Re: FYI - new nuclear power plant online

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 09:05 30.08.1998 -0500, you wrote:
>> Can one of you say if the design of the plant reported below has any
>> design or operational similarity to the Chernobyl facility?
>> Maury Siskel   
>
It must be a WWR, there is no RMBK- (Chernobyl-) type reactor outside the
former Sovjetunion. This must be due to political reasons, because with the
Chernobyl-type reactor it would have been easy to produce plutonium, the
fuel rods can be changed during normal operation.

Franz


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