By Isaac
On April 26, 1986, at the nuclear power plant near the city of Pripyat Ukraine. A safety test went wrong. First, I will tell you what happened, then I will tell you about the Chernobyl disaster itself and last, some fun facts.
Hold on, lets go back a little bit. On April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near the city of Pripyat Ukraine. A late night safety test went wrong, and the world experienced the worst nuclear accident of all time. Dozens were killed immediately and thousands over the ensuing years. The disaster let out more radiation than the nuclear bomb Hiroshima. The divers were to dive through reactor 4 to reach the cooling pools where they were going to drain them before the radioactive liquid hit them and blew up. They were successful. If they hadn’t drained the pools the devastation would have been ten times worse.
Then for some more information about the Chernobyl disaster. The accident was caused by a combination of factors including operators errors, design flaws and a lack of safety. The disaster led to evacuation of Pripyat and vast areas of Belarus. There were long term health effects too including thyroid cancer which starts in your thyroid gland and makes bad tumors.
Now to something less crazy, some fun facts about the diver Valery Bespalov. Valery lives in Kyiv Ukraine. Valery Bespalov is still alive some people think he and the other two died right after, and yes, Boris did die in 2005, but Valery and Oleksiy are still alive. The three men received the hero of Ukraine award after they drained the cooling pools and stopped the accident from blowing up.
I think these men are real heroes. Because all Ukraine and some of Russia would be uninhabitable without their bravery and courage.
Sources: Sky HISTORY TV channel
Chernobylstory.com
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