Crimes Against Electricity: The Chernobyl Incident | Ep 49
Sponsored by Magney-Grande – Your ESP Longevity Experts Crimes Against ElectricityEpisode 1: The Chernobyl Incident April 26, 1986. A routine safety test at Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ends in catastrophe. Within seconds, a reactor is destroyed, a city is doomed to evacuation, and radioactive contamination begins spreading across Europe. For decades, investigators, engineers, and historians have debated a simple question: what really caused the explosion? Was it operator error? A flawed reactor design? A failure of management? Or something more complex? In the…
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