Infamous, not famous! It was an accident in an old nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986. Workers and people living around the area were exposed to massive amounts of radiation. Thirty people died...
Chernobyl is the location of a nuclear power plant that suffered a reactor meltdown and fire which spread a plume of radioactive debris over much of Europe.
Chernobyl was a nuclear power plant in the former Soviet Union. On 26 April 1986, it suffered a massive failure which caused it to spread radioactive waste across large parts of Europe. The accident...