„An immense experience, not comparable to anything else. Silence, lack of cries, laughter, tears and only the wind answers. Prypiat is a huge lesson for our generation.”
Have we learnt anything since then?"
That makes one think.
Chernobyl had many known design problems ever before it exploded. It's misleading to imply that it was consider a good design before.
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>> Chernobyl
> The RBMC design was always known to be an absolutely terrible idea because it's use of graphite as a moderator that required active cooling, creating an inherently unsafe positive void coefficient[1].
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