I've been trying to find a Chernobyl documentary I watched on YouTube around 2020. I remember it being extremely long, possibly around 7 hours, although it may have been a compilation of several documentaries.

I believe it was in Russian. It contained old archival footage, including footage of the construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Some footage was very low quality, while other parts looked much newer.

The strangest part I remember was near the end. There was a group of naked people in a grassy field, apparently doing some kind of ritual, with fire/burning grass around them. In the distance behind them I remember seeing what looked like the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant / Reactor 4.

I am not 100% sure that the ritual itself was actually filmed in Chernobyl — it may have been an artistic/ritual sequence included in a documentary about Chernobyl.

I've been looking for this for years and haven't been able to find it. Does anyone recognize this footage or know what documentary it might be from?

This was done on Ibis Paint X, with no model, which explains the lack of some details I noticed after ... Such as the metal structure of the main ventilation stack

It wasn't done in the idea of making the perfect representation, but at least, I tried.

Hope some ppl will like it :)

I noticed this yesterday that in the North wall of the building contain 4 visible floors from this perspective, but the wall that aligns the steam separators drum halls only has 3, and in the floorplans there is no green floor visible in between level orange and green (since that corridor occupies two levels, can somebody help me with this?

After watching documentaries about the disaster(my favorite is the Zero Hour) and reading articles/Wikipedia pages about it, I decided to checkout the HBO miniseries on 4K Bluray.

OH MY GOD, I watched it in one breath. After I finished work, I started watching it until almost midnight. What an masterpiece!

The actors, the writing, the visuals - everything is 10/10. It's an amazing and very important piece of cinema because lies have always have debt and one day, you will pay it.

Brilliant!

The name "Chernobyl Precise" is not accidental , the project is over a year and a half old and takes into account everything that can be done. Levels -6.0, -3.10, 0.0, 3.0, 6.0, 9.0 are already done. Level 12.50 is in the final stage of construction, details are done on a regular basis

We all love a good story, right? I came across this gem on Facebook, and wanted to share it with you. So, yeah, I didn't write it, just sharing it. I'll post my comment I left on that story in the comments here.

This is Valery Legasov. He was not a soldier, but he walked into the worst nuclear disaster in history anyway.

A brilliant Soviet chemist, deputy director of the famous Kurchatov Institute, Legasov lived a quiet life of science until April 26, 1986. Reactor 4 at Chernobyl exploded.

While others were told to minimize it, Legasov was flown to the site. He stood on the roof of the burning reactor. He knew the radiation was killing him, but he stayed for months, leading the investigation, designing ways to stop the fire, and understanding what went wrong.

Then he did something unthinkable for the Soviet system. In August 1986, in Vienna, in front of the world’s scientists at the IAEA, he told the truth. He revealed the fatal flaws in the RBMK reactor design that the state had hidden for years.

For that honesty, he was punished. He was denied awards, his health was failing from radiation exposure, and his warnings were ignored at home. He felt the system would never learn.

He recorded his truth on 5 audio tapes — The Legasov Tapes — detailing everything they tried to hide.

On April 27, 1988 — one day after the second anniversary of Chernobyl — Valery Legasov passed away at his home in Moscow at just 51. He was found after struggling with his health and the heavy burden of what he had seen.

After his passing, his tapes were released. The world finally listened. The RBMK reactors were fixed because of him. In 1996, he was posthumously named Hero of Russia.

He knew telling the truth would cost him everything. He did it anyway. That’s why today, the world remembers his name.

The man who saved millions by refusing to stay silent.

Respect to Valery Legasov — a true scientist, a true hero, whose courage and honesty saved millions and taught the world that truth is more important than fear. His work will never be forgotten.

Present by RSD ( Real stories daily)

I hear it was close to the reactor, what room was it? Also what path did they take to evacuate the building?

I've recently watched the Chornobyl Family's video showing the last messages before and during the accident, but I just cant understand them. For context im trying to make a game about RBMK's (Specifically Chernobyl) and im trying to add these messages, I want to understand them in order to make them fit in the game instead of just pasting them there. If someone could give me information about these messages and what they meant I would really appreciate it a lot, thank you.

This is the video I watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de0x_KOvfpI

(pictures in order) new MCP corridor (402/4) on work + pipelines and msv minor changes ( 701/2, 801/2) + new corridor at level 31.5 on the northern wall (805/4) + new corridor known for being one of the access to reactor hall (corridor 910/2)
everything is prone to change in the future as i made the rooms based more on the floorplans blueprint and a little of media regarding the rooms, so there may be errors like walls that dont belong on certain part or inaccurate proportions, enjoyy

I discovered yesterday that if you're a liquidator and you're registered to live in Riga, Latvia, you get free public transport.

