Chernobyl Disaster
The Chernobyl disaster happened on the 25th of April in 1986. It was a mixture of disregard to safety and The Cold War policy on sharing between the communist U.S.S.R and the U.S.A... While being the worst commercial nuclear disaster in history, it was also one of the easiest to prevent.
The disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine was a nuclear meltdown of the Chernobyl-4 reactor. The problem started with the test that was to be performed before shut-down. The test was to see how long the turbines would spin after a loss of the main electrical power supply. This test in itself defies logic. These reactors become very unstable when power supply is lowered. Part of the problem was caused by turning off the ECCS (Emergency Core Cooling System). Another player in the catastrophe was the Grid controller, who controls electrical power to the various parts of the plat, refused to lower power for this reactor. For this test the reactor should have been stabilized at 1000MWt......
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