Chernobyl

Sea Moose

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From wikipedia

Sarcophagus replacement
Main article: New Safe Confinement

On 17 September 2007 it was announced that a new steel containment structure would be built to replace the aging and hastily built sarcophagus that currently protects reactor core #4. The project, financed by an international fund managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, will be designed and built by the French-led consortium Novarka, which includes the companies Bouygues and Vinci. Novarka will build a giant arch-shaped structure out of steel, 190 m wide and 200 m long to cover the old crumbling concrete dome that is currently in use.

It is expected to take a year to design the new building and another two years to build it. The steel casing project is expected to cost $1.4 bn (£700 m, ?1bn). A separate deal has also been made with the U.S. firm Holtec to build a storage facility within the exclusion zone for nuclear waste which has been produced by Chernobyl.




Fucking, what an epic fail Chernobyl was
 

Nik

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Originally posted by: Sea Moose
From wikipedia

Sarcophagus replacement
Main article: New Safe Confinement

On 17 September 2007 it was announced that a new steel containment structure would be built to replace the aging and hastily built sarcophagus that currently protects reactor core #4. The project, financed by an international fund managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, will be designed and built by the French-led consortium Novarka, which includes the companies Bouygues and Vinci. Novarka will build a giant arch-shaped structure out of steel, 190 m wide and 200 m long to cover the old crumbling concrete dome that is currently in use.

It is expected to take a year to design the new building and another two years to build it. The steel casing project is expected to cost $1.4 bn (£700 m, ?1bn). A separate deal has also been made with the U.S. firm Holtec to build a storage facility within the exclusion zone for nuclear waste which has been produced by Chernobyl.




Fucking, what an epic fail Chernobyl was

Yeah, a catastrophic string of extremely unlikely events, leaving behind generations of birth defects, even by new mothers who weren't alive during the event. :(
 

Acanthus

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There was a very cool blog where a guy took one of the ground tours of the current chernobyl site... Ill see if i can digg it up.
 

MotionMan

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Originally posted by: Sea Moose
Some footage of the Chernobyl incident. 46seconds in, you can see the reactor burning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HPddRn-Sn8

Its like looking into Hell.

Of course, the pilot, photographer and commentator related to that video died a terrible death from radiation poisoning.

Those recent videos and photos of Prypiat are awesome and sad at the same time.

MotionMan
 

Nik

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Originally posted by: Triumph
I can't really tell what I'm looking at with this video.

Watch the entire video. Near the end of the video, the film zooms out to give you a better view. You're looking directly into what's left of the building that contained reactor 4.
 

Batti

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Wow, Sea Moose. That is weird stuff. I wonder what (if any) kind of wildlife exists in that region now...
 
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in prypiat, there was a statue of prometheus (he stole fire from the gods on mt. olympus and gave it to man). it was moved to the front of the power plant.

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zinfamous

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Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Batti
Wow, Sea Moose. That is weird stuff. I wonder what (if any) kind of wildlife exists in that region now...

I'm guessing they look something like this.

there was a recent documentary on Animal planet or Discovery or some such, following a family of feral cats, wolves, deer, etc living in and around the abandoned town. Nothing too odd about the local fauna; just not very populated, I think.
 

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Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Is that place still unsafe? Radiation and all?

Watched a bunch of the Chernobyl youtube videos just now. One said that a day's visit is about as much radiation as a dental x-ray. Maybe, but I'll probably store some 'pure' seed before going there on vacation.
 

ViviTheMage

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Originally posted by: Imp
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Is that place still unsafe? Radiation and all?

Watched a bunch of the Chernobyl youtube videos just now. One said that a day's visit is about as much radiation as a dental x-ray. Maybe, but I'll probably store some 'pure' seed before going there on vacation.

haha, pure seed :p
 

Jeff7

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Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
And people want to replace hydro electric dams with nuclear. :p
Well, you know, Chernobyl was just failure after failure after failure. Also, it didn't have the containment vessel that our reactors use - and those containment things are made of THICK steel-reinforced concrete.


It'll still be nice once we have commercial fusion generators running though. Abundant fuel, and only a minimal amount of low-level radioactive waste. From what I've read, it should only be a low-level hazard for 50-300 years.


 

feralkid

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Thanks for the post Sea Moose, however I hope you realize this will lead to the eleventy seventh debate over reactors.

Let's see..."This just shows the folly of "Safe Nuclear Energy"

Followed by..." But, but the Russians built no containment...the French had no Chernobyls," etc.


Ad freaking nauseam.



Oh wait, am I too late?