Chernobyl

Interesting things about Chernobyl: On April 26, 1986, Reactor #4 exploded and caught fire.This is, as many of you know, very bad. Not many of you are likely to know quite how bad that is, exactly, so let me try to paint a picture for you. Late one night, some guys down at the control room were in charge of shutting down the reactor for a "test." They were curious: what would happen if they turned off the emergency core cooling system, and then turned off the power to the reactor cooling systems?Would there be enough juice latent in the…