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The Soviet RBMK graphite-moderated, water-cooled channel power reactors (including the Chernobyl units): design characteristics such as the positive void coefficient and slow scram, design flaws, pre-accident safety analyses and risk assessments of the design, and post-accident modifications. Not claims about PRA methodology in general or nuclear regulation in other countries.

The Chernobyl RBMK reactor design had no probabilistic risk assessment before the 1986 accident

UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Nuclear power safety Probabilistic risk assessmentimportance · settledImportance 0.15, from 0 to 1 · settled: uncontested, so low even when much depends on it. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →

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