To illustrate this, the remaining RBMK-style reactors — including three at the Chernobyl plant — have operated without noticeable issues since 1986, with nine of these reactors still active today.

A black-and-white video purportedly showing the explosion of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl has become extremely popular ...

INSAG stands by the general conclusions of INSAG-1 about the accident’s causes and their implications for the safety of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However, ...

A black-and-white video purportedly showing the explosion of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl has become extremely popular ...

"The nuclear scientists investigating the causes of the accident were well aware of the faults of the RBMK reactor years before the accident," Adam Higginbotham, author of "Midnight in Chernobyl ...

However, no one had doubts that this would be the case," Karcahaa noted. According to him, the shell of the RBMK reactor installed at the Kursk NPP is made of 16 mm thick metal. This is why ...

For decades, the safety design flaws in the RBMK reactor (Chornobyl-type) were ignored by the Kremlin; so to disregarded were the warnings of Boris Paton, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of ...

A nuclear power plant accident destroyed the RBMK reactor's technological channel, with the chief engineer and reactor calculations attributed. A special commission found fault and conducted full ...