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It was evacuated immediately (some 100k people), no one is allowed to live in the exclusion zone (19 square miles) and yes the final reactor wasn't closed down
by Circuits 7y ago
It was evacuated immediately (some 100k people), no one is allowed to live in the exclusion zone (19 square miles) and yes the final reactor wasn't closed down until 2000 but the other two were closed down before then, unit 1 in 1996 and unit 2 in 1991. The only reason and despite world outcry that those reactors stayed in operation was because they had no choice. So either your ignorant of the facts or your trying to put a positive spin on a terrible and tragic event... which makes you a huge pos.
- true_religion 7y agoWhy did they have no choice but to use the reactors for the next 14 years?
- bradleyhb 7y agoFor the answer see...”dissolution of the Soviet Union”
- Grue3 7y agoMost of these 100k people lived in Pripyat. Chernobyl is to the south of the nuclear plant and wasn't as affected. According to [1] 12500 people lived there before the accident, currently about 600 people live there. [1] https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE...