Scientists have proposed a new version of the causes of the Chernobyl accident

The disaster at Chernobyl began with a nuclear explosion

Swedish scientists have suggested that the disaster at Chernobyl began with a nuclear blast on 25 April 1986 at 21:23.

Researchers Lars-Erik de Geer, Krister Persson and Henning Rohde analyzed the xenon isotopes, which scientists from the radium Institute. V. G. Khlopina found under the Cherepovets 4 days after the Chernobyl tragedy. Swedish experts have found that xenon-133 and xenon-133m, does not exist in nature and characterized by the rapid half-life, into the atmosphere at the time of the Chernobyl accident.

To reach Cherepovets well-known scientists of the time, the isotopes of the gas could only provided that they threw up for 2-3 km. is capable of a small nuclear explosion that occurred in the 2-3 elements of a nuclear power station that produce heat. The power of the explosion correlated with 75 tons of TNT.

That the first explosion at Chernobyl was the nuclear physicists says in some places melted the bottom cover of the reactor. A reactor explosion destroyed a two-meter serpentine plate, covered with iron with a thickness of 4 cm Scientists believe that damage of the 3-kilometre jet of hot plasma — product of a nuclear explosion.

Another argument of the Swedes — a bright blue flash preceding the second explosion, and the ionized air. During an uncontrolled nuclear reactions, the molecules of oxygen and nitrogen produce a blue glow.

To test his theory, the Swedes will be able when you get more accurate information about the content of the xenon isotopes in the atmosphere over the countries through which passed the cloud of the Chernobyl radioactive releases. According to the established version, both of the Chernobyl explosion was caused by violations of water circulation, the breakthrough of the pipeline.

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