On April 26, 1986 THE WORLD’S WORST NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE the happened in the UKRAINE.
A nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant exploded. The radiation that escaped in Chernoby1 was four hundred times the amount that was released by the atomic bomb that was dropped over Hiroshima at the end of World War LL. About 100,000 people had to leave their homes immediately after the explosion. Neighboring villages had to be evacuated and up to today nobody has been allowed to live within 30 km of the plant. Pripyat, founded in 1970 to house the workers of the power plant, has become a ghost town. Before the disaster 50,000 people lived in modern apartment buildings. Today it is completely deserted with cars still parked on the streets. Radiation levels are still so high that nobody will be able to live here for the next one to two hundred years. An area of about 150000 square kilometers was contaminated by radioactive cesium, which has a half life of 30 years. Most of the nuclear fallout came down on Belarus, Russia and the Ukraine itself.