1. Task 12: Environment By: Jake Young Jacob Sommer U.S.S.R.

2. The F.S.U. is polluted from Russia’s radioactive disposals and accidents throughout the life span of the U.S.S.R.

3. Grabber: Translation: Translation: (Nuclear Tan), to avoid another Chernobyl Explanation: Explanation: Provide safer nuclear power plants so another radioactive explosion does not happen like in Chernobyl

4. Concentrated Pollution - Severe polluted areas - Acid Rain

5. - Power Plant -Radioactive-waste dump site (water) - Uranium/ Plutonium construction site Radioactive Sources

6. -Polluted rivers

7. Chernobyl The Chernobyl incident happed when a soviet nuclear power plant exploded spewing toxic chemicals everywhere affecting many countries especially Chernobyl. Effects caused many birth defects and contaminated approximately 17 million people Fact: The power plant explosion was equivalent to 500 atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima

8. National Geographic Map

9. Conclusion: Russia’s nuclear power plants, radioactive waste dumps, and their uranium/ plutonium factories all created pollution causing acid rain, polluted rivers, and severely polluted areas of the U.S.S.R.

10. Bibliography:  http://voices-of-iowa.blogspot.com/2011/05/lessons-from-chernobyl-and-its.html http://voices-of-iowa.blogspot.com/2011/05/lessons-from-chernobyl-and-its.html  http://www.world-geographics.com/maps/eurasia/map-of-the-soviet-union-as-of-1990/ http://www.world-geographics.com/maps/eurasia/map-of-the-soviet-union-as-of-1990/  National Geographic Vol. 186 No2 1994  http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/HIS241/Notes/Geography/Geography.html http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/HIS241/Notes/Geography/Geography.html  http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Chernobyl_power_plant.jpg http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Chernobyl_power_plant.jpg