Demonstration against Russian company's construction of nuclear reactor held in Finland
On the 26th of April, about 10 demonstrators broke into the construction site of a nuclear reactor in the north of Finland. Several more participants demonstrating against the construction of the nuclear power plant laid on the ground in order to block the road to the site, which is jointly carried out by the Finnish concern Fennovoima, and the Russian company Rosatom. The police detained 40 demonstrators.
“We want to remind people that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was built by the predecessor of Rosatom,” the activist of the group Stop Fennovoima stated in her interview with Reuters. Many residents of the country consider the project to be dangerous.
On the 26th of April, the opponents of nuclear energy held protest actions dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster that scattered radioactive clouds over many European countries. Radiation levels exceeded safe limits at the time. After these events, the construction of nuclear reactors in Finland was frozen for 10 years.
The Chernobyl disaster that took place on the 26th of April 1986 resulted in mass radioactive contamination of the territories from which about 200,000 people were evacuated. The Chernobyl exclusion zones were created on the territory of Kiev region in Ukraine, Gomel and Mogilev regions in Belarus and also Bryansk region of Russia. Thirty-one people were killed as a result of the explosion and during fire extinguishing operations, more than 200 were hospitalized.
No exact estimates can be made on the number of people who were killed or lost their health as a result of the accident.