Chernobyl Disaster

On April 26, 1986, Reactor #4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the town of Pripyat, Ukraine exploded. The explosion took place around midnight while the neighboring town of Pripyat slept. 4 workers were killed instantly. Four days later, the residents of Pripyat were ordered to evacuate. The residents never returned and the town still remains uninhabited to this day.

In 2003, the United Nations Development Programme launched a project called the Chernobyl Recovery and Development Programme (CRDP) for the recovery of the affected areas. The program launched its activities based on the Human Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident report recommendations and was initiated in February 2002. The main goal of the CRDPs activities is supporting the Government of Ukraine to mitigate long-term social, economic and ecological consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe, among others. CRDP works in the four most Chernobyl-affected areas in Ukraine: Kyivska, Zhytomyrska, Chernihivska and Rivnenska.

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. It is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 instance on the International Nuclear Event Scale. It resulted in a severe release of radioactivity into the environment following a massive power excursion which destroyed the reactor. Two people died in the initial steam explosion, but most deaths from the accident were attributed to radiation.

On 26 April 1986 01:23:45 a.m. (UTC+3) reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant, near Pripyat in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area. Four hundred times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

The plume drifted over extensive parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and eastern North America, with light nuclear rain falling as far as Ireland. Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. According to official post-Soviet data,about 60% of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus.

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[Caceped]

There were 30 or so deaths related to the actual explosion, while more than 1800 cases of cancer have been reported. It was the worst disaster solely because of Soviet policy. The RBMK reactor wasn't designed to contain radiation, and so it seeped out of the core. The prevention and recovery methods of the Soviet Union was almost cynical. They refused to take immediate action. Poor families. Damn Soviets.

[steveddies]

I agree.... yes friend.... agree

[BiOhAzArDaLeX07]

What's name of the song?

[deuce2443]

what is this song in the video. I heard it on 28 weeks later and was tryna find it ever since

[sil3ntsp3ct3r]

@23patstar: OZK chemical suits with GP-5 gas masks i believe... Correct me if im wrong

[sidekick9409]

I hope Fukushima isn't the second Chernobyl.

[23patstar]

what kind of suits are they on 2:53

[CatSide]

fukushima second Chernobyl

[watwatindabutt69]

3:25 is from Call of Duty... good video otherwise but very sad

[watwatindabutt69]

@BiOhAzArDaLeX07 Don abandons Alice... it a stupid name but it was made for the movie 28 weeks later

[bleeper2147]

@Caceped It's much, much worse than that. Up to 1 million deaths, with up to 200,000 in North America. The biggest problem, as with Fukushima, was the fact that radioactive materials are so dangerous. If we don't want big problems like this, we shouldn't create dangerous materials in the first place. There are better solutions like wind, solar, hydroelectric, etc.

[bleeper2147]

@BiOhAzArDaLeX07 The song is from the film 28 Days Later, if I remember correctly. If not, it was 28 Weeks Later. They were zombie movies.

[jorologo]

A Nuclear Disaster is like being attacked by an Invisible Storm Trooper.