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 ...

If the RBMK reactor had been designed differently, the explosion that shook the world might never have happened. But what were its fatal design flaws, and why did the Soviet Union ignore them?

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Chernobyl used four Soviet-designed RBMK-1000 nuclear reactors, a design that's now recognized as inherently flawed. This system uses enriched U-235 uranium fuel to heat water, ...

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 ...

The RBMK is a light water-cooled reactor with individual fuel channels surrounded by the graphite blocks that form the reactor's moderator. Each channel is individually cooled by water which is ...

The Soviet RBMK reactors had a fatal design flaw involving the fuel rods that could lead to a reactor explosion such as what happened at Chernobyl.