Description

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.