Acid Rain
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Germany
The Great
Smog
Nuclear Disaster
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Ukraine
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A mixture of rainwater and hazardous pollutants collected from the air.
What is Acid Rain?
100
Air pollution from soot particles, smoke, sulfur dioxide and other chemicals, that creates a fog.
What is smog?
100
The worst nuclear power plant accident in history, April 26, 1986.
What happened in Chernobyl, Ukraine?
200
Most of Europe and even areas in the north-east U.S. Especially forest areas in Germany.
Where was Acid Rain a concern?
200
4 days of cold weather and windless conditions, collected pollution from coal power plants to form a thick layer of smog over London.
How long did the Great Smog last?
200
Equipment failure causing explosions and fire that sent radioactive material into the atmosphere.
What caused the nuclear explosion in Chernobyl, Ukraine?
300
Hazardous pollutants from the exhaust of cars and power plants.
What causes Acid Rain?
300
Government medical reports in the following weeks estimated that up to 4,000 people had died prematurely and 100,000 more were made ill.
What was the effects of the Great Smog?
300
Produces energy through the heating of water from a nuclear reactor.
What is a nuclear power plant?
400
Laws reducing car & factory emissions, factories using new technologies to clean smoke that it produces, and new energy sources like wind and water.
What are some solutions to Acid Rain?
400
Cleaner coal, increase electricity, and natural gas.
What are some ways to resolve smog?
400
Zone of alienation - An area extending 19 miles in all directions from the power plant, that is largely uninhabitable.
What is a consequence of a nuclear disaster?
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