Whose fault was the Chernobyl accident?

Question

Haha mark c

Answer 1

either the people who built the plant,or the people who worked there.either way,it was an accident that could have been avoided

Answer 2

Bit of a toughie this one!

The management at Chernobyl wanted to test reactor number four to check power output did not fall below the minimum required to generate electricity. Due to conditions the technicians should have been aware of but were apparently not told about, the power output dropped to critical levels, so to counteract this the reactor had its control rods pulled out of the atomic core as they needed more power to conclude the test.  A simple analogy would be tying the brake lever in a car so that you couldn't operate the brakes.

The reactor exploded and the rest as they say is history.  

Whoever devised this test had not taken into account the limitations of the RBMK reactor design in use at Chernobyl - a flawed design, arguably safe enough under normal operating conditions, however, without any kind of containment vessel to prevent the release of radioactive material, inadequate safety measures to cover all bases.

The Soviet authorities were never ones to consider safety implications as it was normal practice if someone was killed to issue a standard statement along the lines that fitted the way they wanted things to look. The Chernobyl disaster is a classic example of why that way of going about things is perhaps not the best way to go.

This is my opinion, there are others which I fully respect.

Answer 3

Some crucial mistakes and unforeseen grid outages occurred during planning the test of a new safety device.This resulted in a thing called Xenon Poisoning which caused the catastrophic runaway reaction when the experiment commenced.

Inexperienced engineers were by that time on shift and ill prepared to deal with it but even an experienced engineer could not have dealt with it considering the chain of unexpected events that contributed to it.

I suppose one could argue that the experiment should not have gone ahead until perfect test conditions prevailed but nothing like this,on this scale had happened before.

It was a tragic accident of it's time.If similar happened today then you could look for fault as lessons should have been learnt.

Answer 4

the shift, managers

Answer 5

Living example on what went wrong out there.

How the young one in time could not handle it in time.

Luke 8.5-8,10-17

What do you think?

Answer 6

people who did not know what they were doing and pressure from above

Answer 7

Superman's. where was he??

Answer 8

Probably mine, I seem to be copping the blame for everything at the moment!

Answer 9

Nobodys

Answer 10

George Bush and Global warming.