The Chernobyl accident's severe radiation effects killed 28 of the site's 600 workers in the first four months after the event.Another 106 workers received high enough doses to cause acute radiation sickness. Two workers died within hours of the reactor explosion from non-radiological causes.ackground. On April 26, 1986, a sudden surge of power during a reactor systems test destroyed Unit 4 of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union. The accident and the fire that followed released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment.
By Kerry Kubilius. Budapest is located in the north-central territory of Hungary on the Danube River.Budapest is the combination of Buda and Pest, each which reside on either side of the Danube.y Kerry Kubilius. Budapest is located in the north-central territory of Hungary on the Danube River.
Budapest yokes together two formerly separate cities: Buda and Pest, on opposite sides of the Danube. Buda, on the West side of the river is hilly and semi-suburban, and has winding, narrow streets wending their way up into the hills.peaking of spas, Budapest has many, on both sides of the river. It also has grand boulevards, now somewhat dilapidated in parts (and therefore in frequent demand as the set for movies depicting war-torn 20th Century Europe), but others are being restored.