Chernobyl wasn\u2019t lost because of one mistake. Pre-crash checks revealed problems, but no one took them seriously. The reactor was built with a horrible design flaw, the state intentionally hid the existence of that flaw from everyone, including the engineers working on it, and the whole thing was triggered in part by something that was supposed to get done in one shift, but for various reasons was passed on to another that didn\u2019t know what they were doing. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com
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