The catastrophic explosion and subsequent fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986, resulted from a confluence of flawed reactor design, inadequate safety protocols, and human error during a... Read more »
The cause of the Space Shuttle Challenger‘s disintegration 73 seconds into its tenth mission on January 28, 1986, was the failure of O-rings in a solid rocket booster. These O-rings, designed to... Read more »
