there have been a number of accidents, and near disasters but chernobyl is in a class of its own really.  how it happened is so uniquely soviet too. the sheer retardation of the procedures and operators. the design itself was literally fucking insane and half ass. full meltdown plus full loss of containment. it's like they didn't even give a fuck about containment when they designed it honestly not to mention the other problems.  i mean a meltdown is one thing butoss of containment is another. soviets set back nuclear so far, and truthfully they were always like kids that got into the gun cabinet. just dumping raw nuclear waste in ponds, after the collapse they just abandoned shit everywhere.. etc etc. just egregious shit honestly. but chernobyl takes the cake.
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