The Chernobyl is the name receiving nuclear accident happened in Chernobyl NPP the April 26 of 1986. This event has been considered the worst nuclear accident and one of the biggest environmental disasters history.
that day, during a test that simulated a power outage, a power surge in reactor 4 of the nuclear power plant overheating caused the nuclear reactor core, which ultimately led to accumulated hydrogen explosion inside. The amount of uranium dioxide, boron carbide, europium oxide, erbium, zirconium alloys and graphite ejected radioactive material that was estimated was about 500 times greater than that released by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, directly caused killing 31 people and forced the government of the Soviet Union in the immediate evacuation of 116,000 people causing international alarm when radioactivity detected in at least 13 countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Concrete structure called "sarcophagus" designed to contain radioactive material from the reactor core and was designed to last 30 years
After the accident, began a massive process of decontamination, containment and mitigation played approximately 600,000 people called liquidators in the areas surrounding the crash site and excluded an area of \u200b\u200b30 square km around the nuclear power plant known as a Zone of alienation, which is still in force. Only a small part of the liquidators were exposed to high levels of radioactivity.
After protracted negotiations with the Ukrainian government, the international community funded the costs of decommissioning the plant, completed in December 2000. Since 2004, carried out the construction of a new sarcophagus for reactor.
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