Chornobyl Nuclear Accident

The Problem of Environmental Protection

Environmental protection is the main problem facing humanity nowadays. The image of a sick planet has become firmly established in the public mind lately. Ten years ago the word “ecology” hardly meant anything for the majority of people, but today we can’t help bearing it in our minds. It has happened because of the growing effect of the rapid industrial development of the natural world which has negative features of its own. As a matter of fact, the state of environment has greatly worsened of late. There is no doubt that soil, water and air are contaminated with toxic wastes. Over the past few years we have been constantly aking about ozone holes, droughts, high level of radiation, about contaminated with'chemicals. Scientists in many countries are very much concerned about drastic changes in weather patterns. The worst drought, the mildest winter and the most devastating hurricanes have become typical in those parts of the world where rarelу used to be a rare occurrence.

Weather patterns have been changing recently due to the global warming-up process and its najor reason — the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is created by carbon dioxide emissions, released by industrial facilities:-.d a constantly increasing number of cars. Thus it is of vital mportance that the world should start cutting down the release of pses that contribute to the greenhouse effect. What is the reason:':r people getting so much worried about the state of environment? The answer to this question is fairly simple. The thing is that the feterioration of the environment is telling heavily on people. They are paying for this with their health. And it is obvious what all people need is a healthy environment.

To solve this burning problem it is necessary for people to combine efforts, to raise safety standards at all industrial facilities, to adequately process by-products of industry, to set up an nternational space laboratory to monitor the state of environment 2nd set up an international centre for emergency environmental assistance. All these measures will help us in solving these important rroblems and prevent us from dangerous illnesses and diseases.

April, 26th, is a special day for the people living in Ukraine and regions situated not far from it. A horrible ac­cident occured at the Chornobyl nuclear station on that day in 1986. There was a nuclear reactor explosion, which had far reaching consequences.

Contamination by various radioactive isotopes, such as caesium-137, iodine-131, strontium-90, plutonium-239, and pluto­nium-240, from the Chornobyl nuclear accident have affected the air, land, and water of Ukraine and vast areas beyond. Recorded but unreported radiation lev­els in Kyiv a few days after the accident exceeded the maximum allowable levels by a hundredfold.

Press reports claim that significant numbers of deaths by radiation sick­ness elevated levels of stillbirth and birth defects and highly elevated rates of childhood leukaemia have occurred in the affected areas.

Significant areas of Ukraine, Belar­us, and Russia will remain unsafe for human beings for thousands years. It is a tragedy that thousands of people have returned to live in these contaminated regions.

A number of foreign countries of­fered specialised medical equipment and drugs for biological elimination of isotopes of different chemical elements from human body.

The Ukrainian people are very grate­ful to all those who helped and continue to help them.

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