

Most of the government forces guarding the perimeter are killed instantly.Ģ008: Scientists are still unable to explain what happened.

After a moment of complete silence, a peel of thunder shakes the ground. June 11th, 2006: The Zone lights up with a flash of blinding light as clouds can be seen evaporating in the sky. to set up a network of secret laboratories in the Exclusion Zone. The existence of a power station as well as the fact that the area is no longer inhabited, leads the council of ministers of the U.S.S.R. Despite the disaster, the Chernobyl NPP continues to operate. A 30 kilometer Exclusion Zone is created to stop residents from returning to the contaminated area. The consequences of the disaster are so serious that the government is forced to begin evacuating the residents of near-by towns and villages. The resulting radioactive cloud moves across the European part of the U.S.S.R., Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia, eventually reaching America. At 01:23 on April 26th, 1986: The reactor of power block 4 of Chernobyl NPP is destroyed following a series of thermal explosions.
