SacRedMan
25th April 2011, 13:11
It's now 25 years ago. The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of Western Russia and Europe. It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The battle to contain the contamination and avert a greater catastrophe ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles, crippling the Soviet economy.
http://dearscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/chernobyl_reactor_d.gif
The disaster began during a systems test on 26 April 1986 at reactor number four of the Chernobyl plant, which is near the town of Pripyat. There was a sudden power output surge, and when an emergency shutdown was attempted, a more extreme spike in power output occurred, which led to a reactor vessel rupture and a series of explosions. These events exposed the graphite moderator of the reactor to air, causing it to ignite.
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/chernobyl_fallout.jpg
he resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive smoke fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area, including Pripyat. The plume drifted over large parts of the western USSR and Europe. From 1986 to 2000, 350,400 people were evacuated and resettled from the most severely contaminated areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. According to official post-Soviet data, about 60% of the fallout landed in Belarus.
Remember the heroes that died there and risked their life to save whole Europe and the USSR, but it seems that many people forget that, just as those who fought and died in Stalingrad.
http://dearscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/chernobyl_reactor_d.gif
The disaster began during a systems test on 26 April 1986 at reactor number four of the Chernobyl plant, which is near the town of Pripyat. There was a sudden power output surge, and when an emergency shutdown was attempted, a more extreme spike in power output occurred, which led to a reactor vessel rupture and a series of explosions. These events exposed the graphite moderator of the reactor to air, causing it to ignite.
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/chernobyl_fallout.jpg
he resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive smoke fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area, including Pripyat. The plume drifted over large parts of the western USSR and Europe. From 1986 to 2000, 350,400 people were evacuated and resettled from the most severely contaminated areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. According to official post-Soviet data, about 60% of the fallout landed in Belarus.
Remember the heroes that died there and risked their life to save whole Europe and the USSR, but it seems that many people forget that, just as those who fought and died in Stalingrad.