Question

the nuclear explosion at chernobyl
on april 28, 1986, an engineer arrived at swedens forsmark nuclear power plant. this engineer was startled when a radiation detector went off as he entered his office. when he checked the radiation levels on his clothing, he could not believe what he found. his first thought was that a war had broken out and someone had used a nuclear bomb. but what the engineer had detected was a radioactive cloud from the city of chernobyl. this was the site of a soviet nuclear power plant that was 800 miles away. the chernobyl plant was located about 80 miles north of kiev, the capital of the ukraine. the plant once employed 9,200 people. one of the nuclear reactors at chernobyl had exploded. this explosion spewed radioactive dust across the region. it took two days for the soviet officials to even admit that the explosion had occurred. the blast killed 31 people. the reactor explosion was the worlds worst civilian nuclear accident. after the explosion, thousands of workers helped with the cleanup operations. these workers were exposed to very high levels of radiation. many required treatment. the radioactive cloud from chernobyl eventually spread across the entire northern hemisphere. after the accident at chernobyl, serious health problems, such as thyroid cancer, dramatically increased amongst children living in the region. costs related to the disaster have been estimated at over $300 billion. chernobyl continued to produce electricity until december 15, 2000, when officials finally shut down its last operating reactor.

1. in what country did an engineer detect chernobyls nuclear disaster?

Explanation:

The text states that an engineer at Sweden's Forsmark nuclear power plant detected the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl.

Answer:

Sweden