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Chernobyl Disaster

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   Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, in history chernobyl nuclear accident near the city of Pripyat in Soviet Russia on 26th April 1986 in the No.4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is one of the worst nuclear disasters ever happened on planet earth.  The test to be conducted on that day was to be conducted before the start of the reactor but due to builders interest in getting a bonus instead of safety the reactor was opened many defects.During the system power-failure stress test in which the security systems were turned off knowingly , a combination of both the design faults and operator’s wrong decision of running the test even if the reactor is not in the specified checklist conditions has lead to this gnarly disaster. The head of the department is Dyatlov who has already worked in nuclear field while installing reactors in submarines and was exposed to radiation of 3 life times(200 Rems). The operators in the room on the day were i