The Finns were the first outside of the USSR to detect it, but the official story is that the Kremlin didn't know about it either until they were contacted by Finland to find out what was happening.
Up until that point, the local authorities were calling it a temporary shutdown at the plant and not reporting it.
There were also some true heroes there who killed themselves to prevent the concrete floor of the reactor from cracking which could have led to an unimaginable explosion.
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