1. Environmental Impacts of the Chernobyl Disaster Sara Hebden Honors 380 10/4/10

2. Chernobyl The Chernobyl nuclear facility is located in Ukraine about 20 km south of the border with Belarus. At the time of the accident, the plant had four working reactors (units 1, 2, 3, and 4).

3. Nuclear Reactor Design Plant contained four of these reactors.

4. Photos of the devastation:

10. Environmental and health effects of the Chernobyl accident:

11. (cont.)

12. Hope Many years after the accident, vegetation creeps through concrete.

13. And more:

14. Resources (full bibliography on PBL briefing): http://iguide.travel/Chernobyl/Sights http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=13&sid=9f9e564f -6f68-489a-8bc9-13f1dcbc53d5%40sessionmgr14 http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=13&sid=9f9e564f -6f68-489a-8bc9-13f1dcbc53d5%40sessionmgr14 http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/detail?vid=2&hid=13&sid=d4b1ca6d-08d2-4dec- b4a8- a031d5f4ea75%40sessionmgr10&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=9507187650 http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/detail?vid=2&hid=13&sid=d4b1ca6d-08d2-4dec- b4a8- a031d5f4ea75%40sessionmgr10&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=9507187650 http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=13&sid=97c1a44 5-b625-4bec-b1fc-58a450738c0b%40sessionmgr10 http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=13&sid=97c1a44 5-b625-4bec-b1fc-58a450738c0b%40sessionmgr10 http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=13&sid=b6748e9 9-735e-40aa-97d4-66bf262c82db%40sessionmgr13 http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=13&sid=b6748e9 9-735e-40aa-97d4-66bf262c82db%40sessionmgr13 http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.html http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=9&sid=4c5579c2- 744c-4eb4-8400-385526094a51%40sessionmgr11 http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=9&sid=4c5579c2- 744c-4eb4-8400-385526094a51%40sessionmgr11 http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=9&sid=57ca5fe6- e4ce-4292-81b7-dafa3a7cc550%40sessionmgr13 http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=9&sid=57ca5fe6- e4ce-4292-81b7-dafa3a7cc550%40sessionmgr13 http://www.greenfacts.org/en/chernobyl/index.htm#il1 http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2006/09/13/lost-city-of-chernobyl/