RBMK - Wikipedia
The RBMK (Russian: Реактор большой мощности канальный, 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.
RBMK Reactors – Appendix to Nuclear Power Reactors
Feb 15, 2022 · The Soviet-designed RBMK (reaktor bolshoy moshchnosty kanalny, high-power channel reactor) is a water-cooled reactor with individual fuel channels and using graphite as its moderator. It is also known as the light water graphite reactor (LWGR).
RBMK - Energy Education
RBMK is a Soviet-designed nuclear reactor that uses enriched uranium as its fuel. It is a rather unusual design as it uses graphite as its moderator, and was designed for plutonium production—but was also used extensively for electrical generation.
The Soviet RBMK Reactor: 35 Years After The Chernobyl Disaster
May 5, 2021 · This began with the design of the RBMK (reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy, or “high-power channel-type reactor”), where natural uranium was chosen to avoid the cost of 235 U enrichment.
INSP: RBMK Description - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The RBMK The former Soviet Union built 17 nuclear units based on the RBMK design used at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Today it is generally recognized that there are three generations of RBMK nuclear power plants.
RBMK Reactors - Стэнфордский университет
The RBMK reactor is graphite-moderated, so a core of solid graphite is responsible for slowing down fast neutrons in the reactor core. In fact, the name RBMK is a Russian acronym for "High-powered channel-type reactor".
This document concerns the systems, design, and operations of the graphite-moderated, boiling, water-cooled, channel-type (RBMK) reactors located in the former Soviet Union (FSU).
RBMK Type Reactor - Nuclear energy - Energy Encyclopedia
The RBMK type reactor (reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy) was developed and exclusively used in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It was based on a reactor used to produce weapons grade plutonium. In 2010, there were 12 operating RBMK …
Today 15 RBMK power reactors are produc-ing electricity in three States: 11 units in Russia, two in Ukraine, and two in Lithuania. The gross electric power rating of all but two RBMKs is 1000 MWe; the exceptions are the two units at Ignalina in Lithuania which are rated at …
Russian RBMK reactor design information - OSTI.GOV
Nov 1, 1993 · This document concerns the systems, design, and operations of the graphite-moderated, boiling, water-cooled, channel-type (RBMK) reactors located in the former Soviet Union (FSU).