The RBMK is an early Generation II reactor and the oldest commercial reactor design still in wide operation.

Jan 7, 2026 · The Soviet-designed RBMK (reaktor bolshoy moshchnosty kanalny, high-power channel reactor) is a water-cooled reactor with individual fuel channels and using graphite as its moderator. It …

RBMK is a Soviet-designed nuclear reactor that uses enriched uranium as its fuel. It is a rather unusual design as it uses graphite as its moderator, and was designed for plutonium production—but was …

May 5, 2021 · This began with the design of the RBMK (reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy, or “high-power channel-type reactor”), where natural uranium was chosen to avoid the cost of 235 U enrichment.

The RBMK nuclear reactor is a soviet-designed reactor dating back a few decades in design. There were almost twenty of these reactors completed, and 11 of these reactors are still in use in Russia.

The RBMK type reactor (reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy) was developed and exclusively used in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It was based on a reactor used to produce weapons grade …

RBMK (Redirected from Rmbk) The RBMK (Russian: реа́ктор большо́й мо́щности кана́льный, РБМК; reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy, "high-power channel-type reactor") is a class of graphite …

The Soviets thus developed the RBMK reactors, enriched uranium reactors, the design of which stems from the first atomic prototypes. The RBMK family became tragically famous during the 1986 …

Mar 15, 2001 · The RBMK is unique in that it has a graphite moderator with fuel tubes and coolant tubes passing vertically through the graphite. The coolant tubes (~ 1600) carry water at 1000 psi pressure.

RBMK reactors (Reaktor Bolshoy Moshchnosti Kanalniy, or high-power pressure tube reactor) are a type of nuclear reactor developed in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s. They are best known for …