The Chernobyl accident happened in the city of Ukraine the April 26 1986 of has been most serious nuclear accident in history, being the only one who has attained the status of level 7 (highest) on the INES scale .
that day, during a test that simulated a power outage, a surge of power in the reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant produced the overheating of the core nuclear reactor , leading eventually to the explosion of hydrogen accumulated inside.
The amount of radioactive material released, estimated was about 500 times greater than that released by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, directly caused the deaths of 31 people, forced the government Soviet Union to the evacuation of some 135,000 people and caused international alarm by detecting radioactivity in various countries of northern and central Europe.
addition to economic consequences, the long-term effects of the accident on public health have received attention in several studies. Although their findings are controversial, they agree that thousands of people affected by pollution have suffered or will suffer at some point in their lives impact on their health.
After protracted negotiations with the Ukrainian government, the international community funded the costs of decommissioning the plant, completed in December 2000 . Since 2004 carried out the construction of a new sarcophagus to reactor.
Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidente_de_Chern% C3% B3bil
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