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Chernobyl disaster
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The Chernobyl Disaster: How It Happened
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The Chernobyl Disaster: How It Happened
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Chernobyl's 1986 disaster
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Journey Inside Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone | Short Film Showcase
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Chernobyl Disaster: 30 Years Later
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history both in cost and casualties. It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan. The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion Soviet rubles—roughly US$68 billion in 2019, adjusted for inflation.
Curiosity
Works about disaster
Reactor cooling after shutdown
Safety test
Test delay and shift change
Unexpected drop of the reactor power
Reactor conditions priming the accident
Test execution
Reactor shutdown and power excursion
Steam explosions
Fire containment
Radiation levels
Evacuation
Official announcement
Bubbler pools
Foundation protection measures
Debris removal
Construction of the sarcophagus
Investigations of the reactor condition
Investigations and the evolution of identified causes
Soviet criminal trial 1987
INSAG-7 report 1992
Positive void coefficient
Control rod design
Fizzled nuclear explosion hypothesis
Release and spread of radioactive materials
Relative isotopic abundances
Water bodies
Flora and fauna
Human food chain
Norway
United Kingdom
Acute radiation effects during emergency response and immediate aftermath
Effects of main harmful radionuclides
Assessment complications
Disputed investigation
Withdrawn investigation
Abortions
Cancer assessments
Other disorders
Long-term radiation deaths
Socio-economic impact
Long term site remediation
Decommissioning of other reactors
No. 4 reactor confinement
Waste management
Fuel-containing materials
Exclusion zone
Forest fire concerns
Recovery projects
Nuclear debate