At 1:23 and 48 seconds on April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded - and then ...
Was the Chernobyl disaster preventable? If the RBMK reactor had been designed differently, the explosion that shook the world might never have happened. But what were its fatal design flaws, and why ...
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 ...