Chernobyl: Worst Accident Ever

Illinois EnergyProf May 14, 2019
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Professor David Ruzic Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign https://cpmi.illinois.edu

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Difference between the Russia RMBK reactor, like the one at Chrenobyl, and the rest of the reactors in the world: the containment building and the moderators. Why Chernobyl can not happen here. Why losing the cooling water automatically shuts down non-Chernobyl like reactor, and how the Chernobyl type is very different. Time line of the Chernobyl accident, what happened, why, and the results. Xenon poisoning is introduced. The aftermath of Chernobyl, how it was noticed, and how the accident was handled by the Soviet Union including building a containment building called the sarcophagus.

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