Until the tragic night from April 26, 1986, when one of the four power units of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was destroyed and everything that followed, we could not even imagine, the retribution for this arrogance and carelessness may be great. When extinguishing the fire that occurred at the fourth power unit and in the first, most acute days of injury, 31 people received lethal doses of radiation and died within three months. The consequences of high radiation exposure caused the death of 60 to 80 people over the next fifteen years. Another 134 people suffered from radiation sickness or another degree of severity.

In addition to the decommissioned powerful nuclear power plant (four power units of 1000 megawatts), and the deaths of operators, firefighters and liquidators, three neighboring republics, which became independent states, lost large, long-lived people of the territory as a result of radiation pollution. More than 115 thousand people were evacuated from the 30-kilometer resettlement zone that captured the border regions of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

All in all, according to radio data, the picture of contamination with active cesium-137 from the destroyed power unit looks like this. Ukraine, from whose territory emissions occurred - 41,900 (6.9% of the total area). 12 regions were affected.

Объяснение: