On 26 April 1986, one of the four reactors at Chernobyl power station exploded after an early morning safety test went wrong, causing arguably the most catastrophic nuclear accident in history. Now, a new hypothesis has been proposed that challenges the accepted version of events in the initial moments of the disaster: namely, that an initial steam explosion was followed by a nuclear blast a few seconds later. Research published in the journal Nuclear Technologysuggests that the first explosion was actually a nuclear blast, turning the original theory on its head.
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