[ RadSafe ] Chernobyl

[Ted de Castro]

So then I have it wrong?  It was NOT a graphite moderated reactor? I was 
given to understand that most of what was burning was graphite?

On 10/4/2015 8:18 PM, Dan McCarn wrote:
> 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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