Sunday, March 26, 2006
This Day in the History of Science
On this day in 1986, in Pripet, Russia, the Chernobyl nuclear plant blew up in the world's worst civil nuclear catastrophe which sent a cloud of radioactive dust over European Russia and the Ukraine. It was the result of a poorly executed experiment, causing the fourth reactor to explode and melt down. Thirty-one people, mostly firemen, were killed immediately after the explosion, and scores more - those involved in the clean-up and children - have since died from radiation-related illnesses. I guess the lesson learned is not to conduct experiments at a nuclear power plant.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:52 AM 
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....and if you must, at least stay at the plant to supervise instead of leaving it up to your underlings to conduct while you get a good nights sleep (until you are rudely awoken by a huge explosion in the middle of the night).
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