cernobyl disaster

26 april 1986
Reactor number 4 of cernobyl nuclear power station exploded
One hundred times more radiation was released than by the atom bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The explosion claimed 30 lives immediately but that was only the beginning.
The first responders and the conscripts who extinguished the fires had little protection, some little more than dustmasks. Those working on the roof on the reactor where rotating on 15 minutes shifts to minimize exposure, but it wasn’t enough.
Some of them registered 800 times the prescribed maximum dose of radiation for a lifetime
Yet these brave men never set a single foot back although they were well aware of the consequences.
Despite their brave efforts contamination spread.
20 years after  the disaster, the true health costs of chernobil’s radiation bomb are still unknown.
Up to 2000 children later developed thyroid cancer as a result of radiation and as  little as 13000 have already lost their lives.