«Greenpeace» members require Chernobyl nuclear power plant closing

FILE «Greenpeace» members demanding Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant closing near the building of Administration of the President of Ukraine, in Kyiv, on Wednesday, April 4, 1996. On April 26, 2009 there will 23 years from the day of accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The most scaled anthropogenic catastrophe – an accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant took place on April 26, 1986. The reactor in the 4th energy unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was completely destroyed as a result of string of heat explosions at 1:23 am. Much radioactive elements got 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 by Valery Solovyov/UNIAN