But there's a third factor to consider, water. Cool water takes heat out of the system. As it does it turns to steam, or what we call a "void." In an RBMK reactor of the type used at Chernobyl, there's something called a "positive void coefficient." What does that mean? It mea...
The first RBMK reactors had each reactor in a separate reactor hall/ building with only a common turbine hall but the later reactors were incorporated into blocks by two keeping the common turbine machine hall. Stations like Smolensk have only the latter ones while stations like the Leningrad ...