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RBMK reactors

Author: Daniel BASTIEN

Publication date: January 10, 2000

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1. Design and development

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1.1 Design

The first 1,000 MW power reactor, whose general operating principle is shown in figure 1 , went into commercial service in Leningrad in 1973. It was the first of a series of six reactors whose construction had been announced by the USSR at the 4th Geneva Conference in 1971.

The design is directly derived from Soviet military reactors, with the number of channels (around 1,700) multiplied to obtain...

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