International holidays - International Day of Commemorating Victims of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes

Having “tamed” the atom, humanity had no idea how many victims there would be in the future from radiation The very first human casualties occurred already in 1944, when American scientists provoked an explosion of uranium hexafluoride As a result, of the five people in the laboratory, only two survived After this there was more than one accident, but the Chernobyl disaster remains the largest In memory of her and all other similar incidents, all humanity on April 26 remembers the people affected by radiation disasters The heads of the CIS states, who were at the UN international summit in 2001, addressed all other countries with a proposal to make April 26 a memorial day for victims of radiation disasters So April 26 forever became the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Radiation and Radiation Disasters The accident at the nuclear power plant occurred at night, April 26, 1986 The consequences of this tragedy were colossal, even on a global scale: 1 Immediately after the explosion, the atmosphere was contaminated with radioactive waste for 10 days, after which the level of release began to decrease2 Increased levels of radiation were recorded in 17 European countries Ukraine and Belarus suffered the most3 Radioactive rain was recorded even in Canada, Japan and parts of the USA4 More than 8 million people were infected by radiation5 Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated due to increased radiation6 300 people were infected with the maximum level of radiation, these were Chernobyl NPP workers and firefighters Of these, 28 people died in hospitals from radiation sickness7 About 600 thousand people were involved in eliminating the consequences Today the reactor is securely covered with a new protective dome, the city of Pripyat has forever become synonymous with that great tragedy, and accidents continue The most recent one was recorded on March 11, 2011 in Japan This disaster was assigned the maximum 7-point mark on the International Nuclear Event Scale