Mr Clark's Chernobyl Vocabulary Crossword
Across
- 1. = your teacher's name
- 7. = what is left
- 8. = the central part of a nuclear reactor
- 9. = reasons
- 10. down = to close something
- 13. = whole
- 14. = to stop using the power plant and tear it down
- 15. = the people who are in control of a certain part of a region
- 18. = earlier, once, past, no longer
- 20. = travel across, go viral
- 21. = the animals that live naturally there
- 22. zone = area that people are not allowed to enter because it is dangerous
- 23. Union = the largest communist country that existed between 1917 and 1991
- 25. = something that may suddenly change and become worse
- 26. = as said by the public or for all to know
- 27. = the people who rule a country
Down
- 2. = the sending out of radiation when an atom is split
- 3. reaction = event that produces more and more energy in an uncontrolled way
- 4. = a sudden event that causes a lot of damage and kills people
- 5. = stop
- 6. energy = the energy you create when you split atoms
- 8. = a set of buildings
- 9. = led to
- 11. = come up, appear
- 12. = breakdown, if something does not exist anymore
- 16. = here: a structure that is put over the reactor so that dangerous radiation cannot escape
- 17. plant = one or more buildings that produce electricity
- 19. sickness = illness that is caused when your body gets too much radiation
- 24. waste = leftover material from nuclear reactors