Tag: Shelter

The interesting history of Bus Cemetery in Chernobyl. One of the most obscure objects of Chernobyl is a huge bus junk yard. At one time, these vehicles transported Exclusion Zone employees who were involved in decontamination and operation of the She ...

When the rubble was shoveled aside near the destroyed 4th power unit of the Chernobyl NPP, highly active fragments were loaded into special 1-cubic-meter (35-cubic-ft) containers made from a metal grid. Then they were laid at the base of the walls of ...

An arch for Chernobyl. The design life of the Shelter was 30 years. By the first decade of the 21st century, its floor slabs and walls had decayed, rusted, and partially collapsed. Moreover, this construction did not allow for working with nuclear w ...