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The day before the Chernobyl disaster

Retropod by The Washington Post

Dec 16, 20197:22Society & Culture

Disasters don’t just happen. Like anything in life, there’s usually a buildup. In the case of the Chernobyl disaster, the series of failures stretched back more than a decade. But what happened the day before the explosi...

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