Chernobyl
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Chornobyl 40 Years On
In April of 1986 I was three years old. I have no memory of those days, of the fear and confusion surrounding the events at a Soviet power station in Ukraine. No one knew what the impacts would be; it was the first time in human history that the core of a recently operating nuclear…
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Chornobyl, or How to Blow Up a Nuclear Reactor
Nuclear reactors aren’t supposed to explode. The engineers who design them go to great lengths to make sure they can’t. So, how exactly did the people at the Vladimir Lenin Power Station mange to do so? First off, I want to get some pedantry out of the way. The explosion at Chornobyl was NOT technically…
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