Was the Chernobyl disaster preventable? 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 ...

This module consists of the 4 lectures and provides World overview, the description of main type of thermal reactors and its fuels (PWR, BWR, VVER, RBMK, AGR, Pressurized Heavy-Water Reactors); design ...