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The Fukushima nuclear plant was on the television; tsunami had hit this plant. A massive amount of stories from air to even in milk. The media is always un believable with these kind of things, always seeming to throw everybody into a panic. If we step aside from the hyperbole and the news reports what do, we find in nuclear power? The truth? In spite of these recent events that made the world nearly hate nuclear power. However, it’s still a source of clean power that needs to be advanced and overseen properly.

In 1986, a nuclear accident caused widespread radiation throughout Chernobyl, which is located in Ukraine. Radiation poisoning was rampant for many years, and effects can still be seen in neighboring country Belarus. However, the study released showed that the amount of wildlife currently in Chernobyl meets and may even exceed that seen in uncontaminated nature reserves in Belarus.

The radiation caused mutations in humans, animals, and plants. Humans and animals mutated because of radiation and chemicals. At first, everyone thought it was Sweden's fault because radiation was found on power plant workers clothes. Sweden investigated more into the radiation and found out that really it was the Soviet Union's fault. Soviet Union,Bryansk, and Ukraine were the most affected areas affected the most. One of their power plants exploded. Reactor 4 in the power plant caused the explosion. After 2 years 600,000 people went and cleaned up Chernobyl they were called liquidators.

Chernobyl was one of the worst accidents in history. At 1:23 a.m. on April 26th, 1986, something went wrong at Reactor 4, due to human error, causing an explosion. Firefighters came to the scene in minutes, not knowing the levels of radiation

Before the disaster Chernobyl was rated one of the safest nuclear power stations. Three months before the explosion the Soviet official said, “the odds of a meltdown occurring at Chernobyl are 1 in 10,000 years.” Before the accident the government staff that investigated the plant found out that there were several accidents and emergency shutdowns.

There are many reasons the Chernobyl disaster happened. This disaster happened on April 26, 1986. This is the worst nuclear disaster in the world. When they were testing the reactor the reactor was set on fire because the plant workers made several mistakes. They shut down many things. They shut down safety systems. They shut down the turbine systems and that provided cooling water. Then the cooling water started to boil and then it turned into steam. They didn't stop they kept on going with the experiment. They turned it down to

April 26th 1986 marked the date of the worst nuclear accident to ever occur. Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant in Russia was undergoing routine safety tests that envolved running the reactor on less then full power, followed by a standard shut down. At Chernobyl’s reactor number 4 a specific test was designed to show that a coasting turbine could produce enough power to pump coolant through the reactor core while waiting for electricity from diesel generators.

The Chernobyl incident continues to demonstrate the risks involved with nuclear power, as well as the consequences of any failure. Simple human error led to a chain reaction that caused the reactor core to melt down. The resulting explosion spewed clouds of radiation into the atmosphere that quickly spread. Kasperski states, “The explosion of reactor Unit 4 on April 26, 1986 led to heavy radioactive contamination of regions of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia” (Kasperski 44). With no way of containing the radiation, the toxic cloud quickly spread throughout Europe. Nazaryan explains, "The toxic cloud that enveloped much of Europe....contained: cesium-137, iodine-131, zirconium-95...." (Nazaryan 4). What made matters worse is that the public didn’t know about the accident until two days after the explosion occurred. This resulted in thousands of civilians unknowingly exposing themselves to potentially life-threatening levels of radiation. While the radioactive cloud eventually dispersed into the atmosphere, the same cannot be said about the radiation absorbed by the ground

Chernobyl and Piper Alpha Case studies are two of the engineering failures that has happened in the world. The world worst civilian disaster happened when the Chernobyl nuclear power explode in soviet plant located in Ukraine. Soviet nuclear plant was one of the most advanced facilities that included four reactors. The Chernobyl accident happened on 26 April 1986 when the technician wanted to test the backup cooling system for the reactor number four without following the safety procedure. Due to explosion in reactor number four, eight tons of radioactive debris spread into the atmosphere that caused 115000 people to evacuate from 30 kilometers around the area. As a result of this explosion, thirty-one of the plant personnel and the initial fire workers who involved in extinguishing the fire were died shortly from acute radiation sickness. The main issue causes Chernobyl disaster is complex since some people blame the Chernobyl tragedy on the power plant operator, the other blame on the design of the reactor itself (UNSCEAR, 2008).

