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Chornobyl: Anatomy of a Catastrophe (453)

Cold War Conversations by Ian Sanders

Apr 24, 202673:32Society & Culture

40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, a routine safety test inside Reactor Four at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant spiralled into the worst nuclear disaster in history. This episode traces the catastrophe from t...

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Chornobyl: Anatomy of a Catastrophe (453) is an episode from Cold War Conversations by Ian Sanders. 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, a routine safety test inside Reactor Four at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant spiralled into t...

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Published Apr 24, 2026, 73:32 long, audio available.

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