Odd News

26th of April 1986 is a tragic day for the mankind. Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant in Ukraine suffered from power increase which led to core explosion. This dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere. The radiation levels in the worst-hit areas of the reactor building have been estimated to be 5.6 roentgens per second and considered that lethal doses are around 500 roentgens over 5 hours in some areas unprotected workers received fatal doses within several minutes. Radioactive materials have been released even 400 times more than in atomic bombing of Hiroshima. People feared for their lives. Not only the people in U! kraine and the other counties in The Soviet Union, the whole world was in fear because all this radioactive materials were traveling in a cloud all over Greece, Turkey, Sweden, Germany, Canada and United States of America. Mothers feared for their unborn children, they knew that the risk of having a child with Down syndrome and neural tube defects are much higher after that disaster. Thyroid cancer appeared much more often, lung cancer, people died from acute radiation. It was a stroke that the humanity will remember like one of the most severs. And these days I’m reading an article in a newspaper that says that “Beginning next year, Ukraine plans to open up the sealed zone around the Chernobyl reactor to visitors who wish to learn more about the tragedy that occurred nearly a quarter of a century ago”. Definitely strange but nothing tells the story better than the place itself.

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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