One blast away from millions dead, Soviet cover-ups & secret files – Chernobyl nuclear disaster laid bare 40 years on

IN the dead of night 40 years ago on April 26, 1986, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the now abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Engineers were carrying out safety tests on Reactor 4 - unaware that the world's worst nuclear disaster was about to unfold, releasing 400 times more radiation than the Hiroshima...