Paper Details

Name: Manveer Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2020 & 2021 & 2022 (Combined)
Volume: Volume - 7 and 8 and 9 (Combined Issues)
Page Number: 1-8

Chernobyl, the name itself subsumes within it a host of memories, traumas, sufferings, anxieties and the very collapse of a culture and tradition that a population held onto very dearly. On April 26, 1986 during a simulated power outage safety test, the core of reactor no. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded leading to a gigantic radioactive contamination that lasted for about nine days, but the release of the isotopes didn’t halt till much later. As John M. LaForge writes:
Once a thriving community of 45,000, Pripyat was the only city near Chernobyl’s
Unit 4 when the reactor exploded on April 26, 1986. It burned until October, spewing dangerous isotopes around the Earth (28).