Chernobyl Disaster Newspaper Article 1986
Russia admits blast as death fears rise originally published in the guardian on 30 april 1986 david fairhall london and martin walker.
Chernobyl disaster newspaper article 1986. How plants have reclaimed chernobyls poisoned land fifty miles away was the chernobyl nuclear power plant. New york daily news covers the chernobyl disaster on april 29 1986. The disaster occurred on april 2526 1986 when technicians at reactor unit 4 attempted a poorly designed experiment. It was the site of the worlds worst nuclear accident.
The 1986 disaster at chernobyl. Chernobyl nuclear disaster from the archive 30 april 1986. A year later lessons are drawn. Soviets admit nuclear accident the soviet union has acknowledged there has been an accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant in ukraine.
Workers shut down the reactors power regulating system and its emergency safety systems and they withdrew most of the control rods from its core while allowing the reactor to continue running at 7 percent power. New york daily news 1 3 those studies also showed that cesium and iodine were released only if you had the fuel very hot. In 1986 a reactor at the chernobyl nuclear power station in then soviet controlled ukraine exploded sending a radioactive plume across. The report from the official news agency tass.
On april 26 1986 the no. On 26 april 1986 reactor number four at the power plant suffered a catastrophic. We begin with a british daily newspaper the times from the 30th of april 1986 covering the accident extensively on 5 pages.