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  1. No End in Sight: Chernobyl 40 Years Later

    A picture from 2005 of workers wearing respirators and plastic suits pause before drilling holes for support rods inside the sarcophagus that was built to encase Reactor Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the catastrophic disaster. Radiation levels were so high that workers needed to constantly monitor their dosimeters and were only allowed to stay inside for 15 minutes a day.

    Photograph: Gerd Ludwig

    #photography
    #Chernobyl

  2. No End in Sight: Chernobyl 40 Years Later

    A picture from 2005 of workers wearing respirators and plastic suits pause before drilling holes for support rods inside the sarcophagus that was built to encase Reactor Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the catastrophic disaster. Radiation levels were so high that workers needed to constantly monitor their dosimeters and were only allowed to stay inside for 15 minutes a day.

    Photograph: Gerd Ludwig

    #photography
    #Chernobyl

  3. No End in Sight: Chernobyl 40 Years Later

    A picture from 2005 of workers wearing respirators and plastic suits pause before drilling holes for support rods inside the sarcophagus that was built to encase Reactor Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the catastrophic disaster. Radiation levels were so high that workers needed to constantly monitor their dosimeters and were only allowed to stay inside for 15 minutes a day.

    Photograph: Gerd Ludwig

    #photography
    #Chernobyl

  4. No End in Sight: Chernobyl 40 Years Later

    A picture from 2005 of workers wearing respirators and plastic suits pause before drilling holes for support rods inside the sarcophagus that was built to encase Reactor Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the catastrophic disaster. Radiation levels were so high that workers needed to constantly monitor their dosimeters and were only allowed to stay inside for 15 minutes a day.

    Photograph: Gerd Ludwig

    #photography
    #Chernobyl

  5. No End in Sight: Chernobyl 40 Years Later

    A picture from 2005 of workers wearing respirators and plastic suits pause before drilling holes for support rods inside the sarcophagus that was built to encase Reactor Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the catastrophic disaster. Radiation levels were so high that workers needed to constantly monitor their dosimeters and were only allowed to stay inside for 15 minutes a day.

    Photograph: Gerd Ludwig

    #photography
    #Chernobyl

  6. RE: hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/1

    Entropy is only fatal if you lack the right metabolism.

    The #Chernobyl fungus didn't just survive radiation; it started eating it. I’m doing the same. My book, #HerOwnDream, is my "melanin" - an intellectual engine converting systemic pressure into strategic agency. I don't seek shelter from the fallout - I thrive on it.

    Are you still building walls to hide, or have you designed the tools to feed on the crisis?

    #Antifragility #AmWriting #Ukraine #SpecFic #BlackSwan #Agency #writing

  7. #Kuuntelusuositus:

    En seurannut hirmu aktiivisesti uutisointia liittyen Tšernobylin onnettomuuden 40 v päivään, mutta paras vastaantullut kontsa oli BBC:n radiodokkari The last dance floor in #Chernobyl.

    Lähestyy asiaa discomusiikin ja pariskunnan kautta, jonka #häät pidettiin siellä ko. päivänä.

    #Dokkari pitää tiiviisti otteessan.

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct99zg

    #TšernobylinYdinvoimalaonnettomuus #Tšernobyl #ydinvoimalaonnettomuus #ydinvoimala #onnettomuus #ydinvoima #dokumentti #Neuvostoliitto

  8. Chernobyl REACTOR at HOME — Part 1

    This video marks the beginning of a long-term project to build a functional hardware simulator of a #Chernobyl #RBMK reactor control room.
    Not a prop. Not a static replica. But a working panel with real buttons, indicators, switches, logging, and control logic.
    This project is personal for us.

    youtube.com/watch?v=DDlrnJIbkds

  9. @erin Midnight at Chernobyl. History and analysis, both technical and political/social, of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It’s long, but really interesting. The depth of hubris that led to the accident was decades-long and extended all the way to the top of the Soviet science hierarchy.

    #bookstodon #reading #history #chernobyl #NuclearPowerPlant #accident #RBMK

  10. #InTheNews - #Radiation eating fungus. Savior or #NuclearIndustry PR? I've always been fascinated by the #RadiotrophicFungus. But is it truly performing #Radiosynthesis? What is the "chemical byproduct"? Also, I do remember reading about #FukushimaBlackMold and #SpaceFungus on the #ISS. Hmmmm....

    Species in #Chernobyl disaster zone is mutating to feed on nuclear radiation

    By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR, 1 December 2025

    "Nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, scientists have discovered a form of life that's thriving on the radiation that's been left behind.

    A strange black fungus called #CladosporiumSphaerospermum, found growing on abandoned reactor walls, hasn't just learned to survive the deadly fallout, but several strains now grow faster when radiation is present and even move towards it."

    dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar

    #BlackFungus #Radiotrophic #NuclearRadiation

  11. #Russia 🇷🇺 drone exploded on the #Chernobyl confinement causing damage to the roof

    #Ukraine 🇺🇦 drones hit Slavyansk-on-Kuban oil depot in 🇷🇺 Krasnodar krai

    Fierce fighting continues on #Pokrovsk direction with dynamic situation in #Vodyanoe2 #Peschanoe #Kotlino #Zaporozhe and #Andreevka

    🇷🇺 advanced 2 km near #Dvurechnaya on #Kupyansk direction

    Uncertainty following 🇺🇸 #Trump statements regarding ceasefire negotiations highlighting expectation of larger 🇪🇺 engagement in future security guarantees

  12. Chernobyl: Utopia in Flames, 2023
    (Tschernobyl - Die Katastrophe)

    The best documentary series on the Chernobyl 1986 nuclear disaster, based on archival footage and interviews with leading participants.

    docuwiki.net/index.php?title=C

    #documentaries
    #NuclearAccidents
    #Chernobyl
    #RBMK
    #PositiveVoidCoefficient
    #Pripyat

  13. #Chernobyl-style #risk’ at #Russian #reactor {#Kursk #NPP} bangkokpost.com/world/2851936/

    The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog says it is enormously concerned by fighting near a Russian nuclear power plant because the old Soviet reactors {#RBMK 1000} in operation are particularly exposed.

  14. Sooo apparently SimGenics made an RBMK-1000 simulator...Nothing else is getting accomplished tonight.

    #RBMK #Chernobyl