Before the Chernobyl Disaster in 1986, Soviets believed that it was impossible for the RBMK to explode. As history later proved, they were incorrect. But how did they so severely misjudge their own reactor. As it turns out, it could all boil down to one simple calculation that was left unchecked, and eventually had tragic consequences. This is the story of how one simple miscalculation may have doomed Chernobyl.
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Sources:
INSAG-7, IAEA
Chernobyl: Past, Present and Future, N. Steinberg and G. Kopchinsky
Chornobyl: Accident Revisited, A. Sich
Dynamics and Control of Nuclear Reactors, T. Kerlin and B. Upadhyaya
Effective Delayed Neutron Fraction – βeff, Nuclear Power
