Chawosauria in the Chernobyl Disaster

The Chernobyl Disaster was a severe nuclear power plant accident that took place on April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in what was then, Soviet Ukraine, in the Soviet Union. What happened was that the control room was working a graveyard shift to do a safety test, but however, the safety test, in which the irony is lost on no one, goes wrong and safety regulations were breeched in the process, and unlike nuclear power plants in the western world, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was part of a fundamentally flawed system dominated by the Soviet Union and its political higherups. When Chernobyl blew up, the plant unleashed unprecedented high levels of radioactive pollution caused an outbreak of radiation sickness amongst the first responders who came in close contact with the plant and an epidemic of cancer hitting northern Ukraine and Belarus especially, and threatened all of Europe. This is radioactive power said to be greater than the atomic bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The irony in terms of radioactive fallout from Chernobyl, the disaster takes place in Ukraine but it was Belarus took the brunt of it, not Ukraine.

The Soviet Union's handling of the Chernobyl Disaster was inadequate and corrupt; already on the bridge to decline due to an exhausting Cold War with fellow superpower and democratic counterpart, the United States, and adding insult to injury being tackled in a failing war in Afghanistan, the Soviet government downplayed the severity of the accident over the objections of scientists and nuclear experts. Execration of the nearby city of Pripyat was delayed because of this downplaying but still happened eventually when it became clear to Soviet authorities that the city is just too unsafe to live and that they could no longer hide the Chernobyl disaster from the world any longer because of how far reaching the environmental fallout of Chernobyl truly was, as well as satellite images taken from space, forcing the Soviet Union to come clean at least a little about the accident, only to really acknowledge just how serious the Chernobyl disaster is to the world due to immense pressure from the world. The Soviet Union did a cleanup operation to secure the radiation from getting worse if not apocalyptic, to decontaminate the environment there, and install an exclusion zone, however, none of this would be enough to make the whole land fit for human habitation anymore. The first responders and the people who worked to combat the accident and contain the damage it offered have all either suffered or died as a price for their work, but they universally honored by both the west and present day Russia as heroes. It's probably no secret that alongside the Holodomor and the Russo-Ukrainian War, that the memories and legacy of the Chernobyl disaster maybe playing a role in complicating Russia's relations with Ukraine, with a 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine so going to make Russia-Ukraine relations even more complicated than it already was prior to the invasion with Russia snatching Chernobyl from Ukraine only doing further damage.

Meanwhile in the Chawosaurian world, the Chawosaurian Imperial Government, who had been studying nuclear power for decades as part of their own development of such, were shocked. angered, and appalled by the Soviet government's incompetence and were horrified by the Chernobyl disaster's fallout on its surrounding environment and beyond. The Chernobyl disaster has impacted Chawosauria as well, the two preferred to be untold events being an Epidemic of 1986, and a surge in Chawosauria's abortion rates, both made Chawosauria shaking their heads at the Soviet Union, led to a decline of Chawosauria's cold war policy called Chawo-Soviet Détente. The 17th Chawopolis Palace passed the Chernobyl Act of 1987 which passage was strongly advocated and fought for by little known Member of Parliament in his late 20s, Shang Jong Parker.