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To: mkleesma

Zero Hour: Disaster at Chernobyl Discovery Channel (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITEXGdht3y8

Was amazing. Graphite in the boron control rods? Were they insane? As a young mechanic before the accident I understood the properties of graphite. Not only was it highly conductive but also corrosive.


9 posted on 06/05/2019 3:44:44 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Socalism in action.


10 posted on 06/05/2019 5:34:12 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

It was usable and efficient for combination of cost and performance. The issue of malfunctioned shutdown procedure on RBMK is akin the issue of riding a car on ice at 100 mph into a wall then pulling a parking brake 10 yards before the wall and blaming the parking brake for the crash.
Nothing would have been happened if the reactor was used in any semi-responbible manner.


14 posted on 06/05/2019 9:01:29 PM PDT by NorseViking
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