icago, 2002).
The reactor, an RMBK reactor of graphite- moderate type, at the plant was originally designed for military plutonium production and lacked the concrete hood that other nuclear power plants in the west always have, which is one of the
reasons the effects came to be so devastating. While tolerably stable and safe at operating power, RMBKs at less than 20% power were notoriously unstable, which is how the Chernobyl disaster came about (Breyer, 2001).
In the night of April 26 the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl exploded due to some unauthorized experiments, which were processed at a bad time, due to the fact that the reactor was planned for reparations but also the experiments were conducted under no extra supervision or safety concepts, which made it impossible to actually measure the hydrogen and steam amounts that were produced, and the rest of the world was not notified until April 28.
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