Chernobyl: The Reactor That Was Never Allowed to Fail

At twenty-three minutes past one in the morning on the twenty-sixth of April, 1986, a nuclear reactor in the north of Soviet Ukraine was supposed to be undergoing a routine safety test. Forty seconds later, that reactor no longer had a roof, a core, or a future. This is what happened. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 01:30 Scene 1: The reactor and the flaw 08:30 Scene 2: The test 16:00 Scene 3: The night shift inherits it 24:00 Scene 4: Forty seconds 32:00 Scene 5: The first responders 40:00 Scene 6: The town that did not know 47:30 Scene 7: Containing it 54:30 Scene 8: The inquiry and the causes 62:00 Scene 9: What Chernobyl changed 66:30 Scene 10: What endures This is Episode 3 of Post-Mortem Files. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you don't miss the rest of the series. Which warning sign do you think they should have caught first? Tell us below. #Disasters #AccidentInvestigation #AviationDisasters #IndustrialAccidents #accidentinvestigation