How did the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster effect the use of nuclear energy?

Question

What were the results of this disaster on the use of the energy? How many power plants shut down as a result of it?

Answer 1

1. It reinforced people's fear of nuclear technology
2. The political backlash caused many countries to introduce moratoriums on nuclear power (no new stations)

The other units of the Chernobyl plant had to shut down because of the radioactivity in the area, there may have been other closures of the same design of plants in Russia (carbon based moderator) but numbers of plants shut down as a direct result I do not know. Maybe just one; Chernobyl itself.

Answer 2

I don't, at all. I mean, how people can still see it as an option after what happened in Chernobyl? We don't need a big disaster to be victims of radioactivity again: La Hague, Normandy, France — Radioactive waste from a storage facility in Normandy, France is leaking into groundwater and is being used by local farmers for their dairy cattle, according to a report published today by French laboratory ACRO (1). Water contamination from the CSM waste disposal facility migrates from the dumpsite into the underground aquifers used by farmers, where levels of radioactivity are on average 750 Bequerels per litre, over seven times the European safety limit of 100Bq/l. In agricultural land close to the dumpsite levels in the underground aquifer averaged 9000 Bq/l or 90 times above the safety limit during 2005.

Answer 3

the problem with Chernobyl - is that the engineers running it
decided to test it on their own without supervisor's approval

they used no checklist - so they did not know what to look out for
and when critical temperatures were passed - it was tooo late baby!

it affected how plants run tests
and confirmed that idiots do nothing on their own

Chernobyl was filled with concrete (1) shut down