Chernobyl

FILE Compressor masters - Gennadiy Yakovlev, left, and Yosif Petrov - at the building of concrete manufactory plant (in Chernobyl NPP zone, necessary for creation of compressor above the 4th energy unit, August 1986. The Chernobyl catastrophe – is destruction of the 4th energy unit of the Chernobyl NPS on April 26, 1986. The destruction has an explosive character and the reactor was destroyed completely, and much radioactive materials were thrown out into atmosphere. This accident is considered to be as the biggest one during the whole history of nuclear energy both by supposed number of perished people and economic damage. Photo byPyasetsky Vasily/UNIAN