Nuclear Reactor # 4
On the 26th April 1986, Reactor # 4 carried out a series of tests which went disastrously wrong. 90 times as much radioactivity as was dropped on Hiroshima spewed out over the surrounding towns of Chernobyl and Pripyat. 630,000 people were eventually evacuated (not before they had time to be thoroughly exposed to the deadly mist) from the area.
It is difficult to accurately tell the number of deaths caused by the events at Chernobyl, as the Soviet-era cover-up made it difficult to track down victims. Lists were incomplete, and Soviet authorities later forbade doctors to cite "radiation" on death certificates. And anyway, if you had been resettled in a different part of the USSR, would you admit to being exposed to radioactivity? It would be a sure way to lose friends fast… Some guesstimates suggest that maybe as many as 600,000 people may have died as a result of radiation.
Normal radiation is 0.014
Nuclear Reactor # 4
On the 26th April 1986, Reactor # 4 carried out a series of tests which went disastrously wrong. 90 times as much radioactivity as was dropped on Hiroshima spewed out over the surrounding towns of Chernobyl and Pripyat. 630,000 people were eventually evacuated (not before they had time to be thoroughly exposed to the deadly mist) from the area.
It is difficult to accurately tell the number of deaths caused by the events at Chernobyl, as the Soviet-era cover-up made it difficult to track down victims. Lists were incomplete, and Soviet authorities later forbade doctors to cite "radiation" on death certificates. And anyway, if you had been resettled in a different part of the USSR, would you admit to being exposed to radioactivity? It would be a sure way to lose friends fast… Some guesstimates suggest that maybe as many as 600,000 people may have died as a result of radiation.
Normal radiation is 0.014