chernobyl was silly

[Bereta_Eder]

Apart from the "cheaper" propaganda, another silly thing was that allegendly the "pressure" to clsoe the test would have been big in a soviet socialist system and not in the slavery of the free markets, as it always is.

[Bereta_Eder]

Depleted uranium...
with which the Serbian soil is filled from the angloamerican bombs.

[Elok]

While western government bureaucracies are justly infamous, they are not commonly faulted for penny-pinching, or for going with the cheapest possible solution. More the opposite.

[Lorizael]

Graphite was cheaper. RBMK used mostly unenriched uranium as fuel, because enriching uranium is expensive. To make up for that, they moderated (enhanced) the reaction in the core with graphite, which slows neutrons and increases the probability of fission. The reactor was encased in graphite blocks, and the control rods had an upper half of boron (to slow the reaction) and a lower half of graphite, so that when the control rods were fully extracted, rather than water between the fuel rods (slowing the reaction), there was graphite (in the middle) to speed it up.

What the show elided was a bit of technical complexity: the low power of the plant meant water pressure in the coolant pumps was low, so steam voids near the bottom of the reactor weren't being pushed out, leading to a localized runaway reaction. Then they pushed all the control rods in, which displaced the water at the bottom with graphite, leading to even more accelerated nuclear activity with nothing to stop it.

See this video:

[Bereta_Eder]

Not the accident that was tragic but the series was silly.
It is for dumb americans.

Do they really think that western bureaucracy would work better? Also what a hilarious propaganda piece. "Graphite is cheaper" Do you really think USSR would cut prices on that? What a bunch of moronic nonsense.

I rate it up there with the avengers (or other superhero crap I never seen) on matters of realism but quite high on matters of direction.
That was adequate.

Imagine being a russian though. And having the most genocidal nation on earth racially hating your guts. Wow. It's a tough job being a russian. No wonder they garnish so much sympathy, fascists aside.