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Article: Chernobyl: 20 years later; What have we learned since history's worst nuclear disaster?
- Article from:
- Firehouse Magazine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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The huge power complex constructed in the 1960s in the central Ukraine of the giant Soviet Union was a mammoth project for the benefit of Soviet society. This was the answer to the petition presented to Joseph Stalin from a prominent Soviet scientist, Igor Kurchatov, in 1949. The scientist used knowledge from captured German physicists for the development of nuclear-generated electrical power. It was to be a promising and safe advancement for the USSR. Yet what happened turned what should have been highly beneficial to a large population into an incredibly detrimental catastrophe.
Slow and chilling was the sparse and fragmented news coming out of the Soviet Union ...