Vistited with @The Stig , @The Lone Ranger ,@EOA @raisinwing , @burb147 , @xorguinae & a non member.
Apologies for the volume of images ..... it was difficult to narrow it down.
The trip consisted of a lot of running, clock watching, laughing, piss taking and the main one is being away with a fantastic group of people.
The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident.. It occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant near Pripyat, in what was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR).
36 hours after the accident Soviet officials enacted a 10-kilometre exclusion Zone which resulted in the rapid evacuation of 49,000 people and their animals primarily from the town of Pripyat, the nearest large population centre.
The sarcophagus was constructed under extremely dangerous conditions, with very high levels of radiation, and severe time constraints. Design of the sarcophagus started on May 20 1986, a little over three weeks on from the disaster. The construction lasted for 206 days, from June to late November of the same year. It was first necessary to build a cooling slab under the reactor to prevent the hot nuclear fuel from burning through the foundations.
On December 22 1988, Soviet scientists announced that the sarcophagus would only last 20–30 years before requiring restorative maintenance work. The Object Shelter was never intended to be a permanent containment structure. Its continued deterioration has increased the risk of its radioactive contents leaking out. In 2010 it was revealed that water leaking through the sarcophagus roof was becoming radioactively contaminated before seeping through the reactor’s floor into the soil.
March 2004 An international tender for NSC design and construction was announced. Construction of the new Sarcophagus started in September 2010. In April 2016 the Arch was almost complete and in November 2016 the arch started its journey over reactor 4, taking 15 days.
Apologies for the volume of images ..... it was difficult to narrow it down.
The trip consisted of a lot of running, clock watching, laughing, piss taking and the main one is being away with a fantastic group of people.
The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident.. It occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant near Pripyat, in what was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR).
36 hours after the accident Soviet officials enacted a 10-kilometre exclusion Zone which resulted in the rapid evacuation of 49,000 people and their animals primarily from the town of Pripyat, the nearest large population centre.
The sarcophagus was constructed under extremely dangerous conditions, with very high levels of radiation, and severe time constraints. Design of the sarcophagus started on May 20 1986, a little over three weeks on from the disaster. The construction lasted for 206 days, from June to late November of the same year. It was first necessary to build a cooling slab under the reactor to prevent the hot nuclear fuel from burning through the foundations.
On December 22 1988, Soviet scientists announced that the sarcophagus would only last 20–30 years before requiring restorative maintenance work. The Object Shelter was never intended to be a permanent containment structure. Its continued deterioration has increased the risk of its radioactive contents leaking out. In 2010 it was revealed that water leaking through the sarcophagus roof was becoming radioactively contaminated before seeping through the reactor’s floor into the soil.
March 2004 An international tender for NSC design and construction was announced. Construction of the new Sarcophagus started in September 2010. In April 2016 the Arch was almost complete and in November 2016 the arch started its journey over reactor 4, taking 15 days.
June 2016
September 2017
Duga
Pripyat
Reactor 5 & 6
Thank you for looking
September 2017
Duga
Pripyat
Reactor 5 & 6
Thank you for looking
