Chernobyl Accident

Chernobyl Accident Reaction On April 26th, 1986 the worlds worst nuclear power accident occurred at Chernobyl in Russia. At 1:23 am, reactor number 4 became out of control creating a fireball explosion which blew off the reactor's heavy steel and concrete lid. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant located 80 miles north of Kiev and had 4 reactors. While testing reactor number 4 for numerous safety issues, many of them were disregarded. First, the Chernobyl incident can well be blamed on its …

…and money that could have been spent to get this plant up to regulation standards, it would have saved the world, not just Russia, from this infinite problem. SOURCES Nuclear Energy Institute 1996, Info Bank briefing sheets and Source Book, 4th ed. OECD NEA report Chernobyl Ten Years On, radiological and health impact, Nov 1995; IAEA 1996, Ten years after Chernobyl: what do we really know? (from April 1996 conference) UNSCEAR 2000 report, Annex J. NucNet Chernobyl background papers & news.