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Vichnaya Pamyat

The Chernobyl Podcast

CHAPTER

The Red and the Blue Card

"You don't be a nuclear scientist to understand what happened at chanobl you only need to know this. There are essentially two things that happen inside a nuclear reactor," he says. "The reactivity which generates power, either goes up or it goes down." The cards were made of clear plasticyso you could see them from either caangle - 'very convenient' And the fun part is you didn't need to, right? It was just a red pile and a blue pile goes up blue,' he adds.

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