[ RadSafe ] Chernobyl

[Dan McCarn]

The Chernobyl-class reactor is a channel reactor.  So is the Canadian CanDu reactor. 

Six safety features were intentionally overridden causing the reactor failure. 

Safety analysis and redesign corrected most of those issues. 

Dan W McCarn
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> On Oct 4, 2015, at 18:16, Ted de Castro <tdc at xrayted.com> wrote:
> 
> You mean if it had NOT been essentially a pile of charcoal with a chunk of white hot metal in the middle and NOT running at 120% for accelerated fuel production (at least that's how I heard it) --- would there still have been a problem???
> 
> There's a good reason we don't make graphite reactors.
> 
>> On 10/3/2015 7:50 PM, Joseph Preisig wrote:
>> Radsafe,
>> 
>>       So, if the Chernobyl reactor(s) had properly designed containment
>> structures, would the releases and dose rates have been much more limited,
>> perhaps comparable to those at Three Mile Island???  Of course, the answer
>> would be design dependent....
>> 
>>      Joe Preisig
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