| The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was as the result of a flawed reactor design that was operating with inadequately trained personnel. The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the atmosphere and downwind. Two workers of Chernobyl plant died on the night of the accident, and a further 28 people died within a few weeks as a result of acute radiation poisoning. Hundred thousands of people were affected due to that tragedy! Thyroid cancers increased becouse of radiation exposure during 20 years after the accident.
The terrible disaster in April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine was the product of a flawed reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operators. It was a direct consequence of Cold War, isolation and the resulting lack of normal safety culture.
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