analysis of the Chernobyl Meltdown-

A detailed Summary of Analysis of the Chernobyl Meltdown-

On April 1986, Soviet's Union Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded

letting out a massive amount of radiation that would debate of all

Russian citizens for hundreds of years to come. At exactly 1:21 am. on

April, 1986 inChernobyl, a city near the Pripiat River the No. 4

reactor exploded and released thirty to forty times the radiation of

the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombing. The exact causes of the explosion

are not known , however scientists and researchers, under thorough

investigation, have uncovered possible causes to the explosion.1 The

main reason why the explosion occurred was that, the operators of the

plant were attempting to conduct an experiment with the emergency

cooling system turned off, they made six fatal errors which sealed

everyone's fate. Soviet officials clamed that if the technicians,

would have avoided at least one of those mistakes, then the plant

The technicians began the test one day before the explosion.

They started reducing the reactor's power level so they could run the

turbine experiment. However in order for the plant to run at lower

power they had to turn off the automatic control system, which powered

reached temperatures as high as 2,800o F a massive amount of

the local grid controller in Kiev, who needed the power and asked the

radioactive wasteland. Only in the 1970s did a Russian scientist in

violent protests from Sweden and some Western countries did Soviet

high, and brought down the giant two hundred tone refueling crane onto

technicians to stop lowering it, at what they obeyed. Once that was

krypton, xenon, iodine, cesium and cobalt in the fallout-a radioactive

hundreds of people died, and for years afterward the area was a

action and though it did not cause the explosion, it made the

backtracking. They were able to draw a line going through Latvia over

philosophy of this reactor would never be accepted today by any

done the reactor was running with out the cooling system , which was a

hundreds of square miles in the southern Ural Mountains. More then

Ottawa, Canada where radiation was six times as much as normal rates.

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