Fascinating and horrifying pictures from the disaster.
My trip to chernobyl, the pictures! [56K ULTRA DEATH!!!] - FileFront Gaming Forums
My trip to chernobyl, the pictures! [56K ULTRA DEATH!!!] - FileFront Gaming Forums
words escape me for that... I remember that day very well... the political fallout was terrible too.. but the loss of life was horrendous and the sacrifices many of the workers made are nothing short of heroic..
The guys that went in after the initial explosion "knew" that they would die from the exposure but went in anyway for the sake of their country..
We may have been in a cold war but that does not diminish the sobering effects of this disaster..
That's just awful....i wouldn't wish a mullet like that on anyone
Oh and thanks to Chernobyl, the world learned that a naturally subcrittical reactor is bad news....let's hear it for super critical!!
easy now, i work on the instrumentation at a nuclear plant. you dont want super-critical, that means that the neutron population is rising, sub-critical is nutron population is lowering. critical is stable. its nuthing like the movies make it out to be. chernobyl was indeed a terible mistake, the operators defeated every safety system they had, so when the neutron population increased, the reactor did not trip, no time to stop. devistation.
easy now, i work on the instrumentation at a nuclear plant. you dont want super-critical, that means that the neutron population is rising, sub-critical is nutron population is lowering. critical is stable. its nuthing like the movies make it out to be. chernobyl was indeed a terible mistake, the operators defeated every safety system they had, so when the neutron population increased, the reactor did not trip, no time to stop. devistation.
groovy, you work at a plant...so i don't need to explain that ALL US reactors are naturally supercritical....meaning if you remove the hafnium, the reactor automatically...well reacts. That's a good working system with very low chance of over fluctuations in power.
when a reactor is naturally subcritical (key word is naturally in both instances) then you have to introduce thermalized neutrons to intiate the process...very high chance of over fluctuations and the design takes a long time to slow down back to it's subcrit state...assuming it hasn't already gone solid as in the case of chernobyl.
I learned that on the radio
I wouldn't want to see the "elephants foot", that guy is probably dead now...
There is plenty to read about the incident, they made several fundamental errors which lead to the incident.
It's good to be educated on the issue and how we got there so we don't repeat the same thing. So what do we do, we keep going over incidents, near misses, and other things that could lead up to such an event in order to place barriers in the way such that we don't repeat a similar event.