22: Chernobyl

The largest nuclear incident in human history released an estimated 400 times the radioactive material compared to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It all happened because of a test that was delayed by one shift, or was it the ultimate inevitability of a flawed reactor design?
With John Chidgey.

Prior Episode References:

• Causality Episode 3: Fukushima


• Causality Episode 17: Three Mile Island

Technical References:

• Iodine-135


• Periodic Table


• List of Chemical Elements


• Xenon Poisoning in Reactors


• Nuclear Energy Slides [PDF]


• Neutron Cross-Section


• Radiation burn


• RBMK Reactors Positive Void Coefficient

Timelines:

• Chernobyl Accident Timeline


• Chernobyl Timeline Of A Nuclear Nightmare


• What Caused The Disaster


• Timeline Of Events The Chernobyl Gallery


• Chernobyl Disaster


• Chernobyl Sequence of Events

Essays, Regulations and Miscellaneous:

• Chernobyl Essay [PDF]


• Regulation for 3rd and 4th Reactor [PDF]


• Regulations and ORM in Chernobyl’ disaster


• Individual involvement in the Chernobyl disaster


• New Safe Confinement


• Chernobyl New Safe Confinement


• Plans for New Nuclear Reactors Worldwide

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Episode Gold Producer:
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Episode Silver Producers:
Carsten Hansen and John Whitlow.