How does nuclear pollution affect people?
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Gianluca, Lara and Xavi
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- 26th April 1986It was a very normal day in an Ukrainian city. Life got on well as it always did.
- But something was about to happen...
- In the nuclear power plant of Chernobyl, the fourth reactor blew up, bringing the death of 4000 people about (USSR recognised only 65 deaths)
- Approximately more than 116.000 people lost their houses. The power of the destruction was so catastrophic that was 100 times more terrible than the Hiroshima bomb
- Bacteria were not able to compost dead leaves and organic materials anymore.
- When we think about pollution we don't usually think about nuclear pollution
- Nuclear waste
- Animals suffered radiation: birds lost part of their brain; pines got red, before dying, giving the name of the area "The red forest".
- Danger to human lifeDon't drink
- The harmful emissions destroyed also the fields and grass, eaten by cows. In the end, children consumed milk and meat contaminated.
- Workers in the nuclear power plant suffered acute radiation sickness and 28 of 500 workers died after three months.
- Led to
- Other illnesses were leukemia, cataracta and cancer
- Thyrod cancer
- At the first her husband saw a lighting bolt in the sky. The next day he felt his throat and his mouth were hurting.
- This is the Valentina Kukharenko's story
- Then some doctors came to visit him and they recorded a high radiation level. He died after few months.
- The radiation hit also Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy and Canada.
- Nowadays, the entire area is polluted and people are not allowed to live there since the living has been prohibited by Ukrainian regulations.
- For instance the area will be re-inhabited in 20.000 years.
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