On April 26, 1986, a nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power
Plant in northern Ukraine caused radioactive material to be spewed into
the atmosphere, exposing hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of people in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe to extremely high doses of radiation.
The effects of the nuclear fallout are still being felt: more than 500,000 people
in Belarus, the country most affected by the disaster, have thyroid
problems stemming from Chernobyl radiation, and more than 2 million
people live in areas of the country that put them at high risk of
contamination.
Last week, on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the disaster, a
group of Polish adventurers decided to turn the lights back on in
Pripyat, a radioactive ghost town located three miles from the Chernobyl
reactor. Pripyat was evacuated the day after the meltdown and has been
abandoned ever since—though it has become the center of the disaster
tourism industry that has developed in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Data: 19.04.2017
Fonte: www.globalvoices.org
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