Chernobyl
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Chernobyl: The Dark Side Of Technological Progress
The development of the civilization brought up many discoveries that completely changed the way people lived. The inventions of the wheel, gunpowder, elecricity, radio and television, all of them affected mankind in their time. Nuclear power was one of those inventions. It provided a lot of energy from a very little amount of material. Although we have received many benefits from our modern advanced science and technology, we must realize that there are negative aspects of what the technology can bring us as well. The Chernobyl disaster proved it. The effect of this accident spread throughout the world and will last longer that most people can imagine.
Nobody knew where Chernobyl was before the accident took place. As a result of a massive explosion on April 26, 1986, Chernobyl suddenly became the...