Meltdown

tive void coefficient occurs. Accident mitigation systems are limited, and flawed separation and redundancy of safety and electrical systems are other cons of RBMK.
             Many safety measures could have been exercised in order to prevent the horrific disaster. By taking the risk of using the Reactor Bolshoi Moschnosti Kanalynyi, the Former Soviet Union lost the credibility of a safe nuclear power plant. Other plant designs could have been less fatal, but the Union would lose the military and economic advantages in the process. Since the RBMK design did not have a containment shell; when the meltdown occurred nothing was able to block the radioactive material from spreading, causing copious mutilation to the exposed. The carbon moderator of the RBMK was highly flammable, too. This meant that if another design was chosen; the plant would not have exploded. Also, the equipment used in Ukraine nuclear power plants is appalling. The conditions of the equipment capability are absurdly ignored. Many components were built and improvised at
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