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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the first major accident involving an RBMK reactor?
(a) October 17, 1975.
(b) December 4, 1975.
(c) November 30, 1975.
(d) September 20, 1975.

2. When was a name settled on for the Chernobyl plant?
(a) January 24, 1970.
(b) March 11, 1970.
(c) April 9, 1970.
(d) February 20, 1970.

3. How long after the explosion was Viktor Brukhanov called about the incident?
(a) 2 1/2 minutes.
(b) 3 minutes.
(c) 2 minutes.
(d) 1 1/2 minutes.

4. In 1953, how far did a hydrogen bomb tested by the USSR turn the surface of the earth to glass around ground zero?
(a) 7 kilometers.
(b) 6 kilometers.
(c) 4 kilometers.
(d) 5 kilometers.

5. In what river basin was the Chernobyl plant constructed?
(a) Yenisei.
(b) Lena.
(c) Pripyat.
(d) Ob-Irtysh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the dimension of the core of the RBMK?

2. By the time a scientist from the Kurchatov Insitute warned that the design for the RBMK was too dangerous to be put into civilian operation, how many RBKTs had the government already decreed be built?

3. The day after the RBMK reactor in Leningrade meltdown, did the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers give approval to how many RBMK-1000 units in Chernobyl?

4. When was the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island?

5. What building in Washington, D.C. is so radioactive that the bulding would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants?

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