While the Fukushima nuclear power plant radiation leakage is taking place people recall the Chernobyl disaster with sadness. The latter happened in April, 26th, 1986 at one of the power-generating units of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The reactor was completely destroyed and a large amount of radioactive substance was thrown out into the environment so that the tragedy was considered the major of such kind.
In 1991 one more fire took place. (AP Photo/Efrm Lucasky)
First Gorbatchev’s visit to the power plant on 23 February 1986. (AFP PHOTO / TASS)
Kiev citizens are standing in a line to be checked for radioactive contamination. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko)
High-voltage towers in Chernobyl. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ghost-town view. (AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY)
Deserted school gym. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
School gym remains. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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This picture of Chernobyl atomic station, taken in 1986, shows the scale of explosion. 10 years after the station still continued its operation due to Ukrainian power needs. It was completely suspended only in 2000. (AP Photo/ Volodymyr Repik)
In 1991 one more fire took place. (AP Photo/Efrm Lucasky)
Chernobyl nuclear power plant aerial view. The picture was taken 3 days after the explosion of the 4th reactor. (AP Photo)
Picture from “Soviet life” magazine. Soviet government admitted that an emergency had taken place but gave no additional info. (AP Photo)
Swedish farmer takes away radioactive straw few months after the tragedy. (STF/AFP/Getty Images)
Soviet doctor examines an evacuated child. The picture was taken during a trip organized by the Soviet authorities to show how they cope with the consequences of the explosion. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko)
First Gorbatchev’s visit to the power plant on 23 February 1986. (AFP PHOTO / TASS)
Kiev citizens are standing in a line to be checked for radioactive contamination. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko)
Boy reads the notice on a playground of Wiesbaden. A week after the Chernobyl tragedy all the children’s playgrounds in the town were closed due to radiation level. (AP Photo/Frank Rumpenhorst)
One of the engineers, who worked at the atomic station, is being examined by doctors a few weeks after the explosion. (STF/AFP/Getty Images)
Activists of an environmental protection organization mark the cars which carried dry radioactive serum in Bremen, Germany. (AP Photo/Peter Meyer)
Slaughterhouse worker stamps non-radioactive carcasses in Frankfurt am Mein. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf/stf)
Archive picture of 14 April 1998. Workers pass the control panel of the destroyed 4th power unit. (AFP PHOTO/ GENIA SAVILOV)
4th power-generating unit control panel, 14 April 1998. (AFP PHOTO/ GENIA SAVILOV)
“We’ll carry out the task of the government!”- slogan of the workers who took part in construction a containment over the destroyed reactor. (AP Photo/ Volodymyr Repik)
High-voltage towers in Chernobyl. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Operator on duty writes down the indices of the single operating reactor #3 on 20 June 2000.
17-year old Oksana and 15-year old Alla are being treated with infra-red rays in a children’s hospital in Cuba. Hundreds of Russian and Ukrainian teenagers who got a dose of radiation were treated for free in Cuba. (ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP)
Baby in Minsk children’s oncology and haematology center, built after the Chernobyl tragedy. 18 April 2006. (VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)
View of the town of Pripyat and the 4th reactor on the day of the station full suspension, 15 December 2000. (Photo by Yuri Kozyrev/Newsmakers)
Ferris wheel in an amusement park of the ghost town of Pripyat. About 45 000 people, who lived in the town in 1986, were fully evacuated three days after the explosion.
Deserted amusement park in the town of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. 26 May 2003. (AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY)
Gas masks on a classroom floor of a school in Pripyat. 23 May 2003. (AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY)
TV set body in a Pripyat hotel. 26 May 2003. (AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY)
Ghost-town view. (AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY)
Abandoned classroom in a Pripyat school. 25 January 2006. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
Textbooks and notebooks on the floor of a Pripyat school. 25 January 2006. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
Toys and a gas mask in the dust of abandoned ghost-town of Pripyat. 25 January 2006. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
Deserted school gym. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
School gym remains. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
Old woman in a Byelorussian village 30 km from Chernobyl closed area. (AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV)
Woman with piglets in an abandoned Byelorussian village which is situated within 30-km Chernobyl closed area. (AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV)
Measuring radiation level in a Byelorussian village. (VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)
Rescuers rehearsing before the concert in a Ukrainian village in a closed area. (SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
In the Byelorussian village Tulgovichi once lived 2000 people. Now only 8 are left, they are celebrating an Orthodox feast by the house. (AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV)
Chernobyl atomic station worker is measuring radiation level. (AFP PHOTO/ GENIA SAVILOV)
Building team during strengthening the containment over the 4th reactor. (AFP PHOTO / GENIA SAVILOV)
Workers are sweeping radioactive dust near the containment. Due to the very high radiation level people work in very short shifts. (GENIA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images)
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