Chernobyl disaster Quiz - 72 Trivia Questions!

Navigate the harrowing events of the Chernobyl disaster with this quiz. Explore the nuclear accident's causes, consequences, and its portrayal in the acclaimed HBO miniseries.

The International Project on the Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident was funded by which country?

Canada
Russia
South Korea
Japan

What is a perennial concern in areas contaminated by radioactive material?

Radiation
The loss of animals
Floods
Forest fires

What was seeded over Belarus by the Soviet Air Force to remove radioactive particles from clouds heading towards highly populated areas?

Wind
A nuclear weapon
Rain
Radiation

Who is the President of Russia at the time of the Chernobyl disaster?

Dmitry Medvedev
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Putin

Who was found guilty of criminal mismanagement of potentially explosive Enterprises and sentenced to ten years imprisonment?

Boris Yeltsin
Anatoly Dyatlov
Vladimir Putin
Boris Yakovlev

How many diesel generators were used to power the reactors at Chernobyl?

Two
Three
One hundred
Three generators

What radioactive substance was formed when molten fuel melted through the floor of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor?

Plutonium
radium
Corium
Carbon monoxide

What combustible material was used to build the roof of the Chernobyl nuclear power station?

Bitumen
Metal
Wood
Water

What type of accident occurred at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986?

Nuclear and Biological
Nuclear
Gas
Severe

What radioactive element was found in fish in the Chernobyl area of Ukraine in 1996?

Carbon monoxide
Radium
Plutonium
Radiocaesium

What is the term for the emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor?

Cooling
Emergency Shutdown
A nuclear meltdown
Scram

In which country was the Forsmark nuclear power plant located at the time of the Chernobyl disaster?

Canada
Russia
Sweden
China

What is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors?

Radiation
Water
Gasoline
Carbon dioxide

How many main circulating pumps are there in a coal-fired power station?

Eight
One
Four
Three

What type of animal was contaminated with radioactive radiation in 1997?

Pigs
Bees
Wild boar
Chicken

During which month of the year is International Workers Day celebrated in Kiev, Ukraine?

November
May
July
June

Which company was awarded the contract in 1999 to build the ISF-2 nuclear power station in France?

Areva
Neptune Power
Nuclear Power International
La Casita

What was the name of the nuclear reactor's biological shield?

Elena
The Virus
The Bigfoot
The Sword

What was used to freeze the ground beneath the Chernobyl nuclear reactor?

Ice cream
Water
Carbon dioxide
Liquid nitrogen

In which city was the first post-accident conference held after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986?

Paris
Tokyo
Los Angeles
Vienna

Who was the crew chief of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

Aleksandr Akimov
Boris Yeltsin
Alexander Borisov
A.S.Rosen

What was the name of the sticky polymerizing fluid designed to entrap radioactive dust?

Barda
Slurpee
Super-Duty
Sulfuric acid

What type of animal was found in the Chernobyl exclusion zone?

Birds
Bears
Cats
Voles

Which radioactive element is released in the core of a nuclear reactor?

Carbon dioxide
Nitrogen
Iodine
Oxygen

What was the name of the pine forest that turned reddish-brown after the Chernobyl disaster?

The Red Forest of the Soviet Union
Chernobyl
Red Forest
The Forest of Fear

What grows on the walls of nuclear reactors?

Fungi
Plants
Animals
Trees

What was the occupation of Anatoli Zakharov, who was stationed at Chernobyl in 1980?

A doctor
A fireman in the army
Policeman
Fireman

Who was the President of Ukraine at the time of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant shutdown?

Viktor Yushchenko
Oleh Dolnia
Leonid Kuchma
Vladimir Putin

What are inserted into the core of a nuclear reactor to control the flow of neutrons?

Gas generators
Radiators
A control system
Control rods

How long did it take to clean up Chernobyl?

Seven months
About six years
A year
Three years

What is the name of the fluid that flows through nuclear power reactors to remove the heat produced by fission?

Coolant
Radiation
Nuclear Power
Cooling system

How many deaths were directly attributed to the Chernobyl nuclear accident?

More than one million
Almost three-hundred
Thirty-one
About 5,000

What was the name of the disease that killed 28 workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

The radiation sickness
Radiation exposure
Acute radiation syndrome
Radiation poisoning

In which country is the town of Pripyat?

China
Ukraine
Canada
Russia

What was the moderator in the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl?

Water
Metal
Radiation
Graphite

What is the name of the device used to generate electricity in a nuclear power station?

