When an rbmk reactor loses its water coolant the graphite remains in place and a nuclear reaction continues producing heat that, combined with oxygen, can set the graphite on fire.

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Russia is the only country where Soviet-design RBMK reactors - made infamous by the Chernboyl accident of 1986 - still operate. All have undergone extensive modernisation work to bring them up to ...

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it had prevented a Ukrainian drone attack on the Smolensk nuclear power plant in western Russia on Sunday. The Soviet-era Smolensk nuclear power ...

The first unit was shut down after 45 years of operation in December 2021. The original design life for the four RBMK-1000 reactors at the plant was for 30 years but had been extended by 15 years ...

FSB says electronic warfare intercepted Ukrainian drone targeting Smolensk nuclear facility, no damage reported ...