How Does an RBMK Reactor Explode

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Well, in this particular case the NIMBYs have a pretty glaring example of why they wouldn't want one in their back yard, and all the lecturing and info-graphics and professional assurances in the world aren't going to reassure them between the literal and figurative fallout of Chernobyl and the more recent Fukushima incident. Add the coal lobby to fund opposition (never mind that burning coal is one of the major things that releases radiation into the atmosphere, along with sulfates and so on) and the pushback gets severe.