Americas worst nuclear disaster; Three Mile Island

hi kids, today we’ll talk about the RBMKP-2400 The Reactor Design The RBMKP-2400 was a Soviet nuclear reactor that never left the design phase. It was intended to produce 2400 MW electrical power at over 6500 MW of thermal output, making it one of the most powerful civilian reactors ever… Read More… ⇢

Hi kids, today we’ll talk about the RBMK’s counterpart, the VVER reactor. VVER and its history The Water-Water Power Reactor (Водо-водяной энергетический реактор, VVER for short), was a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), using light water both as the coolant and the moderator. It was first developed in the 1950s in… Read More… ⇢

Hi kids, today we’ll be talking about the design of the RBMK-1000. Please do add yourself to the email subscribes as it took me forever to research this… Because this is quite the complicated topic, I regret to say that you will be seeing at only a limited amount of… Read More… ⇢

Rise and shine, kids. Today we’re looking at the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in 1986. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (originally Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant of V. I. Lenin) was a nuclear power plant currently undergoing a process of decommissioning. This reactor is located near… Read More… ⇢

Hey kids, today we’ll be learning about the boiling water reactor (BWR) What is a Boiling Water Reactor? A Boiling Water Reactor is a type of nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power and is the 2nd most common type of nuclear reactor, after the pressurized water reactor… Read More… ⇢