History Through A Fissionable Lens: 35 Years Of The Chernobyl Disaster – Analysis
By Anushka Saxena*
On April 26, 1986, the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, while undergoing safety tests, suffered an explosion and went up in flames. A day prior, a workers-day-off at Chernobyl had disrupted the overall flow of work. Safety tests mandated to be run in the day-time were scheduled for the...