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Apr 25, 2023 15 tweets 7 min read Read on X
On this day, 37 years ago, April 26, 1986, at 1.23 am, the worst nuclear disaster in history occurred: The #Chornobyl/#Chernobyl disaster. Unit 4 of Chornobyl NPP exploded. Today we remember and honor those who suffered and gave their lives to contain the catastrophe.
1/n Chornobyl NPP Unit 4 under ...Statue in Chornobyl town: T...
To visualize the impact of th disaster:
On the left you see how Unit 4 looked before the accident.
On the right, you see the aftermath. A large amount of radiation was released into the atmosphere, contaminating the area. The radioactive cloud spread over Europe.
2/n Chornobyl NPP Unit 4 before...Unit 4 after the accident, ...
The reactor burned for days. Plant workers and firefighters were exposed to lethal levels of radiation while looking for their colleagues and trying to combat the flames. Many of them died of acute radiation sickness.
The official death toll: 31 people.
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If you are interested, #Chornobyl NPP released a video recently, it includes phone calls from the night of the accident, from before the explosion and after it happened.
The video has English subtitles.
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The debris had to be cleaned up, the reactor had to be covered.
People had to do that job. Thousands helped with the clean up of the site. They were called #Liquidators. Some of them had 45 seconds to shovel and throw highly radioactive debris down into the dark hole.
5/n Liquidators covered in lead...
It is unknown how many of them developed cancer or died a premature death due to their radiation exposure.
In November of 1986 they managed to entomb what remains of Unit 4 in a concrete structure called the Sarcophagus.
6/n The Sarcophagus, a concrete...
However, the old Sarcophagus was not build forever. It was covered with the New Safe Confinement in November of 2016. It was planned to disassemble the remains of Unit 4 underneath.
7/n Chornobyl NPP Unit 4 under ...
The people in a 30 km area around the plant were evacuated a few days after the accident.
The young, thriving city of Pripyat turned into a ghost town overnight.
Many people lost their home forever.
The area will remain contaminated for hundreds of years.
8/n On the left, there is an ol...
Last year was a particularly difficult year for #Chornobyl NPP and for #Ukraine.
On February 24, 2022 russia launched its genocidal invasion of Ukraine, in the process taking control of Chornobyl NPP and holding the workers there hostage for over 600 hours.
9/n Russian tanks in front of C...
After a month of occpuation the Ukrainian flag finally returned after the russians had left.
The russians kicked up radioactive dust, dug around in highly contaminated areas, they stole equipment, took the National Guard members who were stationed at the plant as prisoners.
10/n Ukrainian soldier with Ukra...
While Chornobyl NPP is now liberated, russia still has control over Zaporizhzhia NPP, the largest NPP in Europe.
This is a dangerous situation, this is nuclear terrorism. There can be no safety as long as russia has control of Zaporizhzhia NPP.
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As for the #Chornobyl exclusion zone itself, before the invasion it was visited by thousands of tourists every year.
But nowadays, it is empty, no tourists, nature is covering the tourist paths. Nature is once again recapturing what humans left behind.
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ChernobylZone on Instagram (instagram.com/chernobylzone/) has access to the zone and has made videos on how it looks currently.

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#Ukraine will win this war.
I hope once it is over, people will be able to return to see the zone, the consequences of the #Chornobyl disaster with their own eyes. May the heroes and their sacrifices never be forgotten!
Україна переможе!
Слава Україні!
Героям Слава!🇺🇦
14/n Silhouette of the Statue th...
To end this thread, before anyone accuses me of misspelling Chornobyl: That is how it is transcribed from Ukrainian Чорнобиль. Chernobyl would be transcribed from russian Чернобыль.
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Apr 26, 2023
Heute vor 37 Jahren, am 26.April 1986, um 1.23 Uhr, kam es zur schwersten Nuklearkatastrophe in der Geschichte: Block 4 des Kernkraftwerks #Tschernobyl/#Tschornobyl explodierte. Heute erinnern wir an die, die ihr Leben opferten, um Schlimmeres zu verhindern.
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Zur Visualisierung der Auswirkungen des Desasters: Links, ein Bild von Block 4 vor dem Unfall. Rechts danach. Eine große Menge radioaktiver Substanzen wurde freigesetzt, kontaminierte das umliegenden Gebiet. Die radioaktive Wolke verbreitete sich über Europa.
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Das Feuer im Reaktor brannte tagelang. Arbeiter und Feuerwehrleute wurden auf der Suche nach ihren Kollegen und bei der Bekämpfung der Flammen tödlichen Strahlendosen ausgesetzt. Viele von ihnen starben an akuter Strahlenkrankheit.
Offiziell gab es durch den Unfall 31 Tote.
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