Here one may have his/her radiation spectrum checked.
That is how the shelter for the staff looks like.
And the shelter is the only proper place for the radio-dosimetric station. It receives all the information from the checkpoints.
30km radius around the plant.
Within the territory of the plant background of radioactivity is conforming the natural background.
The staff working here are well skilled. Such sphere does not like non-professionals.
Some industrial landscapes
The turbine island of the third power unit. A big yellow construction is a turbine and a generator. The turbine rotates with speed 2999-3001 RPS.
Radiation background here is 11 microroentgen.
Turbogenerator parameters: 24000V, 3000RPM, 50Hz, active output 100mW. The construction has some levels and has amazing dimensions.
Building of the 4th unit.
And finally – the control room. In order to work here you have to study for 5.5 years, get 5 years of experience, get a licence and regularly reclassify.
Various monitoring devices.
Videowalls.
Fuel elements control and a video camera.
The sad composition of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant – two deactivated tank transformers. It seems they are moving toward each other to share their grief.
Deputy HR Director. Such women work in the sphere of atomic energy industry.
Videoconferencing
via leprosorium.ru
Ah first again! Like USA.
A. Bunka here. Today is a special anniversary. Today in 1939 two monsters made a pact. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. The USSR made it possible for Hitler’s Germany to continue its conquest of Europe by giving Germany a pass on the eastern front. A secret codicial of this pact featured the USSR stabbing their slavic brothers, the Poles, in the back, and sharing the spoils with their new friend, NAZI Germany.
interesting pictures.
HALF-LIFE
BLACK MESA RESEARCH FACILITY
Such poverty. The inside of my high school shop class looked more high tech than this, and why are they running Windows to run a nuclear reactor? I’m shaking my head looking at these pictures.
lol pic #1 looks like it’s part of a mirror’s edge level.
Such poverty. The inside of my high school shop class looked more high tech than this, and why are they using Windows to run a nuclear reactor? I’m shaking my head looking at these pictures.
how faraway from the western border of Russia?
Turn out the lights and everyone is glowing.
That “award” looks like the deformed hand of fate. What the hell is it?
Has Russia started using containment buildings yet? I can’t tell.
But this is the wrong way to go about using nukes. Forget the big guys. The nukes on subs have proven quite safe. They need to use lots of smaller plants like the ones on subs. Each city is still connected so other plants can help supply larger cities and take up the slack.
May be a little harder to implement, but I think it’s much safer.
Military reactors, in the west, have a fixed life. They cannot be inspected or renewed. When they reach their time limit, they are trucked to a storage site in Nevada and abandoned. In the east, they were taken to spot in the North sea and dumped. Imagine if every city replaced their nuclear reactor every 20 years, on average, and sent the used one to Nevada or dumped it in the ocean.
In this case, bigger is better.
how dose one go about trying to decide the safe life of the plant? can they run forever if you replace each part as it wears out?
I worked on two nuclear power plants in Canada, and we were told that the ‘Candu’ reactors were unique, and safer than any other system. Very expensive to install!
The CANDU reactor is similar to the Chernobyl with one main difference; by default the CANDU reactor is SCRAMmed.
G.O.E.L.R.O.
I see they use Windows 2000… the best Windows ever.
The Canadian system, Candu, is the only type of its’ kind. Their reactors use heavy water (H3O) as a moderator and coolant. The RBMK uses a graphite moderator and light water for cooling. Candu plants were also designed with containment structures. Chernobyl was not, nor are any other RBMK plant.
However, both systems use natural uranium for fuel (as apposed to enriched), and both can be refuelled without shutting down the reactor.
As kold-cult says, CANDU uses heavy water as a moderator. Graphite moderators have a number of problems, including burning; as I recall Chernobyl a) did not have a containment (which all western reactors have) b) had a runaway reaction related to the moderator.
Cool reactor. I wish we have one like that here…
“The turbine rotates with speed 2999-3001 RPS.”
Turbine at 3000 rps would be killed by centrifugal force, it is 3000 rpm.
m=mili, M=Mega, there is “couple” levels of magnitude difference between them, 9 to be exact.
There are other small mistakes as well.
It’s a modern VVER nuclear plant , like PWR in Western design.
I have been working in BWR plant for 2 years , these pictures
are very interesting. all systems look like digital ,very impresses.
Modern nuclear power is a key to develop the entire solar system.