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On 26 April 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) exploded. [1] With tens of direct casualties, it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.
The intermediate time scale is between 1 and 30 days, with long term fallout occurring after that. Examples of both intermediate and long term fallout occurred after the 1986 Chernobyl accident, which contaminated over 20,000 km 2 (7,700 sq mi) of land in Ukraine and Belarus.
Estimated number of deaths from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster A map showing caesium-137 contamination in the Chornobyl area in 1996. The Chernobyl disaster of 26 April 1986 triggered the release of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere in the form of both particulate and gaseous radioisotopes.
While there is an increase in radiation in the area, this is due to Russian forces disturbing the soil in the Red Forest and releasing radioactive dust and not from the reactor 4 itself. [65] The New Safe Confinement is reportedly unharmed. [66] March 31, 2022 Russian forces leave Chernobyl and the New Safe Confinement. [67] February 14, 2025
Ninety-year-old Ivan says the secret to a long life is not leaving your birthplace, even when it is a village poisoned with radioactive fallout. A rural retirement in Chernobyl's radioactive ...
The first-person shooter and survival horror videogames S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007), S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (2008) and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (2024), developed by the Ukrainian video game studio GSC Game World, are set in a semi-post-apocalyptic and sci-fi version of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. All three games ...
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.
The total dose from Chernobyl is estimated at 80,000 man-sieverts, or roughly 1/6 as much. [1] However, some individuals, particularly in areas adjacent the reactor, received massively higher doses. Chernobyl's radiation was detectable across Western Europe. Average doses received ranged from 0.02 mrem to 38 mrem (portions of Germany). [1]