When Chernobyl blew, radio cesium was leaked everywhere; in the outer atmosphere as a gas, ground as a liquid-like crystal compound, and in the air as radioactive smoke (Hitlov 44). If all this radioactive content is spread equally around the earth, the earth would become a

"Nuclear operators are very important, needing to make important decisions on their own, sometimes very dangerous, to save the reactor unit, and come out unhurt from a crisis or tricky choice. Sadly, no rules or regulations can span the many different or conceivable combinations or mishaps that may occur. The experience and knowledge of veteran operators is fundamental to the professional and safe operation of nuclear power plants. No rule or regulation will replace a well educated, experienced operator, nor will it prevent an accident if untrained uneducated operators continue to man the helm of power plants"(Wilson 16).

Many effects of the Chernobyl disaster were seen in Russia, Europe, and will be seen worldwide. Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, has a half-life of 30 years. Half-life is how long it takes for half of the material to break down into other forms. Cesium-137 enters the body by eating food and traveling in blood. Resembling potassium chemically, Cesium-137 is absorbed by humans in the same way, irradiating the entire body. Radio cesium remains in the body only a few months, but causes many effects. This was the most popular element used in Chernobyl, and it is very unstable. Almost all radiation induced mutations are harmful, and the effects continue through following generations (Bacherev 267).

It was April 26, 1986 1:23:58 when the Russian people of Pipkov the city nearest to the reactor, felt a warm heat wave hastily ride over them (Mendelev 13). The explosion boomed in Chernobyl, USSR. Operators of the nuclear power plant, Akimov and Toptunov, overcome by fear lost all professionalism (Mendelev 13-14). A nuclear melt down happens when the fuel rods or whatever radioactive materials are used are not cooled with water. Then the heat and pressure build up to immense levels eventually exploding, like a teapot with the steam spout covered, multiplying pressure by about five hundred million times (Mendelev 30-31) Few of the nuclear operators at Chernobyl knew anything about nuclear reactors, only theoretical meanings. They really didn't know how to work anything, they had no practical terms or knowledge, as can be seen from their reckless performance (Yaroshira 155).

A curie is a radioactive particle; about three million curies of radio cesium were released into the environment by Chernobyl's meltdown.(Bacherev 265). "14,000 to 39,000 deaths from cancer from radiation over 50 years will be because of the radio cesium from Chernobyl-half deaths from USSR other half from western and eastern Europe"(Medvedev 165). "Prediction of 280,000 cancer deaths worldwide will come from Chernobyl"(Mendelev 166).

wasteland for many generations to come (Hitlov 319). Nothing grows for a few centuries, and that which does is mutated and poisoned (Hitlov 214). Whose fault was it truly for the meltdown in Russia, the plant itself or the operators? The cause of Chernobyl's meltdown was truly the operators; they chose to disable the nuclear plants built-in safety systems as th

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