Soviet authorities established a 30km exclusion zone around this nuclear wasteland but in 2006 a second explosion rocked the stricken reactor obliterating all living things and causing the zone s boundaries to ripple outwards. In 1986 the world s worst nuclear disaster occurred at the chernobyl power station. On april 26 1986 at 1 23 am the chernobyl nuclear power plant s reactor number four blew up after operators botched a safety test triggering the world s worst nuclear disaster to date.
The series of paintings of artist roman gumanyuk about chernobyl disaster or the chernobyl accident on 26 april 1986 at the chernobyl nuclear power plant in the town of pripyat in ukraine. Pripyat lights or chernobyl shadows of artist roman gumanyuk. Soviet authorities established an exclusion zone around but a second explosion hit the reactor in 2006 creating the zone as we know it dangerous place filled with mutated creatures deadly radiation and a strange anomalous energy.
About this game in 1986 the world s worst nuclear disaster occurred at the chernobyl nuclear power plant. The radioactive fallout spread over tens of thousands of square kilometers driving more than a quarter of a million people permanently from their homes. On 26 april 1986 at 1 23 am the chernobyl nuclear power plant s reactor 4 blew up after operators had botched a safety test triggering an explosion and a fire that burned for 10 days.
Lenin nuclear power station as it was known during the soviet times consisted of four reactors of type rbmk 1000 each capable of producing 1 000 megawatts mw of electric power 3 2 gw of thermal power and the four together produced about 10 of ukraine s electricity at the time of the accident. The chernobyl nuclear power plant in real life after the 1986 disaster. Thirty years after the chernobyl disaster nuclear menace of ageing soviet era power plants hides in plain sight.
Nuclear power and the dark shadow of chernobyl. The game is set in an alternative reality where a second nuclear disaster occurred at the chernobyl exclusion zone causing strange changes in the area around it. Shadow of chernobyl is a first person shooter survival horror video game developed by ukrainian game developer gsc game world and published by thq in 2007 following a long development.
The accident the worst nuclear reactor accident in the world was a combination of several different factors and both the design of the reactor and the human. The chernobyl nuclear power plant was hit in the spring of 1986 by a terrible accident when reactor four was destroyed by an explosion and large amounts of radioactive radiation leaked. The lesson of chernobyl isn t that modern nuclear power is dangerous wrote craig mazin the producer of the hbo.
Chernobyl on the small screen still shadows big picture for nuclear.
