The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on Sunday to visit the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where 29 years ago there was almost the biggest disasters in the history of nuclear power.
Ukraine on Sunday will honor the memory of the victims of this disaster.
"on Sunday, April 26, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will visit the SSE (state specialized enterprise" Chernobyl NPP ", - said the press service of the Ukrainian leader.
The accident occurred on April 26 in 1. 23 - uncontrolled increase in reactor power has led to the explosions and the destruction of a significant part of the reactor. In the end, the catastrophe in the environment was ejected a large number of radioactive substances. So, significantly contaminated with radioactive cesium-137 was the territory of Ukraine (37, 6 thousand square kilometers), Belarus (43, 5 thousand), the European part of Russia (59, 3 thousand). The liquidators of the disaster found about 600 thousand people. Remove the effects lasts until now.
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