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Chernobyl - Living with a tragedy
On 26th of April, 1986 at 1:23am block IV of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl exploded. In split seconds the achievement of the reactor rose on the 500-fold of the nominal achievement of 3,000 megawatts (th). From the graphite of the reactor there originated a fire constant similar to a volcano more than ten days.
Immense land surfaces were contaminated with radioactivity and permanently by the deposition of gap products, like caesium 137, strontium 90 (half-life in each case approx. 30 years) and plutonium isotopes (half-life 90 – 24,000 years) loaded. The air to Western Europe was fortified with radioactive iod...
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