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preparation
crew at Chernobyl 4 began to prepare for test to see how long the turbines will spin and supply power to the main pumps. -
the disaster
After a test at 1:23 am the largest nuclear accident to date happens in Ukraine near Kiev, due to a flawed reactor design that was operated incorrectly by trained workers. resulting in the death of 2 workers with an additional 28 people who died a few weeks after the accident from radiation poisoning. -
evacuation
evacuation of everyone in a 6 mile radius of the site -
live tv broadcast
soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev goes on live TV. recruits hundreds of people knowing they would most likely die from cleanup of radiation. -
WHO
the World Health Organization raised concern that medical professionals weren't correctly attributing biological and health radiation effects. -
Report
report comes out that the workers activated the reactor even when the conditions were unsafe , violating multiple operating policies and principals. -
collapse of soviet union
Gorbachev, in a 2006 memoir, says Chernobyl "was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union."
