Chernobyl

=﻿Chernobyl: by ﻿Brett Byykkonen= == On April 26, 1986 a [|nuclear accident] happened, rendering the city almost completely inhabbitable. 350,400 people were evactuated from the area, by the year 2000. Chernobyl is a large city, located just north the Keiv, the capital of Ukraine.

The damage caused by the nuclear reactor, cost the Soviet Union around 18 billion Rubbles, thats about 2.5 billion US dollars. Some 150,000 square kilometres in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are contaminated and stretch northward of the plant site as far as 500 kilometres. An area spanning 30 kilometres around the plant is considered the “exclusion zone” and is essentially uninhabited. Radioactive fallout scattered over much of the northern hemisphere via wind and storm patterns, but the amounts dispersed were in many instances insignificant. Amazingly, the explosion killed only 2 workers, and 28 firefighters were killed, months later, after being exposed to the extreme amounts of radiation. It is still UNCLEAR but the total number of deaths from radiation, is up to 64, as of 2008. Some experts say that The number of people killed, thoughs that were forgotten in the city, can make the death poll up to 4000. this has not been confirmed.

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The Absolute location of Chernobyl is 51° 23′ 22.39″ N, 30° 5′ 56.93″ E Chernobyl is located North, and just a little bit east of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. []

This is an abandoned school, found in Pripyat which is in the areas surrounding Chernobyl. It is still unsafe to live here. Although many of the elderly people, thoughs that were born here, have returned, to die. []

Chernobyl's reactor number 4, exploded releasing so much radiation, it can be compared to 40 Nukes. Everyware within a 30 mile radius, is still considered Highly Radioactive. []

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