The Chernobyl Accident: Did It Help or Harm the Global Nuclear Industry? By: Megan Simpson Aerial of reactor 4,1986. tmora.org Did the Chernobyl disaster ultimately help or harm the global nuclear industry? When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in late April 1986, it sent shockwaves far beyond the borders of the Soviet Union. A long-overdue safety test performed by the night shift of reactor number four ultimately revealed a dangerous flaw in the Reaktor Bolshoy Moshchnosti Kanalyy reactor design to the world that culminated in a set of two explosions: the first one shattering the fuel r...

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