Whose fault was the Chernobyl accident?
Bit of a toughie this one! The management at Chernobyl wanted to test reactor number four to check power output did not fall below the minimum required to generate electricity. Due to conditions the technicians should have been aware of but were apparently not told about, the power output dropped to critical levels, so to counteract this the reactor had its control rods pulled out of the atomic core as they needed more power to conclude the test. A simple analogy would be tying the brake lever in a car so that you couldn’t operate the brakes. The reactor exploded and the rest as they say is history. Whoever devised this test had not taken into account the limitations of the RBMK reactor design in use at Chernobyl – a flawed design, arguably safe enough under normal operating conditions, however, without any kind of containment vessel to prevent the release of radioactive material, inadequate safety measures to cover all bases. The Soviet authorities were never ones to consider safety i
