Some nuclei are radioactive, that is they spontaneously emit small particles, and high energy electromagnetic radiation, in doing so they form more stable nuclei. There are three different kinds of radiation, alpha, beta, and gamma. Quantitative studies have shown that alpha and beta are high enrgy particles, and gamma rays are very short high energy wavelengths (electro-magnetic radiation).

Radioactivity has benefitted man in various useful, ways like in medicine, providing nuclear power which can be used by humankind in various situations, but it also has its harmful effects, cause mutations in offspring if the mother is contaminated before birth cancer, and could also lead to evolutionary toxicology, in animals who received huge doses, and live in a radoiactive environment.

In the city of Pripyat, which is very close in proximity to Chernobyl, was once a thriving city, roaring, with forty five thousand people. On April 26, 1986, reactor four of the chernobyl power plant exploded due to flaws in the reactor’s design and judgement errors by operators. The

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CHERNOBYL INCIDENT, Chernobyl Spontaneous, city pripyat, birth defects, dna strands, alpha beta, mutation rate,