Annotated+Bibliography


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PROF'S RECOMMENDATION: Some of your sources are fine, but there are a wealth of other articles and reports out there that will provide you with excellent, credible research. Your group needs to dig further- and find more appropriate sources for this topic that better answer the questions outlined in the rubric. Please see additional comments below each sources annotation.


 * "Backgrounder on Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident ." ** __United States Nuclear Regulatory Commision . __ 20 April 2010 [].

“Backgrounder on Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident ." is a long documentary article. It’s divided into five different catagories, which include Background, Health Effects from the Accident, US Reactors and NRC’s Response, Discussion, Sarcophagus. Basically, this website source talks about what’s happen by the time when the accident happened, and how it’s being effect to human’s health, as well as how reactors and NRC’s Response, and how they divided into three different phases.

"**Chernobyl Accident **." //Encyclopædia Britannica//. //Encyclopædia Britannica Online//. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. Web. 20 Apr. 2010 <[]>.

The "Chernobyl accident" is a one page long short article, divided into four paragraphs, all which gives clear facts based on what happened on the Chernobyl accident. The article also mentions that the radiation from the accident on Chernobyl was spread by the wind over Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine and soon reached as far as France and Italy. Millions of acres of forest and farmland were contaminated as well, and thousands of people were evacuated, while hundreds of thousands more remained in contaminated areas. The "Chernobyl accident" article also states that the Chernobyl's disaster sparked criticism of unsafe procedures and design flaws in Soviet reactors, and it heightened resistance to the building of more such plants.

McCarthy, John. "**Chernobyl**." 26 january 1996. __Formal stanford.__ 20 april 2010 <[]>.  The web page describes the major flaws in the design of the reactor. Also the human error that could have prevented this entire disaster. It also satiates the differences in seriousness between the Ukrainian government and Russian government.

PROF'S NOTE - While this is a .edu source, the information is considered a "secondary resource" because the author is commenting on "original" or "primary" research, which are the reports he links to in the document from places such as the World Health Organization, etc. While you may use those primary documents, you cannot use this website- it is his opinion based on the facts, not the actual facts.

The "Program to bring Chernobyl kids to Canada cancelled" is also a one page short article, divided into many other paragraphs, which talks about a certain program that brings children from who were involved in the Chernobyl disaster and gives them the opportunity to live in a family house hold, but Canada is thinking of cancelling this program and have the kids sent back, but the people who’ve organized the program are trying to continue in providing homes for the following kids who have suffered and gone through the horrible incident in Chernobyl.  PROF'S NOTE - This article is not on the research topic, and does not fulfill any of the rubric questions. Do not use.
 * "Program to Bring Chernobyl Kids to Canada Cancelled." ** //Canadian Broadcasting Corporation// [CBC] 18 June 2009. //General OneFile//. Web. 20 Apr. 2010. < [] >

"**The Environment**." //Encyclopædia Britannica//. //Encyclopædia Britannica Online//. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. Web. 20 Apr. 2010 < [] >.

Essentially, this article talks about the affects after the incident, but focuses on how children were the most likely ones to be most affected by the incident. To be more specific, “ babies were 30 times more likely to contract the disease than children 10 years old at the time. Most of the 680 thyroid cancer cases in children had been treated successfully.” But a meeting  at a place called Vienna,  showed that the illness was still increasing, mainly towards children.

PROF'S NOTE - While this is a fine article, it is too brief for such in depth research as this project requires. A better source would be the actual Chernobyl forum report that this data was taken from. The report is available at: []

" ** World Nuclear Association **." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"> November 2009. 20 April 2010 []. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The nuclear association web site gives full detail on what happen and Chernobyl, and why it happened. It also shows pictures of the type of reactor at Chernobyl and a detailed picture on what happened. This web site also gives the immediate impact over the course of a year to then region effected by the disaster both in human scale and environmental. Chernobyl even after the disaster was still running reactors 1-3.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">PROF'S NOTE - Notice that the articles contain links to the sources that the data came from at the bottom of each page. Use these links to find "primary" research on your topic, and validate the author's conclusions on this website.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"**Ukraine**." //Encyclopædia Britannica//. //Encyclopædia Britannica Online//. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. Web. 20 Aapr. 2010 < [] >. “Ukraine” is a profoundly expanded 82 page long article. The article summarizes; the country’s location, environment , population, geography, and also the well known major nuclear disaster Chernobyl, which created  severe environmental problems in northwestern Ukraine, and other countries. “Ukraine” also stated that agricultural lands near Chernobyl will be unsafe for thousands of years, though some of these areas continue to be occupied and farmed. Furthermore, several thousand precipitate deaths from cancer are expected to continue.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PROF'S NOTE - Again, this article is fine for general background information, but it is not fulfilling the questions of the rubric.

**Schlager**, Neil. "Chernobyl accident - Ukraine: 1986." __GALE CENGAGE Learning.__ 22 April 2010 <http://find.galegroup.com/gps/infomark.do?>. A great source for everything we need.

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