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Posted: 12/24/2021 2:08:08 AM EDT
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Tell me how a nuclear reactor works or I'll have one of these soldiers throw you out of the helicopter.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 12/24/2021 2:12:31 AM EDT
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Awesome photos. Thanks for sharing.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 2:17:58 AM EDT
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Amazing photos. Thanks for sharing.
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MI, USA
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Posted: 12/24/2021 2:25:45 AM EDT
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I am just disappointed you didn't stay to document Chernobyl: The Russians Return
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CA, USA
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Posted: 12/24/2021 2:28:14 AM EDT
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Thank you for sharing your trip.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 2:52:16 AM EDT
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@JustinHEMI04 any idea how much dose you picked up? I see you had a hand held dosimeter, did you also wear an ED or SRD of some kind?
Also BWR>PWR 
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Posted: 12/24/2021 2:54:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Sherminator: @JustinHEMI04 any idea how much dose you picked up? I see you had a hand held dosimeter, did you also wear an ED or SRD of some kind? Also BWR>PWR We had an ED in the plant. I picked up 3mrem on it. I've been licensed on both. I'll take a Westinghouse PWR any day but BWRs are more fun. I'm back at a BWR, though, likely to remain the rest of my career. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 2:54:55 AM EDT
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Fascinating thread, thank you for posting.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 3:00:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinHEMI04: We had an ED in the plant. I picked up 3mrem on it. I've been licensed on both. I'll take a Westinghouse PWR any day but BWRs are more fun. I'm back at a BWR, though, likely to remain the rest of my career. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinHEMI04: Originally Posted By Sherminator: @JustinHEMI04 any idea how much dose you picked up? I see you had a hand held dosimeter, did you also wear an ED or SRD of some kind? Also BWR>PWR We had an ED in the plant. I picked up 3mrem on it. I've been licensed on both. I'll take a Westinghouse PWR any day but BWRs are more fun. I'm back at a BWR, though, likely to remain the rest of my career. The rest of my BWR career ends very soon as we're moving all of our fuel out of the pool  decommissioning sucks
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Posted: 12/24/2021 3:00:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinHEMI04: OK here's some more pics that I didn't use originally for one reason or another. Generally in order of the first 3 posts..., Kiev to Chernobyl to Duga to Pripyat. I took a bunch more pics of that statue because the longer you looked at it, the more funny little details popped out. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51772077425_36aafb2789_b.jpgJEC01232 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771432638_86b2e55fc3_b.jpgJEC01235 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51772076470_2e1140a427_b.jpgJEC01238 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51772075185_0d478e8ed5_b.jpgJEC01244 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51770367617_2344120451_b.jpgJEC01247 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr This was the tile flooring in the emergency diesel generator room of the Chernobyl bunker. I just loved that the SOVIETS cared about such detail in an emergency bunker. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771188561_df04e503b9_b.jpgJEC01292 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr More Chernobyl 4 instrumentation in the computer room. I didn't note it in the original posts, but the computer room for Chernobyl 3 and 4 came before the control room of Chernobyl 3, and thus, wasn't affected by the explosion really at all, so it's mostly intact. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51772072610_7faf69be49_b.jpgJEC01334 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51770365097_a278a1f747_b.jpgJEC01337 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr A neat key in Chernobyl 3 control room, and what I assumed to be the "keys to the reactor" (like we have in the US) but I couldn't find where it went to confirm, so I didn't post it. The guide didn't know either. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771425583_31bbf6174c_b.jpgJEC01388 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr A spot of color in the Chernobyl 3 control room. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51772071100_b0191c2967_b.jpgJEC01382 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr These next couple are detail shots of the reactor control panel posted in the original posts. These are rod in and out switches, I believe, because they spring back to middle. I think their panel works like our panels and they could individually select a rod and use these switches to move it depending on core hemisphere or quadrant (which is what I think the label would indicate if it was intact). Can anyone translate? A side note that I didn't mention before about the reactor control panel, while everyone else was distracted, including the security person, I was pretty sure their individual rod select buttons worked like ours, and I was right. I was able to remove one. I held it in my hand, smiled, and then put it back. A piece of me wanted to take it as a souvenir, and I would have been able to, but I'm not a thief. I was happy knowing I could figure out ancient rusky controls pretty quickly. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771424663_aeae7c628f_b.jpgJEC01391 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr I believe this is what we call the "in hold out" lever in the USA. Another control rod movement device, but I believe this would allow them to perform banked movement. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51770361662_95493c0cfe_b.jpgJEC01394 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr I took this to try to later figure out which one was the watt meter like shown on the HBO series, but those piece of paper cover up the actual label and say their use is discontinued or something like that. So, I didn't post it because I'm not sure what they are. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771828379_9a1d878138_b.jpgJEC01412 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr A close up view of the Chernobyl 4 "full core" display that's left. When I say full core display, it shows where each fuel rod is, numbed 25-45, for example, and the different control rods, like the one in green would have a control rod type that corresponded to green on their legend. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771181541_9739d88f33_b.jpgJEC01457 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr If you walk into the control room of a USA BWR, you will see very similar displays and controls. The full core display is on the vertical panel, and you can see the mimic of it on the horizontal panel, and surrounding that, the controls for the control roods. Very similar to Chernobyl's. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cvk8Tv38y28/hqdefault.jpg Just a plant light. A little detail I found interesting compared to what I'm used to. