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During the Chernobyl accident, disaster was averted when three volunteers prevented a secondary thermal explosion that would have destroyed the entire plant. What is the scale of this averted disaster? What would have happened had the entire Chernobyl plant exploded?

by /u/RazgrizS57 in /r/AskHistorians

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