Brothers return to their toy car 30 years after leaving Pripyat due to the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster, 1986 - 2016
These two bothers came back to their abandoned toy car that they left behind in Pripyat. Pripyat was a town near Chernobyl which housed scientists that ran the nuclear facility. The families of the scientists also lived here. The town was founded in 1970 and had multiple facilities such as a gym, pool, shopping center and as well as apartment blocks in typical Soviet style. Pripyat was home to approximately 50,000 people. Pripyat and Chernobyl are located in Ukraine.
On April 26th, nuclear reactor number 4 exploded after a safety test went wrong. Staff negligence as well as design flaws of the reactor contributed to a uncontrollable atomic chain reaction which caused a huge amount of energy to be released. The explosion blew off the roof of the reactor facility. A huge amount of radioactive contamination entered the atmosphere. 70% percent of the contamination went to Belarus, however traces were detected as far Ireland.
The disaster resulted in less than 100 deaths (according to Soviet records), and resulted in 68 million US dollars in damaged, which included the removal of waste after the explosion. More than 110,000 people had to leave their homes.
The radiation has caused severe birth defects as well has caused many people who were exposed the radiation to develop serious medical conditions such as cancer.
Due to the huge amounts of radiation, Chernobyl will be uninhabitable for 20,000 years. All What's You Should Know— where you'll discover the most interesting things that you Should know. Watch Thousands of Historical event Being put on Movies and Tv Shows on Amazon
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