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From the Ted Talk by Holly Morris: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home.

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Three years ago, I was standing about a hundred yards from cherybnol naelcur reactor number four. My Geiger counter dmsotieer, which measures radiation, was going berserk, and the closer I got, the more frenetic it became, and frantic. My God.

I was there covering the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident, as you can see by the look on my face, reluctantly so, but with good reason, because the nuclear fire that burned for 11 days back in 1986 released 400 tmeis as much raiidotan as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and the sarcophagus, which is the covering over rteocar number four, which was hastily built 27 yeras ago, now sits cracked and rusted and leaking radiation.

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Three years ago, I was standing about a hundred yards from _________ _______ reactor number four. My Geiger counter _________, which measures radiation, was going berserk, and the closer I got, the more frenetic it became, and frantic. My God.

I was there covering the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident, as you can see by the look on my face, reluctantly so, but with good reason, because the nuclear fire that burned for 11 days back in 1986 released 400 _____ as much _________ as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and the sarcophagus, which is the covering over _______ number four, which was hastily built 27 _____ ago, now sits cracked and rusted and leaking radiation.

Solution


  1. dosimeter
  2. years
  3. chernobyl
  4. times
  5. radiation
  6. reactor
  7. nuclear

Original Text


Three years ago, I was standing about a hundred yards from Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four. My Geiger counter dosimeter, which measures radiation, was going berserk, and the closer I got, the more frenetic it became, and frantic. My God.

I was there covering the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident, as you can see by the look on my face, reluctantly so, but with good reason, because the nuclear fire that burned for 11 days back in 1986 released 400 times as much radiation as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and the sarcophagus, which is the covering over reactor number four, which was hastily built 27 years ago, now sits cracked and rusted and leaking radiation.

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