Russian News
by Trenton Carlson-Penry
Chernobyl
On April 26,1986 the nuclear power plant called Chernobyl exploded and caught on fire. A radioactive cloud 3,280 feet high covered parts of Ukraine and other countries. Some radioactive materials take a long time to disappear. Radioactive materials have what is called a half-life. A half-life is the amount of time it takes for half of the atoms in the material to decay.
Trans-Siberian Railway
The Trans-Siberian Railway is the world’s longest rail rhode. The terrain for the rail rhode was very difficult to build around. The gauge is the width of the tracks. Soldiers were enlisted to help build the tracks. The tracks run from Moscow to Vladivostok.
Aral Sea
The Trans-Siberian Railway is the world’s longest rail rhode. The terrain for the rail rhode was very difficult to build around. The gauge is the width of the tracks. Soldiers were enlisted to help build the tracks. The tracks run from Moscow to Vladivostok.