The purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group’s Summary Report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident (INSAG-1), published ...

The acting head of the Chernobyl nuclear plant ... The power is needed to keep 20,000 spent fuel rods cool by circulating water through tanks in the nuclear fuel storage facility near reactors ...

Until the April 1986 Chernobyl disaster ... They managed it, and the first fuel rods were sent in January of that year and, by August, enough plutonium to pack a nuke was made.