The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union.
As of today the disaster completed
30 years 0 months 0 days
or 360 months 0 days
or 1565 weeks 3 days
or 10,958 days
or 262,992 hours
or 15,779,520 minutes
or 946,771,200 seconds
Today after 30 years, site is still not suitable for living. As per the study, the site will be safer for living after another 20,000 years :(
This is the biggest man-made mistake ever made in the history of the nuclear industry. This disaster released massive amount of radioactive materials than the atom bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
The incident occurred when an operator ran a test on an electric control system on reactor 4. The disaster happened of a combination of engineering fault and faulty actions of the operator.
Timeline
Extent of the Chernobyl accident
Chernobyl @ Present
A shelter was build to prevent the reactor complex from leaking radioactive material into the environment but now it has become weaker.
The old shelter is crumbling and will eventually fail, opening the environment to the worst of the contamination again. A consortium of foreign donors are constructing a replacement.The project was expected to be completed by October 2015 costing some 1.54 billion euro.
As of today the disaster completed
30 years 0 months 0 days
or 360 months 0 days
or 1565 weeks 3 days
or 10,958 days
or 262,992 hours
or 15,779,520 minutes
or 946,771,200 seconds
Today after 30 years, site is still not suitable for living. As per the study, the site will be safer for living after another 20,000 years :(
This is the biggest man-made mistake ever made in the history of the nuclear industry. This disaster released massive amount of radioactive materials than the atom bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
The incident occurred when an operator ran a test on an electric control system on reactor 4. The disaster happened of a combination of engineering fault and faulty actions of the operator.
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| Reactor Four - An Aerial view |
- 1:26:03 – fire alarm activated
- 1:28 – arrival of local firefighters, Pravik's guard
- 1:35 – arrival of firefighters from Pripyat, Kibenok's guard
- 1:40 – arrival of Telyatnikov
- 2:10 – turbine hall roof fire extinguished
- 2:30 – main reactor hall roof fires suppressed
- 3:30 – arrival of Kiev firefighters
- 4:50 – fires mostly localized
- 6:35 – all fires extinguished
- The fire contained inside Reactor 4 continued to burn for many days
Extent of the Chernobyl accident
- Serious accident in the history of nuclear industry.
- Two workers died on the night of the accident, and a further 28 people died within a few weeks as a result of acute radiation poisoning.
- one described his experience of the radiation as "tasting like metal", and feeling a sensation similar to that of pins and needles all over his face.
- 200,000 cleanup workers who received doses of between 1 and 100 rem (The average annual radiation dose for a U.S. citizen is about .6 rem) died in 1986 and 1987.
- High levels of radiation in the affected territories has been the dramatic rise in thyroid gland cancer among children.
- Government evacuated about 115,000 people from the most heavily contaminated areas in 1986, and another 220,000 people in subsequent years
- From 1986 to 2000, over 350,000 people were evacuated and resettled from the most severely contaminated areas of Belarus.
- Chernobyl's last reactor was shut down in 2000
- Officials say that it could take up to 100 years before the station is completely decommissioned.
- 200 tons of radioactive materials are still inside the reactor. There is a high chance of this washing through rain water and air and slowly polluting the whole earth.
After effect of this disaster: People and animals still suffer
The Environmental group Greenpeace places the eventual death toll at 93,000 cancer deaths world wide.
Chernobyl @ Present
A shelter was build to prevent the reactor complex from leaking radioactive material into the environment but now it has become weaker.
The old shelter is crumbling and will eventually fail, opening the environment to the worst of the contamination again. A consortium of foreign donors are constructing a replacement.The project was expected to be completed by October 2015 costing some 1.54 billion euro.
DO WE AGAIN NEED TO FACE THIS... THINK ... REACT...
PROTECT OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS
