21. Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Revisited: Part One Of A Series (EnvironmentalChemist Reflections on the accident and its impacts, focused on an encounter with an 11 years old survivor who puts a real face on the disaster in history. Includes links to related sites. http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/hazmat/articles/chernobyl1.html

@import url("http://envirochem.us/css/Main20100222.css"); @import url("http://envirochem.us/css/screen20100221.css"); Environmental Chemistry Hazardous Materials News, Careers Skip to page content Skip to site menu on this page Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Revisited Part one of a series By Roberta C. Barbalace Part: A Human Face Blasa was a round faced lad probably about eleven years old visiting from Belarus. His English was about as fluent as my Russian was. Between us there were perhaps a couple of dozen words that we both understood. His host family explained that he was a survivor of Chernobyl and was visiting the United States through a project sponsored by a group of business men who wanted to give the children some relief from the stress that they experience daily as a result of the Chernobyl disaster. I had thought about possible increase in cancer and birth defects. Somehow, stress ten years after the accident never entered my mind. I started shuffling through my pile of potential articles and found the one that Jim Bley had sent. The facts were mind-boggling. Chernobyl Disaster Recalled At 1:23 AM on April 26, 1986, two explosions ripped through the Unit 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine. The reactor block and adjacent structure were wrecked by the initial explosion. Nearby buildings were ignited by burning graphite projectiles. Radioactive particles swept across the Ukraine, Belarus, the western portion of Russia and eventually spread across Europe and the whole Northern Hemisphere. The accident followed a safety experiment in which the plant was operated outside of its designed parameters at very low power and unfavorable cooling conditions.

22. Top 5 Worst Nuclear Disasters : Discovery News Although nuclear power provides carbonfree energy at reasonable prices, it has exposed its dangerous side with near meltdowns and leaked radiation. Here are http://news.discovery.com/tech/top-five-nuclear-disasters.html

skip to main content earth space tech ... Tech News Top 5 Worst Nuclear Disasters Top 5 Worst Nuclear Disasters By David Teeghman Nuclear power has something of a checkered history. Although it does provide carbon-free energy at reasonable prices, it has exposed its dangerous side with near meltdowns and leaked radiation. The International Atomic Energy Agency an intergovernmental agency for scientific co-operation in the nuclear field judges nuclear accidents based on the International Nuclear Event Scale, which ranges from 1 to 7. The most serious events are classified as a 7, referred to as a "major accident," while a 1 is considered a minor "anomoly." "It's very important that we have an effective way to communicate with the public the seriousness of a nuclear accident," Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Scott Burnell told Discovery News. That rating system, along with reports and information from the regulatory commission and the United States Department of Energy, helped develop this list of the five most dangerous nuclear accidents in the world. Chernobyl, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)

23. Nuclear Disasters, Time To Test The Old Guard When National Guard planners set in motion a training exercise to test the force`s abilities as the first military responder to a catastrophic nuclear explosion, it was http://thesop.org/story/usa/2009/03/27/nuclear-disasters-time-to-test-the-old-gu

Contact theSOP About theSOP Support theSOP Writers ... Book Store Categories Art/Author Interviews Activism Business Canada ... World NEWSPAPERS Boca Raton Folsom Orange County St Augustine ... Vero Beach Published: March 27th, 2009 12:16 EST Nuclear Disasters, Time to Test the Old Guard By SOP newswire When National Guard planners set in motion a training exercise to test the force`s abilities as the first military responder to a catastrophic nuclear explosion, it was destined to fail. That`s exactly what they wanted. National Guard Chief Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum said his staff deliberately put together the worst possible scenario that would test the limits of the Guard`s ability to respond to such a disaster and interact with other state and federal agencies. That scenario played out on a sprawling, 1,000-acre rural training area just outside of Indianapolis, Ind., as more than 2,000 National Guard troops and hundreds of state and federal emergency response agencies worked through the disaster scenario of a 10-kiloton nuclear explosion in Indianapolis. Named Vigilant Guard, the exercise put into place new capabilities and technologies nearly all of which have been developed since 9/11 that have yet to be tested in an exercise of this scale.

