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> small portion of the radioactivity escaping the containment shell The Chernobyl reactor was very unsafe by modern standards, it did not have a containment ve
by Kutta 9y ago
> small portion of the radioactivity escaping the containment shell
The Chernobyl reactor was very unsafe by modern standards, it did not have a containment vessel and tens of tons of reactor material was blown into the air, not a small amount.
- natch 9y agoYeah, that's what happens. Tons of reactor material gets released. Not by humans, but by physical processes. And your comment conveniently ignores Fukushima.
- nine_k 9y agoTo actually blow the Chernobyl reactor, the personnel explicitly disabled quite a few safety systems that otherwise would not allow for a runaway reaction which led to a mighty (thermal and chemical) explosion.