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The Green Energy Future You Crave Was Ruined by the USSR
What if Chernobyl had never melted down?
On April 26th, 1986, a reactor in a nuclear power plant outside of the Soviet town of Prypiat in Ukraine exploded and melted down. The resulting disaster took the world by storm. The Soviet government furiously tried to cover up the corruption, lack of accountability, and poor training that led to the disaster as a large cloud of radioactive material slowly spread across Europe.
The result of this accident changed history. The Chernobyl nuclear incident permanently damaged the Soviet Union’s international credibility. People on the ground who were exposed to serious levels of radiation felt betrayed and lied to by their government. An anti-nuclear movement sprang up in Russia and all over Europe. Five and a half years later, the Soviet Union dissolved.
Today, we are on an unsustainable path because of the failures of the USSR at Chernobyl and we are all going to pay for their mistakes.
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