Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Chernobyl nuclear accident on Apis regarded as the largest of its kind in the history of nuclear energy. But the longer-term death toll from radiation sickness remains a matter of debate.
More than 30 people died in the aftermath of the accident, which left a huge region around the plant uninhabitable to this day.
Spies switched the dirt out for a dud that wasn’t radioactive. View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion on April 29, 1986. It would eventually be a failed safety test in 1986 that set the reactor aflame.Īfter the cataclysm, the Soviets went so far as to sic the KGB on a French journalist who had collected water and soil samples in 1987, according to the documents. In 1984, plant staff documented multiple other unspecified “emergencies.” View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion on April 29, 1986. “In 1983, the Moscow leadership received information that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was one of the most dangerous nuclear power plants in the USSR due to lack of safety equipment,” Ukraine’s security service (SBU) said in a statement. The new documents reveal that, in 1982, safety monitors recorded an unplanned release of radiation at the plant, but the KGB suppressed news, Reuters reports. Soviet leaders hid knowledge of the nuclear power plant’s flaws “to prevent panic and provocative rumors” before the catastrophic 1986 failure of the fourth reactor, according to new records released by Ukraine in conjunction with the 35th anniversary of the disaster. The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl plant was a ticking time bomb for years before it melted down - but the government kept the nuclear facility running anyway.
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