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Center for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU Twenty-Five Years After Chernobyl April 2011.

Jan 18, 2016

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Page 1: Center for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU Twenty-Five Years After Chernobyl April 2011.

Center for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU

Twenty-Five Years After

ChernobylApril 2011

Page 2: Center for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU Twenty-Five Years After Chernobyl April 2011.

ChernobylCenter for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU

April 26, 1986Pripyat, Ukraine

400 times more radioactive material than the Hiroshima atomic bomb was released

No immediate evacuation was ordered – didn’t acknowledge until two days later!

Affected Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Europe

Page 3: Center for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU Twenty-Five Years After Chernobyl April 2011.

ChernobylCenter for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU

What happened 25 years ago at Chernobyl?

Why is Chernobyl important today?

What can we learn from this tragedy?

Photos by R. Payne-Holmes, Wikipedia and Fox.