The former residents of the Ukrainian ‘ghost town’ of Pripyat for the first time since the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in 1986, and again in a christmas tree placed in the main square in the centre of the city. Up In the tree and they have pictures, in terms of how it is to live in the city, appeared before the residents of Pripyat to beat a hasty exit.
On the 26th of april, 1986, it exploded in a nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union. It was so much radioactivity that a large part of what is now belarus, Russia and Ukraine has been rendered uninhabitable, it was stated.
This was the case for Pripyat, a small town in the Ukraine. Like many other cities and towns in the area, it is also, Pripyat is a ghost town that is now only visited by tourists with a guide and a guided tour. Before the disaster, the city of more than 50,000 people.
The effects of the meltdown in the atoomcentrale were huge. Residents in a radius of more than 30 km around Chernobyl had to be evacuated. It was about 135.000 men.
The evacuation began after a period of 24 hours, partly due to the fact that the Soviet authorities in the beginning, but very little information about the disaster to the outside, wanted to make.
The disaster that cost some thousands of lives,
the explosion came up that day, 31 people were killed. However, it is still unclear as to how many of the people indirectly through the radiation of his death. The world health organization (WHO) estimates that, for sure thousand of people have died from the effects of cancer and other diseases, which are the original cause.
The disaster was the past few years, a lot of extra attention on the HBO hit series the Chernobyl, which is the day of the meltdown in detail, have been reconstructed.
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