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Chernobyl area as seen in the Russian Mir space station in 1997 (51.380567 ° N 30.116272 ° E)

Chernobyl is an uninhabited town in northern Ukraine, in Kiev Oblast rather close to the border with Belarus.
The city was abandoned in 1986 after the catastrophic explosion of a nuclear power plant which is famous as the Chernobyl disaster, located 14.5 km north-northwest. The plant named after the city, and located in Chernobyl Raion (district), but not a place to stay for the workers. At the time of construction of the plant, a twin city, Prypiat was built adjacent to the workers.
Chernobyl is located at coordinates 30 ° 51 ° 38'LU 11'BT Now the city is still inhabited even if only slightly. The radiation level in the city is still in critical condition, ie at 5.6 roentgens per second (R/s) (0056 Grays per second, or Gy/s).

Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.

On April 26, 1986, reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the town of Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. The blast occurred at 1:23 early morning when the neighboring town of Pripyat residents were asleep. Two workers were killed instantly. 40 hours later, Pripyat residents ordered to evacuate, and do not ever come back, at that time, many people have suffered various levels of radiation poisoning.
In 2003, the United Nations Development Programme launched a project called the Chernobyl Recovery and Development (CRDP) for the recovery of the affected areas. This program was launched activities based Human Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident report recommendations and started in February 2002. The main objective of the CRDP's activities is to support the Government of Ukraine to reduce the long-term consequences of social, economic and ecological disaster of Chernobyl, among others. CRDP works in the four most Chernobyl-affected areas in Ukraine: Kiev Oblast, Zhytomyrska Oblast, most of Kiev, Chernihivska Oblast and Rivne Oblast.

Facts about Chernobyl

Originally bright morning sky, dark sudden terrible accident that destroyed Chernobyl. On April 26, 1986, an accident caused by a combination of reactor design flaws and errors in the testing procedures Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, causing the release of radioactive substances are much larger than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Some surprising facts about Chernobyl are :

The largest man-made disasters of all time.

According to the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). Chernobyl tragedy entered at level 7 accident which means this is a great event that have broad impact on health and the environment.

Belarus received 70% of the contamination of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion.

Belarus, Ukraine neighboring countries, which is only 10 miles away from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, is estimated to have received 70% of the Chernobyl nuclear contamination. As a result, one-fifth of agricultural land in Belarus contaminated and hundreds of thousands of people forced to leave their homes and move.

Thousands of people also infected by various diseases, ranging from leukemia, thyroid cancer, to cardiovascular disease. To date, Belarus has lost more than $ 235 billion (or approximately USD 2,291 T) earnings per year as a direct result of the Chernobyl disaster.

The rain from the Chernobyl nuclear to Ireland.

Number 4 reactor accident has created a huge radioactive cloud was detected in all of Europe and even to Ireland in the form of light. Although these events have occurred over the past two decades, the impact of the Chernobyl disaster is still felt in the British Isles until now.

According to a new study conducted by the UK Department of Health, 369 farms and 190,000 sheep in the UK still contain faint traces of radioactivity from the Chernobyl disaster. Fortunately, the number of sheep affected by contamination down nearly 95% from 1986.

The government is still paying benefits to 7 million people affected by the Chernobyl disaster.

This certainly shows that the Chernobyl disaster still have broad implications for the environment and human civilization that lived nearby. According to studies conducted by the UN Chernobyl Forum, Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation still pay benefits to approximately 7 million people affected by the disaster.

The study also claims that 5% to 7% of annual expenditures Ukrainian government still budgeted for Chernobyl victims. Although the payments were slightly reduced in recent years, the benefits may not be fully eliminated in the near future.

Approximately 97% of radioactive materials from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is still buried.

Emergency crews to react quickly when an explosion Reactor No. 4, responds to bury the Chernobyl nuclear power plant complex with a large concrete known as the Sarcophagus. Business plan will replace the Chernobyl nuclear power plant structures after 20 years of the occurrence of such events. But until now, the structure is still used.

According to local newspapers Poland, Zycie Warszawy, the surface of the concrete structure has been filled with cracks and gaps large enough to allow the rat to pass through. Meanwhile, an independent engineering report also estimates that the whole building was going to collapse in the event of an earthquake measuring six or more on the Richter scale. Not impossible, events radioactive cloud that was once the case will return to spread throughout Europe.

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DatePublished: December 4th, 2014 at 12:24