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Today in History: Chernobyl Disaster
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in the former Soviet Union. On April 26, 1986 the reactor, located in Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded during a test, resulting in a radiation release about 200 times that of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. The could of radiation spread west impacting Europe and even places as far away as North America and Japan. The effects are still ongoing today, and the region around the former nuclear plant is still uninhabitable today.
For more information:
BBC report on the Chernobyl disaster
United Nations and Chernobyl
NPR's 20th anniversary coverage
Wikipedia's entry on the Chrenobyl disaster
Even more resources:
WHO Chernobyl report 2006 (pdf)
TORCH report (The Other Report on Chernobyl) (pdf)
IAEA Report
The Chernobyl Catastrophe: Consequences on Human Health (pdf) by Greenpeace International
And these are just the tip of the iceberg...
— michael | April 26, 2006 08:48 AM | I found it online
