International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day in 2021

#OTD in #history, 35 years ago, reactor no. 4 exploded at the #Chernobyl Nuclear Plant outside Pripyat in modern day Ukraine. For a time the Soviets denied that anything happened at all. Via Eduardo Galeano. https://t.co/WyT6mKyOiz

— kpdawes (@kpdawes) April 26, 2021

35 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people were affected by radiation in areas close to #Chernobyl. Today we honor their resilience and the recovery efforts led by Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine with support from the international community https://t.co/PVhi37iDPn https://t.co/vjuWccGHp0

— Mirjana Spoljaric (@SpoljaricM) April 26, 2021

35 years ago, #OTD there was a terrible accident on Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station. The picture below is of my 8th grade class (I am in the front row) on a trip from Leningrad to Kiev. We wanted to make sure that we’d spend May 1st (Labor Day in the Soviet Union) in Kiev! https://t.co/FK3tesdvfH

— Alexey Petrov (@AlexeyPetrov) April 26, 2021

Chernobyl happened on this day 35 years ago. https://t.co/wozlp5DJyg

— Jim Rosica (@JimRosicaFL) April 27, 2021

35 years ago the largest man-made catastrophe in human history happened and forever left its footprint on our planet. Today, on the Day of the #Chornobyl35 Disaster we remember and honor the heroism of all personnel, who took part in the liquidation of the #Chernobyl accident. https://t.co/4v0hUkuZau

— Liza Bezvershenko (@lbzvrshnk) April 26, 2021

On the day of the anniversary of the nuclear power plant accident in #Chernobyl, we need to remember about dangerous emergency reactors on Earth. #Metsamor nuclear power plant in #Armenia 🇦🇲 is in an emergency condition and is located in seismically active zone. #ShutDownMetsamor https://t.co/wPVkfBsw43

— quantum satis (@quantumsatis2) April 26, 2021

Last night my 4yo called me in at bedtime to ask the bizarre question, "what color is a nuclear plant explosion?" This morning I woke up and learned today is the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. I have been mildly freaking out about this coincidence all day.

— Claire Taylor (@ClaireM_Taylor) April 26, 2021