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- 2. A billion here a billion there...
- 3. World Population Trends Source: U.N. World Population Prospects, 2000 Revision
- 4. Energy Most of the energy generated in the world today is from non-renewable fossil based sources.
- 5. Growing Energy Consumption Energy use has nearly doubled in the past 30 years!
- 6. What type of energy?
- 11. Moscow was slow to admit what had happened, even after increased radiation was detected in other
- 12. The world's worst nuclear accident took place at Chernobyl on 26 April 1986. One of four
- 13. Staff at the plant, firemen and military personnel battled to bring the reactor under control. Helicopters
- 14. When the immediate danger passed, containment became the main challenge. Thousands of liquidators were brought in
- 15. The sarcophagus encasing Chernobyl was built in haste and is crumbling. Despite strengthening work there are
- 16. 25-26 April 1986 Engineers on the evening shift at Chernobyl's number four reactor began an experiment
- 17. Overheating The reactor began to overheat and its water coolant started to turn to steam. At
- 20. The disaster released at least 100 times more radiation than the atom bombs dropped on Nagasaki
- 21. The number of people who could eventually die as a result of the Chernobyl accident is
- 23. Pripyat was built as a town for workers at the Chernobyl power station. The town was
- 24. The power station, which rendered the town uninhabitable for centuries, looms on the horizon, two-and-half kilometres
- 26. Pripyat was considered a model town. The apartment blocks were punctuated with fir trees and rose
- 27. Graffiti artists said to be from Germany and Belarus have gone round the town drawing silhouettes
- 28. Older children went to school the morning after the explosion! Most of them knew there had
- 30. The fair ground is one of the more contaminated parts of the town. It had been
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