During disasters communication with the public is key in order for the government to remain trustworthy in the public’s eyes to keep them safe. Disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and any other form of natural disasters the public is very trustworthy of the government to keep them safe. Due to the fact that information is readily available to the public before, during, and after the disaster has occurred. However, other disasters man-made ones cause the public to lose trust in the government to keep them safe as well as someone to blame. Nuclear disasters for example cause much of the public to lose trust in the government as well as look for someone to blame and for good reason. During these disaster there is virtually no
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On April 1986 a group of engineers at the plant conducted an experiment on the electrical supply to see if the plant would still operate given low power. However, this caused the coolant pump to fail causing pressure and heat to build up in the reactor till a power surge caused the reactor to explode causing a fire. (Spencer and Loris) The initial explosion killed two plant workers but, the real casualties would come till much later. Among them were the group of 28 people made up of plant workers and emergency response personal who would die four months later, none of them knew they had been exposed to radiation. ( ) The fire suits they wore were still radioactive hot in 2011 (Inside …show more content…
“Soviet scientists reported that the Chernobyl 4 reactor contained about 190 metric tons of uranium dioxide fuel and fission products. An estimated 13 percent to 30 percent of this escaped into the atmosphere. Contamination from the accident scattered irregularly, depending on weather conditions. Reports from Soviet and western scientists indicate that Belarus received about 60 percent of the contamination that fell on the former Soviet Union”. (http://www.nei.org) After the incident none of the public was informed. The city of Pripyat just a few miles away which housed plant workers and their families totaling about 50,000 people were told nothing about it. During this time people in the city were just going about their daily lives. “Some are celebrating a wedding, others are gardening, and others are fishing in the Pripyat River” – Valentyna Shevchenko to Ukraine’s Acting Minister of Internal Affairs. It took 36 hours for evacuations to begin. “Soviet authorities started evacuating people from the area around Chernobyl within 36 hours of the accident”. (http://www.nei.org) When the evacuation did start people were told to pack for a short three day evacuation only bringing personal documentation, a few belongings and to do it in an orderly manner. These people would never return so many possessions were lost
On April 1986 a group of engineers at the plant conducted an experiment on the electrical supply to see if the plant would still operate given low power. However, this caused the coolant pump to fail causing pressure and heat to build up in the reactor till a power surge caused the reactor to explode causing a fire. (Spencer and Loris) The initial explosion killed two plant workers but, the real casualties would come till much later. Among them were the group of 28 people made up of plant workers and emergency response personal who would die four months later, none of them knew they had been exposed to radiation. ( ) The fire suits they wore were still radioactive hot in 2011 (Inside …show more content…
“Soviet scientists reported that the Chernobyl 4 reactor contained about 190 metric tons of uranium dioxide fuel and fission products. An estimated 13 percent to 30 percent of this escaped into the atmosphere. Contamination from the accident scattered irregularly, depending on weather conditions. Reports from Soviet and western scientists indicate that Belarus received about 60 percent of the contamination that fell on the former Soviet Union”. (http://www.nei.org) After the incident none of the public was informed. The city of Pripyat just a few miles away which housed plant workers and their families totaling about 50,000 people were told nothing about it. During this time people in the city were just going about their daily lives. “Some are celebrating a wedding, others are gardening, and others are fishing in the Pripyat River” – Valentyna Shevchenko to Ukraine’s Acting Minister of Internal Affairs. It took 36 hours for evacuations to begin. “Soviet authorities started evacuating people from the area around Chernobyl within 36 hours of the accident”. (http://www.nei.org) When the evacuation did start people were told to pack for a short three day evacuation only bringing personal documentation, a few belongings and to do it in an orderly manner. These people would never return so many possessions were lost