COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-2: -Background. On April 26, 1986, a sudden surge of power during a reactor systems test destroyed Unit 4 of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union. The accident and the fire that followed released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment.
Detailed explanation-3: -The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 released radioactive substances – including iodine, caesium, strontium, and plutonium – into the atmosphere. In Central Europe, only caesium-137 is relevant for the radiation to which humans and the environment are still exposed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most – 63% – were reported to be suffering from cardiovascular and circulatory diseases while 13% had problems with their nervous systems. In Belarus, 40, 049 liquidators were registered to have cancers by 2008 along with a further 2, 833 from Russia.