[ RadSafe ] Chernobyl

[Sander Perle]

But a Channel Reactor is a graphite moderated reactor.

Regards,

Sandy
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> On Oct 4, 2015, at 20:18, Dan McCarn <hotgreenchile at gmail.com> 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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