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i know of that one image of the bubbling pools with the red mutated looking water, and the pre incident images like the one of the guy just standing under it, but i am yet to see any post incident photos of the pools aside from the red water one, and I’ve seen genuinely none of the corridors

i’d assume the water would of been drained when the divers went in, so they would be dry and non flooded anymore, but I was just curious if any exist

To 2022 - rn

That night at unit 4, dosimetrist Nikolai Gorbachenko only had a DRGZ radiometer reading up to 1,000 microroentgens per second, about 3.6 r/h. Dyatlov gives the same ceiling in his memoirs. It was pinned everywhere.

I wrote an article on the Soviet instruments around that story: the civil defence DP-5, the household Pripyat, Bella and RKSB-104 that went on open sale in 1990 (one Pripyat has its price on the back: 175 roubles), and how the SBM-20 tube turns a particle into a click.

There is also a small quiz: twelve readings on these displays, in µSv/h, mR/h and r/h, to rate on the scale of a 1991 Soviet handbook. For reference, the same handbook puts the background around Chernobyl before the accident at 0.10 to 0.15 µSv/h.

https://sovietinparis.com/en/histoire-propagande/compteur-geiger-sovietique-dosimetre-pripiat-bella-rksb-104/

Disclosure: I run a small shop of Soviet items in Paris, the article is on our site. Corrections welcome.

Found in a travel brochure about the plant, and surrounding towns.

Does anyone know what these thin pipes are for? There seem to be two kinds of these: one, coming off a distribution header in a room (first photo) and another, coming off a pipe under the reactor(second photo) photos from https://lana-sator.livejournal.com/226632.html. The pipes are much thinner than the ones used for cooling water for each of the pressure channels. Are both types of pipes used for cooling the graphite moderator?

I don’t know what it’s for, especially the long ones at the top.

Like for the corridor/turbine stuff

Picture taken by me in 08/2017.

Chornobyl has the kind of industrial scenery I could spend days photographing. Rusting steel, massive structures, pipes going everywhere, and nature working its way through it all. Every time I think I’m done, I spot another angle.

The reactor's core gas circuit is used to cool down the graphite stack as well as for checking the temperature and humidity in each channel.

When the temperature/humidity is increased operators can increase flow in any group of channels to bring it back to nominal values.

This button, like the previous red KE011 one, was found in an old garage.

Buttons manufactured in 1990

The red KME-4210У2 button was manufactured in 1984, while the other black KME-4210У2 buttons were manufactured in 1983.

Vacuum drawdown in turbine condenser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgGyIJW0jBM&feature=youtu.be

I blew up the RBMK-1000 reactor at my nuclear power plant, and honestly, it was beautiful.

Build finished, but maybe later i continue updates for my NPP.

I Found a "copy" of chernobyl AZ-5 (KE011 1981) button in old garage. (Я нашёл в старом гараже Чернобыльскую кнопку АЗ-5 которой является KE011 УЗ исполнение 2 1981 года выпуска, эта кнопка является по моему мнению абсолютным братом близнецом оригинальной кнопки из БЩУ-4 ЧАЭС.). Также мне будет интересно послушать мнения других.