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On April 26, 1986, at 1:23 AM, Chernobyl's Unit Four reactor exploded during a routine safety test. But the disaster didn't begin that night—it was embedded in the reactor's design decades earlier. This documentary explores the RBMK reactor's fundamental architecture: why Soviet engineers chose graphite moderation over water, how the positive ...
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