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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. 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. How many roentgen per hour did Alexander Logachev report before 5 p.m. on Saturday after the accident?
4. How many years did Georgi Kopchinsky serve as deptuy chief engineer in Chernobyl?
5. When was a name settled on for the Chernobyl plant?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where can radiation be found?
2. What was the situation at the Chernobyl plant by 6:35 a.m. on April 26?
3. What was Pripyat?
4. How was the area cleaned up after a massive explosion occured inside the perimeter of Chelyabinsk-40 in 1957?
5. Why was the name of Chernobyl used for the nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in 1970?
6. What did Georgi Kopchinsky and other nuclear experts learn about the disaster at Chernobyl from a call?
7. What happened at Three Mile Island nuclear power station on March 28, 1979?
8. When did Brukhanov come home briefly, and what news did he bring?
9. What was the size and makeup of the RBMK?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chernobyl power station used RBMK reactors. Why and how did design flaws in the RBMK lead to the catastrophe?
Essay Topic 2
The China Syndrome was the idea that a meltdown from a nuclear accident could go through any containment structures, through the earth, and then through to China. Why was there concern that the meltdown might escape the building and contaminate the earth? Was there a real danger of that happening?
Essay Topic 3
Anatoly Dyatlov was the deputy chief engineer of the Chernobyl power plant. What did Dyatlov’s work experience teach him about reality and bureaucracy in the Soviet Union? Why did bureaucracy usually trump reality?
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