Chernobyl

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Term Paper Title	Chernobyl
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Chernobyl

Chernobyl

     The topic I have chosen for this term paper is "Ex-Soviet Bloc's
Environmental Crisis, Issue C." #2 Upgrading nuclear reactors to meet
international standards. I have chosen this topic because nuclear power is not
only an environmental issue but also a severe health issue for the citizens
around the nuclear site and also for the rest of the country and world because
of food products that could be grown there and used as market items.
     Nuclear radiation is in no way healthy to anyone.  It is much more
easier to develop a life threatening disease if you are currently being effected
by the radiation or have already been effected.  Becoming sick from high amounts
of radiation does not only happen to people in the immediate area of the nuclear
accident.  Although these people are the most effected, they are by far not the
only ones.  Radiation can be carried in many products, including food which is
the most common and easy way to become sick from radiation poisoning.  Cattle in
the area of radiation may appear to be healthy but the milk they produce and the
meat they give should not be eaten.  As you can see, radiation can very easily
be transferred from one point to another and ingested by someone without even
their knowledge that there is a problem.  The government of the Soviet Union was
the owner of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl.  When there was a problem,
the government immediately sent soldiers to surround the plant and only two days
later did they evacuate the surrounding town of Pripyat, but by then it was
already much too late. The effects of radiation do not take a long time to occur.
In adults, it is severe but not a severe as it is in children.  In children,
radiation sickness can and will effect the thyroid glands.  This can lead to
many different kinds of cancer and most likely more than one will effect the
body at once.
     In adults, the effects of radiation can be cancerous, but the real issue
is whether or not it will effect their DNA and thus effect the next generation.
This issue is highly debated.  Scientists are not sure whether or not radiation
effects a persons DNA and causes mutations in the sperm and egg cells, later on
effecting their children and their generation.  Before the nuclear reactor in
Chernobyl had a melt down, a joint US and Japanese research team set up in
Hiroshima to study the effects of radiation on the survivors of the A-bomb on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Forty years later, they had foun...

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