Resultado da Busca
31 de mai. de 2019 · Da BBC News Mundo. 31 maio 2019. AFP. O ex-presidente soviético Mikhail Gorbachev (ao centro) e sua esposa Raisa Gorbacheva (à esq.) visitaram a usina em 1989. É difícil imaginar uma tragédia...
24 de abr. de 2021 · Eram 5h da manhã quando Mikhail Gorbachev, o último líder da URSS, recebeu um telefonema. Ele foi informado de que havia ocorrido uma explosão na usina nuclear de Chernobyl, mas,...
- Where Is Chernobyl?
- What Happened at Chernobyl?
- Pripyat Evacuated
- Soviet Secrecy
- Chernobyl Disaster Spewed Radiation
- Chernobyl Sarcophagus
- Chernobyl Elephant’s Foot
- How Many People Died in Chernobyl?
- Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
- Chernobyl Animals Thrive
Chernobyl is located in northern Ukraine, about 80 miles north of Kiev. A small town, Pripyat, was constructed a few miles from the site of the nuclear plant to accommodate workers and their families. Construction of the Chernobyl power plant began in 1977, when the country was still part of the Soviet Union. By 1983, four reactors had been complet...
A routine exercise to test whether an emergency water cooling system would work during a power loss started at 1:23 a.m. on April 26. Within seconds, an uncontrolled reaction caused pressure to build up in Reactor No. 4 in the form of steam. The steam blasted the roof off the reactor, releasing plumes of radiation and chunks of burning, radioactive...
Meanwhile, life went on as usual for almost a day in the neighboring town of Pripyat. Aside from the sight of trucks cleaning the streets with foam, there were initially few signs of the disaster unfolding just miles away. It wasn’t until the next day, April 27, when the government began evacuations of Pripyat’s 50,000 residents. Residents were tol...
It took days for Soviet leadership to inform the international community that the disaster had occurred. The Soviet government made no official statement about the global-scale accident until Swedish leaders demanded an explanation when operators of a nuclear power plant in Stockholm registered unusually high radiation levels near their plant. Fina...
The damaged plant released a large quantity of radioactive substances, including iodine-131, cesium-137, plutonium and strontium-90, into the air for over a period of 10 days. The radioactive cloud was deposited nearby as dust and debris, but was also carried by wind over the Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. In an at...
Over a hurried construction period of 206 days, crews erected a steel and cement sarcophagus to entomb the damaged reactor and contain any further release of radiation. As former liquidator, Yaroslav Melnik, told the BBCin January 2017, “We worked in three shifts, but only for five to seven minutes at a time because of the danger. After finishing, ...
Deep within the basement of Reactor 4 lies the Chernobyl Elephant’s Foot, a huge mass of melted concrete, sand and highly radioactive nuclear fuel. The mass was named for its wrinkled appearance, which reminded some observers of the wrinkled skin of an elephant’s leg and foot. In the 1980s, the Elephant’s Foot gave off an estimated 10,000 roentgens...
Ukraine’s government declared in 1995 that 125,000 people had died from the effects of Chernobyl radiation. A 2005 report from the United NationsChernobyl Forum estimated that while fewer than 50 people were killed in the months following the accident, up to 9,000 people could eventually die from excess cancer deaths linked to radiation exposure fr...
Apart from the ever-unfolding human toll from the disaster, the Chernobyl accident also left behind a huge area of radiation-tainted land. A 770-mile-wide Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site isn’t considered safe for human habitation and can’t be used for logging or agriculture due to contaminated plants and soil. By 2017, however, entrepreneu...
Meanwhile, wildlife, including boars, wolves, beavers and bison, showed signs of flourishing at the Chernobyl site, according to an April 2016 study. The researchers pointed out that while radiation exposure couldn’t be good for the animals, the benefits of the absence of humans outweighed radiation risk.
8 de dez. de 2021 · Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, o último líder político soviético, que liderava o país desde um ano antes do incidente, disse em 2006, durante o aniversário de 20 anos do ocorrido, que “O derretimento nuclear em Chernobyl foi talvez a causa real do colapso da União Soviética”, seja isso pelo custo econômico ou pela desconfiança crescente entre a ...
25 de jan. de 2013 · According to Gorbachev, the Chernobyl explosion was a “ turning point ” that “opened the possibility of much greater freedom of expression, to the point that the system as we knew it could no...
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
26 de abr. de 2016 · Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (third from right) with wife Raisa on their first visit to the Chernobyl plant, three years after the disaster - which ultimately undermined public faith that...
