Nelson, the correspondent, touches the "nuclear" lands of Chernobyl

On April 26, 1986, the world went into crisis. In the middle of the cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States, an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant caused a disaster that could have been more serious. Thirty-three years after this momentwe still remember a fact that marked a before and after in geopolitics.

Nelson Castro went to these lands to learn how to live and to review the details of what happened there. The reporter is already in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, where he works for the program. Nelson, the correspondent. The Chernobyl plant suffered an explosion and a fire in reactor 4, which sent large quantities of radioactive material into the atmosphere and killed thousands of people.

With the Fukushima I nuclear accident in Japan in 2011, it is considered the most serious of the international scale of nuclear accidents, and it is also one of the largest environmental disasters from history, with a radiation released equivalent to that of hundreds of atomic bombs like that of Hiroshima.

The numbers are conclusive about what happened. There were 31 dead in the blast, 134 workers had acute radiation syndrome and 28 of them died in a few days. At least 116,000 people were evacuated and transferred to other cities in 1986. Since 1990, more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer have been reported in the region, far more than usual statistics.