Nuclear Chemistry & its Accidents

Chernobyl is a town located in present day Ukraine, formerly USSR. On Saturday, April 26th, 1986 at exactly 1:23 am, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. What caused the reactor to explode?

• sabotage by an enemy of the USSR

• an experiment gone wrong

• to this day, the reason is unknown

• earthquakes struck the plant

The Chernobyl plant provided power for the city of

• London

• Pripyat

• Moscow

• Washington DC

What did the meltdown at Chernobyl release into the air?

• Radioactive dust

• Bees!

• The Hounds

• The Kracken

There are lots of people who still live in the area of the infected zone

• True
• False
• Not given

Nuclear Power uses ____________ to create energy

• coal

• natural gas

• uranium

• cooling towers

The process that creates the energy in a nuclear reaction is called ___________________.

• fusion

• fission

• combustion

• radiation

Three Mile Island is considered the worst nuclear disaster in world history.

• True

• False

When was the Three Mile Island accident?

• March 28, 1979

• May 28, 1979

• March 28, 1978

• May 28, 1978

When did the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster occur?

• 26 April 1986

• 11 March 2011

• 11 September 2001

• 13 November 2015

Approximately how many people were evacuated from the area?

• 150

• 1500

• 15,000

• 150,000