Knowledge Central
Chernobyl
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At 1:23 in the morning on April 26, 1986, a safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine went catastrophically wrong. Reactor No. 4 exploded, releasing radiation across Europe and forcing the permanent evacuation of an entire city. In this episode of Knowledge Central, we look at what happened that night, why it happened, and how the world’s worst nuclear disaster still…