Following the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident in the Ukraine in 1986, the World Health Organization recorded a dramatic increase in thyroid cancer among children in the vicinity.

The most frightening part of the nuclear accident was the radiation thatspewed from the reactor and then was carried by winds on its silent, deadlypath.

Eg: Meltdown is a term that describes the melting of a nuclear reactor core as a result of a nuclear accident.