BB&T Corp. operates as a holding company for Branch Banking & Trust Co. It conducts its business operations primarily through its commercial bank subsidiary, Branch Bank, and other non-bank subsidiaries.
Chernobyl nuclear accident: figures for deaths and cancers still in dispute. â¢ Suspected infant mortality rise difficult to prove. â¢ Predicted deaths range from 4,000 to half a million.
Construction of the sarcophagus (cover) over the destroyed Chernobyl reactor. On April 26, 1986, a major accident occurred at Unit 4 of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the former USSR.