Inside Chernobyl’s new €1.5bn structure for exploded nuclear reactor
The new structure built to confine Chernobyl’s damaged reactor number 4 was shown to the media for the first time at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
With a span of 843 feet, the special shelter is the largest moveable land-based structure ever built, and it took nine years to complete.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development funded the new confinement project with €715 million, alongside contributions from the European Union and 45 other countries.
The megastructure seals in radiation from the molten reactor’s core and 200 tons of highly radioactive material.
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Reactor Number 4 - Chernobyl, Ukraine
Reactor Number 4 - Chernobyl, Ukraine
Ukraine-Reactor at Chernobyl power station closed
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Work started Saturday (30/11) to shut down Reactor Number One at the Chernobyl power station in Ukraine, site of the world's worst atomic accident a decade ago.
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exterior of fourth reactor at Chernobyl,
exterior wall of sarcophagus,
close up roof of sarcophagus,
man checks car for radiation before it leaves 30-km restriction zone,
radiation counter in man's hand showing level of radiation,
van drives past checkpoint out of zone,
power lines,
interior of the working Chernobyl reactor,
lead protection capsules forming shield floor,
workers,
operations control room,
staff looking at control board,
staff going through radiation control frame,
exterior site of fourth reactor,
radiation warning sign,
worker walking past barbed wire fence towards fourth reactor,
empty control room of fourth reactor,
close up control panel,
radiation level painted on wall,
rows of broken computing machines,
exterior of sarcophagus,
pan to split in wall,
looking inside split to interior,
visible and audible radiation effects on film (sparkling effect),
interior sarcophagus,
debris of fourth reactor inside sarcophagus,
specialist in protection suit enters sarcophagus,
water covering floor of fourth reactor;
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Chernobyl Reactor No 4 and new sarcophagus under construction - Ukraine - 11 January 2014
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Take a look inside radioactive ruins of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4
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A group of 15 journalists gained access to Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s fourth reactor control room on Wednesday as part a presentation of a new guide book on the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The destroyed control room is covered with an adhesive substance that does not allow dust to form. The ruins still emit 40,000 times higher levels of radiation than natural environment. Tourist have been able to apply for a permission to visit the irradiated remains of the control room since September 2. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred on April 26, 1986 as a series of explosions and subsequent fire at the fourth reactor released radioactive fallout which dispersed over nearby countries. More than eight million people were exposed to elevated levels of radiation as a result. To date, Chernobyl is still thought to be the worst civil nuclear accident in human history. The immediate death toll from the incident itself numbered 31, while thousands have since suffered radiation-related illnesses such as cancer and infant deformities.
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Journalists peek inside the Chernobyl's infamous reactor no. 4
A group of 15 journalists gained access to Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s fourth reactor control room on Wednesday as part a presentation of a new guide book on the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
The destroyed control room is covered with an adhesive substance that does not allow dust to form. The ruins still emit 40,000 times higher levels of radiation than natural environment.
Tourist have been able to apply for a permission to visit the irradiated remains of the control room since September 2.
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred on April 26, 1986 as a series of explosions and subsequent fire at the fourth reactor released radioactive fallout which dispersed over nearby countries. More than eight million people were exposed to elevated levels of radiation as a result.
To date, Chernobyl is still thought to be the worst civil nuclear accident in human history. The immediate death toll from the incident itself numbered 31, while thousands have since suffered radiation-related illnesses such as cancer and infant deformities.C
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Inside the huge new confinement structure over Chernobyl reactor 4
A complex construction effort to secure Chernobyl's molten reactor's core and 200 tonnes of highly radioactive material has taken nine years to complete. In 2016, an internationally funded project erected the largest moveable structure ever built, known as the New Safe Confinement (NSC) to protect against release of radioactive substances. The 108-metre tall metal, 36,000-tonne, half-cylinder (pictured) covers the steel and concrete sarcophagus that has shielded the open reactor core since November 1986, seven months after the explosion that exposed it. The HBO series (inset) does not show the sarcophagus being built, but it does feature the Chernobyl 'liquidators' - the civil and military personnel who were conscripted to deal with the fallout of the meltdown. Journalists were shown the new safe confinement shelter with all its equipment installed today ahead of its handover to Ukrainian authorities.
