The Chernobyl Disaster

Nuclear energy, a major and trusted energy source worldwide, was the source of one of the largest disasters in the history of energy development: The Chernobyl Disaster. In Ukraine during the year 1986, a reactor exploded and radioactive waste spread around Ukraine and into other parts of the Soviet Union, infecting the air and the water. The exact cause of the incident is unknown, but, because of a theory that it was a defect in the design of the reactor, new designs and types of reactors were made. Chernobyl Reactor is still enclosed inside a sarcophagus to insure that more nuclear waste will not spread.