What do you know about The Chernobyl nuclear accident?

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I saw the serial Cernobyl and made me curious to search and find out a lot of thing about what happened there. There was a major accident at the nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986 Was composed of an explosion of the boiler, followed by radioactive contamination of the surrounding area This disaster is considered to be the worst accident in the history of nuclear energy. A cloud of radioactive rainfall headed to the western parts of the Soviet Union, Europe and the eastern parts of North America. It is difficult to estimate a precise number of victims produced by the events in Chernobyl, because the secrecy in Soviet times made it difficult to count the victims. The Chernobyl Forum report from 2005, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization (WHO), attributed 56 direct deaths (47 workers and 9 children with thyroid cancer) and estimated that more than 9,000 people of the approximately 6.6 million very exposed may die from cancer. The report cited 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer among children diagnosed in 2002. The Chernobyl accident injected 400 times more radioactive material into the earth's atmosphere than Fukushima (Japan), several times the amount of radioactive material corresponding to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.