October – Filling of the cooling water reservoir for the Chernobyl Power Plant begins. For this reason it was decided to build the RBMK pressure tube reactors. The scientist Alekzandrov opposes this, saying that the RBMK- 1000 was not only the safest reactor, but it also produced the cheapest electricity as well. He informs the Ukraine Minister of Energy, Aleksei Makukhin, that an RBMK (a boiling water reactor) releases forty times more radiation than a PWR. Deputy Chief Engineer at Chernobyl, Grigori Medvedev, proposes construction of Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs).
Discussions take place in Kiev about the type of nuclear plant to be built at Chernobyl.
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