Views The consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe are a serious obstacle factor in the economic construction of UkraineThere have been twenty years since the horrible date, 26th April 1986, when the biggest technological catastrophe in the history of humankind happened – the nuclear-plant accident in Chernobyl. I remember very well the first moments when the citizens of Kiev found out about the accident. There was big ignorance. No one except the experts had contact with the atom and some new terms occurred at the time: radionuclides, heavy metal pollution, radiation etc.