apr 26, 1986 - Chernobyl nuclear disaster
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An explosion and fire at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986, released massive radiation; central figures include engineer Anatoly Dyatlov, Soviet scientist Valery Legasov who later exposed failures, and political leadership under Mikhail Gorbachev.
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