Proclaiming April 26th as International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day.

Persistent legacy of the Chernobyl disaster : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

On 26 April 1986, following a routine 20-second system shut down in Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a surge created a chemical explosion. The accident and the fire that followed released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment over large parts of the Soviet Union, now the territories of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation, exposing million of people to radiations. In 2016, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution A/RES/71/125 designating April 26th as International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day.


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