The guy who made this imgur set also has a book called "Chernobyl 1:23:40," which I have and have read multiple times. It's a little rough on the grammar, but the story and information are solid and it expands on the imgur post.

https://smile.amazon.com/Chernobyl-01-Incredible-Nuclear-Disaster-ebook/dp/B01E4MAIS8

Here you go!

I bought the kindle edition but it is available in paperback too :)

They do look somewhat similar to Main Circulatory Pumps, and that might be it, however it is possible that these are in fact smaller Feed Pumps (below and beneath the MCPs), but they actually might be located underground.

> Ted Cruz' college roommate

Oh my god, I had not put two and two together. His tweets about Cruz are amazingly funny. A sample.

Amazon PL link (preorders only)

It looks really nice, I'm considering purchasing it. Is it just photos with descriptions or are there any longer texts to read?

It was Anatoly Sitnikov. He was the deputy chief engineer of reactors 1 and 2 (Dyatlov had the same position for reactors 3 and 4). He might have been asked by Brjukhanov and Fomin to evaluate the damage, but it was also his own desire. He went to the roof and looked inside the destroyed reactor 4 building.

It's the myth that we was ordered there or otherwise would be shot or punished.

"Then I asked him why he went to the fourth reactor, even when it wasn’t
his responsibility. And he said, “There was nobody who knew the reactor
better than me, you see? If it weren’t for us, it would have been the
end of Ukraine definitely, and maybe half of Europe, too… You need to
understand this.”"

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/06/04/the-pain-doesn-t-fade

> I appreciate your excellent response to this. Have you read the book by Nikolai Karpan, and do you recall the title? In Russian and Google Translate:

https://www.hwinfo.com/Chernobyl/Documents/Karpan.html

The theory that only 5% of the fuel remains in the reactor is no longer particularly credible, since a lot more corium was located since Checherov's day. However, many are suspicious a lot less than 95% of it is still in the building.

I'd also like to find this

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I found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/chernobyl/comments/yuw67/documentary_pbs_nova_suicide_mission_to_chernobyl/

But the youtube vide has since been deleted.

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Boom baby: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/7572490/

Looks like the original scenario has somewhat damaged condenser rupture disk even though it doesn't show warning.

I've modified the app to allow file loading / saving, and enabling the diagnostics (that'll allow you to repair the rupture disk). I'm not going to put this online because it would most likely be against some license, TOS, whatever... What about putting it online on your side /u/SimGenics ?

Anyways, if you download this: https://gofile.io/?c=FnGhIP and replace the chernobyl04.icd in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\8RZAPGWR.9QC\X5KZY5T4.LNC\rxmo..tion_498f521441ad1194_0001.0000_4b697596e9d11b02\CHRNOBYL\FILES\IC_DATA it should run fine. The path might be different, in that case just go to AppData\Local\Apps\ and search for chernobyl04.icd.

Also, in FILES\SAVED\ are some saves - if you replace the chernobyl04.icd with the save, you'll effectively load that file on start. :)

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Pinging /u/HanzeeDent86 /u/Hiddencamper /u/NewYearNewName

> Beginner: https://www.hwinfo.com/Chernobyl/mm.pdf

I have not seen this before, thanks for posting. I disagree about it being a "beginner" level document, though :) there's a lot of stuff to digest.

There are 360 degree ground images of this train on yandex panorama! I’ll see if I can find them for you but I only have access to mobile at the moment. Yandex is an awesome resource for ground imagery of Chernobyl and Pripyat

https://yandex.com/maps/geo/stantsiia_yaniv/1653967501/?l=stv%2Csta&ll=30.057391%2C51.394809&panorama%5Bdirection%5D=286.002805%2C-3.481896&panorama%5Bfull%5D=true&panorama%5Bpoint%5D=30.053311%2C51.392878&panorama%5Bspan%5D=58...

Edit: Found the location and added the link.

Try this: https://translate.yandex.com/

It works great for Eastern languages and unlike google, lets you translate directly from images on the PC and not just that clunky google app.

