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  • April 26, 1986...25 years since Chernobyl

    02/02/2011 7:09:42 PM PST · by Bean Counter · 13 replies · 1+ views
    2/2/2011 | Self
    We always observe significant anniversaries, and this April 26th marks the 25th year of the ongoing nuclear disaster that began on that date in 1986 at the Lenin Nuclear Power Station, Chernobyl, in the Urkraine. The World did not find out about what really happened for some time, and the first indications that something had gone terribly wrong was when nuclear power stations all over Europe started experiencing radiation alarms from the plume of radioactive debris that Reactor 4 was spewing out like a volcano. I've been re-reading Gregori Medevedev's outstanding book "The Truth About Chernobyl" and the details of...