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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. After an explosion at Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957, how many villages were wiped from the map?
2. If operators faced a situation calling for an emergency shutdown of an RBMK, how long would it take to gradually reduce the reactor's power to zero?
3. By Sunday, how many helicopters did General Antoshkin command?
4. Where were the first-draft plans of the RBMK drawn up by a heavy machinery plant?
5. How much energy were the high-power channel-type reactors theoretically capable of generating?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Pripyat?
2. Why was Viktor Brukhanov made the director of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station?
3. What was the emergency bunker like at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?
4. What was Vitali Sklyarov's position in 1986, and how did he attain that position?
5. When did Anatoly Dyatlov begin working at Chernobyl and what was his background?
6. Why was the name of Chernobyl used for the nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in 1970?
7. What was the size and makeup of the RBMK?
8. What was happening with Unit Four on Saturday evening?
9. What did Korol do when he got to the hospital looking for his friend Toptunov?
10. Why did Dyatlov struggle to manage the operators and engineers of Chernobyl?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Brukhanov and five other men were tried for their role in the nuclear disaster. Was their trial just or unjust?
Essay Topic 2
The RBMK had serious design faults. Did the designers know about the flaws of the RBMK? Were the designers culpable for the disaster at Chernobyl?
Essay Topic 3
The Era of Stagnation was a term coined by Mikhail Gorbachev to describe the economic, political and social policies of the Soviet Union under Brezhnev’s rule. What was the Era of Stagnation? How did it affect the economic, political, and social policies of the USSR?
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