r/chernobyl • • Jul 30 '20

Moderator Post Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and Illegal Trespassing

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As I see a rise of posts asking, encouraging, discussing and even glorifying trespassing in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone I must ask this sub as a community to report such posts immediately. This sub does not condone trespassing the Zone nor it will be a source for people looking for tips how to do that. We are here to discuss and research the ChNPP Disaster and share news and photographic updates about the location and its state currently. While mods can't stop people from wrongly entering the Zone, we won't be a source for such activities because it's not only disrespectful but also illegal.


r/chernobyl • • Feb 08 '22

Moderator Post r/Chernobyl and Discussions about Current Events in Ukraine

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We haven't see any major issues thus far, but we think it is important to get in front of things and have clear guidelines.

There has been a lot of news lately about Pripyat and the Exclusion Zone and how it might play a part in a conflict between Ukraine and Russia, including recent training exercises in the city of Pripyat. These posts are all completely on topic and are an important part of the ongoing role of the Chernobyl disaster in world history.

However, in order to prevent things from getting out of hand, your mod team will be removing any posts or comments which take sides in this current conflict or argue in support of any party in the ongoing tension between Ukraine and Russia, to include NATO, the EU or any other related party. There are already several subreddits which are good places to either discuss this conflict or learn more about it.

If you have news to post about current events in the Exclusion Zone or you have questions to ask about how Chernobyl might be affected by hypothetical events, feel free to post them. But if you see any posts or comments with a political point of view on the conflict, please just report it.

At this time we don't intend to start handing out bans or anything on the basis of somebody crossing that line; we're just going to remove the comment and move on. Unless we start to see repeat, blatant, offenders or propaganda accounts clearly not here in good faith.

Thank you all for your understanding.


r/chernobyl • • 5h ago

Exclusion Zone Amusement park in Pripyat

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r/chernobyl • • 18h ago

Video My 3D model of "Elena" - Destroyed Chornobyl Reactor 4 for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope.

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Here's a video presentation of my model for the game Stalker 2, showing Elena from all angles. I'll be posting soon with various screenshots and renders that show even more detail. Thanks to everyone for your support and sorry if I haven't been able to reply to everyone. I didn't expect so many people to comment on my previous posts. I love you all <3


r/chernobyl • • 9h ago

Exclusion Zone Jupiter Factory

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r/chernobyl • • 17h ago

Discussion Source of this black & White footage of the damaged reactor 4 of Chernobyl NPP?

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I need the name of the source of this footage captures.


r/chernobyl • • 1d ago

Discussion What are these holes in celing

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242 Upvotes

I don’t know what these are for


r/chernobyl • • 23h ago

Discussion What happened to Chernobyl substation and it's powelrines like the 750kv lines are they active or not?

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r/chernobyl • • 18h ago

News Azov Fighters Train in Prypiat

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r/chernobyl • • 1d ago

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r/chernobyl • • 1d ago

Photo ABK-1 floorplans (I think)

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r/chernobyl • • 1d ago

Discussion are there any photos of the bubbling pools and their corridors (post incident) that the divers would of been going into?

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i know of that one image of the bubbling pools with the red mutated looking water, and the pre incident images like the one of the guy just standing under it, but i am yet to see any post incident photos of the pools aside from the red water one, and I’ve seen genuinely none of the corridors

i’d assume the water would of been drained when the divers went in, so they would be dry and non flooded anymore, but I was just curious if any exist


r/chernobyl • • 2d ago

Discussion Are there still stalkers or visits with the issue of war in this area?

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To 2022 - rn


r/chernobyl • • 3d ago

Photo Some chernibyl images

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754 Upvotes

Found in a travel brochure about the plant, and surrounding towns.


r/chernobyl • • 3d ago

News Chernobyl particles look remarkably similar to explosion day in 1986

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r/chernobyl • • 2d ago

Discussion Anybody know where i could download sounds from the control room like the beeping?

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r/chernobyl • • 3d ago

Documents The dosimeters of 1986: a radiometer maxed out at 1,000 µR/s, the DP-5, and the Pripyat sold to the public from 1990

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That night at unit 4, dosimetrist Nikolai Gorbachenko only had a DRGZ radiometer reading up to 1,000 microroentgens per second, about 3.6 r/h. Dyatlov gives the same ceiling in his memoirs. It was pinned everywhere.

I wrote an article on the Soviet instruments around that story: the civil defence DP-5, the household Pripyat, Bella and RKSB-104 that went on open sale in 1990 (one Pripyat has its price on the back: 175 roubles), and how the SBM-20 tube turns a particle into a click.

There is also a small quiz: twelve readings on these displays, in µSv/h, mR/h and r/h, to rate on the scale of a 1991 Soviet handbook. For reference, the same handbook puts the background around Chernobyl before the accident at 0.10 to 0.15 µSv/h.

https://sovietinparis.com/en/histoire-propagande/compteur-geiger-sovietique-dosimetre-pripiat-bella-rksb-104/

Disclosure: I run a small shop of Soviet items in Paris, the article is on our site. Corrections welcome.


r/chernobyl • • 4d ago

Discussion What are these small pipes for?

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Does anyone know what these thin pipes are for? There seem to be two kinds of these: one, coming off a distribution header in a room (first photo) and another, coming off a pipe under the reactor(second photo) photos from https://lana-sator.livejournal.com/226632.html. The pipes are much thinner than the ones used for cooling water for each of the pressure channels. Are both types of pipes used for cooling the graphite moderator?


r/chernobyl • • 3d ago

Discussion Onde e como posso comprar medalhas verdadeiras?

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r/chernobyl • • 4d ago

User Creation RBMK-1000 progress: Reactor hall on work

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r/chernobyl • • 4d ago

Photo Mural by Guido van Helten inside the unfinished cooling tower of reactor 5 (2017)

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118 Upvotes

Picture taken by me in 08/2017.


r/chernobyl • • 5d ago

Photo Industrial photography heaven, post-apocalypse edition

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Chornobyl has the kind of industrial scenery I could spend days photographing. Rusting steel, massive structures, pipes going everywhere, and nature working its way through it all. Every time I think I’m done, I spot another angle.


r/chernobyl • • 4d ago

Discussion What is the middle section inbetween unit 1 and 2 used for?

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I don’t know what it’s for, especially the long ones at the top.


r/chernobyl • • 4d ago

Discussion Does anyone have measurements between floors for the 1st gen floorplans?

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Like for the corridor/turbine stuff


r/chernobyl • • 5d ago

Photo ВК 14-21 buttons 1990

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Buttons manufactured in 1990