Who+was+at+fault

Kevin Mejia The people responsible for the Chernobyl disaster were the crew itself. Why? You might ask. Well it all started off when the Unit 4 reactor was shut down for maintenance. The whole purpose of the maintenance work was “to determine whether cooling off the core could continue to be ensured in the event of a loss of power.” (WNA) Since those type of tests were ran each year, they assumed that this test were to be as easy as any other test they’ve done, “but the power delivered from the running down turbine fell off too rapidly, so it was decided to repeat the test using the new voltage regulators that had been developed. Unfortunately, this test, which was considered essentially to concern the non-nuclear part of the power plant, was carried out without a proper exchange of information and coordination between the team in charge of the test and the personnel in charge of the safety of the nuclear reactor. Therefore, inadequate safety precautions were included in the test programmed and the operating personnel were not alerted to the nuclear safety implications of the electrical test and its potential danger.” (WNA) One of the main reasons that Chernobyl failed was because, “The reactor had several other features which were regarded as unsafe in the Soviet Union as well as by experts from other countries. The Soviet Union never exported RBMK reactors.” RBMK which is an abbreviation of Russian terms meaning reactor of high output, multichannel type or as stated in one of the articles “//Reaktor Golshoy Moshchnosty Kanalny//, which is translated into, high-power channel reactor.” (WNA) This could have been preventable but others working on this power plant should have thought that “Making an experiment with the reactor which involved disabling its safety features.” Wasn’t the greatest idea and “This is the single main cause of the accident. The safety features would have safely shut down the reactor if they hadn't been disabled.”(NFAQ)