The RBMK (Russian: реа́ктор большо́й мо́щности кана́льный, РБМК; reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy, "high-power channel-type reactor") is a class of...

RBMK would be shut down in 2023, followed by Unit 2 in 2027. On December 19, 2021, exactly 45 years to the day since it began operation, Unit 1 RBMK shut...

The Leningrad NPP was the first power station in Russia to operate the RBMK type of reactor. Despite its age, in 2012 and 2013 the Leningrad NPP took...

nuclear power plant in the world. The plant would eventually consist of four RBMK-1000 reactors, each capable of producing 1,000 megawatts (MW) of electric...

(Lithuanian: Ignalinos atominė elektrinė, IAE) is a decommissioned two-unit RBMK-1500 nuclear power station in Visaginas Municipality, Lithuania. It was named...

temperature set by the position of the control rods. In contrast, the Soviet RBMK reactor design used at Chernobyl, which uses graphite instead of water as...

similar to that of Chernobyl NPP units 3-4, as both are later generation RBMKs. Construction began on the Smolensk NPP in the late 1970s. The NPP was originally...

standards. RBMK emergency core cooling systems only have one division and little redundancy within that division. Though the large core of the RBMK is less...

end of the 1990s. Prototypical and older versions of PWR, CANDU, BWR, AGR, RBMK and VVER are among them. These are contrasted to generation I reactors, which...

of Russia's reactors are of the RBMK 1000 type, similar to the one at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Some of these RBMK reactors were originally to be...