During this break, Slavskys First Deputy, Meshkov Alexander Grigorievich, his First Deputy who was later fired because of this accident. The world accepts the normal standard of safety for any dangerous industry including nuclear power stations. Anatoly Petrovich Aleksandrov and my student, who called me just now, Silivanov, they thought about which material to use that would generate CO2 and also conduct heat. While the first group would go to Moscow, on the site the second group would be led by the chairman of the Ministry Council Ivan Stepanovich Silaev. It is necessary to get rid of people who interfere with work. However, the more I learned about what was happening there, the more anxious I became. But, you know, it is hard to say even now; it is probably good that it was allowed but it is bad that it was not organized properly. [7] Legasov thought people worked together efficiently and this put them in good spirits. The article should be based on my papers, comrade Dyomins papers, comrade Novikovs papers, comrade Sukhoruchkins papers, but, nevertheless, these papers must be collated and processed in such a way that an integral philosophy emerges from them. He went, had a look, and said that everything was in order and that the information was wrong. [They made him retire.]. In fact, because of ecological reasons, and many people do not understand this, it is impossible not to develop [nuclear energy]. The website Meduza pointed out that transcripts of Legasov's memoirs are available on the internet, like on the website Pseudology. At this time, both the Army and the regional organisations allocated builders for the construction of villages in which the evacuees could live. Academician Kikoev tried to convince me to stay in postgraduate studies because he liked my graduate thesis. This was evidence that the temperatures were still high there. After that, the glowing stopped and the 9th of May was celebrated on the 10th of May in a calm and normal atmosphere. Adamovich: And the people had already been evacuated. There are questions like why was it announced so late? [14] At some stage, Legasov experienced face injuries and minor scarring as a result of chemical experimentation. Anyway Also, there was an episode that I will talk about later. In this case I could not stand it so I wrote a very angry letter together with Anatoly Pavlovich where we strongly objected this excessive allocation of people who would get high radiation doses when constructing that second plate. The probability increases day by day because of again, those devices without containment. Adamovich: Did all the graphite there burn out? And then I was pulled out with the permission of the party (I was already a communist since my time at the institute) for my postgraduate studies at the same Kurchatov Institute. Supposing, for a moment, that we take a Politburo decision to shut down nuclear energy; we stop the presently-operating nuclear power stations and do not build new ones; then immediately, straightaway, as a result of this, the level of radioactive contamination of our territory and our people would increase incredibly. Kursk, Chernobyl, Smolensk NPPs, all use these RBMK reactors. During this time the Operative group was constantly trying to provide maximum protection for the people and judging from possible degrees of contamination decide on a compensation amount that would be necessary for the evacuees. They selected people, agreed on the time, arranged the needed tools, and decided the sequence of carrying out the procedure. Legasov: No, allowed. And not that they had any experience [to draw from]. And then to catch up, quickly, this option was proposed. They began to prepare for the possibility of using water from another source, from the Dniester, to supply the city and made all possible efforts to create additional artesian wells. A personal pistol remained in a drawer, but the professor chose to hang himself. He wrote a doctoral dissertation and later published a book at approximately that time, in which he proved the impossibility of having nuclear stations without containments, no matter the type, VVER or RBMK; that it was dangerous and criminal. And I sit and shiver. The water overheats; the pressure is 170 atm. In the subordination of this Glaucus, frankly, boring, standard. Whatever radioactive particles would escape, they would be filtered out. And mainly, the chronology of the events themselves was not presented. Thats magnesium carbonate. The provisional title of this article is The reasons that led to the Chernobyl accident and its consequences. They were very professional. Somehow, irrespective of rank, irrespective of the task at hand, everyone worked like a finely-tuned team, especially in the initial days. And there was another episode. I passionately worked in this area with the involvement of external organisations. And that is true. Do you follow? The work went on as had been planned before, that is in three aspects: one, monitoring the state of reactor number 4, because the material drops had ended. Simultaneously, the military continued to do all the necessary recon operations. This