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As many people around the globe know that Chernobyl is the one of the worst disasters ever happened to mankind destroying thousands of lives. The biggest nuclear disaster ever happened in the history of mankind . During the disaster 8 tons of radioactive material was released spread across the zone . It is 400 times effective than that of the Hiroshima bomb and 5 times the Fukushima disaster in Japan . Even now after just over 3 decades the radiation is so high that 20 kilometer area surrounding it is declared as an exclusion zone and entry is strictly prohibited . Although the nuclear debris and the top layer of most of the regions in exclusion zone was removed , Theresa's a forest included in the exclusion which was intensely effected by radioactivity . There was a change in the species due to this. The trees are radioactive now ,when they have burned a pile of dry leafs they(authorities) have noticed a spike in radioactivity levels which could be potentially an another...

   Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, in history chernobyl nuclear accident near the city of Pripyat in Soviet Russia on 26th April 1986 in the No.4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is one of the worst nuclear disasters ever happened on planet earth.  The test to be conducted on that day was to be conducted before the start of the reactor but due to builders interest in getting a bonus instead of safety the reactor was opened many defects.During the system power-failure stress test in which the security systems were turned off knowingly , a combination of both the design faults and operator’s wrong decision of running the test even if the reactor is not in the specified checklist conditions has lead to this gnarly disaster. The head of the department is Dyatlov who has already worked in nuclear field while installing reactors in submarines and was exposed to radiation of 3 life times(200 Rems). The operators in the room on ...