{"id":71899,"date":"2015-10-09T13:27:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lolr.de\/2015\/10\/09\/inside-chernobyl\/"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T14:01:22","slug":"inside-chernobyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/2015\/10\/09\/inside-chernobyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Chernobyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpex-responsive-media\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jKnFurg5-Ag?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>a video clip of inside the exploded reactor.<br \/>\nThanks to hboy007 for his translation which reads as follows:<br \/>\ninside the Sarcophagus the radiation levels are as high as 3400 Roentgen per hour [1 R = 2.58 * 10^-4 C\/kg].<br \/>\nThe working time of the engineers is determined by the radioactivity<br \/>\nthey are exposed to. When the dosimeter each of them carries starts to beep<br \/>\nalarmingly, they need to leave the reactor immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeij K. who recorded this footage usually stays a little longer.<br \/>\nThe white dots that can bee seen on the pictures that look like snow<br \/>\nare also caused by the radiation which the digital cameras are quite<br \/>\nprone to.<\/p>\n<p>The clock in this control room<br \/>\nstopped at the exact time the incident took place: 1:23 am, april 26th, 1986<\/p>\n<p>Despite the strongly limited time, work is done without hurry to avoid mistakes.<br \/>\nThe mounting teams know exactly where the other ones interrupted their repairing<br \/>\nright there.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the exploded reactor block, additional staircases were installed<br \/>\nto reach most of the locations but this isn&#8217;t possible. Totally, only one third of<br \/>\nthe entire reactor block has been explored. The sectors have names and numbers which<br \/>\nthe workers shout out to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then men can be heard wading through water. Rain and melting water<br \/>\nare the biggest enemy of the Sarcophagus. These caused gradual decay during the past<br \/>\n20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeij likes to compare the inside of the Sarcophagus to a mine field. Each step<br \/>\ncan decide upon what radiation dose one is exposed to. At this place it is<br \/>\nreally dirty as can be seen by the black speckles on the yellow gloves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;dirty&#8220; is what the workers call the radiation reaching extreme levels.<br \/>\nThe cotton dress and the plastic overall offer only limited protection against (alpha)<br \/>\nradiation. The helmets are considered much more important because pieces of stone<br \/>\ncould fall down from the ceiling. The once molten, highly radioactive material has been cast<br \/>\nto bizarre forms.Temperatures exceeded 1000 degrees Celsius at the time of the disaster.<br \/>\nSergeij gave names to these lumps. This one he calls &#8222;elephant&#8217;s foot&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeij is now right underneath the ceiling of the Sarcophagus. It&#8217;s cracked, corroded and<br \/>\nfull of holes. it&#8217;s area measures 100 square meters. The extent can be by the light<br \/>\nshining inside.<\/p>\n<p>Should The Sarcophagus one day collapse, a large nuclear dust cloud would be generated.<br \/>\nExperts consider it the safest way to build another Sarcophagus around the first, older one.<br \/>\nA hall larger than the Statue of Liberty, called &#8222;Arche&#8220;, that would cost<br \/>\nabout 650.000.000 Euros.<\/p>\n<p>Here, the white dots caused by radioactivity can be seen again. This sprinklers were<br \/>\ninstalled to bind the floating, radioactive dust particles. At least a little protection<br \/>\nin this hazardous job.<\/p>\n<p>This video clip was from this german website: http:\/\/www.stern.de\/politik\/ausland\/559531.html?nv=ct_mt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a video clip of inside the exploded reactor. Thanks to hboy007 for his translation which reads as follows: inside the Sarcophagus the radiation levels are as high as 3400 Roentgen per hour [1 R = 2.58 * 10^-4 C\/kg]. The working time of the engineers is determined by the radioactivity they are exposed to. When&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":71900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71899"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=71899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}