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Nuclear-hazardous accumulations of fuel-containing materials in the destroyed fourth Unit of the Chernobyl NPP

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The neutron incident that happened in June 1990 in the 4th Unit of the Chernobyl NPP, destroyed in the accident, at the boundary of rooms 304/3 and 305/2 is analyzed. One of possible scenarios of the incident, consistently accounting for the dynamics and self-extinguishment of the detected neutron anomaly, is suggested.

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  1. Institute for Nuclear Power Plant Safety Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ul. Kirova 36-a, Chernobyl, Kiev oblast, 07270, Ukraine

    E. D. Vysotskii, A. A. Klyuchnikov, A. S. Lagunenko, E. M. Pazukhin & V. N. Shcherbin

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Original Russian Text © E.D. Vysotskii, A.A. Klyuchnikov, A.S. Lagunenko, E.M. Pazukhin, V.N. Shcherbin, 2011, published in Radiokhimiya, 2011, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 178–183.

Dedicated to the memory of all Chernobyl liquidators who prematurely passed away. To 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident.

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Vysotskii, E.D., Klyuchnikov, A.A., Lagunenko, A.S. et al. Nuclear-hazardous accumulations of fuel-containing materials in the destroyed fourth Unit of the Chernobyl NPP. Radiochemistry 53, 206–212 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1066362211020160

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