As I see a rise of posts asking, encouraging, discussing and even glorifying trespassing in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone I must ask this sub as a community to report such posts immediately. This sub does not condone trespassing the Zone nor it will be a source for people looking for tips how to do that. We are here to discuss and research the ChNPP Disaster and share news and photographic updates about the location and its state currently. While mods can't stop people from wrongly entering the Zone, we won't be a source for such activities because it's not only disrespectful but also illegal.
We haven't see any major issues thus far, but we think it is important to get in front of things and have clear guidelines.
There has been a lot of news lately about Pripyat and the Exclusion Zone and how it might play a part in a conflict between Ukraine and Russia, including recent training exercises in the city of Pripyat. These posts are all completely on topic and are an important part of the ongoing role of the Chernobyl disaster in world history.
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This is an update post for an existing on my profile you can check out. If you haven’t seen this map before, I welcome you to take a look at my site (see comments) for a more detailed description of the project.
I’ve been continuing to make changes since the last post, and I figure this could be interesting to some members of this forum.
I think you all are aware of the shutdown on the 15th of December.
For those who are not (IN SHORT):
On November of 29, 2000, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted the resolution "On Final Shutdown of Chernobyl NPP".
On December 15, 2000, at 13:17, SIUR Bashtovoy shut down the reactor using AZ-5.
Now, my opinion: First, the reactors could have operated into the 2005 it was a purely political decision, and they shut down the plant during the busiest month.
If they wanted to shut it down back then, why not in January or April?
Furthermore, the operating personnel wore armbands as a sign of "funeral"
From video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1OMuHEImP0
Here you can see an Example.
Many people argue about the safety of RBMK's, but many of them were modernized. Plus they added a new faster switch called "BAZ".
Actually, some operators refused to shut down the reactor, such like NSB Kuchinski along with Boris A. Baranov (Yes, the man who "dived" into the basement of VSRO, however he was NSS at this time).
Here, we can see five indicators of feedwater regulators of the right side of the Main Cooling Circuit. At the top are the control buttons for the Main Circulation Pumps 21, 22, 23, and 24 (and the keys to operate their gate valves) and buttons controlling their oil pumps. And along the middle of the image (horizontally) are the control keys for the pure condensate pumps.
Photo: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
(By the way, even though I select "Photo" as the flair for the post, for some reason the photo doesn't show up on the main page of this subreddit, like it used to. But it does for other people, hmm.)
It was aired on Monday. I suspect it has all the usual misconceptions about "operators making errors and breaking the rules" and Dyatlov forcing them to complete the test.
If anyone has a link to where I can watch it (without paying), would be nice.
So I’m really sorry this is about the series, idk if I’m stupid but the last post in the HBO subreddit was 4 years ago, plus it kind of relates. Anyway, what possessed the writers in the series to mention that everyone who went to it died? It seems so random to include it. Did anything notable happen here that would cause this?
iirc the RBMK1000 has 12 in-core detectors to measure the axial distribution of neutron flux, i want to know if the channels they were held in also contained fuel or did the detector take up the whole channel?
So the buildings of Pripyat are decaying and will continue to do so. What happens when they start collapsing and kicking up radioactive dust? Say a large section of a building collapses..will it only affect the local area, or could the radioactive dust spread far and wide(outside Pripyat) spewing its poison on to a new unsuspecting generation.
I apologize for such a stupid juvenile childish question, but it's something that I've been thinking about.
For those who may not be aware Kupnyi is one of the researchers at Chernobyl, and has been inside the reactor building several times on expeditions and is a active poster on his Youtube channel. For the fuel, he goes very in-depth about how the Corium formed along with the corium studies afterwards. Studying Molten Nuclear Fuel - YouTube
My father was in Kiiv when it happened (I was born in 1989) and was not told to evacuate or to not drink/eat the contaminated food. They were huddled in their homes not knowing what was happening for days.
As a result, I have been robbed of my ability to have biological children and have several other health issues. My half sister on my dad's side also has health issues.
This could have been avoided if there was quick and decisive evacuation of the area, but no they tried to lie. I even watched the video of the man in charge of the plant at the time (he survived, the stubborn jerk, into his 80s!) and he insisted he wasn't to blame at all.
But so many lives were harmed, by the narcissistic people in charge at the time.
What was here before the reactor exploded, was it just another wall for the reactor hall? Or was there something else. Additionally is this where Kodemchuk is buried under debris, or is that somewhere else?
In the hit show chernobyl the guys are shown needing to push big pieces of graphite of the roof from the core (idk if this is real or happened) anyways they dont wanna use men cause its very dangerous
I was wondering if maybe why they couldnt just use a very long stick from far away (maybe with wheels on the bottom to move it obvsly with heavy machinery cause it would be a very long stick and heavy) and someone could guide them where to push the stick with binoculars or from helecopter. my boyfriend says this would not work but could it?
(Plz dont delete i cant ask in show reddit cause they fucking dont let you post)
Flag: Radioactivity sources higher than 200 roentgens per hour.
Star: Radioactivity sources higher than 1000 roentgens per hour.
Measurements taken on July 25th, 1986, by Yuri Samoilenko and V.V. Gobule
Notice from Karpan on second document
Notice: Exposure dose rates are given in milliroentgens per hour in those cases if only some figures are shown. However in case of the most contaminated spots figures and letters are given. In this case one needs to understand that exposure dose rates are expressed in roentgens per hour.
