34 years ago Chernobyl.Onu, don't forget

(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 26 - It was a little past one in the morning of April 26, 1986 when the explosion of reactor number four in the Chernobyl power plant, in Ukraine, caused the greatest nuclear disaster in history together with Fukushima, Japan, in 2011. 34 years later, the consequences of that catastrophe, which released a power equivalent to 500 atomic bombs like the one 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 terrorized. And over the years the calamity has caused thousands of tumors involving around 8.4 million people between 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.