Valery LegasovAugust 1986
Explains the sequence of reactor operations and physical processes that Soviet investigators believed had produced the catastrophic power excursion.
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Explains the sequence of reactor operations and physical processes that Soviet investigators believed had produced the catastrophic power excursion.
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