The official reports into the Chernobyl Disaster cover a large amount of information surrounding the fateful events that led to the world's worst nuclear disaster. However, these papers still miss key details pointed out by others that dramatically alter the story even scientists have come to expect. These are Chernobyl's Unanswered Questions.
One single violation of the operating instructions pertinent to the disaster has stuck since the beginning - the Operating Reactivity Margin expressed in number of effective control rods present in the core dropping under the minimum permissible value of 15. As by now you wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest to learn there is a lot of funny business going on in this topic. The contextual lies and misrepresentations of the ORM belong in a different video. In this video we will focus on an unanswered question - what was the ORM at the pressing of AZ-5? As the positive scram effect that initiated the destruction of the reactor is partly attributed to a low ORM in violation of the operating instructions its value at the time of the shutdown button press is a central question, one that should not be unanswered (and even unknown as a point of controversy) some nearly 40 years after the disaster. The obscurity may be deliberate.
This script was written by Bobby, who has also crafted an incredible history paper exploring how misinformation and disinformation continues to impact the story of Chernobyl. You can read it here: docs.google.com/document/d/1m...
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HBO Chernobyl
INSAG-7
Anatoly Dyatlov - How It Was.
INSAG-1
The Accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and its Consequences
On the development of the RBMK-1000 project (A.N. Rumyantsev).
Data Collected by Victor Dmitriev, accidont.ru
The Chornobyl Accident Revisited
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Chernobyl: Revenge of the Peaceful Atom
Anatoly Dyatlov - Why INSAG has Still got it Wrong
Computational Analysis of the initial stage of the accident at the Chernobyl' atomic power plant
ДИНАМИКА ЯДЕРНОГО РЕАКТОРА С РАСПРЕДЕЛЕННЫМИ ПАРАМЕТРАМИ В ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯХ ПЕРЕХОДНЫХ РЕЖИМОВ ЭКСПЛУАТАЦИИ ВВЭР и РБМК
Minutes of CC CPSU Politburo Session (Anatoly S. Chernyaev notes)
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