Chernobyl

Question 1

When was chernobyl

Answer 1

1986

Question 2

early effects

Answer 2

100k evacuated, 134 got radiation sickness, children expose to high iodine levels

Question 3

main health effects

Answer 3

potential increases in breast cancer/leukaemia, cancer/mutations, radiation sickness, 5000 causes of thyroid cancer

Question 4

projected health effects

Answer 4

8000 lives shortened in Ukraine, 15000 in europe

Question 5

why is it hard to see how many cancer patients come from chernobyl

Answer 5

cancer is old age disease, so hard to measure

Question 6

russia life expectancy

Answer 6

russians had life shortened by 2.6 years due to chernobyl but difficult to measure as it may be due to smoking/economic crisis

Question 7

hiroshima

Answer 7

10% of survivors from bomb had cancer, radiation increases cancer

Question 8

criticism

Answer 8

living with someone who smokes or in polluted city has higher chance of early death than radiation workers so maybe isn’t bad

Question 9

how much does air pollution reduce life

Answer 9

8 months

Question 10

ecosystem effects

Answer 10

forest/cattle died first then populations increased (wolves) but populations that rely on humans decreased, found no correlation between lake contamination and biodiversity

Question 11

is energy demand increasing

Answer 11

yes

Question 12

typically countries with high energy use

Answer 12

live longer apart from US

Question 13

richer countries also

Answer 13

release more emissions due to food use etc

Question 14

projected energy use

Answer 14

renewables will increase, nuclear the same, non-renewables decrease

Question 15

UK

Answer 15

nuclear power decreased by 15%, not building any more stations so far

Question 16

positives/negatives of nuclear

Answer 16

positives (somewhat renewable, safer than people think, little waste produced, low CO2), negatives (waste produced is hard to get rid, risk of accidents, expensive)