BackOn April 26, 1986 there was an accident on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant – without exaggeration, accident of planetary scale. Hundreds and thousands of lives – firefighters, the military personnel, doctors, scientists and simple citizens – laid down lives for stopping reaction and to protect us from further distribution of radioactive dust. However, the diseases owing to radiation, settled out cities and villages, infected with emissions territories and destroyed Chernobyl NPP are those consequences which still not one generation should overcome.
Information on gross violations hidden from society while constructing and operating of blocks on the CNPP demonstrates that the power of that time was very well aware of accidents and terrible dangers which the CNPP jeopardizes for life and human health.
Documents on construction and accident on the CNPP are a bright illustration of why ecological information, information on accidents, catastrophes, quality of foodstuff can't be secret. The possibility of society to have access to such information is pledge of the fact that similar accidents can be avoided in the future, and in case of emergency situations the population will be quickly and due informed.
The fact that SSU archive at last was made available the main documents in Electronic archive demonstrates irreversible changes in our society, first of all, concerning attitude of the power towards one of the fundamental rights in democratic societies – the right of citizens to access to information.
Information on accident on the CNPP, the Beloyarsk NPP, on the NPP in Bogunitsa City (CSR) and on other dangerous objects which is carefully hidden by intelligence agencies until recently, begins to open.
To draw attention to terrible consequences of the Chernobyl accident, on the eve of the 30th anniversary in Kyiv the exhibition of the Ukrainian institute of national memory "Under a sarcophagus" was opened. For the viewer it is suggested to look at accident more widely, than only as at technogenic accident.
Source: Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
