The first problem arose from the positive void coefficient, the drawback that made Soviet graphite-water reactors susceptible to runaway chain reactions in the event of a loss of coolant, and that, in the RBMK, had been exacerbated by
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“Till now I thought philosophy made us masters, of all our passions, and that it was a refuge from the storms in which weak mortals are tossed and shipwrecked; but you have destroyed my security, and broken this philosophic courage. I have despised riches; honour and its pageantries could never raise a weak thought in me; beauty alone hath fired my soul.”
― The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
― The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
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