Chernobyl Disaster

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster is a level 9 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) scale that occurred in Pripyat, Ukraine on 26th April 1986.

Description
On April 26th, in 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident to date occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine. The full toll from this disaster is still being tallied, but experts believe that thousands of people died and as many as 70,000 suffered severe poisoning. In addition, a large area of land may not be livable for as much as 150 years. The 18-mile radius around Chernobyl was home to almost 150,000 people who had to be permanently relocated.