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    Universidad Técnica De Oruro Designed by Lic.

    Alba Colque Miranda

    Facultad Nacional de Ingeniería LIN 1103 - C

    PRACTICE 4-PASSIVE VOICE


    The Chernobyl disaster By Erin Blakemore
    1. IDENTIFICAR LA VOZ PASSIVA EN EL TEXTO Y DEFINIR EL TIEMPO AL QUE CORRESPONDA. La
    hoja de respuestas debe ser enviada desde hrs. 8:30 a 10:00 vía email: albacolmir@gmail.com
    The cleanup of the area surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is expected to Present simple
    1 continue for decades, while parts may remain uninhabitable for thousands of years.

    On April 25 and 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history unfolded in what is now as
    northern Ukraine as a reactor at a nuclear power plant exploded and burned. Shrouded in
    secrecy, the incident was a watershed moment in both the Cold War and the history of
    nuclear power. More than 30 years on, the zone around the former plant was estimated not
    habitable for up to 20,000 years by scientists.

    The disaster took place near the city of Chernobyl in the former USSR, which was seriously
    damaged at that time. Starting in 1977, Soviet scientists installed four RBMK nuclear
    reactors at the power plant, which is located just south of what is now Ukraine’s border with
    Belarus.

    A few months after reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant went up in toxic flames
    in 1986, it was encased in a concrete and steel "sarcophagus" to contain the radioactive
    material inside. That aging structure, seen here, was covered with a larger, newer
    containment housing in 2016.

    On April 25, 1986, routine maintenance was scheduled at V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station’s
    fourth reactor, and workers planned to use the downtime to test whether the reactor could
    still be cooled if the plant lost power. During the test, however, workers violated safety
    protocols and power surged inside the plant. Despite attempts to shut down the reactor
    entirely, another power surge caused a chain reaction of explosions inside. Finally, the
    nuclear core itself was exposed, spewing radioactive material into the atmosphere.

    Firefighters attempted to put out a series of blazes at the plant, and eventually helicopters
    dumped sand and other materials in an attempt to squelch the fires and contain the
    contamination. Despite the death of two people in the explosions, the hospitalization of
    workers and firefighters, and the danger from fallout and fire, no one in the surrounding
    areas—including the nearby city of Pripyat, which was built in the 1970s to house workers
    at the plant—was evacuated until about 36 hours after the disaster began.

    Publicizing a nuclear accident was considered a significant political risk, but by then it was
    too late: radiation had already been spread as far as Sweden by the meltdown, where
    officials at another nuclear plant began to ask about what was happening in the USSR. After
    first denying any accident, the Soviets finally made a brief announcement on April 28.
    Universidad Técnica De Oruro Designed by Lic. Alba Colque Miranda

    Facultad Nacional de Ingeniería LIN 1103 - C

    Soon, a historic event was witnessed by the entire world. Up to 30 percent of Chernobyl’s
    190 metric tons of uranium was now in the atmosphere, and the Soviet Union eventually
    evacuated 35,000 people, establishing a 19-mile-wide “exclusion zone” around the reactor.

    At least 28 people initially died as a result of the accident, while more than 100 were injured.
    The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation has reported
    that more than 6,000 children and adolescents developed thyroid cancer had been exposed
    to radiation from the incident, although some experts have challenged that claim

    International researchers have predicted that ultimately, around 4,000 people exposed to
    high levels of radiation could succumb to radiation-related cancer, while about 5,000 people
    exposed to lower levels of radiation may suffer the same fate. Yet the full consequences of
    the accident, including impacts on mental health and even subsequent generations, are
    highly debated under study.

    What remains of the reactor is now inside a massive steel containment structure deployed
    in late 2016. Containment efforts and monitoring continue and cleanup is expected to last
    until at least 2065.

    Vocabulary in context

    1 cleanup limpieza
    2 unfolded desarrollado, transcurrido
    3 shrouded in secrecy envuelto en secreto
    4 watershed moment momento crucial
    5 former plant primera planta
    6 went up se incendió
    7 aging antigua
    8 containment housing estructura de contención
    9 scheduled programada(o)
    10 downtime inactividad
    11 attempts intentos
    12 spewing lanzando
    13 blazes llamas (fuego)
    14 to squelch sofocar
    15 witnessed presenciado
    16 eventually finalmente
    17 fate deastino
    18 deployed implementado

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