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RAW: Ukraine unveiled $1.6 bln new safety cover over Chernobyl reactor
Ukraine on Tuesday unveiled a new protective cover over the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear reactor No.4, which would prevent the leakage of the radiation from the unit during the next century.
The Chernobyl disaster, one of the worst nuclear accidents in human history, happened on April 26, 1986, when a series of explosions ripped through the plant located 110 kilometers north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.
The blasts resulted in the demolition of the No.4 reactor and the spread of radiation across Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and other European countries.
Chernobyl Tour Part 22 Memorial near Reactor Number 4 Chernobyl Ukraine Dec 2015
Chernobyl – Inside Reactor Facility Tour
This is a tour inside the famed Chernobyl buildings. Portions of the tour could not be filmed due to strict rules and regulations. What you see here is what was not restricted.
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR.[1][2] It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and is one of only two nuclear energy disasters rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan.
The accident started during a safety test on an RBMK-type nuclear reactor, which was commonly used throughout the Soviet Union. The test was a simulation of an electrical power outage to aid the development of a safety procedure for maintaining cooling water circulation until the back-up generators could provide power. This operating gap was about one minute and had been identified as a potential safety problem that could cause the nuclear reactor core to overheat.
Three such tests had been conducted since 1982, but had failed to provide a solution. On this fourth attempt, the test was delayed by 10 hours, so the operating shift that had been prepared was not present.[3] During the test preparation, the reactor power unexpectedly dropped to a near-zero level. The operators were able to restore the power level, but in doing so they put the reactor in highly unstable conditions. The risks were not discussed in the operating instructions, despite a similar accident occurring years before, and the staff had no basis to suspect that the reactor state posed any danger. They then proceeded with the experiment even though the power level was lower than prescribed in the procedure. Upon the test completion, they triggered the reactor shutdown, but a combination of reactor design and construction flaws caused an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction instead.
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The Chernobyl Disaster: How It Happened
On April 26, 1986, a routine safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine spiraled out of control. Follow the dramatic events that led to the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster. (RFE/RL's Denis Artamonov, Stuart Greer)
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Compilation of Rare 1986 Videos of Chernobyl Disaster. (English)
The recorded phone call between the Firefighter HQ and the fire departments was uploaded to youtube by Andriy Pryymachenko, who also made supporting text animation of the call. The original video is located at this address:
The scariest phone call of the 20th century
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On April 26, 2016, Ukraine marked the sad 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster.
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, then located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe.
Moscow tried to hide the disaster for 2 days before finally admitting the accident. Evacuation began long before the accident was publicly known throughout the Union. Only on 28 April, after radiation levels set off alarms at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) from the Chernobyl Plant, did the Soviet Union publicly admit that an accident had occurred. At 21:02 that evening a 20-second announcement was read in the TV news program Vremya:
There has been an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One of the nuclear reactors was damaged. The effects of the accident are being remedied. Assistance has been provided for any affected people. An investigative commission has been set up.
— Vremya, 28 April 1986 (21:00)
This was the entirety of the announcement of the accident.
The nearby city of Pripyat was not immediately evacuated. The townspeople went about their usual business, completely oblivious to what had just happened. By 11:00 on 27 April, buses had arrived in Pripyat to start the evacuation.
Thirty-one deaths are directly attributed to the accident, all among the reactor staff and emergency workers. An UNSCEAR report places the total confirmed deaths from radiation at 64 as of 2008. The Chernobyl Forum predicts the eventual death toll could reach 4,000 among those exposed to the highest levels of radiation (200,000 emergency workers, 116,000 evacuees and 270,000 residents of the most contaminated areas).
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UKRAINE: CHERNOBYL: RE-OPENING
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The only operational reactor at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant has gone back on line after the end of repairs which were delayed for nearly a month.
Reactor number three at the station, where the world's worst nuclear accident occurred in 1986, had been under repair since it was shut down on December 15 last year.
Chernobyl's reactor number three was shut down in December for repairs that were initially delayed because of energy shortages in the former Soviet republic.
It was to have come back on line February 16, but the state nuclear energy company Energoatom said it needed more time to fix it.
