It was just past one in the morning on April 26, 1986 when the explosion of reactor number four at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine caused the greatest nuclear disaster in history together with Fukushima, Japan, in 2011. At 34 years old of distance the consequences of that catastrophe, which released a power equivalent to 500 atomic bombs like that dropped on Hiroshima, "remain", said the UN recalling "men, women and children affected by the contamination that will not be forgotten".
The toxic cloud caused the death of 31 people and the evacuation of 400,000 people from the area but the whole world was terrified. And over the years, the calamity has caused thousands of cancers involving around 8.4 million people in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. The causes of the accident, which the Soviet Union attempted to cover up, are due to technical errors, bad management, problems related to the structure and the plant.
34 years ago Chernobyl.Onu, don't forget
2020-04-26T19:26:28.939Z
It was just past one in the morning of April 26, 1986 when the explosion of reactor number four at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine caused the biggest nuclear disaster in history together with Fukushima, Japan, in 2011. (ANSA)