April 26th 1986, day of the biggest atomic disaster in the whole history of the humanity. (until today the most serious, more than Fukushima Daiichi).
That day, one of the four reactors in the nuclear central of Chernobyl, in Ukraine (on that time USSR) explode, early in the morning. (the explosion was caused by an experiment and the emergency mechanisms were off).
The closest city (Pripyat) with a population of 49400 people before the explosion (according to ukrainian government Web) turned 4 days later into 0.
Many people left their city forever, unknowningly.
The radiation index wasb really high, but in the first moment the people who lived in Pripyat didnt know anything. With the pass of the years they began to see some illness caused by the radiation.
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A big sarcophagus was builded on the Power Plant on Chernobyl. But the truth is that the sarcophagus is beginning to yield because heat radiating from the nuclear reactor is very high.
Nowdays that zone of Ukraine is uninhabitable, maybe for more decades.
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