Thank you for sharing the post. I've worked in nuclear power for a long time. I have a soft spot for these kinds of articles. I studied this, along with other accidents, in school and during my jobs. It's a horrible event that was 100% preventable.

The reason nuclear power is possible is due to the release of delayed neutrons during the fission process. These types of neutrons get released slow enough for our technology to control their impact during the fission process within reactors. The other types of neutrons are called prompt neutrons. Fission reactions release them at about 10^-14 seconds which our technology is NOT capable of addressing.

The majority of nuclear reactors get designed to prevent or at least mitigate the contribution of prompt neutrons to fission power. Chernobyl? Not at all. Their design promoted the possibility of prompt criticality (fission due to prompt neutrons). The engineers at that power plant disabled safety protocols that led to the disaster. I also fully believe management had their part to play. Back in those days, safety was not a priority.

Thanks & References

Thanks again for posting about the accident. I'm sure many can learn from it. Also, I noticed you didn't cite any sources of information for the post. Can you please do so?

Even though I've been working in nuclear power for 20+ years, I still reference the information I present. It's an expectation to do so in this community. Normal responses to posts without references are to DV the article immediately. If you can add the references, I can remove the downvote and upvote your post. If not, I can't remove the downvote. The article I'm referring to is called Chernobyl Timeline.

Finally, you should add more tags to your post. It will give you much greater coverage and provide you with more opportunities for others to vote on your work. stemgeeks and stemsocial are great groups that focus on STEM articles in particular.