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Re:More details about the October 4 outage by formerly_proven on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:13PM (#28764199)
The Chernobyl test was not a test to drive the reactor to the limits, but actually a test to verify that the inertia of the main turbines is big enough to drive the coolant pumps for X amount of time in the case of grid failure.
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Re:More details about the October 4 outage by trevorishere on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:21PM (#28764321)
Of possible interest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijst4g5KFN0

This is a presentation to students by an MIT professor that goes over exactly what happened, the sequence of events, mistakes made, and so on.

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Re:More details about the October 4 outage by formerly_proven on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @06:21PM (#28766464)
Warning for others: I watched the above video and then watched the entire course (>30 hours).
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Re:More details about the October 4 outage by XorNot on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:18AM (#28771263)
Now I know what I'm doing the rest of this week...
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