Category: Chernobyl

  • How Could Chernobyl Have Been Prevented? Essay

    In the first part of this series, I described how automatic safety controls could have prevented the Three-Mile Island accident. Now I’ll do the same for Chernobyl. This accident at the RBMK nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in the Ukraine occurred at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, right after the midnight shift change of…