Grim reminder to opt for renewable energy

NOT many young people know much about the catastrophic nuclear disaster that occurred on April 25–26, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the now-abandoned town of Pripyat in northern Ukraine.

The Chernobyl incident involved a core meltdown (a malfunction in a nuclear reactor in which the fuel overheats and melts the reactor core or shielding) that released significant amounts of radioactive materials into the atmosphere, affecting Ukraine, Belarus, the Russian Federation, and parts of Scandinavia and Europe.