40 years since Chernobyl catastrophe: Soviet Union’s ‘top-down tradition’ partly responsible | EUROtoday

Ukraine marked the fortieth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe on Sunday. FRANCE 24 spoke with Michael Bluck, Director of the Centre for Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College London, to look again on the tragic occasion that marked historical past. Pointing to varied components that induced the explosion at Chernobyl, Bluck stated that the Soviet Union’s culting of top-down rule was additionally at blame.