Chernobyl Disaster
On april 26 1986 an explosion destroyed reactor no.
Chernobyl disaster. Chernobyl is a nuclear power plant in ukraine that was the site of a disastrous nuclear accident on april 26 1986. The design of the reactor is unique and in that respect the accident is thus of little relevance to the rest of the nuclear industry outside the then eastern bloc. 4 at chernobyls vladimir ilyich lenin nuclear power station in the former soviet union. 4 and several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world.
The chernobyl disaster was a unique event and the only accident in the history of commercial nuclear power where radiation related fatalities occurrede. Chernobyl disaster accident in 1986 at the chernobyl nuclear power station in the soviet union the worst disaster in the history of nuclear power generation. The chernobyl disaster is the largest anthropogenic disaster in the history of humankind viktor sushko deputy director general of the national research centre for radiation medicine nrcrm based. Chernobyl disaster 30 years later at 123 am.
A routine test at the power plant went horribly wrong and two massive explosions. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and was caused by one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seventhe maximum severityon the international. Considered historys worst nuclear accident the chernobyl disaster killed 31 people directly including 28 workers and firefighters who died of acute radiation poisoning during the cleanup. This series of chernobyl pictures show the disaster site 30 years later.
The economic and political toll hastened the end of the ussr and fueled a global anti nuclear movement. More than 50 reactor and emergency workers were killed in the immediate aftermath. Chernobyl ukraine was the site of a terrible nuclear accident on april 26 1986 when a reactor meltdown spewed radioactive material all over europe. The chernobyl disaster had other fallout.
The disaster has been estimated to cost some 235. A large area around chernobyl was evacuated and is uninhabitable for thousands of years.