For two days, the Soviet Union hid news even from its member states and its so-called friends. Although the intelligence services could have guessed that something big had happened, a notification was only made two days later, on April 28, 1986.
Although the Soviet leadership tried to hide the nuclear disaster, the materials released into the atmosphere could not be undetected. Thanks to the wind direction, they noticed within a fairly short time that something might have happened, for the first time in Sweden they noticed the radioactive clouds.
Hungary learned about the disaster only days laterCavan Images / Getty Images Hungary
Hungary was informed about Chernobyl days later
The south-east of the Swedes, the Soviet Union clouds contaminated with radioactivity coming from the direction were identified. From then on, it was not possible to keep quiet about the accident for a long time, it soon spread in the international news that there was a big problem. The cloud is a Carpathians after passing through the filter, it reached our country on April 29. By this time, however, the first news reports had already arrived.
In Hungarian for the first time Iván Bedő a Hungarian Radio the shift manager of his newsroom for the day announced the fact of the disaster, a BBC based on his news on the evening of April 28, on the news at 9 p.m. The news was banned by the country’s leadership at dawn the next day, and Bedő was punished.
“There has been an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union. According to reports, one of the reactors has been damaged and several people have been injured. Officials have begun to eliminate the malfunction at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine. A government commission has been established to clean up the damage. Meanwhile, in Stockholm, it was announced that from Denmark to Finland radioactive radiation levels were detected sudden increase. According to local experts, the radioactive cloud reached the Scandinavian peninsula in a short time.
– Petőfi Rádió reported live on the evening of April 28, 1986.
The news spread secretly
The KFKI some of his colleagues the morning after the accident more Budapest from a street phone boothHe called kindergartens and nurseries in the center of the county and warned the teachers that the radiation “so strongthat it can be dangerous for children”. The warning then spread further from the kindergartens.
Leaders of socialist countries due to Soviet pressure in general, they decided to keep it secret, but after the reports of the international news agencies, they were finally forced to publish the news about the accident involving the nuclear power plant everywhere. They tried to calm the population, that the Soviets are the masters of the situation and the population has nothing to fear, they can eat, drink and walk outdoors. In the western part of Hungary, however, the western, Yugoslav and many people were informed through Austrian radio stations or foreign relatives about the true extent of the accidentand they were able to take the necessary precautions.
In Hungary, the excess dose received in 1986 was 0.2 mSv (a mammographic scan was 3 mSv), however, the days after the accident In the most polluted regions of Hungary an activity of around 50 kBq was measured in the thyroid gland of cows.
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