2026-04-24
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Today on The Intelligence, some perspectives on an event that really did shape the world 40 years ago.
We visit the Chernobyl nuclear power plant four decades after a devastating explosion,
the worst nuclear disaster in history.
They definitely didn't tell us that the reactor was completely destroyed.
Now it's a site that became part of a war.
We look at what lessons Chernobyl still has, even after all this time.
Nothing was learned from 1986, things actually became worse.
From Moscow came the good news in 1954,
that the first atomic power plant in the world had begun operating in the Soviet Union.
Its creation was not only a great scientific achievement.
In the midst of the Cold War, there were few societal advancements
that couldn't be pitched as a competition between either side of the Iron Curtain.
And as the nuclear arms race heated up,
so too did the race to use that same technology to generate power.
If we remove the protective lid, we can peep inside the reactor