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Apr 29, 2024 · Chernobyl disaster, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. Between 2 and 50 people were killed in the initial explosions, and dozens more contracted serious radiation sickness, some of whom later died.
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Apr 24, 2018 · Chernobyl is a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that was the site of a disastrous nuclear accident on April 26, 1986. A routine test at the power plant went horribly wrong, and two massive...
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- Viktor Brukhanov. Director of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station. Viktor Brukhanov at a sitting of the USSR Supreme Court, 1987. Viktor Brukhanov had devoted most of his adult life to the communist dream of bringing electricity to the USSR.
- Anatoly Dyatlov. Deputy chief engineer for operations at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station. Anatoly Dyatlov (seated, leaning forward) is among six defendants attending trial for their role in the Chernobyl disaster.
- Leonid Toptunov. Senior Reactor Control Engineer, Fifth Shift, Reactor No. 4. Vera Toptunova, the mother of Leonid Toptunov, who was a senior reactor control engineer at the Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear plant when it exploded on April 26, 1986, mourns over his grave at Mitino cemetery in Moscow.
- Valery Legasov. First deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. Valery Legasov, Nuclear Energy Institute First Deputy Director (right), was active investigation expert of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.
May 17, 2019 · May 17, 2019. • 7 min read. On April 25 and 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history unfolded in what is now northern Ukraine as a reactor at a nuclear power plant exploded and burned ...
Sep 6, 2005 · The April 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant remains a defining moment in the history of nuclear energy. The lessons of this tragedy are interwoven with a recurrent theme: namely, the importance of international cooperation.
The Chernobyl disaster [a] began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union. [1] It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity ...
Apr 27, 2021 · On the tragedy’s 35th anniversary, Shapiro shares her story from the frontlines of Chernobyl in a new book called Doctor on Call: Chernobyl Responder, Jewish Refugee, Radiation Expert. In her ...
