The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, near Richland, Washington, USA, was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built. The project was commissioned to produce plutonium-239 by neutron activation as part of the Manhattan Project, the United States nuclear weapons development program during World War II. The B reactor was fueled with metallic natural uranium, graphite moderated, and water-cooled.
The Chernobyl reactor complex just 80 miles north of Kiev, Ukraine is made up of four Russian made RBMK-1000 water-cooled graphite moderated reactor designed to make plutonium for nuclear weapons and modified to also produce electricity. There are 27 RBMK's in the former Soviet Union. One distinguishing feature of the RBMK design is its use of graphite to slow the neutrons produced by the fissioning of uranium-235 atoms. Besides the RBMK reactors, the U.S. Department of Energy operated a graphite-moderated reactor at Hanford, Washington for the dual purpose of producing military plutonium and electricity up until the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident. Within the reactor core of a RBMK, nuclear fuel is placed in long separate vertical channels surrounded by graphite, which is expected to absorb large amounts of heat as a safety feature to give reactor operators ample time to take corrective action in the event of an accident. No More Chernobyls
The N reactor is graphite moderated also.
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“The B Reactor “
Uh, the B reactor was shutdown in 1968, ergo it could not be operating now!