The Chernobylnuclear power plantaccidentinthe Soviet Union sent radioactivedustparticleshundredsand eventhousands ofkilometersaway, withhealth effects occurring closein.
Russian nuclear disaster experts from Rosenergoatom and the Nuclear Safety Institute who gained their experience from the Chernobylnuclearpowerplant meltdown in 1986 Ukraine will also be going to Japan, Ria Novosti reported.