26.04.1986 Pripyat, Chernobyl Radiating Places 20years later

20 years ago, on April 26, 1986 occurred an explosion at Chernobyl nuclear plant, that caused the irreversible consequences for the whole world...


20 years later a project of a special kind. In October 2005 seven artists from Russia, Belarus and Germany travel to the hostile restricted area. With their artistic work they want to commemorate a catastrophe that can happen again anytime and should not do so.

Radiating Places -- A Requiem of a Special Kind:

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[hole2score]

Foe some of you who dont know how did the explosion happen:

The explosion happen while they were testing the generators.The generators were cooling on water.And so all the generators were maxed but ONLY generator 4 blow up.Know why?Cuz for some reason generator 4 didnt get water to cool down.

[irolliamvolvo]

NO ban stupid people who order expiriments to be ran in nuclear power plants with all the saftey devices turned off!

[INDEFICIENTER2112]

at least that's what politicians in USSR told to their people and they believed them.Btw someone here mentioned that the guys(liquidators)who did the cleanup operations had no protection from radiation.Well at those levels (15 000-20 000 Rontgens per hour in the vicinity of the fuel fragments and graphite blocks that were scattered all around the plant)they would have to be covered in tons of lead in order to effectively shield them from the radiation

[INDEFICIENTER2112]

But ultimately the biggest culprit for the disaster was the political system that allowed such a flawed reactor to be built and which kept people who worked with RBMK reactors in the dark.A year before Chernobyl accident a similar test were carried out at Ignalina NPP(Lithuania)in which a design flaw of the RBMK was noticed for the first time but someone decided to keep the other RBMK operators in the dark because there was no accident in USSR and they NPP's were the safest in the world

[INDEFICIENTER2112]

instead of bringing power down they caused a massive power spike,ten times the normal operational output,the core overheated, and seconds later this overheating resulted in the initial explosion).And the second reason was the operators of the reactor No4 themselves.They bypassed and turned off all the safety features of the reactor and neglected operational parameters in which reactor should have been operated thus spelling doom for the reactor and themselves

[INDEFICIENTER2112]

4.The accident happened because of the few reasons.First was the flawed design of the RBMK reactor.Dangerously high positive void coefficient makes the RBMK design very unstable at low power levels, and prone to suddenly increasing energy production to a dangerous level.Graphite tipped control rods (when Akimov pressed the AZ-5 button(emergency stop button which fully inserts all of the control rods into the reactor)

[INDEFICIENTER2112]

2.The only thing that gets raised or lowered into the reactor are control rods that absorb excess neutrons thus maintaining chain reaction under control

3.The water pumps that pump water into the reactor and all the other equipment in the power plant runs on the same power that that same power plant produces.The generators are the safety feature that kicks in if for any reason pumps loose the power supply.That is the sole purpose of generators not some nonsense about cooling of water

[INDEFICIENTER2112]

I can't believe what kind of a nonsense some of you are writing here.To mention few of them."Raising the fuel rods up and out of the cooling sheeth."???"The generators were cooling on water...generator 4 didnt get water to cool down."WTF are you talking about???Are you insane?Is it so hard to check facts before you write this kind of rubbish?

1.The only time that the fuel assembly is lowered or raised out of the reactor is when the reactor is refueled,other then that it stay's put in the reactor

[enorabv]

@enorabv In our whole life time we will NOT ever be exposed to the radiation they were exposed to in One Hour!

[enorabv]

@enorabv So the over heated fuel rods exploded and the cooling tower became a chimney of radiation. Russians from many emergency services went unprotected into the area to control the "fire" and try to stop it. They didn't have ANY protective gear. The helocopter pilots hovered over the chimney dumping concrete over it. Scientists, plant workers, the families the young Russian soldiers, pilots they were all over-whelmingly poisoned with radioactivity.

[enorabv]

During the "test" the scientist authorized raising the fuel rods up and out of the cooling sheeth they were surrounded by. heavy water extra proton circulated in the cooling around these sheeths to prevent a meltdown.

However when the fuel rods were lifted out of their usual place the heat they genrated melted the cooling containers so the rods could not be reinserted. the resulting explosion was not confined at all as the "standard" or recommended cap had not been installed to save money.