24. Chernobyl Children's Project International Organization helps the families and communities that suffer from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. Information on medical and community development programs, volunteer opportunities and sponsorship. http://chernobyl.typepad.com

Chernobyl Children's Project International Home DONATE NOW Twitter ... RSS/Subscribe Become a Fan About Us our mission how we help donate what you can do ... More... Search November 01, 2010 we've moved! join us here: Website Facebook YouTube ... Blog November 01, 2010 at 02:25 PM Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack (0) Digg This September 07, 2010 board member and her husband are donating their fee from the Louis Vuitton "core values" campaign to Chernobyl Children's Project International, Technoserve, and the Conservation Cotton Initiative.  September 07, 2010 at 12:40 PM Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack (0) Digg This June 25, 2010 change for disabled in chernobyl regions of belarus: an international partnership Tatiana Federova and Tatiana Yushkevich respectively heads of the Minsk and Mogilev departments of social services recently attended a meeting of the International Initiative for Mental Health and Disability and Leadership Exchange Cheshire Homes in Dublin and services in County Clare, where they met with International leaders in the field of mental health and disability. They witnessed first hand the benefits to clients of community living versus state institutional care. In November 2008, CCPI opened an

25. Engineering Team Developing Helicopter That Would Investigate Nuclear Disasters Engineering team developing helicopter that would investigate nuclear disasters March 4, 2010 . Enlarge. Kevin Kochersberger, a research associate professor with the Virginia Tech http://www.physorg.com/news186917413.html

Science and technology news Home Nanotechnology Physics ... Computer Sciences Engineering team developing helicopter that would investigate nuclear disasters March 4, 2010 Enlarge Kevin Kochersberger, a research associate professor with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering and director of the Virginia Tech Unmanned Systems Laboratory, and the autonomous helicopter. Credit: Virginia Tech Photo Students at Virginia Tech's Unmanned Systems Laboratory are perfecting an autonomous helicopter they hope will never be used for its intended purpose. Roughly six feet long and weighing 200 pounds, the re-engineered aircraft is designed to fly into American cities blasted by a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb. The helicopter's main mission would be to assist military investigators in the unthinkable: Enter an American city after a nuclear attack in order to detect radiation levels, map and photograph damage. "It's for a worst-case scenario," said project leader Kevin Kochersberger, a research associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Virginia Tech Unmanned Systems Laboratory. His team consists of several graduate and undergraduate students from the mechanical engineering and electrical and computer engineering departments. Kochersberger and his team re-engineered a remote-controlled Yamaha-built Unmanned Aerial Vehicle RMAX helicopter to fly in fully autonomous mode. They also created flight control software algorithms that will direct the helicopter to radioactive sources on its own accord. To carry out various missions, the researchers outfitted the helicopter with various "plug-and-play payloads" as the vehicle's weight capacity is limited. The payloads are easily loadable and unloadable boxes that fit snugly under the helicopter's main body, carrying devices that would detect radiation levels in the atmosphere and on the ground, and take video and still images of damage. Flight control software would allow the mission to be changed mid-flight.

26. Nuclear Mishap In Goldsboro, North Carolina Site dedicated to discovering the facts behind North Carolina s brush with nuclear disaster. http://www.ibiblio.org/bomb/

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27. Disasters: Nuclear Accidents - Water, Effects, Environmental, History, World, Po Of all the environmental disaster events that humans are capable of causing, nuclear disasters have the greatest damage potential. The radiation release associated with http://www.pollutionissues.com/Co-Ea/Disasters-Nuclear-Accidents.html

Powered by JRank Pollution Issues Pollution Issues Co-Ea Disasters: Nuclear Accidents Of all the environmental disaster events that humans are capable of causing, nuclear disasters have the greatest damage potential. The radiation release associated with a nuclear disaster poses significant acute and chronic risks in the immediate environs and chronic risk over a wide geographic area. Radioactive contamination, which typically becomes airborne, is long-lived, with half-lives guaranteeing contamination for hundreds of years. Concerns over potential nuclear disasters center on nuclear reactors, typically those used to generate electric power. Other concerns involve the transport of nuclear waste and the temporary storage of spent radioactive fuel Radioactive emissions of particular concern include strontium-90 and cesium-137, both having thirty-year-plus half-lives, and iodine-131, having a short half-life of eight days but known to cause thyroid cancer. In addition to being highly radioactive, cesium-137 is mistaken for potassium by living organisms. This means that it is passed on up the food chain and bioaccumulated by that process. Strontium-90 mimics the properties of calcium and is deposited in bones where it may either cause cancer or damage bone marrow cells.

