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(; II I The Chernobyl' Accident: Social and Political Implications ' Regime Handling of the Chernobyl' Crisis The accident at the Chernobyl' nuclear power plant on the morning of 26 April 1986 set off a sequence of events the Kremlin and Soviet populace are still grappling with. The belief in the safety of Soviet nuclear design had been widely shared among Soviet nuclear specialists, and most experts believed that an accident like the one at Chernobyl' could never happen, leavinl them ill prepared to cope with a crisis of such magnitude.' The lovernment commission that investigated the accident concluded'that the world's worst nuclear accident was caused by a bungled test at Chernobyl's unit 4 reactor, but Soviet media and reporting both indicate that more basic problems with reactor safety were also partly to blame. The top leaders were' informed of the accident almost immediately and members of a government commission were on the scene within a few hours, but they apparently failed to , live a high priority to prompt evacuation or the rel~se of accurate information that could have stemmed rumors or facilitated more rapid publi
lAxity and Poor Design of tire Clrernohyl' Plant The report af the investfgation presented to the Central Committee afthe CPSU stressed the Chernoby/' accident was caused by a "one-in-a-million" chain af events. but Western experts-maintain that an accident was possible because af dangerous design characteristics that make the RBMK-
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