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    The RBMK (Russian: реа́ктор большо́й мо́щности кана́льный, РБМК; reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy, "high-power channel-type reactor") is a class of...
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    Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (category Nuclear power stations using RBMK reactors)
    nuclear power plant in the world. The plant would eventually consist of four RBMK-1000 reactors, each capable of producing 1,000 megawatts (MW) of electric...
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    Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (category Nuclear power stations using RBMK reactors)
    The Leningrad NPP was the first power station in Russia to operate the RBMK type of reactor. Despite its age, in 2012 and 2013 the Leningrad NPP took...
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    temperature set by the position of the control rods. In contrast, the Soviet RBMK reactor design used at Chernobyl, which uses graphite instead of water as...
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    Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (category Nuclear power stations using RBMK reactors)
    (Lithuanian: Ignalinos atominė elektrinė, IAE) is a decommissioned two-unit RBMK-1500 nuclear power station in Visaginas Municipality, Lithuania. It was named...
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    Nuclear fuel (redirect from RBMK fuel)
    RBMK reactor fuel was used in Soviet-designed and built RBMK-type reactors. This is a low-enriched uranium oxide fuel. The fuel elements in an RBMK are...
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    an RBMK. RBMK emergency core cooling systems only have one division and little redundancy within that division. Though the large core of the RBMK is less...
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    Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (category Nuclear power stations using RBMK reactors)
    plant is almost identical to Chernobyl's structure having 2 first generation RBMK blocks followed by 2 second generation blocks. The 1991 American television...
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    Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant (category Nuclear power stations using RBMK reactors)
    similar to that of Chernobyl NPP units 3-4, as both are later generation RBMKs. Construction began on the Smolensk NPP in the late 1970s. The NPP was originally...
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    end of the 1990s. Prototypical and older versions of PWR, CANDU, BWR, AGR, RBMK and VVER are among them. These are contrasted to generation I reactors, which...
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    is reflected in the Operating Procedures and design documentation for the RBMK-1000 is extremely contradictory", and furthermore, "ORM was not treated as...
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  • Russian third generation nuclear reactor design. It was a development of the RBMK nuclear power reactor. No reactor of such MKER type will continue to be developed...
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    essential to prevent core overheating, or in the worst case, core meltdown. RBMK reactors, like those at Chernobyl, use water as a coolant, circulated by...
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    Kanalniy (High Power Channel Reactor) (RBMK) [moderator: graphite; coolant: high-pressure water] A Soviet design, RBMKs are in some respects similar to CANDU...
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    analysis of nuclear safety] with any degree of competence... As for the RBMK reactor, you know, in reactor circles, it was considered a bad reactor. Viktor...
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  • the field of nuclear power, notably in its embrace of the controversial RBMK reactor design, which was developed with a priority on ease of local construction...
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    Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant (category Nuclear power stations using RBMK reactors)
    the Obninsk pilot plant was later employed on a much larger scale in the RBMK reactors. The single reactor unit at the plant, AM-1 ("Атом Мирный", Atom...
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  • Bryukhanov a new assignment – build an atomic power plant consisting of four RBMK reactors on the banks of the Pripyat River in Ukraine. Initially, Bryukhanov...
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    of Russia's reactors are of the RBMK 1000 type, similar to the one at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Some of these RBMK reactors were originally to be...
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  • verdicts. Despite strong evidence that serious design flaws in the Soviet RBMK nuclear reactor were largely to blame for the accident, all defendants were...
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    graphite-moderated RBMK's risk of increased reactivity and large power transients in the event of a loss of coolant accident. The RBMK reactors were also...
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    of France, and Japan, and the graphite-moderated, water-cooled reactor (RBMK or LWGR), found exclusively within the Russian Federation and former Soviet...
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  • operated two RBMK reactors at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant which were shut down in 2004 and 2009. In Lithuania in 1978, construction began on two RBMK reactors...
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  • small nuclear reactor design. It is a scaled down version of the RBMK design. As the RBMK, the EGP-6 uses water for cooling and graphite as a neutron moderator...
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  • Soviet Union. Slavsky was also one of the chief designers of the Soviet RBMK nuclear reactor. Slavsky was born on October 26, 1898, in Makiivka to a peasant...
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    March 2011. "Radiological and thermal characteristics of CASTOR RBMK-1500 and CONSTOR RBMK-1500 casks for spent nuclear fuel storage at ignalina Nuclear...
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    (RBMK) and pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR), do permit refueling without shutdowns, and they may pose a proliferation risk. (In fact, the RBMK was...
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  • or if said mechanism's response time is too slow. This happened in the RBMK reactor that was destroyed in the Chernobyl disaster as the automatic control...
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    comparable safety with PWRs. In the light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK, a reactor type originally envisioned to allow both production of weapons...
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    shut down. Due to flaws in its original control rod design, scramming an RBMK reactor could raise reactivity to dangerous levels before lowering it. This...
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