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26. Chernobyl — How It Happened
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MIT 22.01 lecture by Michael Short explaining the Chernobyl accident technically, including RBMK reactor positive feedback, xenon poisoning and the cascade of human errors during the test.
Recommended as the detailed technical account of exactly what happened at Chernobyl.
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