Repairs included safety upgrades and a check of the reactor's regular and emergency cooling systems, which had some 50 defects.
Reactor number three is the only one remaining of four originally operating at the plant.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
We will heat up the reactor to nominal power and if everything is fine at 1800 on March 6 reactor number three will be hooked up to the electricity grid.
SUPER CAPTION: Andrei Shantsev,Reactor shift supervisor
Reactor number four - which blew up 13 years ago, spewing radiation over large parts of Europe - has been covered in a protective concrete covering ever since.
The other two reactors at Chernobyl were closed down in 1991 and 1996 respectively.
Chernobyl has been riddled by controversy since the catastrophe in 1986.
The concrete sarcophagus covering reactor number four has been the subject of apocalyptic predictions about its safety, with some experts predicting it could collapse causing disaster.
Although the Ukrainian government has pledged to shut down Chernobyl completely by 2000, the severe energy crisis in the former Soviet republic puts the promise in doubt.
Ukraine relies on its five nuclear power stations for 40 percent of its energy needs.
Therefore atomic energy authorities in the country have lobbied hard for Chernobyl's remaining reactor to be repaired and put into operation again.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
We received the permission of the administration body of atomic regulation for reactor number three to work in the electricity grid. Therefore after around 48 hours of work at nominal power, the reactor will hook up to the grid and will account for around three per cent of the energy output of Ukraine.
SUPER CAPTION: Andrei Shantsev, Reactor shift supervisor
Meanwhile, workers at the Chernobyl plant are continuing a protest action, which started on March 2.
The protesters, who are demanding wage arrears, have set up a tent city in the town of Slavutich, where most of Chernobyl's personnel live.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
Many workers are refusing to take rest after they have finished their shift and go to the town square to take part in the protest. Also they refuse to sleep and come to work having not rested. Of course, all that has a bad effect on the work of the station.
SUPER CAPTION: Oleg Goloskopkov, Head of public relations, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station
The workers warn that disorder in the nuclear power industry could endanger the safety of the country's nuclear plants.
The protests began when the government failed to heed nuclear energy workers' demands in similar demonstrations last summer.
Last week, the government pledged 33 point three (M) million dollars to pay back wages, but never issued the actual order to pay.
The workers have threatened to stage hunger strikes, reduce plants output and even hold a full-blown strike beginning March 22 if their demands are not met.
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Way to Reactor 4 Chernobyl Tour Ukraine
Exclusive: Inside Chernobyl's reactor four control room
The Telegraph was the first foreign media outlet to visit the Chernobyl control room, a few dozen feet away from the reactor that blew up and would become one of the worst nuclear disasters in history
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Ukraine - Reactor at Chernobyl Power Plant Closed
Chernobyl nuclear power station - scene of the world's worst nuclear accident - appeared to move a step nearer closure on Saturday (30/1).
A reactor at the notorious power station was shut down, bringing Ukraine closer toward compliance with an international accord that calls for a complete shut-down of the ageing plant.
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CHERNOBYL, UKRAINE, 30/11
00.00 WS exterior reactor, night
00.03 CU clock showing time near midnight
00.05 MS control room with white-suited engineers
00.10 MS man manipulates controls
00.13 CU man watching dials
00.16 MS man manipulating switches
00.19 WS men at large control panel
00.24 WS control room, several people on phones
00.27 CU red switch panning away to flashing lights on switch-board
00.39 CU engineer's face pulling out to WS control room
00.45 UPSOT Sergei Sharshun, head of control room shift ( SOT Russian)
00.47 MS Sharshun talking
00.53 WS control room
01.02 CU pan across faces of two engineers
01.07 ENDS
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The Chernobyl Disaster: How It Happened
On April 26, 1986, a routine safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine spiraled out of control. Follow the dramatic events that led to the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster. (RFE/RL's Denis Artamonov, Stuart Greer)
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Chernobyl (2019) Nuclear Reactor Explosion Scene
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Ukraine - Ten Years On From Chernobyl Disaster
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Ten years ago the worst ever nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, when one of the four reactors exploded and caught fire, spewing radiation over an area inhabited by millions of people. The construction fault that led to the accident exists in the other still-functioning reactors of the Chernobyl plant. Ukraine lacks the funds to repair the enormous concrete and steel sarcophagus which entombs the remains of the destroyed reactor. Gaping holes in the roof are clearly visible. At the Centre for Radiology Medicine in Moscow, which specializes
in treating children affected by Chernobyl, a former liquidator and his son have come for medical care.
