I never realized the Chernobyl plant kept running after the disaster in 1986. I thought that whole area was off limits to people for any length of time.
Are they running a different plant under the same name?
you can’t just switch it off...
it’s still producing heat that needs to be removed.
Nor did I but I knew it was a hot zone.
There are three other plants there operating — same design. Do keep in mind that although the reactors are typically of a bad Russian design, the disaster was because bureaucrats who had no business being in charge of STEM issues demanded that an unsafe test go ahead — and they blew the plant apart. Just like TMIsland, where cowboys from the US Navy decided to violate manufacturer’s warnings — “Cause THEY are in charge here, dammit (full speed ahead)”.
I think it means disconnected from INBOUND power used for cooling spent fuel? As all four of the reactors have been shut down. It’s a Wash Post article so the author is probably not too intelligent.
Multiple units.