The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
In 1986, a reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine causing the worst nuclear accident ever.
Witness History · BBC World Service
March 21, 20229m 8s
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Show Notes
In April 1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, in the USSR, causing the worst nuclear accident ever. Sergii Mirnyi was in charge of a monitoring unit which measured radiation levels in the 30 km exclusion zone around the plant.
(Photo: The Chernobyl plant shortly after the explosion in 1986. Credit: Getty Images)