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Why This Book Matters:
Chernobyl is a historic tale of a catastrophe that shocked the world and brought a major power shift in history.
The Big Takeaways:
- The disaster finds was rooted in the testing of the plant.
- If Chernobyl was being tested to confirm that there would be no power shortage even if the power supply was cut off.
- Lack of professional behavior resulted in a breath-taking catastrophe.
- The shutdown procedure was not explained at all, and the inexperienced workers were assigned to begin the testing phase.
- The faulty soviet-design of the reactor added more to the catastrophe.
- The reactor was designed to improve the cost and efficiency while there were no proper precautionary measures taken into account regarding its design.
- Negligence and carelessness created a hurdle in overcoming the disaster in the first place.
- The workers didn’t pay much attention to the seriousness of the situation and refused to accept the possibility of massive radioactive exposure at all.
- This disaster paved the way for the decline of soviet rule.
- The global criticism and economic depression in the Soviet Union brought bad news for the regime and ultimately, the country collapsed.
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