In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...
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How a Russian Nuclear Reactor Nearly Killed Millions
This video breaks down the Chernobyl disaster by focusing on the machine at its core: the RBMK reactor. We explain how nuclear reactors work in principle, then show what made the RBMK different - from ...
Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor. In their continuing efforts to build a full-sized, functional replica of ...
The "High Power Channel-type Reactor", or RBMK (Russian abbreviation), is a generation II reactor. It uses a graphite moderator, a light water coolant, and uranium fuel, enriched to 2% U-235.
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