Background
The reactor at Chernobyl was a so-called RBMK-1000, Reaktor Bolshoy Moshchnosti Kanalnyy type 1000 Generation II reactor, designed by and built only in the Soviet Union [1]. There is a significant difference between the RBMK-1000 reactor the Soviets used at Chernobyl and the reactors in the rest of the world. The RBMK-1000 reactor was associated with two serious problems. A design the Soviet Union was also warned against by Western experts to build.
