Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
On April 26, 1986, at 1:23 in the morning, reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl power plant, then in Soviet Ukraine, became the scene of the worst known civil nuclear accident. On the INES scale, which rates nuclear events from 1 to 7, it reached the top level, like Fukushima in 2011.
Radioactive material was thrown into the atmosphere. The cloud crossed much of Europe. Beyond the human tragedy, Chernobyl changed the way people saw nuclear power for good, and it exposed the flaws of the Soviet system.
The rest is in the Sophia app.The remaining parts, the open-book quiz and the full glossary. Free to start; Premium unlocks everything.
- 2A test that went wrong
- 3Denial, evacuation, liquidators
- 4Human and environmental consequences
- 5A political and technical legacy
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary8 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.
