On This Day April 26

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred on April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine. The accident occurred when the fourth reactor suffered a huge power increase. This led to the core of the reactor exploding. Due to this explosion, large amounts of radioactive particles were released into the atmosphere. Because there was no containment building to trap the radiation, large areas of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly contaminated.

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