Early on the morning of April 26, 1986 a terrible accident took place in the Ukraine at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station. A routine test that had been long delayed was finally taking place. Mistakes were made by the inexperienced operators. The result; Reactor Number Four blew up and a cloud of lethal radiation began spewing into the atmosphere. In his book "Midnight in Chernobyl-the Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster" Adam Higginbotham describes how the disaster unfolded