Is there are a good article or book describing this, i.e. that they disabled saf...

arethuza · on Nov 28, 2014

I can recommend Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima by James Mahaffey - it has a chapter on Chernobyl and goes into a fair amount of details:

http://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Accidents-Meltdowns-Disasters-M...

camperman · on Nov 28, 2014

This is an excellent piece that goes into some detail:

https://leatherbarrowa.exposure.co/chernobyl