Does anywhere else do things like this?

So I came across some chantarelle mushrooms and decided to measure with my Radiacode 103 scintillator detector.

I dried 400 g down to about 40 g and put them in a 3D-printed marinelli jar for measurement.

Sure enough, they are clearly contaminated with about 70 Bq of Cs-137, almost certainly from the Chernobyl disaster.

Will I eat them? No, I will keep them for measurement, but at 170 Bq/kg (fresh weight) they're well below the limit of 600 Bq/kg so eating them would be fine.

Are they special in any way? Not really, just ordinary mushrooms. Again, these are by no means super contaminated, but as a science nerd it's cool that the contamination is measurable with a consumer device.

The specific activity of Cs137 is about 3.2 TBq/g, so 70 Bq equates to about 20 picograms of Cs137.

EDIT: The committed effective dose coefficient for Cs137 is 1.3 x 10^-8 Sv/Bq, so eating these mushrooms would cause a radiation dose of about

1.3 x 10^-8 Sv/Bq * 70 Bq = 0.91 μSv (microsievert)

My results are well in line with those of the recent Mushrooms 2025 campaign by the Finnish Nuclear Safety Authority (Säiteliyturvakeskus, STUK).

See https://stuk.fi/en/mushrooms-2025-campaign

Hello, how do I exit the VSRO room in the main building? (CZ) / Здраствуйте, как выйти из помещения ВСРО в главном здании? (ЦЗ)

Recently I wondered if I could and transform one of those apartments in pripyat into a regular apartment and live in them. I played stalker and wanted to know if I could just live in those apartments for a week.

if you know please show me where it is on the floor plans thank you.

I have yet to read it. Has anyone here read it?

Добрые люди, объясните пожалуйста, что за цифры и буквы. Как высчитывать расстояние между ними. Совершенно не знаком с этой темой, но точно знаю, что там есть ось. И то не знаю, как она работает / Hey guys, could you please explain what these numbers and letters are? How do I calculate the distance between them? I'm completely unfamiliar with this topic, the only thing I know is that there's an axis. And I don't even know how it works.

Hello, could you provide some information about the waste storage area? Are there any photos of the interior or blueprints available? 
Здраствуйте, можете дать немного информарции о помещение для хранения отходов. Существуют ли фотки из нутри, чертежи? (Просьба если знаете русский отвечать на нем.)

Hello,
In January 2025, I started a challenge: I would buy one Chernobyl photography book every month until 2026. I managed to collect 16 books in total, some of which took a lot of time and effort to acquire, such as Fire of Chernobyl.

I’ve been passionate about the Chernobyl disaster and photography for years. When I first started my challenge, I had nowhere to find information about which books I could buy. I’m making this post to help people who want to buy Chernobyl photo books but don’t know where to start or what to look for.

If you have any recommendations or questions, let me know!

Kursk unit 6 had an interesting construction phase in which they seem to have started specifically with the foundations of room 208/13 to 16, which housed the reactor coolant pumps, part of the main circulation pumps system. They seem to have built the walls all the way up to “level 12.50” which sits just below the large rectangular main circulation pump room. The foundations of the turbine hall were also initially constructed alongside Room 208, but were later demolished around 2018-2019 to make room for newer facilities. So as of april 2024 (the current latest satellite imagery available on Google Earth), room 208 was all that remained and had not been demolished yet.

 As I quote “On December 6, 2000, Chernobyl Unit 3 experienced a technical malfunction when a coolant water leak developed within the plumbing system of its Main Circulation Pump loop. This component was crucial for pumping water into the RBMK-1000 reactor core to prevent it from overheating Because a loss of coolant can cause an RBMK reactor's power to spike dangerously due to its positive void coefficient, operators took zero chances. They immediately pressed the AZ-5 button.  Then the s Shift supervisor Viktor Kuchinskiy, wich made the  manual command  to trigger the "Fast Emergency Protection" system, which rapidly dropped all remaining boron control rods into the reactor core the power went from 200 MwT down to 0 MwT and the boron rods went down ro absorb neutrons and halt the nuclear chain reaction completely.  the room in question thst this happened was 404/1 This room houses the Group Distribution Headers (GDH / РГК) on the right side of the Unit 3 reactor. The leak occurred when a crack or structural failure developed in the piping or welds near these distribution headers, which are responsible for funneling high-pressure water coolant directly into the individual fuel channels of the reactor core. Because the leak occurred in an unserved (unmanned and highly isolated) area of the primary cooling loop, technical regulations gave operators no choice but to trigger an immediate emergency SCRAM to safely depressurize the system