28. The EnviroLink Network - Nuclear Disasters Nuclear Disasters http://www.envirolink.org/topics.html?topic=Nuclear Disasters&topicsku=20021

29. 'Voices Of Chernobyl': Survivors' Stories : NPR The memories of those who survived Chernobyl were collected in the book Voices from Chernobyl The Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich. Here are some of their stories as read by actors. 839 streaming audio broadcast http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5355810

30. CHELYABINSK "The Most Contaminated Spot On The Planet" - A Documentary Film By S The people of the Chelyabinsk Region have suffered no less than three nuclear disasters For over six years, the Mayak complex systematically dumped radioactive waste into the http://www.logtv.com/films/chelyabinsk/nuclear.htm

Log In Productions About This Film The Film Credits Film Screenings Broadcast History Video Preview ... Image Gallery Nuclear Disasters About Kyshtym-57 More Log In Films Send Us An Email! Nuclear Disasters Plutonium and Tritium for Soviet nuclear weapons is produced at three closely guarded locations, each of which includes a "closed" city of workers.These cities do not appear on maps, and until recently, travel to and from them was all but prohibited.Even now, foreign visitors have been allowed to see only two of the sites.Each of the sites has an official name, often including a number that indicates a post office address, but each was known by another name or names abroad as well as in the Soviet Union. The complex officially known as Chelyabinsk-40 is located in Chelyabinsk province, about 15 kilometers east of the city of Kyshtym on the east side of the southern Urals.It is situated in the area around Lake Kyzyltash, in the upper Techa River drainage basin among numerous other interconnected lakes.Between Lake Kyzyltash and Lake Irtyash is Chelyabinsk-65, the military-industrial city once called Beria, but today inhabitants call it Sorokovka("forties town"). Another Mayak laboratory, the All-Union Institute of Technical Physics, is located just east of the Urals, 20 kilometers north of Kasli.It is better known by its post office box, Chelyabinsk-70.It was opened in 1955, shortly after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory opened in the United States.

31. THE ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL RELIEF IN NUCLEAR DISASTERS Annals of the MBC vol, 4 - n' 3 - September 1991. THE ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL RELIEF IN NUCLEAR DISASTERS. Magliacani G. Centro Grandi Ustioni, Torino, Italia http://www.medbc.com/annals/review/vol_4/num_3/text/vol4n3p151.htm

Annals of the MBC - vol, 4 - n' 3 - September 1991 THE ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL RELIEF IN NUCLEAR DISASTERS Magliacani G. Centro Grandi Ustioni, Torino, Italia SUMMARY. Nuclear disasters are predictable and they can therefore be prepared for. The particular dangers of this type of technological accident are nuclear radiation and contamination. The various stages of relief are described, together with the general principles on which relief must be based. The importance of preparedness is stressed. New developments in information sciences have improved communication and allow link-ups between central operational headquarters, rescue teams and outlying hospitals. Ten basic principles of planning are listed. Peacetime nuclear catastrophes can be categorized as technological disasters of known type, i.e. they correspond to situations that have already occurred and been analysed as to their causes and their short- and long-term consequences. The persons affected may only have been exposed to nuclear radiation and contamination or they may present associated lesions, especially burns or traumas of various nature and gravity. In the event of radiation the victim can be treated without any particular precautions, while in the presence of contamination it is necessary to limit the risk for the patient, by avoiding the danger of the contamination of non-contaminated parts, and to protect the rescue-workers, who have to observe some simple but strict norms.

