A normal security test as it had been regulary done on the nuclear reactors in Chernobyl, Ukrain went wrong. The total fatal causalities aren't still unknown. Tousends of Military force and Firemen striked against the fire which the explosion made and died later as the result of the radioactive radiation.
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Today, the symbol of radioactivity warning «Don't approach» is the welcome signal of Chernobyl.
Reactor nº4 had to be shutdown and the scientist take that situation to make a security test.
It was tested how long could the reactor produce energy to keep the water cooling working in case of a energy blackdown, so the scientist adapted the reactor to minimum energy production so it wont warm up too much.
Suddenly, at 1h23 of the 26th April, the energy of the reactor increased quickly and there weren't enought water to cool it down, so, the reactor warmed to many and got so hot that it caused an explosion which caused a 1000 meter high radioactive dust on the nuclear central. The wind caused the spreading of these substance specialy to Belarus.
After some 15 minutes the fireman came without any security agaist the radioactive radioation and combated the incontrolavel flames of the building.
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Next day, all over the zone, the military forced the population of Pripyat (Belarus) to evacuate the place, which took only 2 hours to complete.
Today, 20 years after, signed with yellow and black signals of radioactivity, the places of the disaster aren't desert anymore, even that the signals are still there for any reason.
A new Greenpeace report has revealed that the full consequences of the Chernobyl disaster could top a quarter of a million cancers cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers.
Adapted by the "Visão" magazine. Translated by Marc "Th3Alchemist" Soler