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771180591_cf0f4e2de6_b.jpgJEC01466 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr A closer view of the memorial. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51772065225_5faf5ef187_b.jpgJEC01475 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Unless people are the subject of my photos, I abhor people in my photos, but I snapped this one to give context to the size of the motors of the recirc pumps. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51770357242_fd565ec0f1_b.jpgJEC01484 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Inside the cabin of the refueling machine. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771418393_768cfe5088_b.jpgJEC01514 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Although most of the city of Chernobyl is abandoned, there are some buildings decontaminated an in use by plant workers and zone workers. People working in the zone do a rotation of something like 15 days in, 15 days out. While in, they stay in some of the dormitories and apartments around the center of town. This old dormitory was converted into the hotel we stayed in. Small rooms, communal bathroom. But my god, the cook. The cook, bless my mother's heart, makes some of the best food I've had. I never would have imagined in a million years that the best fried eggs I've ever had would have been in the middle of a nuclear wasteland. Among everything else she made. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771417448_0f030183c1_b.jpgJEC01535 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr This was taken to show that in Chernobyl, the pipe carrying water are above ground now because they cannot dig into the ground because of the contamination. All over the city these pipes cross, and then they're elevated above roads and alleys. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51772061320_c931fc9d1f_b.jpgJEC01541 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Supposedly one of the last 2 Lenin statues in Ukraine. Both happen to be in the exclusion zone. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771416208_96b25616ac_b.jpgJEC01550 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Pripyat port showing now sinking barges that were used to carry away the top soil they scraped up in the months following the accident. A lot of good it did since the area is still highly contaminated and in some places getting worse as new growth pulls buried contamination back to the surface. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51770353447_33fdd6e4bd_b.jpgJEC01556 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr As a sailor, I appreciated this "guard rail" along the road near the port. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51770352792_293f0c94b1_b.jpgJEC01559 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Another of view of the robots. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771413823_215ec06756_b.jpgJEC01565 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr I just liked these benches behind the Duga soldier barracks. SOVIETS gave their guys a place to hang out and smoke and have camp fires. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771172381_2ef01e189a_b.jpgJEC01586 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Another of the "how to be a soldier" signs. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771817864_fbec9901b2_b.jpgJEC01598 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr The building I believe to have house a power plant for the radar itself, and I believe the firehouse mini map confirms. But it's been stripped and I didn't think interesting enough to post before. This is where the can of pork is. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771816834_b4696c9aee_b.jpgJEC01646 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Behind the radar is a very long building which once house the giant runs of cables to each array on the radar. This is a couple hundred meter long cable tunnel. Of course, all that copper was gathered up for reuse. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771410508_95b0543d3e_b.jpgJEC01658 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Another shot of the mini map. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771815429_ed4cccebfc_b.jpgJEC01703 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Last remaining fall colors in this nuclear wasteland. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771814509_c679a6659a_b.jpgJEC01724 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Log play huts at the Duga kindergarten in remarkably good condition. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771408528_1dda808a29_b.jpgJEC01727 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr This was an attempt to capture a swing set being retaken by nature, but as you can see, the trees make it very "busy" so I didn't use it before. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771167096_bca385bbb4_b.jpgJEC01739 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Another detail that caught my eye in the Duga community center/movie theater. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771407033_d13b5b2eb0_b.jpgJEC01763 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr This was an attempt to get the exterior of the Duga community center and its mural, but again, the trees kind of distract from it. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771406143_6a2f9a032c_b.jpgJEC01784 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr This is just in some random kindergarten in a small village between Chernobyl and Pripyat. Didn't want to give nightmares.  https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771164496_41e196f060_b.jpgJEC01805 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Random hot spot posting.  https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771404683_ebe571bc9c_b.jpgJEC01868 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr This was in a room in the bottom of the Palace of Culture. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771403968_b8d76d579a_b.jpgJEC01898 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr Finally, a liqudator truck graveyard. Again, something highly contaminated just out in the open for you to go get up close with. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51771403408_410f1f7aec_b.jpgJEC01937 by JustinC's Photos, on Flickr What was the reading around that truck? 
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Posted: 12/24/2021 3:03:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Sherminator: The rest of my BWR career ends very soon as we're moving all of our fuel out of the pool decommissioning sucksYeah that does, hence my move. I wasn't convinced I could finish at my last plant and figured better to move in my 40s than my 50s. I'm at Susquehanna now and I believe they'll be around a while. Plus there was no upward mobility due to staffing shortages at last plant. Here, I feel I could make it to plant manager by the time I went to retire, if not site VP. Of course that takes some luck of not having any disasters in various positions.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 3:04:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Southernman077: What was the reading around that truck? I didn't check it. By the point I was freezing and ready to get out of there lol. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 3:04:47 AM EDT
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Your photos are cool but you pumped the saturation WAY WAY up...
