Chernobyl Essay

EPA stands for Environmental Protection Agency. It shows the areas in the world that shows areas that have been contaminated and have to be cleaned up and other problems in the environment. The purposes of the superfund sheets are to provide site-related facts about affected areas. The superfund sheets are important and helpful to everyone. The EPA is nice to have also because it can aware people about the problems in the environment. The Environmental Protection Agency and superfund sheets are very helpful to everybody in the world. The site I chose to research was Chernobyl disaster. It occurred in Ukraine at the Chernobyl Power Plant in 1986. There was an incorrect reactor design that was operated by incompletely trained crew. There were fires and 5% of the radioactive reactor core was released into the air. The contaminated air caused the town of Pripyat to evacuate and be relocated. The Soviets were trying to clean it up but also keep it a secret. To put the fires out they tried water, sand, lead, and nitrogen but it took two weeks for the fires to go out. Contaminated soil was put into enclosed containers and the people contained the radiated water. The Soviets also covered the reactor in a cement sarcophagus so more radiation could not escape, but the structure started to fall apart in 1997. There are plans to build a new containment over the current one and it is said to be completed in 2013. I chose this clean-up site because it seemed very interesting and I have heard about it and wanted to learn more about it. I learned a lot about the Chernobyl disaster and about the harms of radiation and ways people clean it up. We can apply this information to future toxic areas because we have a better understanding of how to clean it up so we can clean up faster than before because we know how to do it now. The Chernobyl disaster was very devastating but taught everyone a lot.