Chernobyl's Reactor Accelerated When It Should Have Stopped #science #nuclear #engineering

Chernobyl. You've been told water cools a reactor down. That's not what happened.
In this video, we explain the real engineering flaw behind the Chernobyl disaster: how the reactor used graphite as a moderator instead of water, and why losing coolant made the reaction speed up instead of slowing down — the opposite of how every other reactor in the world works.
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Видео Chernobyl's Reactor Accelerated When It Should Have Stopped #science #nuclear #engineering канала How [Anything] Actually Works