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On This Day, April 26: Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Explodes in Ukraine
The test exposed design flaws and operator errors that drove a 100-times-normal power surge, officials said.
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The timeline of the events following the accident at the nuclear power plant. Eighteen days later Gorbachev declared: "The worst has passed." But still today men and...
·Turin, Italy
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Science history: Chernobyl nuclear power plant melts down, bringing the world to the brink of disaster — April 26, 1986
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down, but the rest of the world wouldn't learn how close it came to nuclear Armageddon until weeks later.
·United States
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On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster in human history occurred—the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Contaminated land, a radioactive cloud over Europe, and the tragedy of thousands of people—the events of forty years ago still resonate.
Tests similar to the one in 1986 were also conducted in 1982 and 1984.
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