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[ filed under: history environment ] On April 26, 1986, the crew at unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (located in Pripyat, Ukarine, part of the former Soviet Union) conducted an experiment on the turbine generator with the safety system switched off. A steam explosion caused a catastrophic accident that blew off the 1000-ton roof of the building and set off a series of additional explosions, leading to an eventual meltdown of the nuclear cores. The accident spewed massive quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, contaminating large areas of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Radioactive clouds drifted as far as Europe and the eastern United States. The Chernobyl nuclear fallout was ten times more powerful than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and is the worst disaster in the history of nuclear power. The 45,000 inhabitants of Pripyat, 4km away from the Chernobyl power plant, were not evacuated until 36 hours after the accident. For 9 days, fires at the Chernobyl plant continued to burn and emit radioactivity. 130,000 people from settlements within 30km of the reactor were eventually evacuated, but only after being exposed to highly dangerous levels of radiation. Photographer Robert Knoth and reporter Antoinette de Jong traveled through the 4 regions of the Urals, Kazhakstan, Ukraine and Siberia to document the davastating medical, economic and social consequences of the nuclear industry in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Their work, published online in a photoessay in PixelPress, shows the horrific health issues faced by the regions’ inhabitants as a result of exposure to radiation in the environment.    Photos by Robert Knoth. Photoessay: Nuclear Nightmares: Twenty Years Since Chernobyl »
Find out more about how survivors of Chernobyl have coped with the effects of the disaster: More info about Chernobyl: Read articles in New America Media category: Environment comments |
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SAD Very sad
By Corey · Posted on May 4, 06:05 AMbad
By ALUCCI · Posted on May 4, 09:34 AMit’s the next step to the alien form, we all are gonna change, you see aliens they looks like those kids, well it is the next step for the alien form, cause aliens we see on pics of the world, they are us came from the futur…
By Randy · Posted on Jun 16, 02:35 AMWho is responsibe for these kind of happenings?why people should be affected by these experiments or mistakes about nuclear?i am so sorry for familis that have been killed or get effected by this terrible happening…
By AliReza · Posted on Jun 20, 02:59 AMthis is terrible i cant belive what troumour that must cause 4 z ppl who live thr i love u doolan! lol
By kat · Posted on Jul 17, 01:52 AMThis is the reason why we shouldn’t have nuclear energy. its unbelievable that they are pushing nuclear energy in Australia, sure its clean, but the waste!!?? yeah we’ll just go dig up kakadoo for the uranium then dump all the waste in northern territory. its called solar energy! 99% success rate isnt good enough!
By llewelyn · Posted on Sep 15, 09:58 PMi agree. US pushing for “nuclear agreement” with India. And indians so pathetically happy for that”(like if this would give them “world class”). For sure none of them are aware what happened in Chernobyl (or what was it, or where is it, there were too busy with their own politics and religious problems). But first world countries that are aware should be more concious on putting tremendous risk in hands of people who still use them for eating. A potential chernobyl 2 will arise there. It’s time to leave the selfish search of economic growth, by cutting down costs for “energy”... at the end is LIVE which creates energy, not the other way around… not to nuclear energy! no for nuclear agreements. it’s ridicoulus thinking on “planning for the future” and forgeting the past. is time to keep remembering and not to repeat same mistakes leaded by idiotic ambition
By vespucio · Posted on Oct 6, 02:27 PMIt’s terrible to look at and to read so many story’s about this tragedy…I cant believe that people are doing this to each other, it may sound mean but thanks to those kind of people, those scientist and persons who want’s power we al face extincion. Maybe not today or tommorow but some day humenkind will be erased from this world by it’s own hand. Just look wat they did to those poor and unaware people…I just cant believe it, and it is still happening. I agree NO NUCLEAR POWER!! It destroyes our home’s and the things we hold dearest. Just because some idiots want to earn money in a simple and cheap way, I hope there are still some wise men out there who wanna stop this nonsence, cause we can profide energy from a lot of things that aren’t that dangerous to men’s healht.
By sis · Posted on Dec 11, 05:11 AMOh my god… dats bad…scary and bad. Is it really true? i just cant get my head around how just radiation can cause such deformities. And wats da government doin bout it. I dont know what to believe any more… i hate RADIATION + da GOVERNMENT… its a bastard
By hardygardy · Posted on Dec 11, 07:02 AMI was ten when this happen and I remember when this accident happen. The people of Chernobly and the events that happen April 26, 1986 will never be forgotten.
