Fireworks are Illegal in Ukraine

I just saw the movie "Hot Tub Time Machine". Funny as hell, loved it. One of the jokes is a Russian energy drink called "Chernobly" which was described as "nuclear". Little did I know that this was a reference to the single largest nuclear meltdown in the history of history. Check this shit out:
On April 26th, 1986, an explosion at the nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) caused a meltdown of one of its cores.
First off, when we talk about explosions at any kind of plant, whether it be nuclear, castings, or daffodils, we're talking about accountability. SOMEONE'S responsible for this shit. We won't point fingers, but let's just say a lot of people fucked up.
The whole thing started as a fire drill, clear and simple. The question was, What if we lost power to the coolant systems required to safely shut down the nuclear reactor core? The solution seemed simple, but alas it never is. An experimental procedure (that failed 3 times over and again a year after this incident) was used to bridge the gap of about a minute that the deisel generators needed to get up and running at full capacity before it could assume the workload. The theory was that the steam turbine engines could be used to produce the necessary energy needed to cover the gap.
Let's get this across now, coolant systems are very much needed when dealing with reactor cores. Even when not used to make energy, nuclear cores still produce massive amounts of heat.
Anyhoo, leading up to the fire drill, incompetence between the day shift and night shift and poorly managed systems resulted in an very unstable core and the jackasses went on with the drill anyway. A lot of the alarm bells were ignored, particularly that of the thermal hydralic parameters. I'm no rocket scientist, but that sounds pretty fuckin important.
Investigations afterward found that during the shutdown of the core, the control rods used to maintain safe temps basically fell apart, allowing the reactor to reach very unstable conditions and producing too much steam which ruptured the fuel element channels that ultimately caused an explosion within the reactor, which in turn caused a chain reaction resulting in a nuclear excursion (uncontrollable releasing of radioactive materials into the enviroment).
Radiation levels reached 400 TIMES that of the Hiroshima bombing.




And that's why fireworks are illegal in Ukraine.