They Knew the Reactor Was Broken for 15 Years. They Told No One.#facts #history #nucleardisaster

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]The worst nuclear disaster in history [music] was caused by a flaw that was already in a drawer somewhere, documented, stamped, and ignored.

[00:00:08]Chernobyl, 1986.

[00:00:12]A reactor, a test, engineers told [music] not to delay again.

[00:00:17]So, at 1:23 a.m. they ran it.

[00:00:21]The explosion hit 400 times the force of Hiroshima in 4 seconds.

[00:00:27]But here's what they buried.

[00:00:30]Scientists had about the flaw since the 1970s.

[00:00:35]The RBMK reactor was designed backwards.

[00:00:38]More steam equals more reaction, not less.

[00:00:43]They didn't hide it from the world. They hid it from the operators.

[00:00:48]The men running that test had no idea what they were sitting on.

[00:00:52]This was a tragedy that could have been avoided.

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