wasteland

             On April 1986, Soviet's Union Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded
             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
             all emergency limitations that the plant should make in case it goes
             out of control. Turning of the cooling system was an unnecessary
             action and though it did not cause the explosion, it made the
             consequences more fatal. Just then the operator's receive a call from
             the local grid controller in Kiev, who needed the power and asked the
             technicians to stop lowering it, at what they obeyed. Once that was
             done the reactor was running with out the cooling system , which was a
             very serious mistake. At 11:10 p.m. the grid controller said he no
             longer needed the power, and the operators returned to reducing the
             power. At twenty minutes past midnight the operators forgot to set the
             regulator properly, it was the second fatal error. B...

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