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I ment the first sovjet reactor, were they literally diverted a river through the reactor core. Polluting all villages and a sea down stream forever.
by qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
I ment the first sovjet reactor, were they literally diverted a river through the reactor core. Polluting all villages and a sea down stream forever.
- jacquesm 4y agoOh that's really ugly, do you know which reactor this was?
- dTal 4y agoThey are referring to Mayak, and however ugly you're picturing, it's probably worse: a Chernobyl-level radiological release, but on deliberate as operational procedure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak
- jacquesm 4y agoHoly crap, I never knew about this. Wow. That's a level of irresponsibility that I did not think would exist even in that part of the world. Incredible.
- arethuza 4y agoI think the first US plutonium producing reactors at Hanford also used direct cooling by river water.