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If you are interested in Chernobyl you will love this video. I had only heard of SKALA in the past, but nothing actually about it. This video gives a really good look into SKALA and it's operations. In this episode of Computers of Chornobyl series, we will talk about the mighty SKALA system, that controlled the RBMK reactors. This is the first-ever documentary about its design, architecture, operation, and software. It also tells the story of how it was preserved for posterity and reveals, what is common between it... and a control computer of Apollo spacecrafts. It took us nearly half a year

Whilst looking around the internet I found a trove of old declassified CIA documents. Among these were one called 'Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident CIA, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Congressional, GAO, and Foreign Press Monitoring Files' that goes into some detail about the accident from the perspective of the authorities. There was originally 4010 pages and sadly this has been shaved down to a mere 224 pages in the released document. An excerpt of this document: THE ACCIDENT According to reports filed with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on April 25, 1986,