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Chapter
13: Energy Resources
The Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Meltdown
pp.413
What caused the meltdown of the reactor at Chernobyl? This site describes the history, disaster, causes and flaws in design, and other flaws associated with the plant that lead to the
disaster. Click on "the causes and flaws in design". Write a summary of the main cause of the disaster.
Design
Flaw
This Thinkquest article explores the cause of the Chernobyl reactor meltdown. Use the information from this page to build a timeline of the disaster. What affect did the control rods
have on the incident?
