Chernobyl

Pripyat, Ukraine
The basics
• The accident occurred on 26. April 1986
• The accident happened near a city of Prypiat in Ukraine
• The decontamination costed 18 billion rubles (215 million eu)
• Melt down happened in 4th reactor
• Direct death count is about 54 people (UN data)
Why did it happen?
• Main problem is considered to be the lack of staff training
• In the reactor it was the failure of the cooling systems and the
overall overdrive followed by a meltdown due to the high
temperature then followed by an explosion. Also all of the
material turned into corium
Elephant’s foot
• It’s the mass of highly radioactive metal, concrete and
aforementioned corium
• Shortly after it’s creation it has been so radioactive that standing 5
min next to it would kill you, but now it takes less than an hour of
suffering (200 seconds and you would have just days to live)
• That feller under by the way died from radiation poisoning (Arthur
Corneyev) as well as many liquidators (men who tried to control it
without proper protection) The graininess
is caused by radiation and the gostly figure
by the suture speed
Fun facts
• It was one of the two nuclear disasters on the maximum severity next
to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011
• It is the single worst nuclear accident (Fukushima did not end up very
severe to be honest)
• The death count was never really confirmed (Soviet sources say 37,
UN says 54 and the aftermath of the meltdown is responsible for 4000
– 60000 deaths (Pretty big range eh?))
• To photo the elephant‘s foot they created a contraption to roll over a
corner
The great sarcophagus
• It was built as a prevention of radiation escape
• This half of a tin can should serve for 50 years or more
• It is 105m tall, 257 meters wide and 150m long
• It had been built and then slid on reactor 4 by a rail system
• It is built from outer steel shell and reactor 4 is then covered by inner
concrete ‘’Sarcophagus’’
Thank you Dominick
Thanks for watchin’ or whatever where
you doin‘ right there

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