Chernobyl Research Paper

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- Elena Vladimirovna Filatova enjoys riding her motorcycle (big ninja) to North from Kiev, towards so called Chernobyl "dead zone because ether roads are untouched my civilization cars and trucks. Also, no one in insight.
-Radiation is measured by a device called a Geiger counter.
- Cities, in Russia and America, it will read 10-12 microroentgen per hour, supposedly.
- A dose of 500 roentgen within 5 hours is fatal to humans.
-However, it takes about 2 1/2 times the dose for humans to kill a chicken and over 100 times to kill a cockroach.
-That level is in Chernobyl, who will want to go there with that much radiation beats me.
-What happen was doing the test something went wrong, and the incredible amount of steam explode and blew the 1000-ton

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