Chernobyl: The New Evidence

Since its opening in 1977, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located in the sparsely populated northern part of the then Soviet Republic of Ukraine, has been surrounded by secrecy. And from the start, there were also concerns about safety, now evidenced by hundreds of secret reports recently delved up from KGB archives.



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'Chernobyl was poorly designed, was poorly built and badly run'. The nuclear power plant was a time bomb, which could detonate at any moment.

On April 26, 1986, the time came: reactor number four exploded and thus set a fatal chain reaction in motion. Deadly radioactive substances were released, which quickly spread over the immediate surroundings and from there, with the wind, set course west, the rest of Europe. Not that this seemed to be the first priority of Soviet leaders. They mainly focused on getting rid of the publicity 'fallout' of the disaster, rather than on the dangers to humans and the earth.

A navrant example of this is how they managed to cause rain showers in the deepest secret, with airplanes full of dried ice. In doing so, the Soviets managed to adjust the course of a radioactive cloud, which was on its way to Moscow. The 1 May celebration in the capital was therefore able to go on without any problems. Meanwhile, the toxic rain ended up in Kiev, where participants in the May 1 parade, including many children, were exposed to radioactive radiation without any kind of warning. Only years later, the consequences of this became clear: cancer.
As a somewhat wry luck in an accident, a kind of nature reserve arose in that no-man's land, for example, where all kinds of wild animals have found a new home.

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