![Interesting as fuck: The graphite "tips" of the RBMK boron rods are actually 4.7m long. Here is how it works and why the graphite tips where there in the first place. : Interesting as fuck: The graphite "tips" of the RBMK boron rods are actually 4.7m long. Here is how it works and why the graphite tips where there in the first place. :](https://i.imgur.com/sG3qjna.png)
Interesting as fuck: The graphite "tips" of the RBMK boron rods are actually 4.7m long. Here is how it works and why the graphite tips where there in the first place. :
![Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on X: "The type of reactor that operated in Chernobyl is still in use today. https://t.co/5WI1GNz3xg" / X Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on X: "The type of reactor that operated in Chernobyl is still in use today. https://t.co/5WI1GNz3xg" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9ILSvtW4AAkLse.png)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on X: "The type of reactor that operated in Chernobyl is still in use today. https://t.co/5WI1GNz3xg" / X
Why was it a problem to have graphite tips in Chernobyl reactor control rods? The reactor was full of graphite moderating material. - Quora
When explaining how the control rods of RBMK-1000 were fully retracted, doesn't the term 'graphite tip' mislead people to think the graphite portion of the control rod was also extracted (when in
![Chernobyl: 'Critical' design flaw 'too sensitive to be made widely known' | World | News | Express.co.uk Chernobyl: 'Critical' design flaw 'too sensitive to be made widely known' | World | News | Express.co.uk](https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/78/1200x712/1603877_1.jpg)
Chernobyl: 'Critical' design flaw 'too sensitive to be made widely known' | World | News | Express.co.uk
![Cross-sectional view of (a) one graphite stack column and fuel channel... | Download Scientific Diagram Cross-sectional view of (a) one graphite stack column and fuel channel... | Download Scientific Diagram](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317530929/figure/fig1/AS:504091463303168@1497196178075/Cross-sectional-view-of-a-one-graphite-stack-column-and-fuel-channel-of-RBMK1500.png)
Cross-sectional view of (a) one graphite stack column and fuel channel... | Download Scientific Diagram
![nuclear physics - How exactly did lowering of the graphite parts of the control rods on Chernobyl's RBMK reactor result in reactivity surge? - Physics Stack Exchange nuclear physics - How exactly did lowering of the graphite parts of the control rods on Chernobyl's RBMK reactor result in reactivity surge? - Physics Stack Exchange](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sw4S3.png)