Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2196
Points per Word
0.000228
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Series
Eco-Disasters
Description
On April 26, 1986, while workers were conducting a test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, disaster struck. One of the reactors exploded, the reactor's sealing cap was blown off, and a lethal shower of radioactive material was launched into the sky.