On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, POWER visits the site to document the decommissioning effort and ...
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This nuclear reactor was built cheaply - then it exploded and nearly killed millions
At 1:23 and 48 seconds on April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded - and then exploded again just seconds later. In this video, we break down the RBMK reactor ...
Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained ...
Was the Chernobyl disaster preventable? If the RBMK reactor had been designed differently, the explosion that shook the world might never have happened. But what were its fatal design flaws, and why ...
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