Chernobyl Reactor #4 You will make a stop at reactor cooling passages. If the weather is good, you may be lucky to see huge catfishes, witnesses of the Chernobyl tragedy. You may bring some bread to feed them. Reactor #4 is 1 of 7 spookiest buildings around the world ...
Late at night on 26th April 1986 reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union exploded during a botched safety test. The village of Chernobyl and nearby city of Pripyat would never be the same again and Chernobyl would be firmly imprinted on the minds of millions...
Today, Chernobyl's doomed reactor is entombed within a massive concrete structure known as the sarcophagus, but the effects of its meltdown linger. The radioactive atoms — radionuclides — released in the 10 days after the catastrophe still permeate the soil, the water and, ye...
On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 exploded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, causing the worst nuclear accident in history. Now, thirty-five years later, smoldering nuclear “embers” are still buried within Chernobyl site, raising questions about just what might happen there—and...
Inside Chernobyl Today. the No. 4 Reactor at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl Power Station Exploded April 26, 1986. Last Month, Rushworth M. Kidder Had a Highly Unusual `Back Door' Tour of the Site, Accompanied by Senior Soviet Engineers Who Were There during the Accident. This Is the ...
Chernobyl TodayIn the aftermath of the explosion of reactor no. 4 at the Chernobyl (Ukraine) nuclear power plant...Bequette, FranceUnesco Courier
The video shows a bit of the history of Soviet-era control computers. The reactor’s V-30M computer descended from some of these earlier computers. With 20K of core memory, we won’t be impressed today, but that was respectable for the day. The SKALA system will look familiar if you ar...
Chernobyl(chĭrnōˈbyēl), Ukr.Chornobyl,abandoned city, N Ukraine, near the Belarus border, on the Pripyat River. Ten miles (16 km) to the north, in the town of Pripyat, is the Chernobyl nuclear power station, site of the worst nuclear reactor disaster in history. On Apr. 25, 19...
Looking south east across the Zone from the roof of Reactor 5 What is Pripyat? Named after the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970 in northern Ukraine which was then part of the Soviet Union. It was built to house the employees of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plants...
They failed to coordinate with the safety personnel in charge of the reactor. Operators of the reactor were also unaware the tests were being performed. The team also cut off the emergency coolant to the core reactor for the test duration. All of these factors resulted in the explosion that ...