Task 2. Complete the text with the suitable words: radiation, disaster, explosion, contaminated,
nuclear, suffering
In the year 1986 there was a terrible (1)
The explosion was at a (2) … power plant in
Chernobyl, The (3) … caused a lot of damage. It (4) … the soil and water. People lived in the area
when the explosion happened. Twenty years later those people are still (5) … from the explosion
effects. Today, 2.2 million people, including 800,000 children, still live in dangerously
contaminated areas. And while only 56 deaths are directly linked to the (6) … , cases of
childhood thyroid cancer in the Chemobyl zone are more than 200 times above world average and
instances of birth defects have more than doubled since 1986, according to the World Health
Organisation.
