@Region Philbis,
More nuclear radiation was released into the environment at Bikini Atoll than at Chernobyl, Kyshtym and Fukushima combined. It will always be the world's biggest Nuclear disaster.
The biggest disaster at Chernobyl was Greenpeace and their ultra stupid projections of the accident. They tried to tell the world that the entire Ukraine would be inhabitable for 90,000 years-it was more like 91 days. They were never taken seriously afterwords and even environmental groups wanted nothing to do with them.
I was scheduled to visit the plant in 1995 but was stopped en-route for reasons I was never told. My guess was they didn't like my last name.
Did the Russians board the greenpeace boat and rough them up for their stupidity? My guess is they did.
That is the real story of the Manhattan project.