The purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group’s Summary Report ... 1 about the accident’s causes and their implications for the safety of the ...
The accident at Chernobyl Unit 4; 2. The radionuclide release from the accident; 3. The response at the site; 4. Radiation protection aspects of the accident; 5. Safety issues to be pursued; 6.
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April ... The accident occurred during a safety test on the steam turbine of an RBMK-type nuclear reactor. During the planned ...
and galleries of a nuclear power plant. If the cleanup wasn't successful, he said, the Soviet Union might have stopped operating all of its RBMK reactors (the kind used at the Chernobyl plant).
Making matters worse, the two units in operation use the same so-called RBMK technology that melted down during the notorious 1986 accident in Chernobyl. Unlike modern nuclear reactors ...