On April 26th, of 1986 there was a terrible, unexpected disaster that happened in Ukraine. This event became the worst nuclear power plant disaster ever in the world, Chernobyl. Chernobyl is a city in the Northern part of Ukraine, near the border with Belarus. It is in the Kiev Oblast Province of Ukraine, Kiev also being the Capital of Ukraine, South of Chernobyl, more in the central Ukrain area.
On the date of the explosion, before the actual accident occured, there was a test supposed to be run to test how long the turbines wouild run after a power outage. The unprofessionaly trained workers started the test, and when the operator went to do the automatic shutdown the reactor was at extremely unstable conditions. Pressure built up as the extremely hot fuel interacted with the cooling water and caused an enormouse amount of pressure built up. The first out of the 3 explosions released a bunch of fission products into the atmosphere. During the second explosion, parts of the core reactor, graphite, and parts of the fuel channels were released into the atmosphere as well.
The explosion of core reactor 4 at chernobyl put radioactive materials into the downwind atmosphere spreading into belarus and parts of europe. The explosion killed 2 operators immediatly and over the next three months killed 30 other people and several other deaths later down the road. Most of the deaths were caused by ARS(Acute Radiation Syndrom). ARS causes alot of damage to organ tissue due to the exposer. Contact with radiation or ARS could also lead to other medical problems such as tumors, cancer, and genetic damage. Another reason why we don't need for another nuclear accident in this world let alone the United States.
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