The Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986 is described as one of the mostfrightening environmental disasters in the world. The plant was made up of fourgraphite reactors, which were the most modern Soviet reactors of the RBMK-type. Two more of these reactors were still under construction at the station. Chernobyl was an obscure town in …
La era nuclear empieza a partir de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a 50 años de este suceso histórico, dos ciudades nuevas se han levantado de las cenizas atómicas de esta catastrófica guerra. En una de estas ciudades, Chernobyl, a diez años de la explosión nuclear, poblaciones enteras han sido abandonadas alrededor del reactor destruido, para …
Chernobyl disaster and its effect on children It was on the 26th April 1968 when the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe took place and the incident soon became synonymous with the name ‘Chernobyl’. The worst nuclear power plant accident in human history took place when the core of the reactor number four melt partially. About one …
It was to be the largest nuclear complex in the world, the Soviet Union’s pride for the energy industry. But one day, something went terribly wrong. Chernobyl, a town located 70 miles north of Kiev, Ukraine (Pringle, 64), had four reactors to supply much of Ukraine’s power in the region (Edwards, 104). To run an …
