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During the 1990s the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant – formerly the Chernobyl NPP – continued operating with its remaining three RBMK reactors, but of course the 1970s-era automation ...
Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] ...