Wednesday, March 7, 2012

What are the radiation levels of the modern day city of Chernobyl?

Chernobyl is the city of Russia where (in 1986) a nuclear reactor melted down causing a huge amount of radiation to disperse. Now that 23 years have passed, what have the radiation levels dropped down to? Please provide a source with your answer.

Thanks :)What are the radiation levels of the modern day city of Chernobyl?
1,000 microroentgens equal one milliroentgen and 1,000 milliroentgens equal 1 roentgen. So one roentgen is 100,000 times the average radiation of a typical city. A dose of 500 roentgens within 5 hours is fatal to humans. Interestingly, it takes about 2 1/2 times that dosage to kill a chicken and over 100 times that to kill a cockroach.



This sort of radiation level can not be found in Chernobyl now. In the first days after explosion, some places around the reactor were emitting 3,000-30,000 roentgens per hour. The firemen who were sent to put out the reactor fire were fried on the spot by gamma radiation. The remains of the reactor were entombed within an enormous steel and concrete sarcophagus, so it is now relatively safe to travel to the area - as long as we do not step off of the roadway.......What are the radiation levels of the modern day city of Chernobyl?
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.htm



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the dose rate of radiation is a current as 2002 publicaly i havent found anything mentioed about present dose rates. however in 2002 the rate was 1,240. so in 7 years probaly slightly lower than that. i hope this helped!

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