letting out a massive amount of radiation that would debate of all

Russian citizens for hundreds of years to come. At exactly 1:21 am. on

April, 1986 inChernobyl, a city near the Pripiat River the No. 4

reactor exploded and released thirty to forty times the radiation of

the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombing. The exact causes of the explosion

are not known , however scientists and researchers, under thorough

investigation, have uncovered possible causes to the explosion.1 The

main reason why the explosion occurred was that, the operators of the

plant were attempting to conduct an experiment with the emergency

cooling system turned off, they made six fatal errors which sealed

everyone's fate. Soviet officials clamed that if the technicians,

would have avoided at least one of those mistakes, then the plant

The technicians began the test one day before the explosion.

They started reducing the reactor's power level so they could run the

turbine experiment. However in order for the plant to run at lower

power they had to turn off the automatic control system, which powered

for the next time they would be able to conduct would be in one year

graphite began to burn ferociously once exposed to air, as core

didn't fit properly into the core. As the manager gloomy eyed looked

when a nuclear-waste pant exploded and spewed contaminants over

out to buy iodine tablets. With all the radiation killing and

from soviet Union the cover-up was of no surprise. Disasters ranging

did not acknowledge that, the explosion ever happened. Many Russians

out of control. Turning of the cooling system was an unnecessary

out of the rain which carried radiation. 8 In Minsk all were advised

left all but six. By 1:00 Am the power risen to 200 MW, which was

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