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Detailed explanation-1: -International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day – April 26, 2023. International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day is observed annually on April 26.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 8 December 2016 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution designating 26 April as International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at nuclear reactor Unit 4 attempted a poorly designed experiment. They shut down the reactor’s power-regulating system and its emergency safety systems, and they removed control rods from its core while allowing the reactor to run at 7 percent power.

Detailed explanation-4: -In February 2022, Russia launched a military offensive against Ukraine. For further information see page on Russia-Ukraine War and Nuclear Energy. The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel.

Detailed explanation-5: -After the explosion, the first westerners to know were Swedish Nuclear plant workers whose sensor’s read high levels of radiation. Sweden sent out the first alert that something was happening. It wasn’t until the world pointed their satellites towards what is now northern Ukraine, that we realized what had happened.