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- Chernobyl, Forty Years On: What the Reactor Actually Did, and Why It Still Matters
The 1986 accident is the most dramatised disaster in modern memory and the least mechanically understood. Here is what an RBMK reactor actually is, what went wrong on the night of April 26, what the exclusion zone proves about radiation ecology, and why the world's reactors are all different machines now.