2. During a 4 p.m. meeting, how many hours did attendees believe they had to intervene before a new criticality began?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

3. On Saturday, how many tons of boric acid powder did Sklyarov order be sent from Rovno nuclear power station?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

4. How many months after Hiroshima was bombed, did an additional 37,000 people die?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 8 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 6 months.

5. How many rose bushes did Brukhanov wanted planted in 1985?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 45,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Brukhanov study at the Polytechnic Institute in Tashkent?

2. At the end of the Prologue, what was the reading of roentgen an hour on the radiometer?

3. By Sunday, how many helicopters did General Antoshkin command?

4. When was the first major accident involving an RBMK reactor?

5. How many members were on Prushinksky's nuclear emergency response team?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Toptunov qualify as a senior reactor control engineer?

2. What was the situation at the Chernobyl plant by 6:35 a.m. on April 26?

3. What did Korol do when he got to the hospital looking for his friend Toptunov?

4. What do Logachev and his crew see when at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station on April 26, 1986?

5. What did Yuvchenko and Tregub find when they tried to manually turn on the taps of the emergency high-pressure cooland system aand food the reactor core with water?

6. What was Vitali Sklyarov's position in 1986, and how did he attain that position?

7. Where was Toptunov born and how did he grow up?

8. Why was the name of Chernobyl used for the nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in 1970?

9. What happened at Three Mile Island nuclear power station on March 28, 1979?

10. When did Brukhanov come home briefly, and what news did he bring?

(see the answer keys)

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