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At 1.23 a.m. on the morning of April 26 1986 the world was seconds away from its worst ever nuclear accident. Reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union exploded. Zero Hour s1e1: Disaster at Chernobyl, Discovery 2004
Many see it as the first step in break up of the communist regime. ibid.
On this night Chernobyl is harbouring two deadly secrets: the first is a potentially fatal flaw in the reactor’s design which the engineers are not aware of. The flaw that makes it highly unstable when run at low power; the second secret concerns the man in charge Anatoli Dyatlov’s own history is scarred by the very technology he is seeking to dominate. ibid.
The water shortage continues to set off alarms. But none of these engineers believes a serious accident is possible. ibid.
They are the victims of years of cover-ups and negligence. ibid.
Safety came second. Accidents were common and hushed-up. ibid.
The few boron control rods still in the reactor are only partially inserted at the top. So power is building into a hotspot at the bottom of the core, where the sensors don’t always detect it. ibid.
Every year as many as 400 North Americans drown in their cars. Strange Evidence s2e5, 2018
Each year sharks attack about 80 people, killing 6. Strange Evidence s2e6
In the United States about 15 people are killed by icicle-related accidents each year. Strange Evidence s2e10
Kyshtym, Siberia, September 1957 : ‘Several hundred villages, several hundreds thousand people and they’re all being evacuated … The entire area was contaminated.’ Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny s1e2: Black Sites, comment, History 2025
Medvedev reveals that the Kyshtym disaster was caused by an accident at the top-secret nuclear processing plant called Mayak, just eight miles away. ibid.
It’s constructed at breakneck speed by an unconventional workforce: prisoners. ibid.
Declassified documents show that the CIA knew all along and kept it secret. ibid.