🧵 The Chernobyl Test
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:57:18 UTC No. 16122279
If everything actually went according to plan, could they have used the residual steam pressure to power the backup pumps before the diesel generators came back online?
Would it have worked?
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:55:26 UTC No. 16122354
>>16122279
In theory ?
The problem was trying to restart the reactor during the test, something that shouldn't even be part of the test that was about a safe shutdown. You can't simply restart a nuclear reactor if it was working at full power during the last days.
Basically the external requirements caused the accident.