By Raymond Hughley · Posted on Feb 3, 12:49 AMWhat happened at Chernobyl was the management wanted to save money so they fired all the high paying engineers then hired low paying freshly new out of college students to work as the engineers.
Well, the newly employees knew how to operate the plant when everything was running smoothly, but when a red light turned on, everyone panicked!
What they did next was turned on a valved that made the generator go hotter, instead of cooler…. it was already too hot that’s why the red light turned on.
You can imagined what happened next because the generator got even hotter, yes, it blew-up!
That’s what happened…. management trying to save a buck then they did not properly train their employees in any emergency event, such as the horrific Chernobyl event.
Sara J
By Sara J · Posted on Feb 4, 07:09 AMwhat freaken Idiots if they knew about the nuclar explosion and the raidiation in the air why didnt they just evacute every one emedently.
By Donald · Posted on Feb 21, 08:33 AMOh my gosh I almost cried a the picture with the baby
By Frannie · Posted on Mar 1, 05:14 PMThis is so sad
By R T · Posted on Mar 21, 02:04 PMwATS wrong with the second kid
By jack price · Posted on Apr 24, 03:43 AMThis is a terrible tragedy.
By Sylwithia · Posted on May 5, 01:10 PMRest in peace, those who perished because of this disaster
WOW THERE IS A ****LOAD OF IGNORANCE IN THIS ROOM. first off, this tragedy was caused by bad maintenance and an poorly designed plant. Yes, nuclear radiation is bad, but it only occurs in countries with non-safe facilities. There are also nuclear missiles that could be launched at any minute and destroy the world. Yellowstone national park could blow at any second. These things happen and usually because of a bunch of idiots who don’t know what they are doing and just want to make quick money without respect for the humar race. In america the facilities would be so high tech that they could completely hut down in less than 5 seconds if a disaster were to strike
By G · Posted on May 7, 09:33 PMHey whatever happened, I must say that was very very bad. I say that whoever is responsible should be hang till death
By Vick_Shekhar · Posted on May 15, 05:10 AMYou don’t know what you are talking about people.
It happened, it is sad, but that’s life.
If you’re scared because of that you should start saving some cash and try to get new friends working for the gov. to get a NBC suit, ‘cause the next 5 years are not going to be that nice…
Vick_shekhar : Whoever is responsible already died. They were directly exposed and they were in the first radius, which means that they died in less than 6 seconds…
By Col. K · Posted on May 25, 09:24 PMThey didn’t have time to suffer, just few second to understand.
thats so sad
By tek · Posted on May 31, 10:29 AMNo one is going to be hung for this because everyone that was there that night was killed because they recieved more than a lifetime of radioactive exposure. It was do t the ignorance of a night crew who didnt know they were postponing the experiment and the lack of knowlegde. No one on the night crew had ever dealt with nuclear power station. Only one man working that night the cheif and manager (who also died 3 wks later) had experience but it was putting nuclear reactors on submarines. The men on the skeleton crew were from coal power plants. Yes it is very sad and now alot of people have to livewith the consequences that these unskilled workers did. AGain they had no knowledge that things were getting dangerous. No sirens went off and the control panel never warned of anything. It goes back to a poorly designed power station with alot, ALOT of human error.
By Katie · Posted on Jun 15, 11:29 AMIt was not mechanical failure but rather human incompetence !
By nameless · Posted on Jul 8, 04:08 AMOMG poor people i wouldn’t like to be them at that time i wonder how they felt through them few days
By tilly · Posted on Jul 9, 04:40 AMi think this is so sad i cant find the words to say how i feel about this…it made me cry im only 13 and the way this world is going is down hill…im evan 2 scared to have kids wen i grew up because of this world sometimes i cry wen i wach the news..its so sad..it makes me want 2 vomit..i cant beleive this world we live in…its horrible…i wish the human race was not so curious…as my mum say curiousity killed the cat!!!
By samantha · Posted on Jul 19, 09:06 AMlol…
the plant blows up raidiation goes evrywere the correct scinario would be to evacuate The city region Or even state but what do they do? Send MORE people in To biuld a wall.. a wall? of all things you could biuld to stop the raidiation why biuld a wall and so close? without any protection
And also To the people who are saying i almost cryed when i saw it yes it would suck to be them but bare in mind Its Not no one persons fault Its the Goverments Rection To this catastrphie
Btw im less than 14 years old goss howd i write that :p
By The Only Smart one · Posted on Jul 31, 03:06 AM