Tragedy of Chernobyl

The chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident on Saturday, April 26, 1986, in nooc. 4 nuclear reactors at chernobyl nuclear power plant, near pripyat's town north of the Ukrainian SSR. This is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and it's one of the only two nuclear energy disasters in the world.

The chernobyl disaster explosion released an enormous amount of energy, vaporising superheated cooling water and damaging the reactor's core in a highly destructive steam blast. Some 49,000 people were evacuated from the area, especially from pripyat. The reactor explosion killed two of the reactor's operating staff. In subsequent emergency response, 134 station and fire departments were hospitalised with acute radiation due to their heavy dose of ionisation radiation.

Of these 134 people, 28 died in the day to the next month and along with 14 suspected radiation cancer induction radiation followed within the next 10 years. The most faith-based model of predictions about the total number of deaths in the next few decades following chernobyl's release would vary from 4,000 when only the three most polluted former Soviet countries, up to 9,000 to 16,000 in assessing the total number of European continents.

The disaster increased attention to fission reactors around the world and hundreds of reactor proposals, including those being built at chernobyl (no.5 and 6), were eventually canceled. The incident also increased attention to the culture of security in the Soviet nuclear power industry, lowering industrial growth and forcing governments to be more open about its procedures.