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A picture of a ruptured fuel channel inside the Reactor Core. My question is how do they even replace or repair something like this? Isn’t the Graphite Stack highly radioactive? If Im right fuel channel rupture once happened in Leningrad NPP and probably somewhere else too during the era of operating these reactors? Also during the test they did in Chernobyl Reactor 4 before the test even ended many channels were ruptured right, and when they pressed AZ-5 almost all of them ruptured ( Including Control Rod Channels ) making it impossible for the control rods to even insert?

Kursk Nuclear Power Plant reactor number 2 shutdown using БСМ (Быстрое снижение мощности)

When I first saw this picture first thing that came into my mind was unit 4 when it exploded, u know the reactor lid flew into air, flipped and then fell back down.

Hi!
I have never seen modernised RBMK enter SCRAM, but now I have :D

Hi!
I made a post some time ago about trying to find a photo where the panel works and I have some good news, I found it!

Hi!
I have scrolled hours on google but can’t seem to find any pictures of these 2 panels working. Does anyone have it? I know they are MTK panels and even from the Control Room pictures where the Ignalina NPP was operational they both are not working, at least they seem to be. Did the operators rarely use them? When looking pictures from RBMK-1000 in operation MTK panels are almost always working.