The RBMK reactor, infamous for its role in the Chernobyl disaster, was a Soviet nuclear reactor design that carried inherent flaws from the very beginning. This video dives deep into the ...

That reactor, a design called the RBMK-1000, was discovered to be fundamentally flawed after the Chernobyl accident. And yet there are still 10 of the same type of reactor in operation in Russia.

Only a handful of reactors in the entire world supply anywhere near that percent of its national energy GDP. Back in Russia, the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant's employed RBMK-1000s are much the same ...

Russia still has ten operating nuclear reactors that are similar to the one involved in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The type of reactor that exploded during Chernobyl, known as an RBMK, has been ...

Two additional RBMK reactors were in construction at the time of reactor four’s explosion – construction was cancelled in 1988. However, a number of RBMK reactors are currently still in operation.

The RBMK’s designers were well aware of this potential safety issue and prepared detailed instructions for reactor operators on how to avoid such an accident. But the KGB deemed this could be a manual ...

At a session that summarized lessons learned and suggested safety improvements to the "high power channel-type," or RBMK, reactor design used at Chernobyl and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union ...

Historic disaster. Soon, the world realized that it was witnessing a historic event. Up to 30 percent of Chernobyl’s 190 metric tons of uranium was now in the atmosphere, and the Soviet Union ...

In response to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, countries such as Germany and Switzerland are preparing to phase out aging nuclear power plants. The Russian State Atomic ...