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The Chernobyl disaster, considered the worst nuclear disaster in history, occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, then part of the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine.
Jul 26, 2019 · According to the official, internationally recognised death toll, just 31 people died as an immediate result of Chernobyl while the UN estimates that only 50 deaths can be directly attributed...
Jun 17, 2024 · Chernobyl disaster, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. Between 2 and 50 people were killed in the initial explosions, and dozens more contracted serious radiation sickness, some of whom later died.
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The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union.
Jun 14, 2019 · Though some groups using the same data came to a final figure of 59, many UN agencies have adopted 54 as the official total of short-term deaths from the Chernobyl disaster.
Jul 24, 2017 · It was the worst nuclear disaster in human history. There are several categories of deaths linked to the disaster – for some we have a good idea of how many died, for others we have a range of plausible deaths. Direct deaths from the accident. 30 people died during or very soon after the incident.
Sep 5, 2005 · A total of up to 4000 people could eventually die of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) accident nearly 20 years ago, an international team of more than 100 scientists has concluded.
