Conducting experiments at a low power was claimed to be a “violation of the plant’s technical specification” (“Fact Sheets”). This then had caused an explosion within the reactor’s core resulting in the eruption of heat and disintegrated radioactive fuel into the atmosphere (“Chernobyl: Basic Facts”). Soviet authorities had a timeline of 36 hours post-accident to evacuate the citizen of the surrounding area of the power plant. The radiation that was included with the accident may have been averted if the reactor had an effective emergency preparedness plan, alert and notification was sent out to the authorities and local communities immediately after the accident, and if the authorities communicated details of the accident to the local communities (“Facts Sheet”).
Instantaneously, 30 operators and firemen were killed due to the destruction caused by Chernobyl 4 (“Chernobyl Accident 1986”). Many of the surrounding communities have and still suffer the consequences of this accident. Those whom were on-site and were exposed to the radiation had suffered Acute radiation syndrome. It is stated that the radioactive iodine fallout may be the cause of the diagnosed childhood thyroid cancer of those who were under the age of 18 during the accident due to 7,000 reported cases (“Health