April 2006: Gorbachev writes that the Chernobyl disaster, “even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.” A view of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion. Considered history’s worst nuclear accident, the...
Wednesday, April 26, marks the 37th anniversary since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion that shocked the world.
the nuclear explosion obliterated an entire town, forcing its surviving residents to pack up and find life elsewhere. While the disaster was devastating to the country, it was almost catastrophic for the whole of Europe. If it weren’t for the intervention of three men...
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A view of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion. Considered history’s worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986 killed 31 people directly, many due to radiation poisoning during the cleanup. The area around the plant remains so contaminated that...
Chernobyl continues to serve as a model of international collaboration to assess and manage risks to human health and to the environment from the world's largest nuclear disaster. Keywords: Chernobyl; radioactivity; ionizing radiation; dose; acute radiation syndrome; cancer; leukemia; Ukraine; Russian...
monument to emergency workers who responded to Chernobyl disaster Monument to the emergency workers (known as “liquidators”) who responded to the 1986... © Petr Pavlicek/IAEA Chernobyl disaster Map of the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station. ...
The Chernobyl Liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were conscripted to deal with consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Chernobyl Liquidators Simulator is a realistic take on the disaster, where you will NOT fight mutants and monsters, instead work hard to contain the...
On April 26, 1986, the world's worstnucleardisasterbefell the Chernobyl,UkrainePower Plant. Unlike the 2011Fukushima, Japannuclear crisis, the Chernobyl reactor explosion was caused by human error instead of a natural disaster. On that spring day more than 30 years ago, routine maintenance was ...
Adam Higginbotham, author of the new book"Midnight in Chernobyl, said the problems at site of the nuclear disaster were known. "In reality, so many nuclear scientists knew all along that there were problems with this reactor -- the problems that led ultimately to an explosion and ...