Chapter 5 RUSSIA AND THE POST-SOVIET STATES

Chernobyl: A Nuclear Accident with No End?

After watching the Chernobyl: A Nuclear Accident with No End? video, consider the questions below. Then "submit" your response.

1. Before the Chernobyl disaster, the population of Pripyat was

1 million.

100,000.

50,000.

zero

2. Once Soviet authorities acknowledged the accident, they evacuated

nobody.

50,000 people.

only government officials and young children.

330,000 people.

3. The exclusion zone around Chernobyl today is

10,000 square kilometers.

7500 square kilometers.

5000 square kilometers.

4300 square kilometers.

4. Authorities have decided that Chernobyl is safe for

tourism.

agriculture.

manufacturing.

power generation.

5. Pripyat today has been called a

model city.

boom town.

soviet Pompei.

suburban sprawl.