Tag: Chernobyl nuclear power station

What is Radiation? As is well-known, atomic nuclei are stable and unstable. Unstable or radioactive atomic nuclei differ in that they change their structure (decay) with time, turning into the nuclei of another element or isotope of the same element. ...

  Evacuation of the city of Chernobyl. Evacuation from the accident zone was carried out in stages. First of all, it was decided to evacuate the city of Pripyat. To ensure evacuation and preservation of law and order, about 800 police officers f ...

Chernobyl is a small town with an area of 5 sq km (2 sq mi). In 1986, 13,700 people lived there. It was founded in 1193 on the bank of the Pripyat River, on the famous trade route “from the Varangians to the Greeks”, and, like all ancient cities, ...

On 26 April, 1986, at 1:23 a.m., a series of explosions destroyed the reactor building and building housing power unit # 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Gases and volatile substances were thrown to high altitudes and spread globally; it took ...