The Chernobyl disaster should serve as a “harsh lesson to humanity,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
The meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear plant near the north Ukrainian town of Pripyat in 1986 caused what is still regarded as the worst civil nuclear disaster in history. Design flaws in the Soviet-made plant blew the top off its fourth reactor in a massive explosion. Radioactive content began to spill, first to Pripyat, then much deeper into Ukraine, nearby Belarus, Russia and towards northern Europe.
Soviet authorities were slow to confirm the incident publicly, even as radioactivity was spreading well beyond the boundaries of the …read more
Source: Newsweek
