Nuclear power stations using RBMK reactors

decommissioned nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, known by Chernobyl disaster

The RBMK (, РБМК; reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy, "high-power channel-type reactor") is a class of graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor designed and built by the Soviet Union. It is somewhat like a boiling water reactor as water boils in the pressure tubes. It is one of two power reactor types to enter serial production in the Soviet Union during the 1970s, the other being the VVER reactor. The name refers to its design where instead of a large steel pressure vessel surrounding the entire core, the core is surrounded by a cylindrical annular steel tank inside a concrete vault and eac

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first in the world reactor electricity

nuclear power plant in western Russia

RBMK and VVER nuclear power plant in Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Nuclear power plant