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This review will tell you about the past, present and future of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, which produced the film Chernobyl, which was released in 2019.
In the early 70s, in connection with the shortage of solid fuel in the European part of the Soviet Union, a large-scale program for the construction of nuclear plants was adopted, including
including the Ignalina NPP. Ignalina NPP is located in Lithuania, on the southern shore of Lake Drisvyaty, 130 kilometers from Vilnius. Its construction began in 1974. Initially, the construction of the station was supposed to be on the Belarusian shore of Lake Drisvyaty, but due to unsuitable soil. The construction site was chosen on the Lithuanian shore of Lake Drisvyaty, a few kilometers from the border with Belarus. Preparatory work for the construction of the Ignalina nuclear power plant began in 1974, and a year later the first stone was laid on the site of the future city of nuclear scientists Snechkus. After the restoration of Lithuania's independence, the city was
renamed to Visaginas. Full-scale work on the construction of nuclear power plants was begun in March 1978; in total, 4 power units with the RBMK-1500 reactor type were planned to be built at the station. At that time, they were the most powerful energy reactors in the world. On December 31, 1983, the first power unit of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant was launched. Even during the construction, the workers lovingly named the station Elektrina.
In 1993, Ignalina supplied 88.1% of all electricity generated in the republic to the Lithuanian energy system. This figure is still a record, listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
According to calculations, the station should operate at least until 2032. Everything would be fine, but in 2001, Europe decided to remove a serious competitor from the energy market, having promised to let Lithuania into the EU at the closure of the nuclear power plant. The station was stopped on December 31, 2009, having worked for exactly 26 years.
According to the conclusion of the IAEA, the Ignalina NPP was included in the list of the most reliable stations in the world. By the way, RBMK reactors, the same as those at Ignalina, are installed at the Leningrad, Kurshka, Smolensk nuclear plants and are still operating.
I will say right away at Ignalina NPP we were absolutely legal. The issue price is 60 euros. Along the way, I would like to talk about a completely stupid way of buying tickets for an excursion. It would seem that this, I went to the site and bought it. But no, the site indicates the time of the tour, ticket price, visiting rules, email address, phone number and all. No feedback forms. Therefore, we had to call the telephone number indicated on the website for three days, and only on the third day did we sign up for the date we needed. Representatives of nuclear power plants did not respond to the email address. Later I had to send information for each member of the tour, namely the place of work, registration, and passport numbers, after which they should have sent us an invoice for payment and sent it in one day !!! before our arrival.
At the time of our tour, the main dismantling work took place in the engine room. This is a hall in which pipes come from the reactor with water preheated to a state of steam, which rotates the turbines, and they, in turn, generate electricity. In this engine room were 4 turbines of 750 megawatts each. Immediately after the shutdown of the reactor in 2010, dismantling of plant equipment and systems began. Each year, more than 5 thousand tons of equipment are dismantled from the station. By 2038, when according to the plan they want to completely dismantle the nuclear power plant, about 160 thousand tons of units will be dismantled, and a green lawn will be broken on the site of the nuclear power plant. All the metal that is sawed here undergoes radiometric control and then is auctioned as ordinary scrap metal.
There are several basic rules for sightseers, a passport is required and in no case can you take pictures of anything, otherwise the tour ends for the whole group. Such a ban is associated with two factors, firstly that we can see and photograph secret security systems, and secondly that we inadvertently stain our equipment. According to the guide, during the filming of films about Chernobyl, the film crew stained a lot of their equipment and had to leave it as a gift to the nuclear power plant.
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