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The Chernobyl Disaster was a nuclear incident that occurred on April 26th, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine. The explosion, which was caused by a sudden power output surge, released large amounts of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere and spread all the way to Norway in western Europe. It was considered as the worst nuclear incident in the history and the scale of this disaster had been raised to level 7, which is the highest level according to the International Nuclear Event Scale.

This disaster had caused 30 workers to die immediately during the explosion and over 500,000 workers had found nuclear contamination inside their body. Over 350,400 residents were evacuated from the affected areas in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, the place where 60% of fallout were landed according to the post-Soviet data. The Soviet Union had spent 18 billion rubles on this disaster which heavily crippled their economy.

Today, the area surrounding the power plant still contains radioactive contamination and the town of Pypiat, which is the closest town to the power plant, has been abandoned and became a "ghost city".

The Fukushima disaster that occurred in Japan during the earthquake is very similar to the Chernobyl Disaster. Both incidents have been classified as level 7 event on the international scale and affected much of the nation's soil and other countries. People are calling Fukushima the second Chernobyl and and the towns beside it will probably abandon by its residents due to high volume of radioactive contamination.