Hank explains in moderate detail why HBO's Chernobyl explanation of "control rods with graphite tips" is misleadingly simplistic.

Learn about how the RBMK design of the Chernobyl reactor was stable, with inherently safe negative feedback loops preventing disaster... except for a specific situation that actually occurred this one time in 1986.

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