It is on the Amazon UK site. I pre-ordered it on June 13th. That is the blu-ray link. You can change it to DVD

Chernobyl blu-Ray

As of that hat, I believe in Russian it is called "lab hat" or "medical hat". It always has a white color so any dirt can be easily visible - it is something important in medicine.

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Quick check shows me something like this https://www.amazon.com/GUOER-Womens-Scrub-Multiple-Color/dp/B0194ZJWG4 It is weird but amazon has any color you can imagine except white.

For the superfans:

https://www.amazon.com/Chernobyl-Documentary-Story-Iurii-Shcherbak/dp/0333496671

Bear in mind that some terrible Western publisher decided not to translate the best parts of the book (or maybe they only had the censored version).

In a more just and perfect world, Scherbak would have gotten Alexievich's Nobel and no one would have read Voices from Chernobyl.

Also bear in mind that Chernobyl Notebook is like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: the misinformation that poisons everything for decades to come.

LOL. Easy there!

Whilst I was attempting some light humour what I said is factually correct.

Receipts:

The Legacy of Chernobyl by Zhores Medvedev:

>However, a dosimeter capable of measuring up to 1,000 r/s was buried in the rubble of a collapsed part of the building, and another one failed when turned on. All remaining dosimeters had limits of 0.001 r/s and therefore read "off scale". Thus, the reactor crew could ascertain only that the radiation levels were somewhere above 0.001 r/s (3.6 r/h), while the true levels were much higher in some areas

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy:

>The maximum value of the dosimeter available to Diatlov and his crew was 1,000 microroentgens per second, or 3.6 roentgens per hour. The dosimeter showed that in one part of the control room the radiation level had reached 800 microroentgens per second, while in another part the reading was off the scale. They assumed that the radiation level might be around 5 roentgens per hour. The emergency maximum for operators was 25 roentgens. Diatlov and others thought they were good for a few hours—it was an emergency, after all.

u/Maxime_Power read a book my friend.

Never heard of Hamman & Parrott. I would be surprised if it is worth your time. Ablaze and 1:23:40 are outdated but contain some good interviews and the latter might be updated at some point.

Midnight is mostly good except for some parts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chernobyl/comments/efhz6w/corrections_to_midnight_in_chernobyl_by_adam/

But really the best books are the low-quality translations of Russian publications. Like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Chernobyl-Present-Future-Nikolai-Steinberg/dp/6200293112

https://www.amazon.com/Manual-for-Survival-Kate-Brown-audiobook/dp/B07SPHBKDF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=G3BDCPP3KFXE&keywords=manual+for+survival&qid=1656345058&sprefix=manual+for+survival%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1#customerReviews

https://www.amazon.com/Manual-for-Survival-Kate-Brown-audiobook/dp/B07SPHBKDF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=G3BDCPP3KFXE&keywords=manual+for+survival&qid=1656345058&sprefix=manual+for+survival%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1#customerReviews

At the library, I came across Wormwood Forest by Mary Mycio which is about how nature reclaimed the exclusion zone. I was hooked.

Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl https://www.amazon.com/dp/0309094305/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_75FDW7Y18E7QX1F7K2CF

Still not what you’re after but this is an interesting collection of Chernobyl satellite imagery over 25 years: SlideShare

All six of them were on trial. You can look for thd wrong Aleksandr Kovalenko because at least two of such persons (with different patronyms) worked on the plant.

Source: https://www.hwinfo.com/Chernobyl/

It seems to be a Chernobyl-related directory at a completely unrelated site, but there's tons of cool images and documents there, feel free to explore.

The caption on the photo in this Facebook post says that guy on the left is Sitnikov. I don't know about that, but he looks more like Sitnikov than Bryukhanov.

