Journal Mick Ohrberg's Journal: 20 Years Ago Today: Chernobyl
It is today 20 years since the horrific Chernobyl accident, where the unit 4 reactor of the Chernobyl power plant (known as Chernobyl-4) suffered a catastrophic steam explosion that resulted in a fire, a series of additional explosions, and a nuclear meltdown. The accident left death and injuries in its wake from the radiation fallout (which was 400 times greater than that of the Hiroshima bomb and and affected Europe, Scandinavia, and even the USA). The initial evidence in other countries that a major exhaust of radioactive material had occurred came not from Soviet sources, but from Sweden, where on April 27 workers at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant (approximately 1100 km from the Chernobyl site) were found to have radioactive particles on their clothes. It was Sweden's search for the source of radioactivity, after they had determined there was no leak at the Swedish plant, that led to the first hint of a serious nuclear problem in the Western Soviet Union.
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