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Chernobyl Disaster: "Historicizing" Management

The document summarizes the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. It describes how a flawed safety test under mismanaged conditions led to an explosion of one of the reactors. Over 300,000 people were evacuated and a sarcophagus was built to contain radiation. In the aftermath, there was denial from managers and delayed evacuation by the government seeking to keep the situation secret and avoid criticism of reactor design flaws. The document recommends improving preparedness, transparency, mediation of long-term effects from such disasters.

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Chernobyl Disaster: "Historicizing" Management

The document summarizes the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. It describes how a flawed safety test under mismanaged conditions led to an explosion of one of the reactors. Over 300,000 people were evacuated and a sarcophagus was built to contain radiation. In the aftermath, there was denial from managers and delayed evacuation by the government seeking to keep the situation secret and avoid criticism of reactor design flaws. The document recommends improving preparedness, transparency, mediation of long-term effects from such disasters.

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Chernobyl Disaster

“Historicizing” Management

Indranil Biswas; Pratyush Dubey; Seeyan P A;


Sonalee Shriya Dubey; Swathi Yarabolu;
Vikas Yadav; Taksha Begad; Vaishya Rishabh
Kamlesh
Chernobyl Disaster

FACTS

Explosion at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986.


8 ton of radioactive debris spread in the atmosphere.

Safety Test of Reactor


number 4 under Flaw in safety drills Explosion of the reactor
mismanaged conditions

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Post-Explosion

• Hazardous Effects on health- radiation sickness,


deformities in progenies, contaminated environment
• 3 lakh people evacuated from the city
• Built Sarcophagus to contain the radiation emission
• Other reactors continued operations till 2000- gravity of
situation unheeded?

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What actually happens


Emergency
April 25, 2 pm: 01:00: Reactor
shutdown system
Safety test stabilizes, test
and safety systems
scheduled continues
turned off

Emergency cooling 12:28 am: Reactor 1:23:04 am:


system is shut stalls, control rods Unexpected power
down removed. surge

11:10 pm : 1:23:40 am:


Safety test delayed Permission to Emergency
continue test Shutdown Initiated

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D-Day

1:23:58 am: Reactor explodes

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On 26th April

Belarus
• Wind was in direction of Belarus
• 70% radioactive fallout lands in South-East
Belarus
• Severe contamination of farming land

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Post-Accident

April 26
1 AM to next few April 26 to May
hours 14

Till April 26
evening

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Next Few Hours

Management action
• Assured themselves both the reactor core and its radiation
shielding remained intact.
• kept the USSR govt at Kremlin in dark
Why
• This was basically denial on part of the managers of NChNPP.

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Till 26th April Evening

Government’s Action

• Delay of prompt evacuation

Why?
• Different perceptions of risk and absence of definite
hierarchy

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April 27 to May 14

Government’s Action
• Took steps for evacuation
• Tried to contain the situation and keep it as secret
• Tried to contain the flaws in the design of the RBMK reactor

Why?
• To avoid criticism

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Final Recommendations

Long term
Preparedness
effects

Transparency Mediation

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End!

THANK YOU

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