The more I read about it the more pissed I am. It is very likely that the future generations will know him for a despicable villain just because of this show. I am absolutely inclined to believe that the denial was a thing ONLY towards the outside of the world and towards the general population, whereas the people directly involved in the operation were absolutely and at all times aware of the situation. I will just point out the story of Sitnikov who, and it blew my mind cause I missed it earlier, was the deputy chief engineer of reactors 1 AND 2! The show makes his excursion to the roof a deadly ordeal commanded by a completely callous and dismissive Fomin and Sitnikov complies although he knows he walks to his own death. Now, check this out, Sitnikov's widow, in her own words:

(The other relatives) and I stood outside at the hospital’s main entrance, while they quietly took our husbands away through the back exit. The minute I got the idea to look toward the courtyard, I saw there was a bus parked behind the hospital, where they were loading everyone. I screamed, “Tolya! Tolya!” And he came out to me, strangely tanned. I told him, “Tolya, everything will be okay. Where are they taking you?” “We don’t know,” he said. “Don’t come looking for me. I’ll get better and come to you myself.” I looked at him and said, “I’m still going to find you!”

Then I asked him why he went to the fourth reactor, even when it wasn’t his responsibility. And he said, “There was nobody who knew the reactor better than me, you see? If it weren’t for us, it would have been the end of Ukraine definitely, and maybe half of Europe, too… You need to understand this.” But how was I supposed to understand? I was left with two children, and they were taking away my husband.

It sounds VERY different to me in tone and substance.

If you're talking about the upper biological shield, it was just a big steel/concrete cap. You can see it for yourself here -- see the big disc with all the wires and pipes hanging off of it? Yeah, the reactor explosion tossed it up and back down on its side. Been like that ever since.

People probably assumed that if xenon poisoning cratered the power level of the reactor, then vice versa, xenon burnoff would have triggered the excursion. While xenon poisoning *set the stages* for the accident, the actual reason for the accident is the reduced neutron cross-section of U-238 at the low thermal power level. This means more neutrons go into the water in the fuel channels, which is bad, because a sudden decrease in pressure or increase in heat causes runaway boiling. The amount of xe-135 burnoff as the disaster unfolded would have been small. As a group of Spanish scientists put it in 1989:

"[Xenon poisoning] played a significant role in setting the initial conditions of the accident, but did not contribute to the accident evolution itself, which was very fast. During the power surges, the xenon concentration decreased slightly (as a consequence of the higher fluxes) by 0.5 % of the equilibrium concentration, which represents 13 pcm of reactivity insertion, much less than the feedback from fuel temperature and water voidage."

https://www.hwinfo.com/Chernobyl/Documents/Artikel%20zu%20Tschernobyl%20in%20Nuclear%20Technology%20Vol%2090.pdf

I find this comment on the Amazon reviews and I would like to ask how accurate the comment actually is:

>3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best account

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2019

>
>I have read a lot of books and technical reports on this appalling disaster.This books adds little that is new. It contains a number of technical inaccuracies which make me wonder if the author actually understood what happened that day.

"The truth about Chernobyl" by Grigory Medvedev and "Atomic accidents" by James Mahaffey are both more accurate, the first giving a full account and the second a brief overview.

Can anybody speak to the validity of this comment?

Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey is exactly what you are looking for. Comprehensive coverage of atomic energy since its inception and the accidents that come with it. I jokingly felt like I had a phD in nuclear energy when I was done reading it.

Congrats! You look well-prepared with so impressive collection of mostly good books. You could add this one to the pile (and I believe they had similar one about Kyiv). I used to gift such books for friends and colleagues visiting the country, and it worked both as a souvenir and as a guidebook.

That book is on my to-read list since a while.

I know a great book but sadly I can't seem to find an English version of it. Apparently this is only published in Spanish. Dutch and German (as far as I could find out), which is strange since it's a really good book. A report of someone who went inside the sarcophagus and worked as KGB-Agent back in the days.

It is really a shame that it wasn't translated into English. This book also features great pictures. It is a bit older, yet it is worth reading (if you are able to read any of the above mentioned languages).

I read this one last year

Title:

Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster

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