A mother goes back to her home in Pripyat, with the daughter she was pregnant with at the time of Chernobyls Nuclear accident.
Extract taken from the BBC's Horizon documentary "Nuclear Nightmares"
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conta'min|ate
v.t pollute, esp. with radioactivity; infect; hence ~ ANT, ~ A'TION, ns [f. L contaminare(CON-,tamen-rel. to tangere touch) +-ATE3]
nū'clėar
a. of, relating to, constituting, a nucleus; using nuclear energy.
Uranium
Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth and is named after the Planet Uranus which had been discovered 8 years previously. Uranium is a silvery gray metal usually found in soil, rock and water. It's about 70% heavier than lead, and is only slightly radioactive.
Plutonium
Plutonium is more Radioactive than Uranium and is silvery white in appearance. It is perhaps more suitable an element to use for weapons production.
scĪ'ence
n. 1. (arch.) knowledge. 2. systematic and formulated knowledge
ĕ'nergý
n. 1. force, vigour, (of speech, action, person etc.); active operation; (in pl.) individual powers in use. ability. 2. (Phys.) ability of matter or radiation to do work; electric charge.
rādĭōă'ctive
a. of or exhibiting radioactivity. [f. prec.+ ACTIVE
rādĭōăctĭ'vĭtŷ
property of spontaneous disintegration of atomic nuclei usu. with emission of penetrating radiation or particles
Nuclear Fission
Nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts.
Radium
radioactive metalic element obtained from pitchblende etc. used especially in luminous materials and in Radio-therapy
Sarcophagus
sar-coph-a-gus
Literally translated | Flesh eating stone
From the Greek and Latin words Lithos & Lapis; Phagein - to eat.
Limestone used for coffins, enabling the decomposition of flesh within it.
Used in ancient Egypt and also for the concrete cover to the Nuclear Reactor number 4 after the Chernobyl accident.
Literally translated | Flesh eating stone
From the Greek and Latin words Lithos & Lapis; Phagein - to eat.
Limestone used for coffins, enabling the decomposition of flesh within it.
Used in ancient Egypt and also for the concrete cover to the Nuclear Reactor number 4 after the Chernobyl accident.
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