The Chernobyl Accident negatively affected not only the people of the Ukraine and surrounding countries; it also affected the economy, health and the environment.
             On April 26th, 1986, something horribly went wrong with reactor four at the power plant in Chernobyl. This accident has so far been the worst one in the world's history of power plants. This accident was caused partly by the operator and partly by faults in the reactor construction. There was an experiment that was being done in order to investigate the possibility of making electricity from the residual energy in the turbo-generators, after the supply of steam was shut off. The experiment was poorly planned, and was led by an electrical engineer who wasn't familiar with the reactor facility. The operators broke six very important safety rules, and all shutdown systems were off-line. The emergency core cooling systems for the reactor had also been off-line. The experiment could only be completed while the reactor was low in power, something that led the operators to believe mistakenly that they were carrying out a safe operation. Just after 1:00am on April 26th, the reactor was operating at a low power level and all control rods
             were withdrawn from the reactor core. The power output had been so low, the
             operators thought that they could control it manually. They overrode the
             automatic control system so that the reactor wouldn't come to a halt. The power increase was slow at first, quickly increasing to a power doubling itself in less than one second. The water in the core exploded into steam. The fuel elements were destroyed by the blast, which also caused the roof of the reactor to blow away. That gave fresh air access to the reactor which fed the explosion. The fire lasted for several days releasing dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere. (Nils Bohmer)
             The disaster killed 31 people immediately and caused about 500 other people t...