3. If operators faced a situation calling for an emergency shutdown of an RBMK, how long would it take to gradually reduce the reactor's power to zero?

4. When was the first major accident involving an RBMK reactor?

5. In 1970, how many Soviet citizens had Communist Party membership?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Logachev and his crew see when at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station on April 26, 1986?

2. When did Brukhanov come home briefly, and what news did he bring?

3. What was happening with Unit Four on Saturday evening?

4. When did Anatoly Dyatlov begin working at Chernobyl and what was his background?

5. How did Toptunov qualify as a senior reactor control engineer?

6. Why did Maria Protsenko have to hand draw maps of Pripyat?

7. What was the size and makeup of the RBMK?

8. Why was Viktor Brukhanov made the director of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station?

9. What did Georgi Kopchinsky and other nuclear experts learn about the disaster at Chernobyl from a call?

10. Where can radiation be found?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chernobyl power station used RBMK reactors. Why and how did design flaws in the RBMK lead to the catastrophe?

Essay Topic 2

The RBMK had serious design faults. Did the designers know about the flaws of the RBMK? Were the designers culpable for the disaster at Chernobyl?

Essay Topic 3

Anatoly Dyatlov was the deputy chief engineer of the Chernobyl power plant. What did Dyatlov’s work experience teach him about reality and bureaucracy in the Soviet Union? Why did bureaucracy usually trump reality?

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