The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl nuclear plant was dangerous and covered up emergencies there before the 1986 disaster, the Ukrainian authorities said as they released documents to mark the . His main criticism is about the lack of information, the level of secrecy, and the degree of incompetency that led to unnecessary human losses, especially among the fire-fighters. The surge destroyed the core of reactor unit four, containing approximately 200 tons of nuclear fuel. V. (HDA SBU, Fond 11, Sprava 992, Tom 6). The test was meant to measure a turbogenerator's ability to provide in-house emergency power after shutting off its steam supply. The first protocol reviews necessary measures to combat the damage done by the explosion in energy block 4. Survivors of one of the world's worst ever nuclear accidents at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine on 26 April 1986 have been reflecting on the events of that fateful day 37 years ago, as. How Radiation is Affecting Wildlife Thirty Years After the Chernobyl Dr. Robert Peter Gale was an American physician that was called upon to help treat firefighters and other patients that were affected by the accident in Chernobyl. National Security Archive. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.74.1.104. This document summarizes the specialists' report on the lack of reliability of the reactors at Chernobyl, citing that the lack of protective layers and other structural flaws in the reactor that could lead to radioactive contamination and accidents. Page 4, Chernobyl disaster worker Russian newspaper interview translation part 1, Chernobyl disaster worker Russian newspaper interview translation part 2, Key links related to the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Wikipedia article about the 1986 nuclear plant accident in Ukraine.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disasterWorld Nuclear Association Information Library on the Chernobyl Accident 1986http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/chernobyl-accident.aspxInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - The Chernobyl Projecthttp://www-ns.iaea.org/projects/chernobyl.Nuclear Energy Institute Chernobyl Accident and Its Consequences Fact Sheetshttps://www.nei.org/Master-Document-Folder/Backgrounders/Fact-Sheets/Chernobyl-Accident-And-Its-ConsequencesHuffington Post: 30 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster, a Nuclear Menace Still Hides in Plain Sighthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/ioana-moldovan-/chernobyl-nuclear-menace_b_9774040.htmlCIA Breiefing video on the Chernobyl Nuclesr DisasterThe CIA created video briefing created to give information to President Reagan and the Reagan Administration about the Chernobyl nuclear accident, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster. These materials were introduced by Higginbotham in an essay titled An Explosion Occurred in Power Unit No. January 22nd, 1991 Commission on Questions of the Chernobyl Catastrophe, Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, 'On Some Problems in the Elimination of the Consequences of the Accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station'. 2130 H Street, NW The initial explosion at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant Chernobyl killed two people. An Explosion Occurred in Power Unit No. Adding to these anxietiesstemming from the lack of information about the nuclear disasterwas the backdrop of the Cold War and fear of a nuclear war. M.A. On April 26, 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the republic of Ukraine. Top Secret Chernobyl is the first part of a two-volume documentary publication, taking the Chernobyl story through July 1986. Wilson Center Digital Archive. Secret. Geist explores the role of management's failure in the Chernobyl incident in this academic article. The posting today begins with Yaroshinskayas essay (written exclusively for this publication) reviewing the Chernobyl story and her own efforts dating back to 1986 to document and expose the lies and the secrecy that surrounded the disaster. Chernobyl Disaster Spurs Ecological Movements in Eastern Europe The History and Public Policy Program strives to make public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world, to facilitate scholarship based on those records, and to use these materials to provide context for classroom, public, and policy debates on global affairs. The document describes levels of radiation in the immediate area, populations which may have been affected, and steps which have been taken in the days following the incident.