Part one of term paper
“No center of population on the earth’s surface is secure from surprise destruction in a single attack. There is no defense in science against the weapon which can destroy civilization.” (Gale 210) The Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986 is described as one of the most frightening environmental disasters in the world. The plant was m ...

Part two of term paper
... name was joined to the Nuclear Power Plant located twenty-five kilometers upstream. It is not only the radioactive mess left that strikes fear, but nineteen similar stations are still running, because neither the former Soviet Union nor its republics can afford to shut them down. The world first learned of this accident from Sweden, where unusually high radiation levels were noticed at one of their own nuclear facilities. At 1:23 am technicians at the Chernobyl Plant took some erroneous actions th ...