Last month, on April 26, Ukrainians worldwide commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl catastrophe, the most serious disaster ever to occur in the nuclear power industry. Three extremely disturbing facts have been uncovered regarding the Chornobyl nuclear disaster:JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. 1) It could have been avoided. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) posted the following blunt assessment on its website: “Safety measures were ignored.” 2) The Kremlin treated the Chornobyl nuclear explosion as a state secret, thereby compounding the serious human problems resulting from it. Under the heading “International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day,” the UN posted on its website the following damning information: “No reports were released until the third day after the Chornobyl explosion. Then, Swedish authorities [...] announced to the world that a nuclear accident had occurred somewhere in the Soviet Union. Before Sweden’s announcement, the Soviet authorities [...] had chosen not to report the accident or its scale in full. No established legitimate authority was able to immediately address the situation and provide answers to questions such as: Is it safe to leave the house? Is it safe to drink water? Is it safe to eat local produce? Communicating protective measures early would also have most likely enabled the population to escape exposure to some radionuclides, such as iodine 131, which are known to cause thyroid cancer. Early evacuation would have helped people avoid the area during the period when iodine 131 is most dangerous, 8-16 days after release.”