INSAG stands by the general conclusions of INSAG-1 about the accident’s causes and their implications for the safety of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However ...

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 did the Soviet Union ignore them? Join us ...

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986 ... The accident occurred during a safety test on the steam turbine of an RBMK-type nuclear reactor. During the ...

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