Experts estimate that it will take at least 800 years to completely eliminate the effects of the holocaust on the natural environment, while the continuing danger of nuclear radiation will last for 100,000 years.
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant occurred on April 26, 1986, in the city of Pripyat in the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet*** and State of Ukraine, when the 4th generating unit of the plant exploded, destroying the nuclear reactor in its entirety and leaking large quantities of radioactive material, making it the largest accident since the era of nuclear power. The radiation hazard was so severe that it led to 31 deaths in the first three months after the accident, 60,000-80,000 deaths in the following 15 years, 134,000 people suffered from various degrees of radiation sickness, and more than 115,000 people were forced to evacuate from an area of 30 kilometers in circumference. The occurrence of the Chernobyl incident can be said to be a tragedy in the history of mankind, because the Chernobyl incident caused the death of many ordinary people, although some of them received medical treatment later, but the physical damage caused by nuclear radiation can not be eliminated, and what is more important is that the psychological trauma brought about by the nuclear leakage incident is also difficult to be cured. However, we have also seen that after the Chernobyl incident, the Soviet government also increased the handling of the Chernobyl incident, which to a certain extent also saved a greater tragedy occurred.
Nuclear fallout is almost pervasive. Nuclear radiation has contaminated tens of thousands of square kilometers of fertile, fertile land in the Ukrainian region. More than 2.5 million people in Ukraine***, including more than 473,000 children, have suffered from various diseases as a result of Chernobyl.
Radiation fallout from the meltdown traveled through Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, as well as parts of Europe such as Turkey, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, France (including Corsica), and Britain. and the UK.
In fact, the outbreak of the Chernobyl incident as well as the handling of the program for the future of nuclear power plants or other nuclear facilities have a significant impact on the safety design and reference value, because the outbreak of the Chernobyl incident, resulting in a large number of casualties, so this also makes the current science and technology workers pay more attention to the nuclear power plant or nuclear facility safety performance. And now some nuclear facilities are set up in uninhabited areas, which will minimize the harm to human beings.
So we hope that such a tragedy will not happen again. Because such events are different from ordinary natural disasters, because most of the nuclear leakage events are caused by human factors, but the impact of these events will continue for hundreds of years, it can be said that this for the survival of mankind will also put a huge test. So I hope that scientists and technicians in the design of nuclear facilities and other high-radiation facilities, must pay more attention to safety considerations.