Re: Loose fuel fragment in Chernobyl

[Yuriy <ybnabivant@mailsrv.ym.edu.tw>]

Grant Wilton wrote:

> >Some 180 tons of nuclear fuel were located in the reactor at the
> moment of its explosion, and scientists have accounted for only 140
> tons of it.<
>
> I'm not an expert on nuclear reactors nor do I play one on TV but the
> quotation above states "180 tons of nuclear fuel were
> located..............." Is 180 tons of fuel what this type of reactor would
> contain?
>
> Grant Wilton
> Southwest Research Institute
>

According to information I have the RBMK reactor at Chernobyl NPP at the moment
of the accident contained 192 tons of fuel. Reactor has lost about 4% during
first 10 days of the accident.

Yuriy Nabyvanets
National Yang Ming University,
Taipei, Taiwan

ybnabyvant@mailsrv.ym.edu.tw

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