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= Chernobyl= The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear meltdown in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Russia. Chernobyl was the worst accident involving nuclear power plants in history. Two people died from the intial explosion but many more deaths resulted from the massive amount of radiation released. It affected the whole continent of Europe because radiation spread with the winds and livesstock was affected because they had high doses of radiation. 237 people got sick from radiation sickness and 31 people died from the sickness. They also evacuated 135 people from the area after the meltdown.

Causes
Operators were not trained correctly and they violated the nuclear plant procedures and ignored plant safety recquirments which caused reactor to fail. The operators also had a lack of experince in dealing with nuclear plants and they were trained poorly along with poor communication between operators and safety officers. One of the mistakes they made was shutting down all the safety systems down to the generator causing the meltdown.

Policies and Laws
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant did not close immediatley because of energy shortages in Ukraine. However after one of the nuclear reactors caught fire in 1991 they came to a decision to close the plant on December 15, 2000. People changed there perception of nuclear power because of the terrible effects of the incident. All confidence in power was lost and it is now slowly being restored.



Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster


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