The U.S.S.R. had several nuclear accidents prior to Chernobyl, all of which went unreported for many years. I’m reading “Midnight in Chernobyl” by Adam Higginbotham. It’s very well sourced, and lays out the history of nuclear energy production in the U.S.S.R. from its beginning.
As much as I despise subtitles, Russia does put out some good movies now.
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Watch “Zero Hour” the Chernobyl episode and get the story in one hour rather than watching crappy HBO
I was on the USS Atlanta SSN 712 which ran aground at Gibraltar around the same time as Chernobyl blew up. The Soviets actually tried to the blame the radiation on my sub but the detectors showed the source was hundreds of miles from the Atlanta’s position.
This site is a great read. The author the author travels through the dead zone and photos the remains of towns and villages.
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter6.html
Think more reactor material has melted down in US made reactors. The Japanese are second. The Russisns are only third on the melted nuclear core total list. At least that the world knows about lol.