The Chernobyl disaster began in the early morning hours of April 25, 1986 when a shift operating the nuclear reactor exploded showering radioactive debris from the power nuclear plant in the northern Ukraine over most of eastern Europe. This radioactivity was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombings at Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The explosion left the surrounding area looking like a ghost town. People rushed to get themselves and their families to safety. It left …showed first 75 words of 316 total…

…showed last 75 words of 316 total…poverty. This is cited as an accident but is really much more. The clean up to this disaster will take another estimated 30 years and many of the long term effects will not be known until it is too late to stop them. The Chernobyl disaster is one that could have and should have been prevented. Instead of cutting cost we should do it right the first time to make sure nothing like this happens again.