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1970-March – Construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant begins

1976-October – Filling of the cooling water reservoir for the Chernobyl Power Plant begins.

1979-Pripyat officially proclaimed as a city.

April – The Chernobyl Atomic Power Station reaches its first 10 billion kilowatt-hours of electrical output.

1983-December – The construction of Unit 4 at Chernobyl is completed and the plant becomes operational on the 20th. This news was reported by the media on 22 December, a festive day for workers in the energy industry. 

1985-April – The Minister of Energy, Anatole Mayoress, decrees that information on any adverse effects caused by the functioning of the energy industry on employees, inhabitants and the environment, were not suitable for publication by newspapers, radio or television.

1986-February –Vitali Sklyarov, Minister of Power and Electrification of Ukraine, in reference to the nuclear reactors in Ukraine, is quoted in Soviet Life magazine as saying: “The odds of a meltdown are one in 10,000 years. 

27 March – Literaturna Ukraina (Ukrainian Literature) publishes an article written by Ms Lyubov Kovalevska (believed to be a senior manager at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)) in which she writes that substandard construction, workmanship and concrete, along with thefts and bureaucratic incompetence are creating a time bomb “The failures here will be repaid, repaid over the decades to come”.

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The town of Pripyat, population 45,000, was evacuated soon after the accident. Evacuation procedures were chaotic. People had to leave their homes, never to return. Many were eventually re-settled in existing communities or new communities built especially for evacuees. 

Over 7 million people were effected. The most heavily affected areas were in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. However, sheep in northern England and reindeer in Lapland had to be killed.

Over 63,000 square miles of land have been affected. Much land should no longer be used for agriculture. However, 4.5 million children and adults are still living on contaminated land, growing food on contaminated land, and as a consequence the food they are eating is also contaminated. Rural areas have been severely devastated.

]]> 2016-04-15 04:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/339533/tbt9ppyfdgak/wish/105941658 339533 https://padlet.com/339533/tbt9ppyfdgak/wish/106316557 In Chernobyl there was a nuclear accident on that occurred on a Saturday 26 April 1986. It was considered or it is still considered the worst nuclear power plant in history.  Around 32 people died and dozens more suffered radiation burns in the opening days during the crisis. It also included four nuclear reactors each capable of producing one gigawatt of electric power. At the time of the nuclear power accident the four reactors produced 10 percent of the electricity ]]> 2016-04-18 14:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/339533/tbt9ppyfdgak/wish/106316557 339533 https://padlet.com/339533/tbt9ppyfdgak/wish/106337973 In March 1970 the construction of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant began. 
-In 1977 the first of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant four reactors are ready to operate.
-In 1979 the chernobyl  atomic power station reaching 10 billion kilowatt hours ]]> 2016-04-18 15:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/339533/tbt9ppyfdgak/wish/106337973 339533 https://padlet.com/339533/tbt9ppyfdgak/wish/106341518 The accident also caused the largest uncontrolled atmospheric releases of radioactive material.It also caused many health problems.]]> 2016-04-18 15:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/339533/tbt9ppyfdgak/wish/106341518