 | Chernobyl, Ukraine 51 ° 23'24 .71 "N, 30 ° 6'15 .58" E |  |  |
The April 26, 1986, in a surge of power in the reactor 4 Lenin nuclear plant in Chernobyl, the explosion occurred n of hydrogen accumulated in the core from overheating during an experiment in which simulated a power outage.
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| Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant |
The Chernobyl incident was the worst nuclear accident in history. The reactor is located in Ukraine, 18 km northwest of the town of Chernobyl and 16 km from the border between Ukraine and Belarus.
operating equipment in the plant is proposed to conduct an experiment intended to enhance reactor safety. During the march the same there was an explosion that blew the roof of 100 tons of reactor causing a fire in the plant and a huge release of fission products into the atmosphere. The core, exposed to the atmosphere burning hot. The temperature reached 2,500 ° C and a chimney effect, radioactive smoke drove to a considerable height and spread throughout Europe. We proceeded to the evacuation of a 10 km radius around the plant, but the evacuation of the city of Chernobyl was not carried out until six days after the accident. By then I had more than 1,000 affected by acute injury caused by radiation.
jumped into the 5,000 t core to try to cool the core and built a structure called a sarcophagus, which would involve isolating the reactor from outside.
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| The Sarcophagus |
31 people died at the time of the accident, about 350,000 people were evacuated from the 155,000 km ² concerned to remain large ; areas uninhabited for many years. It is estimated that freed about 500 times the radiation of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Some scientists fear that the radioactivity will affect local people for generations and it is estimated that there will be about 270,000 cases of cancer attributable to Chernobyl fallout of which 93,000 are fatal .
 | Vandellós, Spain 40 ° 57'19 .80 "N, 0 ° 52'34 .92" E | | |
In nuclear plant Vandellós I was about to repeat the disaster. On October 19, 1989 a fire broke out in the turbine. The high cost of the measures required by the English regulator (CSN) made that the operators decided to decommissioning. Today is partially dismantled, with the reactor building in a period of latency, a process that lasts 25 years. In 2028 will proceed to run level 3, which consists of dismantling the reactor drawer completely free site. During the latency period the drawer remains locked in a coating, made galvanized steel.
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