Chernobyl's 1986 disaster

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On 26 April 1986, it was decided at Chernobyl to take advantage of reactor number four’s downtime by carrying out a safety test on an emergency core cooling feature.

At 1.24 am, an engineer recorded in his diary that the protective system was not working. At the same moment, a huge and catastrophic surge in power caused two explosions.

As fires raged, the core of reactor number four was destroyed. A huge cloud rose into the sky, spreading large amounts of radioactive fuel and materials into the atmosphere.


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  1. Crazy everyones life changed over night . All the people going to school with their friends or work with friends etc. Just moved and probably never seen most of the people they knew again. No cellphones or social media etc

  2. I've never seen this footage… is that real, where you can see in red colours (I guess at night) how the reactor seems to be burning? Was this moment really recorded in the very night of the accident?

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