☢️ Our first release, filmed in the heart of the Chernobyl zone - the Chernobyl nuclear power plant! Unique personnel of the NSC, control systems, the ChNPP turbine hall, the central reactor hall, the main circulation pump, the control room, and much more.
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We greet you, our dear Spectator! Our radioactive team has already visited almost all corners of the Chernobyl zone, but today we had a unique opportunity - to visit the very heart of the exclusion zone, namely, inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Many of you who have long been interested in the topic of the Chernobyl disaster know that there is such a separate type of tour as visits to the station itself. Visit the block control panel of the 3 blocks and 4 blocks, stand on the reactor lid, and walk past the huge pumps that supply water to the reactor. But we went further and visited where it is forbidden for ordinary mortals! Bring a mug of tea or whatever you like most to the monitor, and we begin to amaze you!
To begin with, let's refresh our memory a little, so to speak, and remember what the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is today. After the shutdown of the last unit number 3, on December 15, 2000, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant ceased to exist as a nuclear power plant. And it would seem that the reactors are no longer working and this can be safely put an end to. But there is one very important BUT. A nuclear power plant is still a nuclear hazardous facility. During its operation from 1975 to 2000, a fairly large amount of spent nuclear fuel and various radioactive waste of various states has been accumulated. Plus, you need to add the moment of the 1986 catastrophe, after which a lot of problems remained that are being raked to this day.
When we tell our tourists that today the personnel are working at the Chernobyl NPP, many people have slight bewilderment on their faces and the question pops up: “What are they doing there ??? It doesn’t work ... ”As of today, the personnel at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are carrying out a set of measures that can be described in one phrase - the decommissioning of a nuclear hazardous facility. The entire process of decommissioning the Chernobyl nuclear power plant will take a huge period of time, the end of which can be seen already in 2064. This whole story of the closure of the station is divided into four long stages, which we will now briefly tell you about.
The first stage made it possible to carry out preparatory processes, during which the withdrawal and transfer of spent nuclear fuel to storage facilities were carried out. In them, fuel assemblies can be on a long-term basis.
The second stage is the final conservation of the plant's reactors. This procedure is quite long and will take about 15 years. During this period, work will be carried out at each power unit to free the reactor core and reactor equipment from sources of ionizing radiation, and a number of works will be carried out to bring the Chernobyl power units to a state that will exclude the possibility of using them for electricity generation.
The third is the aging stage. It will give an opportunity to naturally reduce the levels of radioactivity on the territory of the station through the half-life of some radioactive elements.
Well, the last, fourth stage will be the process of dismantling the reactor facilities and equipment. At this moment, work will be carried out at the station to clean up and decontaminate the ChNPP site in order to maximize the removal of regulatory control and a host of restrictions.
Today, on the territory of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, work is underway to transport spent nuclear fuel to the storage, as well as dismantle and decontaminate equipment. For example, by the end of 2020, work was carried out to move 186 cassettes of spent nuclear fuel to a special storage facility in which it can be stored for about one hundred years.
Although the Chernobyl station does not work for its intended purpose, this did not prevent her from further talking about herself. Not so long ago, we wrote about what the entire New Safe Confinement project was about. After the transfer of the Arch to the balance of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a lot of tests of security systems were carried out, which has confinement in its arsenal. Relatively recently, under the largest arched structure in the world, work was carried out on 3D scanning of the Shelter object and the interior space under the Arch. In turn, this will make it possible in the future to facilitate monitoring of the control of certain structures of the NSC or the Shelter object. In the future, the monitoring system using 3D scanning will help to more accurately set tasks and reduce the dose load on personnel during the dismantling of the Sarcophagus structures.