APPLIED PHYSICS

THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL JOURNAL


No. 3 Founded in 1994 Moscow 2004


On the possible magnetic mechanism of Chernobyl catastrophe

A. A. Rukhadze
General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

L. I. Urutskoev, D. V. Filippov
RECOM, Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia

   The official conclusion about the origin and mechanism of the Chernobyl catastrophe is shown to essentially contradict experimental facts available from the accident. In the frame of existing physical models of nuclear fission reactor, it is shown analytically that under conditions of the accident the period of reactor runaway at the fourth power generating unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP) should be either 10 times slower or 100 times faster than observed one. It is paid attention to an opportunity of change of delayed neutrons share by influence of a magnetic pulse on electronic environments of nuclei-emitters of delayed neutrons. A self-consistent hypothesis is suggested for the probable birth of magnetic charges, during the turbine generator test under it’s own momentum, at the fourth power generating unit of CNPP, and for the impact of these charges on the reactivity coefficient.

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