Seems like it was only yesterday....
Chernobyl
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion and meltdown, sending radioactive material into the atmosphere and over much of Europe. It is the largest nuclear disaster in history.
"The Soviet Union appealed Tuesday for Swedish and West German help to fight a nuclear reactor fire and evacuated thousands of people imperiled by one of history's worst nuclear disasters," reported the Daily News Record on April 30, 1986. "In its first report on casualties, the Soviet government said the nuclear plant disaster near the Ukranian capital of Kiev killed two people, and a Soviet official visiting Washington said less than a hundred had been injured."
"U.S. intelligence sources in Washington said the Chernobyl reactor complex experienced a meltdown Saturday, was still billowing smoke Tuesday and threatened another reactor at the same site. U.S. arms control administrator Kenneth Adelman told reporters in Washington the reactor fire 'will continue to burn for a good number of days.' He said the reactor temperatures had reached 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit, more than enough to have caused a calamitous meltdown of reactor fuel. But other scientists disagreed and no one could say exactly what had happened."
Chernobyl
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion and meltdown, sending radioactive material into the atmosphere and over much of Europe. It is the largest nuclear disaster in history.
"The Soviet Union appealed Tuesday for Swedish and West German help to fight a nuclear reactor fire and evacuated thousands of people imperiled by one of history's worst nuclear disasters," reported the Daily News Record on April 30, 1986. "In its first report on casualties, the Soviet government said the nuclear plant disaster near the Ukranian capital of Kiev killed two people, and a Soviet official visiting Washington said less than a hundred had been injured."
"U.S. intelligence sources in Washington said the Chernobyl reactor complex experienced a meltdown Saturday, was still billowing smoke Tuesday and threatened another reactor at the same site. U.S. arms control administrator Kenneth Adelman told reporters in Washington the reactor fire 'will continue to burn for a good number of days.' He said the reactor temperatures had reached 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit, more than enough to have caused a calamitous meltdown of reactor fuel. But other scientists disagreed and no one could say exactly what had happened."