sums up our containment efforts. It was the impression he made on us when we. Valery Legasov was a Soviet chemist who investigated what caused the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster on April 26, 1986. It should begin with the measures that are planned in the Soviet Union to increase the safety of nuclear energy. Adamovich: I see, so on the 2nd of May [Unclear]. During the first flight it became clear that the entire reactor had been destroyed. This is how the ideology of RBMK reactor appeared. Say from cows who. Thereafter, talk about the Novovoronezh station, the 1st block of which has already been built as a nuclear station designed to be operated in a continuous mode with a civilian crew, and describe the protection systems that have been used at that station. It needs mentioning that when the work became organized like this, when the effort was distributed across various institutions and supervisors, then, of course, there was much more order and clarity than in the first days when all the emergency problems were solved but not all work had gone smoothly. And this was not long before the Chernobyl disaster. Some construction elements of the lower part of reactor may not withstand that. According to their regulations, they did not have the right to declare an evacuation based on the data available to them at 11 pm. The evacuation, the order of evacuation, doesn't matter from Pripyat or Chernobyl, was carried out in such a way thatit will be better for you if Ilyin or the other doctors say thisoverall among the people who did not work at the station, just lived there, not a single person was injured because of delaying the evacuation by at least a day. There were reverse cases as well, when, say, where should have been a wall according to the drawings, in reality, was a doorway. I really do want to understand these numerous cases. Some personal impressions of the time . The research group, as I have already said, had divided its tasks as follows: researching the wreckage of reactor number 4; finding the fuel; and surrounding it with the maximum number of diagnostic devices. Make sure to watch his playlist with all the Tapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTrVwEY1WxgChernobyl Valery Legasov Tape project:Making important information accessible to the English-speaking audience. Numerous other scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Energy and the Ministry of Energy took active part in our discussions. Say, for the uppermost points, we found that the temperature range was around 300-350 degrees [Celsius]. And there wouldnt be a designer's error because there wouldnt be such a reactor. In the last few months, I dont know what is going on because after I formed the group, I was excluded from this work. I left the meeting immediately, called for a car and went to my university to find someone from the reactor team. I see this as an obvious fact. I will not talk about safe reactors because the requirements formulated by Novikov are very accurate. But then, history came to such a state where science became subordinate to the Ministry. 2002-2023 | email | guestbook | to top Starting on the second day we started receiving suggestions from abroad about various chemical mixtures that could be used on the burning graphite. You know, sort of similar to Freon circulation in refrigerators. At the same time, I managed to set up a laboratory for safety measures that evaluated the various dangers of nuclear energy compared to other types of energy. But to make it the primary method of work based on that, it was absolutely obvious that this was impossible. It was clear that in the first few days, because of the way air masses were flowing and because of the material drops in the reactor, the contamination was spreading with the dust. Then the next most likely is Bulgaria, Kozloduy. It is necessary to talk about the management scheme for the process of liquidation, that is, about the separation of functions. And, each time considerably different figures and results were reported, from astonishingly high to relatively moderate. At least not at the age that I currently am, just into my fifties. This general downfall of Soviet technology, the reasons for which can be discussed extensively and for a long time, it was simultaneously the beginning of Chernobyl. My first impression was that I hadnt come to a nuclear station. Not every work progress was documented, whether it had been completed or not. It would be an organisation that would be responsible for the developmental strategy of aviation. Under the mandatory condition of the most rigorous compliance with all regulations and such. This is what occupied us on our hour-long flight. If he doesnt get a bonus of 100 roubles, he will survive. Here is an approximate composition of the Government, In the air, the conversations were alarming. At 11 a.m., we were officially informed that the whole city would be evacuated by 2 p.m.. All the transport had been gathered; all the routes had been identified; and at around 2-2:30 p.m. the entire city was empty. 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