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Re:Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem Interes... by hinkley on Saturday August 19, 2023 @12:57AM (#37185649)
Gorbachev is quoted as saying that Chernobyl was the beginning of the end of the USSR.

Nobody likes to talk about that stuff. Ideologues most of all.

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Re:Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem Interes... by eastbound on Saturday August 19, 2023 @06:02AM (#37187176)
I’m always impressed that the RMBK was 3.5GW… just for the core that exploded. There are 3 other cores functioning.

France’s reactors (other technology) are 0.910-1.3 Gigawatts (x60 cores)[1]. Chernobyl must have been the powerhouse for half of the country.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Fr...

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Re:Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem Interes... by paulmd on Saturday August 19, 2023 @02:23PM (#37191593)
It wasn’t 3.5GW for the reactor but the plant as a whole. They had four reactors, 1x800MW and 3x1000MW.

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

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