1999 Kamynzy Power Plant disaster

The 1999 Kamynzy Disaster was a nuclear disaster near Bostar in which 36 people were killed, 1000+ injured and 20,000 evacuated. It was a result of poor coordination, under skilled staff and human error.

Timeline
At 21:00 the plant was ready to go into lower power (so that it would still produce energy but at a small amount, so that the plant could be unsupervised while the workers went home.) Sergei Yemelyanovich was the man in charge that night to do so. As he did, halfway through a family emergency occurred, and he rushed home. Other workers did not notice the plant wasnt on low power and left several minutes later. At 4:00 the morning team arrived, meaning the plant had been on full power for 24 hours way beyond the 18 hour limit. The morning team, containing at least 80 or so men entered the control room and only realised there was an issue 20 minutes later. Supervisor Lyanov Denisovich, who was in command told the workers not to worry as there was an important test scheduled that day. The test had been rescheduled 4 times at that point and Denisovich was under heavy pres to get it done. The test was a dangerous one, and after it began the rods heated up to 6000 degrees Celsius. Alarms went off in the control room, and Denisovich decided to evacuate workers near to the uranium rods. As they left the building, a blinding light erupted from the building, blinding everyone looking in its direction permenantly. Seconds later an explosion and a shockwave followed, levelling a small neighbourhood and killing 36. Large parts of Bostar 100 miles away were evacuated. The radiation traveled Far East affecting large parts of forestry and nearby towns. As many as 100,000 were affected. The incident was ranked as a 6 on the nuclear incident scale.