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Post #1760974
2026-04-26 06:00 UTC
Chernobyl #OnThisDay
On 26 April 1986 he world's worst nuclear disaster occurred when the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union exploded, resulting in 31 deaths and radioactive contamination spreading to much of Western Europe. Following the explosion, which killed two engineers and severely burned two others, an emergency operation began to put out the fires and stabilize the reactor.
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@gemelen@mammut.moe 2026-04-26 07:07
@fionaorkneynews I'm sorry to point at this, but these 31 deaths are immediate, undeniable even by the USSRs standards of keeping everything secret, accounted victims. I'm not sure how to address it, as the real scale of deaths never had evaluated. There are only estimations, based on observations through decades. One may compare with the Mayak incident, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster?wprov=sfla1
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@John_Loader@ohai.social 2026-04-26 08:38
@fionaorkneynews Welsh sheep could not enter the food chain for many years.