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Trending: Looking Back at the Chernobyl Disaster

By David Schonauer   Thursday April 23, 2026

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Forty years ago, at 1:23 am on April 26, 1986, operators of the Number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant began running a safety test that turned into disaster. 

They were hoping to simulate a procedure for cooling the reactor during an accident in …


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