Chernobyl

It is unbelievable how many people can be killed by a small decision made by a government. In two articles, Chernobyl: before, during, and after by Cindy Rush, and Chernobyl Remains a Dead Zone by Lawrence Gable focuses on what happened in Chernobyl. On April 26, 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up. Leaving the surrounding area in ashes and spreading nuclear radiation across Europe, causing several deaths and chronic diseases. With the government’s ignorance, deaths of the people who risked their lives trying to help settle the explosion and fire , and the people who survived but were infected with thyroid cancer, Chernobyl was a terrible calamity. But what makes it worse is that it all could have all been avoided if the Soviet government paid more attention to safety and the people. Excluding the deaths, Chernobyl is a lesson to the world to not make the same mistake …show more content…
This led to debris filling the atmosphere, and nuclear radiation spreading across Europe, killing a mass amount of people. Most people would assume the incident was just a fatal accident, but this was caused by their government. Not only did ignorance of safety led to this deadly disaster, but the “Soviet authorities did not want to acknowledge the problems to the local residents” (Gable, 1). Additionally, several thousands of people from all over Europe were suffering from the government’s lack of help and aid, even though they are the one’s who caused the incident in the first place. Afterall, the people who are getting sick and ill from the incident have to pay for medication. Even if the people pay for treatment, they’re still paying for something that could’ve been utterly avoided if the government could have paid more attention to the people than stressing about the mistakes they have made. The thought of how the government dealt with the catastrophe may be baffling, but the thought of how the people can be surprising as