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GVs Kiev (100km/65 miles from Chernobyl
GV traffic on bridge in Kiev
GV Chernobyl Reactor No. 4
MS sarcophagus
GV sarcophagus
CU man at checkpoint into Chernobyl power plant checking cars for radiation
Radiation monitor
Checkpoint with van passing through
GV Chernobyl power towers
WS interior of reactor hall of Reactor No. 1
CU reactor cover
CU workers checking cones
MS control room
CU worker in control room
MS workers exiting at radiation check
GV path to Chernobyl Reactor No. 4
Sign in Russian Put on respirator
MS man walking to Reactor No. 4, which was the site of the explosion on April 26, 1986
CU inside burned out No. 4 control room
MS control room
CU control room
PAN of burned out machinery
PAN of outer roof of sarcophagus, zoom in to large hole in roof
CU entering into crack in sarcophagus
MS torn and burned metal
MS men entering destroyed reactor hall No. 4
PAN of destroyed reactor hall
Men standing on chunks of melted metal
PAN floor of hall to hole in ceiling
MS man climbing down ladder
CU walking through old security door
Exterior city and sign of Pripyat
CU radiation counter and bugs crawling
GV deserted apartments
CU doll, PAN to kindergarten walls
CU broken doll on chair and radiation monitor clicking
Exterior city gate and truck passing through
GV village
Row of old women sitting on side of road
CU face of old woman
Face of man
Woman buying groceries from rear of truck
Exterior house in village
MS woman preparing food in kitchen
MS living room
Table with food laid out
Ivan and Uliana Makuha (an elderly couple who returned to their home inside the 30 kilometre contaminated zone around Chernobyl, even though it is supposed to be off limits because of radiation)
Ivan SOT: (Russian and Ukrainian mixed): We ploughed the garden again. We plant, we live, we plant wheat, oats, potatoes, beets,
onions. Everything is our own...and we bought cows. We have cows, and pigs.
Uliana) SOT:So we have Salo (Ukrainian specialty--lard) and meat.
GV village
Exterior Moscow centre for radiology medicine
MS children playing
CU two girls
MS girl being examined
CU computer
MS doctor running tests on girl
Liquidator sitting with his son, SOT (Russian):At first, I didn't feel really sick, nothing really hurt...and then it slowly got worse and worse, my back started to hurt, my head, my legs, it got worse and worse.
MS children playing.
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Ukraine Unveils New Safety Cover over Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor
Ukraine on Tuesday unveiled a new protective cover over the destroyed Chernobyl No.4 nuclear reactor in the city of Pripyat. The cover is said to prevent radiation from the unit during the next century.
The arch-shaped metal dome, 110 meters tall, 257 meters wide and 164 meters long, has become the world's largest movable land-based structure. It was erected over the reactor using a hydraulic system.
The construction of the gigantic confinement, which will replace the old Chernobyl shelter, took about four years and involved around 10,000 workers from Ukraine and abroad. The project to transform the nuclear power plant into an environmentally safe facility, cost around 1.6 billion U.S. dollars. The project was funded by 28 countries and several international organizations.
Speaking during the ceremony to unveil the protective cover, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko thanked international donors for the assistance, saying that the structure will ensure the nuclear security of humanity.
Ukrainians and people from other countries built this project together. Their contribution is huge. Today, they have secured this region free from nuclear radiation for 100 years, he said.
Ukrainian Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Ostap Semerak said the protective cover will be very effective whilst they dismantle the old shelter.
This protective cover will help prevent the radiation fallout from being spread to the air when we start to remove the old cover. It can also prevent rain water from getting inside. It is sealed space, said Ostap Semerak, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine.
The Chernobyl disaster, one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, happened on April 26, 1986, when a series of explosions ripped through the nuclear plant located about 120 kilometers north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.
The blasts resulted in the demolition of the No.4 reactor and the spread of radiation across Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and other European countries.
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