How Many People Died In Chernobyl? Is Chernobyl Reactor 4 Still Burning? Who Caused The Chernobyl Disaster?

Two Chernobyl plant workers died due to the explosion on the night of the accident, 28 people died as a result of ARS within a few weeks of the accident.

Nineteen more workers subsequently died between 1987 and 2004, but their deaths cannot necessarily be attributed to radiation exposured.

30 operators and firemen within three months and several further deaths later. One person was killed immediately and a second died in hospital soon after as a result of injuries received.

Another person is reported to have died at the time from a coronary thrombosisc. Acute radiation syndrome (ARS) was originally diagnosed in 237 people onsite and involved with the clean-up and it was later confirmed in 134 cases.

The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel.

Is Chernobyl Reactor 4 Still Burning?
The accident destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor,

Who Caused The Chernobyl Disaster?
Viktor Bryukhanov was blamed for the Chernobyl Disaster. He was in charge of the plant in Ukraine, and was later imprisoned. He died at age 85.