On April 26 of last month, 32 years of the Chernobyl nuclear accident were completed, with the magnitude of what happened that day, I am not mistaken if I told you that this was the most serious nuclear accident in history. The international scale of events measures the severity of the effects that give a score, with 0 being a very irrelevant case and 7 something very serious, the Chernobyl disaster is the only accident level 7 of all history.
The explosion took place in the 4th block of the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine near the border with Belarus. At that time the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was one of the largest in the world, it was dedicated to a special strategic program of the Soviet army. The explosion released the radioactive to an altitude of 1.5 km, at that altitude the southeast winds dragged the radioactive cloud as far away as Scandinavia. Although the most affected countries were Ukraine and Belarus.
On the day of the accident, people who lived nearby did not even understand the danger to which they were exposed, a difference from what they could expect from a responsible government of responsible officials, did not warn people of the radioactive threat that existed at that time . It was until he saw that he could not control the accident and began to evacuate people, but all this was the next day.
Here we will mention some disturbing data of what happened.
Most of the direct victims are buried in the Mitino cemetery, Moscow. Each body is conserved in a concrete place due to its high radiation capacity.
Although there are no official figures omitted, Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian sources. Calculate that in the last 20 years at least 350,000 people died as a result of the radiation that produced the explosion. What can be known is that the disaster affected the lives of 600,000 people, the largest group is 240,000 liquidators, among whom are rescue teams, soldiers who did the decontamination work, firefighters , police officers and even volunteers. Another one that is included in these 600,000 is the one of the 120,000 inhabitants of the contaminated zones near Chernobyl, a that added that another 220,000 people who were evacuated after the territories evacuated in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. It is estimated that currently around 5 million people still live near contaminated areas.
And if all this were not enough. Did you know that many pregnant women who lived near the central station had to have an abortion?
Many doctors made this recommendation because they did not know that the effect could have radiation in the fetus, in the event of possible bad genetic mutations or formation, the recommendation to perform an abortion was given.
Wow! It's very sad to hear nuclear radiation stories like these. I was not aware that Chernobyl in Ukraine. When exposure to radiation of nuclear takes place, the harmful toxins destroy humans and the future generation if they have children. Insane how mothers had to have abortions!
Very interesting share! @djmelendez
yes, very tragic everything that happened, it is estimated that the radioactivity in the area will be for more than 3000 thousand years
Very unfortunate, from what I remember, the radiation from the nuclear explosion in Japan still remains there.
Nuclear exposed to the environment is just self-destruction to all humans and living organisms on Earth!
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