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▲ 202 r/chernobyl

A theory that I thought of before and would like to be debunked

So, looking at the pictures from unit 3 reactor hall (which comes from a recording inside the unit before it was shutdown), there is steam which I would say "leaking" out of the UBS, which made me think of a theory that...

the steel caps from reactor 4 during the power surge could have possibly actually "jumped", but not in the way like the HBO series did, instead, they could have looked like it was jumping in atleast slightly and also only happened on the caps that were detached from it's place,

It could have possibly happened and it's not entirely fake because the HBO series actually did also include some situations that happened in real life, but it was exaggerated for the dramatization of the series that lead to it to become fake, according to me

u/500cigarettes_1 — 2 days ago

floorplans and building floor levels doubt

I noticed this yesterday that in the North wall of the building contain 4 visible floors from this perspective, but the wall that aligns the steam separators drum halls only has 3, and in the floorplans there is no green floor visible in between level orange and green (since that corridor occupies two levels, can somebody help me with this?

u/500cigarettes_1 — 5 days ago

Update on the remake of the building

(pictures in order) new MCP corridor (402/4) on work + pipelines and msv minor changes ( 701/2, 801/2) + new corridor at level 31.5 on the northern wall (805/4) + new corridor known for being one of the access to reactor hall (corridor 910/2)
everything is prone to change in the future as i made the rooms based more on the floorplans blueprint and a little of media regarding the rooms, so there may be errors like walls that dont belong on certain part or inaccurate proportions, enjoyy

u/500cigarettes_1 — 6 days ago
▲ 1.3k r/chernobyl

could have the first sarcophagus been better? or it was the best the USSR could do at the time?

u/500cigarettes_1 — 27 days ago

Does the 3rd gen RBMK-1000 (k11) have the same floorplan designs as the 2nd gen ones (k5 and k9) or are they atleast similar?

u/500cigarettes_1 — 1 month ago

Floorplans error or actual inaccessible rooms?

Looking at the floorplans, there are 4 rooms on the north side of unit 4, similar to unit 3, designated "1316" and "1317"

but here is the question, If you notice, these 4 rooms compared to the other ones of the same level don't have have a door where you could access them

So, is this a floorplan design error where they either forgot to add or they later added to the actual building? or were those rooms really inaccessible? because according to the info, these rooms had a role seen in the picture 3

u/500cigarettes_1 — 2 months ago

Why is the SDP corridors / 701-801 and it's equipment are almost never talked about when it comes to topics regarding the safety of the reactor?

The safety features of the RBMK-1000 are often discussed and theorized for more info regarding the disaster and what could had been done to the design.

Then we got the Room 701 and 801, an entire room dedicated for pipelines that involves the safety of the reactor which is connected to the Steam drums separators (Which in the floorplans info is refered to as "Steam discharge pipelines") and relieves steam to somewhere inside the building in case of steam overpressure (as I heard from posts I have asked regarding this room before), which were also connected to the MSV (Main safety valves).

So being that the case, Why Specialists on the reactor almost never mention it when they're discussing it's safeness unless you specifically ask about it? Was it a minor feature? is it due to the lack of info for certain reasons?

u/500cigarettes_1 — 2 months ago

Anyone have a closer view in higher quality for these red slabs?

Regarding my last post, I've noticed that the model I'm using for the remake turns out it has very different vent designed for level +43 and +27 compared to the ones of the pics that both levels have different vent designs and also both look completely different to the model

u/500cigarettes_1 — 2 months ago

2nd gen RBMK-1000 model K9, Remake

I eventually abandoned the earlier project due to the lack of info and building size accuracies.
A few days ago i decided to return and motivate myself to reactivate the project and made the decision of remaking everything.
Now the sizes and exterior panels are on more accurate size and the proportions are so.
The project still in W.I.P and as soon i finish exterior details, i will attempt to add atleast the most important or largest rooms of the reactor.

u/500cigarettes_1 — 2 months ago