32. Chernobyl | Chernobyl Accident | Chernobyl Disaster Chernobyl information on the Chernobyl accident. The Chernobyl RBMK reactor design faults and how they have been addressed, the Chernobyl shelter. Lessons learnt from the http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.html

33. SeMissourian.com: International News: North Korea Warns Of 'nuclear Disasters' ( SEOUL, South Korea Any U.S. moves to build up its military force on the Korean Peninsula could lead to horrible nuclear disasters, the communist state warned Friday. http://www.semissourian.com/story/101096.html

34. Nuclear Power Plant Disasters Nuclear is way of world today. Nuclear families spend evenings debating nuclear energy. The biggest con of nuclear energy is safety. Many nuclear disasters over years have kept http://www.buzzle.com/articles/nuclear-power-plant-disasters.html

Home World News Latest Articles Escape Hatch ... Endless Buzz Nuclear Power Plant Disasters Nuclear is the way of the world today. Nuclear families spend evenings debating nuclear energy. The biggest con of nuclear energy is safety. Many nuclear disasters over the years have kept us debating, if it is really worth it. There are no nuclear power plant accidents, there are only nuclear power plant disasters, because their magnitude and impact is much beyond human imagination. Let's talk of some nuclear power plant disasters. The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) has come up with an International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), that categorizes nuclear meltdowns on a scale of zero to seven. These categorizations are done on nuclear accident severity and the scale of it's impact. The paragraphs below will list some nuclear power plant disasters, segregated according to the INES, starting in the reverse order of scale 7. Scale 7: Major Nuclear Meltdown A nuclear disaster that can only be categorized under scale 7 is the one that destroyed the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. The Ukrainian nuclear facility of Chernobyl witnessed an explosion in the unit 4 reactor, in the early morning hours, of April 26, 1986. The explosion destroyed the unit in its entirety and released an incredible amount of radiated fallout, into the environment. IAEA and WHO studies revealed that there were 56 direct deaths off the explosion and about 600000 deaths due to radiation exposure . The 4000 cancer deaths due to exposure to nuclear carcinogens, are just a meager part of the expected 100000 fatalities. The radioactive fallout that was released in the atmosphere traveled over an extensive geographical area and had spread all through Western Europe in just a span of 1 week. Studies say that this nuclear disaster produced radiation that was 400 times more than the

35. Nuclear Disasters - Ask.com Top questions and answers about NuclearDisasters. Find 45 questions and answers about Nuclear-Disasters at Ask.com Read more. http://www.ask.com/questions-about/Nuclear-Disasters

36. Greenpeace Errorpage Oops, something’s wrong! It looks as though we’ve broken something on our system. The webmaster has been notified already. Please try again later http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/mayak-nuclear-disaster280907

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37. Nuclear Disasters - FM Hordaland Engelsk All counties must have a nuclear disaster committee. The committee, led by the county governor, coordinates and implements http://www.fylkesmannen.no/fagom.aspx?m=7448

38. Nuclear Disasters - FM Nord-Tr Ndelag Engelsk Nuclear disasters Fylkesm6 All counties must have a nuclear disaster committee. The committee, led by the county governor http://www.fylkesmannen.no/fagom.aspx?m=9112

39. Engineering Team Developing Helicopter That Would Investigate Nuclear Disasters Engineering Team Developing Helicopter That Would Investigate Nuclear Disasters. ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2010) — Students at Virginia Tech's Unmanned Systems http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100304093639.htm

40. Bases For The Prevention Of Nuclear Disasters Disaster Prevention and Nuclear Safety Network for Nuclear Environment Nuclear Safety Division, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/base/index.html

Disaster Prevention and Nuclear Safety Network for Nuclear Environment Nuclear Safety Division, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Disaster Prevention Network for Nuclear Environments - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) - Bases for the prevention of nuclear disasters Followings are bases for disaster prevention related to MEXT: MEXT Emergency Operation Center Off-site Emergency Centers Based on the Act for Nuclear Disaster Countermeasures, off-site emergency centers are base facilities in order for the national government's emergency operation centers for nuclear disasters at the site, and prefectural governments' and municipalities' emergency response headquarters to organize meetings for taking joint measures against nuclear disasters, and to take temporary measures with shared information in cooperation with each other in the event of an emergency at a nuclear facility. Japan Atomic Energy Agency provide technological supports for those engaging in the prevention of nuclear disasters in the national government, local governments, police, fire departments and corporations.

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