Chernobyl

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 and a half million people were affected, which…

The nuclear age begins with the Second World War, 50 years after this historic event, two new cities have risen from the atomic ashes of this catastrophic war. In one of these cities, Chernobyl, ten years after the nuclear explosion, entire populations have been abandoned around the destroyed reactor, to escape the contaminated water and…

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…

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…

The Chernobyl catastrophe began in the early forenoon hours of April 25, 1986 when a displacement runing the atomic reactor exploded lavishing radioactive dust from the power atomic works in the northern Ukraine over most of eastern Europe. This radiation was 100s of times more powerful than the atomic bombardments at Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The…