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Questions:
1. What is an "Elephant's Foot" made out of?
2. What city was evacuated by thousands of buses?
3. Why can't inhabitants return to Pripyat?
4. How many weeks did it take to extinguish all the fires using sand, lead. and nitrogen?
5. Why did the people evacuated from Pripyat take little with them?
6. What did the Soviets do three days after the accident (despite the fact that radiation was still streaming from the wrecked power plant)?
7. What disease spiked up significantly as a result of the radiation?
8. How much radiation did the "Elephant's Foot" give off each hour?
9. How many miles is the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone?
10. Approximately how many years will it take for humans to be allowed to live inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone?
11. Based on your research of nuclear energy thus far, how do you feel about the use of nuclear fission as a source of energy? (Write 5-8 sentences.)