Ukraine marked the 25th anniversary on Tuesday April 26 2011,of the world's worst nuclear accident at its Chernobyl power plant as Japan pressed on with efforts to control the crisis at its Fukushima plant.
On April 26 1986, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl plant, then in the Soviet Union, exploded and caught fire after a safety test experiment went badly wrong.
The blast sent radiation billowing across Europe. A total of 31 people died immediately but many more died of radiation-related sicknesses such as cancer, many of them in what is today Belarus.
Tens of thousands were evacuated, never to return, from Prypyat, the town closest to the site which then had a population of 50,000.The explosion released about 400 times more radiation than the U.S. atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima.
There is no such thing as safe nuclear, it is just a matter of time. There is never adequate protection from radiation.You see nothing, the radiation will be everywhere. it goes right through you its gets into you and you only starts feeling the effects later, sometimes years later, its terrifying
