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# 39 years since the Chernobyl disaster
- URL: https://ostreff.info/39-years-since-the-chernobyl-disaster/
- Published: 2025-04-26T18:51:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-26T18:51:58.000Z
- Description: a chronicle of the tragedy that changed the world. The accident was described by the United Nations as "the greatest ecological disaster in human history."
- Author: Jordan Ostreff
- Tags: Personal

Today marks 39 years since the tragic accident at the [Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl%5FNuclear%5FPower%5FPlant?ref=ostreff.info), when, following two explosions, massive amounts of radioactive substances were released into the air.

The explosion occurred on April 26, 1986, at 1:23 AM, and within less than two days, the cloud carrying radioactive particles, 200 times more powerful than the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, covered all of Northern Europe.

![](https://ostreff.info/content/images/2025/04/Chernobyl_reactor_4-2.jpg)

At the beginning of a full-scale war against Ukraine, Russian troops entered the territory of the Chernobyl power plant and began its occupation, lasting from February 24 to March 31, 2022\. On February 13, 2025, a Russian drone crashed into the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl power plant, severely damaging its shell.