Located next to the small town of Pripyat, in the Ukraine, stands the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. During the morning hours on April 26, 1986, operators within Reactor Four of the nuclear plant began a test to determine how long turbines would spin to supply power to the main pumps following a loss of electrical power. Operators gradually began decreasing the power of Reactor Four. The reactor became unstable, continuing to decrease in power on its own. In an effort to prevent the reactor from completely shutting down, operators withdrew a large percentage of the control rods, allowing power to rise. Afraid the automatic shutdown systems would SCRAM, or instantly shut down the reactor, operators disengaged the emergency shutdown systems. It was then that an uncontrollable power surge, causing an increase in heat, led Reactor Four to spike beyond its full operating power. Plant operators made an

The Chernobyl accident, also known as Chernobyl catastrophe is a nuclear accident that occurred on April 26th 1986 near Ukraine–Belarus border in former Soviet Union. It was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history in terms of costs and casualties. The accident happened during a systems tests and it destroyed one of four nuclear reactors. Unfortunately, due to poor plant design (no containment over the reactor) its consequences were far greater than of an atomic bomb in Hiroshima with the level of radiation being nine times larger. At the time Soviet government tried to cover that an accident ever happened, but the Swedish authirities noticed unusually high levels of radiation above Sweden. Even with a radioactive cloud spreading around the Europe, Soviet government refused to acknowledge that there was anything wrong. In the following days, winds blew 70% of radioactive particles form the place of accident to bordering Belarus and Russia contaminating south Belarus, north Ukraine and southwest Russia, even reaching all the way to the northern Europe and

When building the reactors at Chernobyl, it was decided to build an RBMK reactor (The Chernobyl Gallery). An RBMK reactor is also known as a boiling water reactor (The Chernobyl Gallery). The Soviets did not think that an RBMK reactor was capable of exploding (Read). An RBMK reactor was at the time considered the cheaper and “safer” option although it did release roughly 40 times the amount of radiation of a Pressurized Water Reactor

This energy was compared with hundreds of pounds of TNT and this explosion blew the top of the reactor away (Lewis 25). Immeasurable amounts of radioactive were released into the atmosphere and it spread through Eastern Europe (Lewis 25). The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was very poorly designed and its reactor operated in improper way (Howstuffworks). This is kind of technological disaster that several things went wrong such as “systems fail, humans err, designs prove faulty, and engines misfire” (Erikson 2). As a result of this accident, 31 people died from radiation, 200 people had hospitalized and 135,000 people were evacuated from 30 kilometers of Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Lewis 26). Soviet Union science researchers estimated that of the people who lived around Chernobyl nuclear power plants in the next 70 years from the accident, only 14,000 people would die naturally and hundreds of people would die as cancer from nuclear radiation (Lewis 27). However, another estimate stated that 15 million people out of 100 million people would as cancer by affecting the radiation (Lewis 27). This accident also affected national energy policies, agricultural communities of the Soviet Union (Lofastedt 2). Agricultural products were infected with radioactive and it also gave bad affect to people who eat those products (Erikson 3). This toxic radiation

Only a mere six years later, one of the largest meltdowns in history occurred at Chernobyl, because the Soviet Union was so caught up in the ends they were not focused on the means. Unfortunately, greed and time restraints were directly responsible for the inefficient and unstable production of nuclear energy at Chernobyl, Ukraine.

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant consisted of four nuclear reactors with each of them capable of producing 1 gigawatt of electric power. During the time when the disaster took place, these four reactors were producing approximately 10 percent of the electricity used in Ukraine. The construction of this power plant started in the 1970s with the first reactor commissioned in 1977 and the fourth in 1983. At the time when the disaster happened, the other two nuclear reactors were still under construction (West par, 4).