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In response, some former residents of the region that now comprises the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and Polesie State Radioecological Reserve—including Lyubov Sirota, a Ukrainian poet and Pripyat evacuee, in her 1995 Chernobyl Poems verse, "Radiophobia", [46] and her 2013 memoir, The Pripyat Syndrome [47] —decry such questioning of survivors ...
83 people were injured due to uneven cooling of the reactor core, resulting in fuel element failures and multiple ruptures. [12] 8 Soviet submarine K-19 reactor accident 1961, July 4 More than 30 people were over-exposed to radiation when the starboard reactor cooling system failed and the reactor temp rose uncontrollably.
The next day, talks began for evacuating people from the 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) zone. [62] Ten days after the accident, the evacuation area was expanded to 30 kilometres (19 mi). [64]: 115, 120–121 The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone has remained ever since, although its shape has changed and its size has been expanded.
Monument to Those Who Saved the World in the city of Chernobyl, dedicated to Chernobyl liquidators Abandoned living blocks of Pripyat, with a surviving tree Chernobyl power plant in 2006 with the sarcophagus containment structure Entrance to the Chernobyl exclusion zone around Chernobyl The radiation warning symbol (trefoil)
Evacuees fleeing Hurricane Rita in Texas, United States. This list of mass evacuations includes emergency evacuations of a large number of people in a short period of time. An emergency evacuation is the movement of persons from a dangerous place due to the threat or occurrence of a disastrous event whether from natural or man made causes, or as the result of war
The abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the distance. April 26, 1986 – Chernobyl disaster. There is rough agreement that a total of either 31 or 54 people died from blast trauma or acute radiation syndrome (ARS) as a direct result of the disaster. [21] [22] [23]
In the city of Smyrna (modern İzmir, Turkey), which until 1922 was a mostly Greek city, Ottoman soldiers drawn from the interior of Anatolia on their way to fight in either Greece or Moldavia/Wallachia, staged a pogrom in June 1821 against the Greeks, leading Gordon to write: "3,000 ruffians assailed the Greek quarter, plundered the houses and ...
Satellite image of the reactor and surrounding area in April 2009. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, [a] also called the 30-Kilometre Zone or simply The Zone, [5]: p.2–5 [b] was established shortly after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.