What would have happened if the accident of Chernobyl never happened ?

Hello today we will wonder what would have happened if the accident of Chernobyl never happened.

First let me explain you what happened on the night of April 26 1986.

Chernobyl is a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that was the site of a disastrous nuclear accident on April 26, 1986. A routine test at the power plant went horribly wrong, and two massive explosions blew the 1,000-ton roof off one of the plant’s reactors, releasing 400 times more radiation than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The worst nuclear disaster in history killed two workers in the explosions and, within months, at least 28 more would be dead by acute radiation exposure. Eventually, thousands of people would show signs of health effects—including cancer—from the fallout. The Chernobyl disaster not only stoked fears over the dangers of nuclear power, it also exposed the Soviet government’s lack of openness to the Soviet people and the international community.

The night after the accident, in the city of Pripyat at 3kms from Chernobyl, no one was aware of the danger of radiation. People went out to do their shopping, brought their children to school while they were subjected to a lethal radiation rate.

The Soviet government decided to evacuate the city of Prypiat after 30 hours, on April 27, the day after the explosion, in an emergency. It was not until 1990 that the Soviet authorities recognized the need for international assistance and cooperation to manage the post-disaster period.

But then what would the world look like if Chernobyl had never happened ?

600,000 "liquidators" who had intervened on the site to clean the roof of the plant which were full of pieces of highly radioactive granite, indeed they tried to put machines on the roof but the level of radioactivity was so high that the machines broke after a few minutes on the roof so they had to call on "volunteers » to climb on the roof knowing that their hope for life would be very low.

Without Chernobyl the famous city of pripyat would never have been a ghost city. It now has 0 inhabitants while in 1986 it is 50,000 people who lived there. it is difficult to count the victims of Chernobyl because apart from the direct deaths of firefighters and responders during the explosion there has been an exponential increase in the number of cancers due to radiation.

Moreover, Chernobyl showed the whole world how dangerous an incident in a nuclear power plant is. Thousands of people are affected in dozens of countries as well. Some countries have therefore decided to stop nuclear power for safety but also environmental reasons because the waste is extremely radioactive although it does not emit CO2. if the Chernobyl disaster had not happened then Germany would not have stopped its reactors. Germany would therefore have been independent on the energy market and would not have taken as much on Russia. And the current situation shows us that we must be independent in case a dictator decides to attack a country.

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