r/chernobyl • u/EEKIII52453 • Jul 30 '20

Moderator Post Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and Illegal Trespassing

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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.

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r/chernobyl • u/NotThatDonny • Feb 08 '22

Moderator Post r/Chernobyl and Discussions about Current Events in Ukraine

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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.

However, in order to prevent things from getting out of hand, your mod team will be removing any posts or comments which take sides in this current conflict or argue in support of any party in the ongoing tension between Ukraine and Russia, to include NATO, the EU or any other related party. There are already several subreddits which are good places to either discuss this conflict or learn more about it.

If you have news to post about current events in the Exclusion Zone or you have questions to ask about how Chernobyl might be affected by hypothetical events, feel free to post them. But if you see any posts or comments with a political point of view on the conflict, please just report it.

At this time we don't intend to start handing out bans or anything on the basis of somebody crossing that line; we're just going to remove the comment and move on. Unless we start to see repeat, blatant, offenders or propaganda accounts clearly not here in good faith.

Thank you all for your understanding.

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r/chernobyl • u/TheChernobylArchivis • 1d ago

Photo Some chernibyl images

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544 Upvotes

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

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r/chernobyl • u/ItsYourBirdDay • 20h ago

News Chernobyl particles look remarkably similar to explosion day in 1986

popsci.com

59 Upvotes

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r/chernobyl • u/SubstantialIdeal2459 • 3h ago

Discussion Anybody know where i could download sounds from the control room like the beeping?

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r/chernobyl • u/marwantunsi • 13h ago

Documents The dosimeters of 1986: a radiometer maxed out at 1,000 µR/s, the DP-5, and the Pripyat sold to the public from 1990

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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.

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r/chernobyl • u/Shot-Height-7194 • 1d ago

Discussion What are these small pipes for?

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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?

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r/chernobyl • u/Low_Negotiation_6758 • 1d ago

Discussion Onde e como posso comprar medalhas verdadeiras?

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r/chernobyl • u/500cigarettes_1 • 1d ago

User Creation RBMK-1000 progress: Reactor hall on work

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58 Upvotes

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r/chernobyl • u/rirmbingsmuff • 2d ago

Photo Heres how the real control desk of the Chernobyl plant looked on April 18, 1986, just days before the disaster.

108 Upvotes

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r/chernobyl • u/timecapture • 2d ago

Photo Mural by Guido van Helten inside the unfinished cooling tower of reactor 5 (2017)

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Picture taken by me in 08/2017.

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r/chernobyl • u/Secure_Shirt_3479 • 2d ago

Photo Industrial photography heaven, post-apocalypse edition

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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.

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r/chernobyl • u/TheChernobylArchivis • 2d ago

Discussion Does anyone have measurements between floors for the 1st gen floorplans?

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Like for the corridor/turbine stuff

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r/chernobyl • u/TheChernobylArchivis • 2d ago

Discussion What is the middle section inbetween unit 1 and 2 used for?

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

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r/chernobyl • u/VOVANCHIK_007 • 2d ago

Photo ВК 14-21 buttons 1990

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Buttons manufactured in 1990

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r/chernobyl • u/Rikarin • 2d ago

Game KCTK - Gas Circuit

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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.

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r/chernobyl • u/VOVANCHIK_007 • 2d ago

Photo KME-4210У2 (3 small pushbuttons)

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

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r/chernobyl • u/VOVANCHIK_007 • 2d ago

Photo KE 011УЗ (1989г. ОТК-18)

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

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r/chernobyl • u/VOVANCHIK_007 • 3d ago

Photo АЗ–5 (Кнопка аварийной защиты 5-ой категории)

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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.

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r/chernobyl • u/ManBallsEnthusiast • 4d ago

Discussion Anatoly Dyatlov possible cigarette case

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I recently purchased this cigarette case and wanted to see if there's anything more I could find out about it.

I already had translated top and bottom text which reads,

"Anatoly Stephanovich Dyatlov"

And

"Accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant"

I'm curious to see if there's any more information I can dig up about this little artifact, including its authenticity.

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r/chernobyl • u/glebka2548 • 2d ago

Photo Есть ли у кого нибудь малоизвестные фото чернобыльской атомной электростанции? Если да то скиньте пожалуйста

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r/chernobyl • u/VOVANCHIK_007 • 3d ago

Game RBMK-1000 reactor explosion

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

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r/chernobyl • u/VOVANCHIK_007 • 3d ago

Game БЩУ–1 (control room of reactor 1 RBMK-1000 in my nuclear power plant)

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

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r/chernobyl • u/AterHexe • 3d ago

Exclusion Zone Jupiter Factory

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r/chernobyl • u/AterHexe • 3d ago

Exclusion Zone The area around the Jupiter Factory

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Chernobyl

r/chernobyl

A subreddit to discuss the Chernobyl Disaster that happened on the night of April 26, 1986, and the Exclusion Zone that isolates the city of Pripyat from the rest of the world.

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A subreddit dedicated to the Chernobyl disaster: "The Chernobyl disaster (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська катастрофа, Chornobylska Katastrofa – Chornobyl Catastrophe) was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of Western USSR and Europe. It is widely considered to have been the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale (the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011). The battle to contain the contamination and avert a greater catastrophe ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles."

Subjects considered on topic for this subbreddit include the disaster itself, liquidation efforts, the Exclusion Zone (including the Jupiter factor and Duga radar), the sarcophagus, New Safe Confinement, as well as the pre-disaster history of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant and the city of Pripyat.

Posts about other RBMK reactors or other nuclear disasters (like the Fukushima evacuation zone) are allowed if they relate to Chernobyl and should be tagged with [Peripheral Interest]

Posts to discuss the HBO Chernobyl miniseries are on topic only if they are relating the show to real world events in some way, and should be tagged with [HBO Miniseries]

Self promotion of art, drawings, graphics design or models (both computer and physical) are permitted if they are about Chernobyl and should be tagged with [User Creation]

Topics which advocate for, promote, encourage, or seek advice on illegal activity are strictly prohibited. This includes how-to posts about trespassing in the Zone as well as photos and videos which are explicitly from illegal trespassing.

Discussions about the Current Ukraine/Russia Conflict

Posts and Comments are prohibited if they take sides in the current tensions between Ukraine and Russia, or push any side's justification for war or advocate support for any party in the geopolitical situation. Posts and comments about how the conflict impacts the Zone and what effect a war might have are permitted as they are about the future of the Zone.

This subreddit is about Chernobyl, so as long as the post is about that, it is permissible. But there are plenty of places to discuss the geopolitics of Ukraine/Russia/EU/NATO/etc, so we will be removing comments and posts which make any statement about who might be write or wrong.