Chernobyl

Last night in class the professor discussed the disaster of chernobyl. I was very intrigued by this disaster that I had never heard of and decided to look up more information on it. It is considered the worst nuclear plant disaster in history. The disaster occured on April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant located in the Ukraine. Four hundred times more radioactive material was released then by the atomic bombing at Hiroshima. The Soviet Union did not initially publish disclose the accident, rather it was a nuclear power plant in Sweden that disclosed the accident after several of their workers had radioactive particles on their clothes. the disaster at Chernobyl affected hundreds in the months after the disaster and caused the evacuations of hundreds of thousands and many towns nearby. In recent studies it is estimated that so far 4,000 children and adololescents exposed have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

Chernobyl_radiation_map_1996

Tsunami in Indonesia

Indonesia Tsunami Kills 113

Mount Merapi

The picture above shows an Indonesian rescue team prepares to evacuate earthquake victims in Padang, West Sumatra on October 26.

The latest earthquake in Indonesia was caused due to the volcanic eruption of Indonesia's most unstable volcano's, Mount Merapi. So far 113 have died and thousands more are unaccounted for. This country is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions because it lies above several fault lines.