* 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union ( now Ukraine ), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

Beginning in 1986, in response to the nuclear reactor explosion and disaster near Chernobyl, Ukraine, the IAEA redoubled its efforts in the field of nuclear safety.

The IAEA itself says that, beginning in 1986, in response to the nuclear reactor explosion and disaster near Chernobyl, Ukraine, the IAEA redoubled its efforts in the field of nuclear safety.

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl disaster occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine situated close to the border with Belarus.

They also travel to countries where standards of care in institutions such as orphanages are considered low by Western European standards, such as Romania ; and where other disasters have led to problems, such as around the Chernobyl disaster in Belarus and Ukraine.

Prypiat | Pripyat, Ukraine, was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster

Following the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, dangerously high levels of nuclear radiation escaped into the surrounding area, and nearly 200 towns and villages in Ukraine and neighbouring Belarus were evacuated, including the cities of Chernobyl and Prypiat.

The town of Pripyat, Ukraine was the site of the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on April 26, 1986 when a nuclear plant exploded.

The most significant meltdowns occurred at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and Chernobyl in the Soviet Ukraine.

The city of Slavutych in northern Ukraine was purpose-built after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to host personnel of the nuclear power plant and their families, evacuated from the abandoned city of Pripyat.

The fourth and fifth films in the series were filmed simultaneously near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant station in Ukraine.

The city of Prypiat, Ukraine ( population 45, 000 ) was completely evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster.

* Pripyat River, a river in Ukraine notably running through the area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and near Prypyat, Ukraine

On January 24, 1989 the Soviet authorities in Byelorussia finally agreed to the demand of the democratic opposition to build a monument to thousands of people shot by Stalin's police in the Kuropaty Forest near Minsk in the 1930s On September 30, 1989 thousands of Byelorussians, denouncing local leaders, marched through the center of Minsk to demand further measures to clean up the aftermath of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.

* New Safe Confinement, the structure intended to contain the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine, part of which was destroyed by a catastrophic nuclear accident in 1986

Igor Fedorovich Kostin ( born 27 December 1936 in Bessarabia, Greater Romania ) was the only photographer in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, on 26 April 1986-the day of the worst nuclear accident in history.

He was working for Novosti Press Agency ( APN ) as a photographer in Kiev, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the nuclear accident in Chernobyl.

Two specimens measuring 83 cm ( 32. 7 in ) have been recorded in Sweden, as well as one in Ukraine near Chernobyl that was 92 cm ( 36. 2 in ).

An article in the Penal Code of Ukraine was specially introduced, and horse patrols were added to protect the perimeter of the Chernobyl Zone.

The event was eventually rated at 6 on the seven-level INES scale, second in severity only to the disasters at Chernobyl in the Ukraine.

The family sailed around the world to raise € 650, 000 for the Chernobyl Children's Project, a charity which offers assistance to children affected by the 1986 accident at the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

Prypiat is the most famous of these abandoned towns ; it was built for the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and had a population of almost 50, 000 at the time of the disaster.

Assuming the radiation levels are not too high and the area does not need to be abandoned such as the town of Pripyat near the Chernobyl reactor, an expensive and time consuming cleanup procedure will begin.

The city was abandoned on April 27, 1986 after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

The largest cities within zone are Chernobyl and Prypiat, which are now abandoned ( see ghost towns ).

Mugwort is called chornobylnik in Ukrainian, and has given its name to the abandoned city of Chernobyl ( Chornobyl in Ukrainian ).

* Prypiat, an abandoned Ukrainian city near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Chernobyl stalking (, ), also known as Chernobyl tourism, is a new type of adventure tourism associated with entry into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to visit the abandoned enterprises, military installations, buried radioactive equipment, and villages and towns evacuated due to radiation in 1986.

River ships and barges lie in the abandoned port of Chernobyl.

To this day, several small towns and the city of Chernobyl remain abandoned and uninhabitable due to fallout.

The abandoned city of Pripyat ( city ) | Pripyat with Chernobyl plant in the distance

A broad public discussion of environmental problems began in the mid-1980s, when the first " green " groups formed in opposition to Yerevan's intense industrial air pollution and to nuclear power generation in the wake of the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl '.

Also, the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 added motive force to Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, which eventually spiraled out of control and caused the Soviet system to collapse.

Moreover, the ongoing war in Afghanistan, and the mishandling of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which Gorbachev tried to cover up, further damaged the credibility of the Soviet government at a time when dissatisfaction was increasing.

Partly due to the impact of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and to growing awareness of the threat of air pollution and acid rain to German forests (" Waldsterben "), the Greens increased their share of the vote to 8. 3 % in the 1987 federal election.

But Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreev is critical of the response to Fukushima, and says that the IAEA did not learn from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

* 1953 – Alexander Akimov Ukrainian Chernobyl worker ( d. 1986 )

In addition, due to the ability of mushrooms to absorb heavy metals, including those that are radioactive, European mushrooms may, to date, include toxicity from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and continue to be studied.

Nuclear power plant accidents include the Chernobyl disaster ( 1986 ), Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster ( 2011 ), the Three Mile Island accident ( 1979 ), and SL-1 accident ( 1961 ).

Air and water pollution affects the country, as well as deforestation, and radiation contamination in the northeast from 1986 accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

* Opposition to nuclear power plants grew, especially after the catastrophic 1986 Chernobyl accident.

According to a French documentary TV film " Tank on the Moon " by Jean Afanassieff, the Lunokhod design returned to limelight 15 years later due to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster on April 26, 1986.

Politically they engaged in the fight against environmental pollution, nuclear energy ( 1986 saw the Chernobyl disaster ), the promotion of animal protection and the campaign against the demolition of Brussels by speculation fuelled by the presence of the European institutions.

Globally, the cessation of increase in nuclear power plant construction came with the more catastrophic Chernobyl disaster in 1986 ( see graph ).

Another significant event during his time as head of the IAEA was the Chernobyl disaster on 26 April 1986, a nuclear accident rated at the highest level 7 on the IAEA's International Nuclear Event Scale.

* Yuri Sharapov and Elena Sharapova, the parents of Maria Sharapova, left Gomel after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986