The Ticking Time bomb of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

On a dull morning in 1986, some workers in Stockholm, Sweden, were getting ready for a normal day inside the nuclear power plant they worked in but that would soon change. Not long after the start of the day, one worker found that the geiger counters they had to pass before entering the unit went off, suggesting that they were radioactive.

After testing and retesting the machine for faults, the workers realised they were telling the truth, one of the workers had high levels of radiation upon them.

After a scramble in the power plant to find if there was a leak, they realised all was well...but if the radiation wasn't coming from their power plant, where was it coming from? It seemed the radiation was drifting over from a little town called Pripyat in Ukraine and yet no one had told the world that this disaster was going to have long lasting effects and even death...Welcome to Killers, Cults & Queens

Today, Cheryl & Nikki are exploring the case of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

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