Then let’s proceed. We have a poisoned reactor, to the point where it reached an extremely low reading that, according to protocol, should have completely stopped the test until power was restored. However, all of this was ignored by Dyatlov, who ordered them to do whatever it took to achieve the necessary power for the test.
As I told you before, there are two principles in a reactor: either reactivity increases or decreases. So, if the reactor is suffocating, the only way to raise its power is to remove the factors lowering reactivity. In this case, they began removing the boron rods that helped decrease reactivity. But it wasn’t enough—no matter how many rods they removed, the reactor’s power wouldn’t increase. That’s how they ended up removing almost all the safety rods, leaving only