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Posted: 12/24/2021 3:06:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By djkest: Your photos are cool but you pumped the saturation WAY WAY up... Yes I'm experimenting with things. I'm going to keep playing with them but it was a look I was going for. The colors against the cold and dark of a nuclear wasteland. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 3:07:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinHEMI04: Yeah that does, hence my move. I wasn't convinced I could finish at my last plant and figured better to move in my 40s than my 50s. I'm at Susquehanna now and I believe they'll be around a while. Plus there was no upward mobility due to staffing shortages at last plant. Here, I feel I could make it to plant manager by the time I went to retire, if not site VP. Of course that takes some luck of not having any disasters in various positions. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinHEMI04: Originally Posted By Sherminator: The rest of my BWR career ends very soon as we're moving all of our fuel out of the pool decommissioning sucksYeah that does, hence my move. I wasn't convinced I could finish at my last plant and figured better to move in my 40s than my 50s. I'm at Susquehanna now and I believe they'll be around a while. Plus there was no upward mobility due to staffing shortages at last plant. Here, I feel I could make it to plant manager by the time I went to retire, if not site VP. Of course that takes some luck of not having any disasters in various positions. White findings just make everything more interesting! Sometimes you just need to spice things up a bit
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TX, USA
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Posted: 12/24/2021 4:04:19 AM EDT
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Leave them like they are as the impact is stunning. I'd have to say that is the coolest thing I've seen in years. That mosaic is just plain impressive, you did well.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 4:50:09 AM EDT
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Looks like quite the adventure. Surprised anything operates or is open there at all.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 5:13:37 AM EDT
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Awesome
 I've always wanted to go there and take photos, but it's ill advised due to my health.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 5:25:15 AM EDT
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Awesome pics and info, thanks for taking the time to post it.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 5:31:22 AM EDT
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Awesome.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 6:36:20 AM EDT
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Very cool !
The one mural of Pinochio looks like Banksy art. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 7:04:25 AM EDT
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Very cool.
Thanks for posting! |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 7:13:11 AM EDT
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Thread of the year
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USA
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Posted: 12/24/2021 7:14:34 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Vengeance6661]
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Do you watch bald and bankrupt? Where are all the babushka?
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Posted: 12/24/2021 7:16:31 AM EDT
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Now this was a post! Thanks!
I average 400mrems per month in my job lol. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 7:21:13 AM EDT
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Very nice photos OP! Thanks for sharing.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 7:22:06 AM EDT
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Incredible.
Thanks. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 7:35:10 AM EDT
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Nice photography, JustinHEMI04.
The photography gives me the same jitters as if the Titanic were raised and able to be walked through again. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 7:38:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RocketmanOU: Awesome! Ost |
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IN, USA
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Posted: 12/24/2021 7:54:28 AM EDT
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Awesome post
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Posted: 12/24/2021 8:10:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustinHEMI04: Ah thanks! How is your dad these days? All things considered, pretty good. He is 66, and just got through fighting lung cancer. It's very likey that it was related to chernobyl, its just as likely due to him being a two pack per day smoker since he was 14... He is a tough sob. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 8:11:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By navvet89: You rock OP, thank you. Did you wear a Sunrise suit? see any bloodsuckers? How's the 100 Rads Bar? "Get out of here STALKER!" |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 8:23:36 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/24/2021 8:23:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By clickclickBOOM: Now this was a post! Thanks! I average 400mrems per month in my job lol. And what exactly do you do? |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 8:28:30 AM EDT
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Really cool. Thanks for sharing
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Posted: 12/24/2021 8:36:59 AM EDT
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OST
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CT, USA
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Posted: 12/24/2021 9:00:22 AM EDT
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Wow what a great post. Thanks for sharing.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 9:13:28 AM EDT
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OP is a cool guy
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Posted: 12/24/2021 9:20:07 AM EDT
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This is a really cool thread. Thanks for all the pics and write ups.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 9:25:15 AM EDT
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Fantastic, thanks so much for posting these.
I really liked the photo's from the plant. Having been in several power stations here in the U.S. over the years it's great to see the control room. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 9:31:46 AM EDT
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Awesome thread, thanks for posting about your trip.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 9:36:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/24/2021 9:39:21 AM EDT
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Thanks for the tour.
Great photos. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 9:45:39 AM EDT
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Great pics and post OP…
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USA
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Posted: 12/24/2021 9:57:10 AM EDT
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Op, thanks for photographing the lesser Sean side of that area! Pretty cool!
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Posted: 12/24/2021 9:58:09 AM EDT
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OP most best OP.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 9:59:41 AM EDT
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Justin, thanks a million, fantastic photos. Again, thanks for posting.
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OR, USA
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Posted: 12/24/2021 10:02:35 AM EDT
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Neat pics. Thanks for sharing. Great thread
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Posted: 12/24/2021 10:04:14 AM EDT
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Little sad I haven't seen anyone make this reference yet:
"50000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town." Awesome thread OP! This just solidifies the fact that I want to go to Chernobyl even more. |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 10:04:47 AM EDT
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Fascinating thread!
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