Chernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a nuclear power plant. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused the core of one of the reactors to explode, spewing a cloud of radioactive steam into the air. More than four thousand people ...
1986. A routine test at the power plant went horribly wrong, and two massive explosions blew the 1,000-ton roof off one of the plant’s reactors, releasing 400 times more radiation than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The worst nuclear disaster in history killed...
The Chernobyl plant is out of service, but there is still much work to be done at the decommissioned plant. Borukhovskyi said all four of its reactors are to be dismantled only by 2064. Ukraine also has decided to use the deserted zone as the site for its...
On April 26th, 1986 the world's worst nuclear power accident occurred at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Republic of Ukraine. The accident occurred when technicians at reactor Unit 4 attempted a poorly designed experiment. The chain reaction
After a fire erupted near one of the nuclear reactors, however, an explosion at the plant sent lethal amounts of radiation into the area; placing the immediate and surrounding population in extreme danger. The Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to be the worst nuclear accident in human ...
A technician in one of the reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant tests for high levels of radiation in May 1986 after the accident. Under the sarcophagus, some 130 feet below ground, at the epicenter of the explosion, liquidator Georgi Reichtmann, a Chernobyl engineer, measures radiation...
The “Chernobyl Unit 4” is now in a “large concrete shelter room” that was quickly built so that the other reactors of the power plant could continue to operate. However, the structure is not solid or durable. The international plan for the implementation of shelter in the 1990s included...
As the cooling pumps require electricity to cool the reactor, in the event of a power failure, Chernobyl’s reactors had three backup diesel generators; these would start up in 15 seconds, but took 60–75 seconds to attain full speed and reach the 5.5‑megawatt output required to run th...
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident CIA, KGB, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Congressional, GAO, Soviet & Ukrainian Government Files and Fo
On April 28, 1986, the government of the Soviet Union grudgingly acknowledged a serious nuclear accident, two days before, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. An explosion during a reactor test gone wrong had blown the roof off one of the reactors, and spewed radiation ...