Chernobyl

Question 1

What were the impacts of the disaster?

Answer 1

Belarus- children were 100 times more likely to develop thyroid cancer than before the disaster . Also vegetables and animals were contaminated by radioactive rain

Question 2

Poland?

Answer 2

Stillbirth and babies died shortly after birth

Question 3

Germany?

Answer 3

There were food scarces and children were born with disabilities

Question 4

Norway and Finland?

Answer 4

Reindeer were affected which meant that people could not rely on food or clothes also fish were contaminated

Question 5

Russia?

Answer 5

Thyroid cancer and the ground was contaminated with radio actvitity

Question 6

Why did it happen to all of these countries?

Answer 6

Because of the radioactive dust that travelled through the atmosphere causing most people disabilities , Thyroid , cancer , animals and vegetables which were contaminated.

Question 7

How many people died in Belarus , Ukraine and Russia alone?

Answer 7

An estimated 200,000 people