In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, a routine safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant spiraled into the ...
Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.
The New Safe Confinement sarcophagus covers the destroyed reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power station (Image: Getty Images) The world's most catastrophic nuclear accident devastated a ...