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"But I think Chernobyl was the result of under-investment and poor management" Chernobyl was extremely poorly engineered, Soviet Union style. Its major flaw wa
by Recurecur 10y ago
"But I think Chernobyl was the result of under-investment and poor management"
Chernobyl was extremely poorly engineered, Soviet Union style. Its major flaw was no containment vessel.
Even then, it took real effort to make it fail, and it was all totally unnecessary. It was probably the worst testing-related disaster in history.
- petre 10y agoThe other major flaw of RBMK reactors is a dangerously high positive void coefficient of reactivity, which self reinforces the nuclear reaction in case of a loss of coolant accident. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_coefficient https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_coefficient