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Just how responsible was Dyatlov?
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Just how responsible was Dyatlov?

We all know that the HBO series' portrayal is overblown: from power hungry to physically violent in the control room, to seeing smouldering graphite blocks on the ground and pretending like he hadn't – Dyatlov is the reckless bully that causes the accident.

My question is not whether or not he has been scapegoated and demonised, but rather: was Dyatlov actually in any way more responsible for the accident than any other operator? Was he partly responsible or not at all?

u/North-Tundra7329 — 22 hours ago
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I live at the CCPI (Chernobyl Children's Project International) AMA.

Hi everyone)

I'm Arsev Volkov, and I live at a Chernobyl Children International youth center. Feel free to ask me anything about it.

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u/Arsev_6360 — 1 day ago
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Some photos from Aleksandr Kupnyi

I saw these pop up in his recent lecture video, and found them interesting. I haven't seen these before.

Photo #1 - RZM's gantry crane blocking the view from RZM control room window.

Photo #2 - A piece of wall of the reactor hall.

u/maksimkak — 1 day ago
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Saw this mask and all I thought of were the 3 guys who opened drainage valves and saved Europe

KSG expedition

u/nexiune — 3 days ago
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Rebound Midnight in Chernobyl

Rebound Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham. The design on the cover is modeled after the medals that the liquidators received.

u/supermatt614 — 3 days ago
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How dangerous is it actually to be in Chernobyl now?

I started looking into Chernobyl after watching that one river monsters episode and was wondering how dangerous is it actually to be in Chernobyl? After finding this sub and doing my own research it seems like alot of people are able to get into the exclusion zone, they even had parts of it become a tourist attraction before the war with Russia started. It seems like it isn't that dangerous to be around chernobyl until you get close to the actual reactor site.

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u/Classic-Praline-2571 — 3 days ago
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Would we have today the technology to have robots on the roof or would we still need liquidators to get rid of the junk?

I’m asking myself if today we have technology that could deal with the radiation on the roof or if we would still need people to get up there?

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u/Seraphina_Renaldi — 3 days ago
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Comparison between shadow of chernobyl screenshots and real life

Semi not related as it is from a video game but i admire how they got the details right, even of the fading paint/murals and abandoned structures. i would like to go if not for the war (from stalker bonus cd)

u/padreflorentinogamin — 5 days ago
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RBMK control rods

OK so I was having a thought the other night about the control rod design with their graphite displacers. We all know that the graphite displacers were designed to displace the water in the channels to increase reactivity when rods were withdrawn.

My question is what prevented them from having the control rods in "dry channels" so when the rods were withdrawn there would be no water in their place to absorb nuetrons thus negating the need for the displacers? Could they have gas cooled those channels to prevent the rods from melting or is there another obvious reason why this wouldnt work?

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u/MillieSievert — 4 days ago
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Foto del piede d'elefante scattata nel 2010 da Sergey khoselev.

u/gioangi — 6 days ago
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ABK-2 Floorplan

Here’s the Blueprint of the first ABK-2 floor ( Kurskaya АЭС - exactly the same as Chernobyl ).

u/Electron1986 — 4 days ago
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Bug?

I keep trying to get into the Roblox game Mirny Atom, but every time I try to join I always get kicked out of Roblox maybe it doesn't work on Xbox series s but does anybody else have this problem?

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u/Proper_Treacle7193 — 4 days ago