Nuclear reactor
Coal fired generator
Steam turbine
Nuclear generator

The second explosion at Chernobyl was caused by the combustion of what?

Hydrogen and oxygen
Hydrogen
Water
Carbon dioxide

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union at the time of Chernobyl?

Putin
Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Yuri Yefimov

What was the name of the containment structure built at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986?

Sarcophagus
Radiation Tube
The nuclear power plant
Radiation Shelter

What was the name given to nuclear reactors built until the end of the 1990s?

Nuclear power
Generation II
Modified uranium
Modified fusion reactors

What type of foodstuff was ruined by the Chernobyl disaster?

Fish
Fruits
Milk
Mushrooms

What was used to line the control cabins in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

Plastic
Lead
Carbon dioxide
Radium

What was the name of the metal in the control rods at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

Copper
Boron
Titanium
Metal oxide

Which gas is produced as a by-product of nuclear fission?

Nitrogen
Oxygen
Xenon
Hydrogen

At which Paris institute did the IAEA hold a meeting in 1987 on the medical handling of the skin lesions relating to the acute deaths of

Institute de Sante
The Paris Institute of Nuclear Research
Marie Curie's family
Curie Institute

What type of radiation does a person receive if they stand outside in the open?

X-rays
Radiation from the earth
Radiation from the Sun
Gamma

What was the name of the radioactive material discovered in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986?

Plutonium
The radiation
Radium
Chernobylite

What term was used by the IAEA to describe the lack of safety culture at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant?

Radiation safety
Culture of safety
Safety culture
Efforts

What was contained in the sarcophagus at Chernobyl?

Nuclear fuel
A lot of water
Water
A nuclear reactor

How many megawatts (MW) of power is produced by a nuclear reactor?

15,000
2500
100
1000

What was the name of the US nuclear power plant that was damaged by a radiation leak in 1986?

Fukushima
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant
Three Mile Island

What was dropped on Chernobyl to extinguish the fire?

Carbon dioxide
Water
Sand
Gasoline

What type of radiation was emitted from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant?

Radiation that was produced by the nuclear reactors
Gamma radiation
Radiation that was absorbed by the soil
Radiation from the plant's uranium

What is leached from the wrecked nuclear reactor at Chernobyl?

Carbon dioxide
Uranium
Gasoline
Radiation

In which country is the Korma nuclear power plant?

The United States
Belarus
Russia
Japan

Who became Chancellor of Germany after the Chernobyl disaster?

The ECB
Hermann Gmeiner
Angela Merkel
Hermann Ging

What is the more likely cause of the first nuclear explosion, according to physicist Vladimir Dubasov?

Nuclear war
Nuclear explosion
The fusion of a hydrogen nucleus with uranium
Nuclear fizzle

What caused the fuel cladding to fail at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

A power outage
The uranium
Power spike
The nuclear power plant

What name is given to the residents of the tsunami-affected area of Japan?

The sandstorms
The tsunami
Samosely
The Floating Island

What type of animal was affected by the Chernobyl disaster?

Dogs
Sheep
Fish
Horses

What was the name given to the area surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

Exclusion Zone
Nuclear Zone
Radiation Belt
The Radiation Belt

At which nuclear power plant did a test of nuclear weapons take place in 1986?

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
The NNSA
The Three Gorges Nuclear Power Plant
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

In which city was the Chernobyl nuclear power plant re-started after a power grid failure?

London
Chernobyl
Moscow
Kiev

Where in the world was the RBMK-1000 nuclear reactor built?

China
Chernobyl
Moscow
Russia

What was released from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

Radiation
Nuclear radiation
Nuclear waste
Radioisotopes

What was the name of the Russian nuclear power plant that suffered a meltdown in 1986?

a nuclear power plant in the US
Volcano
Chernobyl
Pripyat

Alexy Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov and Sergey Baranov were all workers in what industry?

Oil and gas
Agriculture
Nuclear energy
Food

What was the name of the pool that was drained by the fire brigade after the Great Exhibition of 1851?

The Grand Canal
Bubbler pool
The Grand Theatre
The fountain

What caused the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant?

A nuclear explosion
Nuclear fuel
Steam
Radiation

Who was the only survivor of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster?

Yuriy Ivanov
Michael Koshya
Yuriy Borisov
Alexander Yuvchenko

Which country has the largest area contaminated with radioactive 137Cs?

Finland
Russia
Japan
South Korea

What is the name of the electrical generator in a coal-fired power station?

Turbine
Motor
Windmill
Coal storage system
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