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**phenterminediett** · 03-12-2010, 10:23 PM

In short, steam explosion and graphite fire that released a fair bit of radioactive material, caused by errors when testing that overheated the core.

This. I watched a history channel show, like Countdown to Destruction or something similar, that went through all the events of the day, pretty terrible especially for the people living nearby in Pripyat that came to watch the strange colored fire.

03-12-2010, 10:23 PM	#3
phenterminediett Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	In short, steam explosion and graphite fire that released a fair bit of radioactive material, caused by errors when testing that overheated the core. This. I watched a history channel show, like Countdown to Destruction or something similar, that went through all the events of the day, pretty terrible especially for the people living nearby in Pripyat that came to watch the strange colored fire.
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