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mheslep
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Tens of thousands of tons of loosely packed wood burning simultaneously, and an unlimited supply of oxygen.I guess I had a weak idea of height comparisons in my head but 170m seemed rather huge , well i haven't seen a large fire in my life so it's hard to imagine a forest fire being 60 stories above the actual forest because 200m is about a 50/60 story building, and that's pretty damn high for a flame originating from a pile of loosely packed wood....
Back on topic, a graphite fire would be difficult to sustain given the temperatures required, but a multi GW run away RBMK obviously was capable of doing so, and there were many tons of graphite.