Chernobyl 2
Chernobyl 2The 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 in its aftermath an estimated
32,000 dead.
Chernobyl left something else besides it’s radioactivity,
many illnesses that will plague the people of this area
forever. Scientist have dubbed one syndrome the “Chernobyl
AIDS”. It has been estimated to have effected some 30,000
in the area. The syndrome, which is said to decrease the
number of “natural killer” cells in the blood, can cause an
increase in the chance of getting leukemia and malignant
tumors as well as severe forms of cardiac conditions and...
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