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Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased... by Recurecur on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:18AM (#14042230)
"But I think Chernobyl was the result of under-investment and poor management"

Chernobyl was extremely poorly engineered, Soviet Union style. Its major flaw was no containment vessel.

Even then, it took real effort to make it fail, and it was all totally unnecessary. It was probably the worst testing-related disaster in history.

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Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased... by petre on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:53AM (#14042487)
The other major flaw of RBMK reactors is a dangerously high positive void coefficient of reactivity, which self reinforces the nuclear reaction in case of a loss of coolant accident.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_coefficient

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