Nikole Brooks Bethea - Chernobyl

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and Teachers Pogo Books let children practice
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features such as headings, labels,
sidebars, maps, and diagrams,
as well as a table of contents,
glossary, and index. Carefully leveled text with
a strong photo match offers
early fluent readers the support
they need to succeed. Before Reading Walk through the book and
point out the various nonfiction
features. Ask the student what
purpose each feature serves. Look at the glossary together.
Read and discuss the words. Read the Book Have the child read the book
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Invite him or her to list questions
that arise from reading. After Reading Discuss the childs questions.
Talk about how he or she might
find answers to those questions. Prompt the child to think
more. Ask: Did you know about
Chernobyl before reading this
book? What more do you want
to learn after reading it? Pogo Books are published by Jump! 5357 Penn Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55419 www.jumplibrary.com Copyright 2018 Jump! International copyright reserved in all countries. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bethea, Nikole Brooks, author.

Title: Chernobyl / by Nikole Brooks Bethea. Description: Minneapolis, MN: Jump!, Inc., [2018] Series: Man-made disasters | Audience: Ages 710. Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017025701 (print) LCCN 2017028558 (ebook) ISBN 9781624967023 (ebook) ISBN 9781620319161 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN 9781620319178 (pbk.) Subjects: LCSH: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986Juvenile literature. | Environmental disastersUkraine ChornobylJuvenile literature. | Environmental disastersUkraine ChornobylJuvenile literature.

Classification: LCC TK1362.U38 (ebook) | LCC TK1362. U38 B486 2018 (print) | DDC 363.17/99094777dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017025701 Editor: Kristine Spanier Book Designer: Michelle Sonnek Photo Researcher: Michelle Sonnek Photo Credits: Shu Ba/Shutterstock, cover (foreground); kpzfoto/Alamy Stock Photo, cover (background), 1819; Milosz Maslanka/Shutterstock, 1; freelanceartist/ Shutterstock, 3; Hintau Aliaksei/Shutterstock, 4 (background); SVF2/Getty Images, 4 (foreground); SSvyat/Shutterstock, 5; Karen Kasmauski/Superstock, 67; Sergey Kamshylin/Shutterstock, 89; NurPhoto/ Getty Images, 1011; ShutterProductions/Shutterstock, 12; Nordroden/Shutterstock, 13 (computers); Peter Hermes Furian/Shutterstock, 13 (fission); ITAR-TASS Photo Agency/Alamy Stock Photo, 1415; Gelpi/ Shutterstock, 16; Fotokon/Shutterstock, 17; Prasit Rodphan/Shutterstock, 2021; Mikhail Markovskiy/ Shutterstock, 23. Printed in the United States of America at Corporate Graphics in North Mankato, Minnesota.

TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ACCIDENT It was 1:00 a.m. on April 26,
1986. firefighter
monument Alarms sounded. firefighter
monument Alarms sounded.

A huge fire raged.
Firefighters came. They fought
the flames. They were fighting the
worst nuclear disaster in history. What went wrong?

Workers had run a safety test on the plants
. They ran them at low power.
But the design was bad. The reactors were
not stable at low power.

Safety rules were not followed.
Emergency systems had been shut off.

WHERE IS IT? The Chernobyl plant is in Ukraine. Chernobyl RUSSIA UKRAINE Power rose. Heat increased. Fuel tubes
burst. Steam built up.

Two explosions
sent material into the air.
It was the largest explosion of its kind.
The material escaped for ten days.

TAKE A LOOK! Radioactive material went into the air. The surrounding
air, soil, water, plants, animals, and people were harmed
by the Air Water Soil Plants
and Animals Two workers died right away.
More than workers were hurt.
Within four months more
people died. made
them sick. DID YOU KNOW? Many items give off
low levels of radiation.
Microwaves. Cell phones.
Even the air and soil.
But radiation at high levels
can be bad for us.

It can hurt or change
our bodys . It can cause cancer.

CHAPTER FISSION Nuclear plants make electricity.
Other power plants burn fuel
like coal or oil. But nuclear plants dont burn fuel.
They use uranium
atom fission turbine In the plant, fission warms water.
It turns to steam. Steam turns
.
This makes electricity. This process makes waste.
Waste from nuclear plants
is radioactive.

This waste got
out during the accident.

CHAPTER CONTAINMENT Most nuclear plants have
buildings.
They are large. They keep
waste from getting out.
Chernobyls plant did not
have these. containment
building The area was not safe. People who