20 years ago, on April 26th, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in the Northern Ukraine. One of the hardest hit regions hit by the nuclear explosion was the country of Belarus. The day of the explosion, the wind was blowing north across the Ukraine. Because of that northbound current, 70% of the radioactive materials that escaped the plant at Chernobyl “rained” over the northern neighboring country of Belarus.