On April 26th, 1986, something horribly went wrong with reactor four at the power plant in Chernobyl. This accident has so far been the worst one in the world's history of power plants. This accident was caused partly by the operator and partly by faults in the reactor construction. There was an experiment that was being done in order to investigate the possibility of making electricity from the residual energy in the turbo-generators, after the supply of steam was shut off. The experiment was poorly planned, and was led by an electrical engineer who wasn't familiar with the reactor facility. The operators broke six very important safety rules, and all shutdown systems were off-line. The emergency core cooling systems for the reactor had also been off-line. The experiment could only be completed while the reactor was low in power, something that led the operators to believe mistakenly that they were carrying out a safe operation. Just after 1:00am on April 26th, the reactor was operating at a low power level and

Almost half of the Ukraine's energy is from nuclear power so The Ukraine will continue to find itself in a tight situation unless it receives help closing Chernobyl and can begin producing electricity from the two new reactors.

The disaster killed 31 people immediately and caused about 500 other people to go to the hospital. Within a few days, people who lived 18.5 miles or closer were evacuated. The power of the explosion and fire carried most of the radioactivity away from the site, where it then spread across the Northern Hemisphere. The heaviest fallout descended on the western Soviet Union and parts of Europe.

The Chernobyl Accident negatively affected not only the people of the Ukraine and surrounding countries; it also affected the economy, health and the environment. The people of the Ukraine and the surrounding countries are getting hit the hardest without even realizing so. Simply breathing is causing them great

The nuclear power industries in Russia and Ukraine have experienced difficult times since the fall of the Soviet Union, and the Ukraine depends on energy imported from Russia. In 1995, Ukraine committed itself to a five-year timetable to close down Chernobyl for good. The west, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development would finance the completion of two new reactors at the Rovno and Khmelnitsky stations in northwest Ukraine, also it would arrange financing for the construction of the new roof over Chernobyl's reactor 4. On February 20, the EBRD decided not to fund eight of the 13 projects put forward by the Ukraine for its future nuclear growth. Russia quickly offered

The New York Times also understated the scale of the disaster in April 1996 by reporting that Chernobyl spewed radiation across much of Europe. Only in October 1995 did the Times make any indication the fallout reached the rest of the world, reporting that the radiation spread across western Russia and beyond. (LaForge)

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