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Essay / Nuclear Disaster: The Chernobyl Disaster - 1509
In Moscow, Soviet nuclear experts and leaders get information only about "reactor fire, but did not explode", so Soviet authorities reacted slowly. In the 34 hours following the accident, part of the village near the nuclear power plant began to be evacuated. The government also sent troops to force the population to evacuate. At that time, an amount of radiation several hundred times greater than fatal had been measured in the village near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and radiation levels were still high. But the government still has not paid attention to this situation. Experts preferred to believe that this situation was the fault of the measuring machine and did not believe that there was such a strong reaction. Residents were not told the full truth about the matter because the manager feared it would cause panic. Finally, almost a week after the incident, Moscow received information from the Swedish government. In this case, the radiation cloud was released into the atmosphere in Sweden. The Soviet Union finally understands that the disaster is more serious than it thought. At that time, the city's residents were evacuated, but the scale of public radiation was so high that it increased their cancer rates. ("What is