ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Ukraine
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Russia
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Germany
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Chernobyl Power Complex, lying about 130 km north of Kiev, Ukraine, and about 20 km south of the border with Belarus, consisted of four nuclear reactors of the RBMK-1000 design (see information page on RBMK Reactors).
Detailed explanation-2: -"It was greed.” On April 26, 1986, Arkadiyivna’s worst fears about the reactor’s safety came to fruition. One of the reactors blew up, releasing a cloud of radiation over Ukraine and across Europe. The Chernobyl disaster remains the worst civilian nuclear incident in history.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Chernobyl disaster occurred on April 25 and 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. It is one of the worst disasters in the history of nuclear power generation.
Detailed explanation-4: -As village elders returned to their home of Chernobyl, eventually officials relented and unofficially allowed the elderly to live within the abandoned city limits. The average age of the fewer than 200 residents of Chernobyl is 63. Young adults and children remain banned from living in Chernobyl.