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		formerly_proven on Oct 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: More details about the October 4 outage The Chernobyl test was not a test to drive the reactor to the limits, but actually a test to verify that the inertia of the main turbines is big enough to drive the coolant pumps for X amount of time in the case of grid failure.

_akoy on Oct 5, 2021 [–]

Of possible interest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijst4g5KFN0

This is a presentation to students by an MIT professor that goes over exactly what happened, the sequence of events, mistakes made, and so on.

formerly_proven on Oct 5, 2021 | [–]

Warning for others: I watched the above video and then watched the entire course (>30 hours).

XorNot on Oct 6, 2021 | | [–]

Now I know what I'm doing the rest of this week...

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