On April 26, 1986 at 1:23 am the core of the fourth reactor at the V.I. Lenin nuclear power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine exploded, ripping off the roof, and spaying radioactive material everywhere. Chernobyl is known as " the worst nuclear disaster in history" . The graphite core of the reactor had exploded, which then effectively caused an almost simultaneous explosion. The explosion from the core caused the second explosion to violently send the roof and most of the …
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…Akimov was afraid of being put in jail. Grigori Medvedev, a Russian nuclear engineer, summed up all the weaknesses of the Soviet system exposed by this accident, An abscess, long hidden within our society, had just burst: the abscess of complacency and self-flattery, of corruption and protectionism, of narrow-mindedness and self-serving privilege. Now, as it rotted, the corpse of a bygone age-the age of lies and spiritual decay-filled the air with the stench of radiation.