{"id":187186,"date":"2019-07-05T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=187186"},"modified":"2025-02-20T13:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T13:39:58","slug":"chernobyl-effects-on-uk","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/chernobyl-effects-on-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Chernobyl Disaster Affected The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"
Between the 25th and the 26th of April, 1986, Reactor Number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant went into meltdown: the tragically ironic result of a safety test simulating a power failure.\n
Located in the now-abandoned Ukrainian town of Pripyat, the doomed reactor spewed a huge plume of radioactive debris and smoke into the atmosphere.\n
This would be humanity’s worst nuclear disaster (so far), and it had a profound effect on the surrounding landscape. However, it also affected the wider world.\n
It is estimated that the explosion released about four hundred times more radioactive material into the atmosphere than both the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.\n