NUCLEAR INCIDENTS Sam Brown Computer Studies a Block

NUCLEAR INCIDENTS Sam Brown Computer Studies a Block 3 Semiahmoo Secondary

Countries with Reactors • • • Canada USA France Germany Russia China South Korea India Switzerland Austria Denmark Spain • • • • Greece • Czechoslovakia Italy • Yugoslavia New Zealand Latvia Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Portugal Belgium Hungary Slovakia Argentina Peru Turkey

Countries That Had Accidents • • • Japan Ukraine Canada USA Russia UK Belgium Sweden Argentina Hungary Peru Turkey • • Spain Germany Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia 16/ 26

4 Major Incidents Chernobyl, Ukraine • Fukushima, Japan • Chalk River Reactor, Canada • Tomsk, Russia •

Radiation Poisoning Symptoms • • • Nausea and Vomiting Spontaneous Bleeding Bloody Diarrhea Sloughing of Skin Hair Loss Severe Fatigue Mouth Ulcers Infections Headaches Dizziness and Disorientation

Effects on Environment � � � � Radius’s of land around the reactor being uninhabitable Elements used to create energy are extremely deadly Water can be contaminated by radioactivity Will kill any living thing in its radius over time Long time exposure can cause mutation to plants and wildlife Radioactivity in the region affected takes at least decades to fade Produces less harmful green house gasses than coal

Facts • • • Humans can only handle 5 rads a year A rad is a measurement of Radiation One Rad equals to 0. 01 kg of Radiation In Fallout one Nuke-a-Cola is 5 rads Many people have had mutations due to too much radiation • In Japan nuclear waste was once cleaned up with buckets and mops

The USSR had form 39 -59 Nuclear Reactors Union of Soviet Socialistes Republics