Disaster was pursued by Ukrainian bureaucrats. Don’t push it off on other commie trash in Moscow. Moscow tried to cover it up, Ukraine caused it. Caused it by rushing a test. Cutting corners. And, then being too damend stupid to ask: “Waitaminnit, what if the core is broken?”
As bad as TMIsland — cowboys pretending to control something instead of simply doing what the owners manual tells you to do. That B&W reactor was perfectly safe and would have settled down, but cowboys pretending to be competent insisted of showing that THEY were in charge — and F@#$ed up everything.
reading this right now:
“Chernobyl wasn’t a Nuclear disaster — it was a communist disaster”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chernobyl-wasnt-nuclear-disaster-communist-103049960.html