The rules that they had worked out prior to this accident were as follows. This colossal task was organized; even now it is hard to imagine how. Luckily, as I was later told by the director of the Kola NPP Volkov Aleksander Petrovich, the personnel were properly trained and very cautious. I never witnessed a single case where specialists from the SA [Soviet Army] or a USSR citizen, somehow trying to do their work, or felt like they were forced to do difficult or dangerous work. And then those who drank Iodine, and children, in a large enough amount, they had greater stress on their thyroid gland. They did not violate the formal order in which the scientific leadership was under the Institute of Nuclear Energy. It had high temperatures which meant that we could use it in metallurgy, chemistry and oil refining. The 26th of April, 1986 was a Saturday, a beautiful day and I was thinking of either going to my university department and finishing something for them, or maybe letting things slide and going with my wife, Margarita Mikhailovna, and my friend to rest somewhere, or of going to the party activists meetin. They ran away. But he acted very eagerly and selflessly. During the initial days, all this hadnt been organized and this was shocking. This very thorough preparation for the refueling procedure took around half a year's time. All this taken together was very unpleasant, and at the same time, hardly unique or specific to the nuclear energy industry alone. Viktor Alekseyevich Sidorenko had repeatedly criticised it. He assigned me the post of the First Deputy and I worked for them for many years. The people there were active and interesting; many proposed a lot of unique solutions that triggered discussions. And this could have happened a few years ago. There is a lot of graphite, a lot of zirconium and water. So just in case, the water should be removed and in case the fuel mass would melt its way down into these rooms, we could pump the water back there, to cool the molten fuel masses. And mainly, the chronology of the events themselves was not presented. This is how I mainly knew the KGB. And this was not long before the Chernobyl disaster. Even with long breaks for rest, the operators still had to be at the control panel for 10-12 hours. I tried to establish such things that would bring the institute together, like the Kurchatov General Council, the institutes general seminar, and setting up various publications that would, on order, sit on the desks of researchers so that they could quickly get all the news from their field. This is when Aleksander Petrovich and Vyacheslav Pavlovich Volkov, director of the Kola and then the Zaporozhye nuclear power stations, recently told me about an episode, where a group of his comrades visited the Kola station, and witnessed, in his opinion, a complete disorder in the organisation of the technical process. It can be taken from my older works that we mostly use heat, radiation, today; but actually, it is possible to produce synthetic materials, to alloy, modify, remove impurities in nuclear sources more simply and more economically than is done today in, for example, chemical or metallurgical industry. For this temperature range, lead would be the most suitable element which would additionally act as a shield against radiation. This was dangerous and hard work because they had to go inside the block every time and search for the most suitable spots that would reliably diagnose the condition of reactor number 4. And it was found that the water was indeed there. Then Pikalov came with his services. Shortly before his suicide, Legasov did in fact record himself talking about his role in the Chernobyl liquidation effort and his thoughts about what caused the accident. No careful monitoring of the instrument, no attention to the condition of the equipment between planned preventive maintenance. Legasov: The VVER reactor is a large metal vessel in which the active zone is immersed in water. But unfortunately on that day, a small but very bright crimson spot was discovered inside reactor number 4. [28] Legasov had an article on industrial safety entitled "From Today to Tomorrow" published in Pravda on 5 October 1987 but it received little interest. In fact, this leadership was, to a large extent, nominal in nature. Because people think they are doing a good thing by increasing the reliability of the device. After performing these initial estimates about the reactor activity, other problems began to concern to us. This is the third element. After this, all the specialists would begin work on their assigned tasks; and in the late eveningat least when Scherbina was the chairman, around 10 in the eveninga summary was reported. Also, we didnt know the exact temperatures at various points of the destroyed Chernobyl reactor. So, when it became clear that there is not enough of Soviet energy, then Efim Pavlovich Slavsky, the Minister of Medium Machine Building said, There is a way to help the country. Do you understand? Become a patron and make this project possible : https://www.patreon.com/prepperhubAll audiotapes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPRaak5gqMIgWF6K7oJPJymhMKvB-LJ_C Tape 1 - Part 1: https://youtu.be/rxmEaK_zzcwTape 1 - Part 2: https://youtu.be/FiCN89A0xHUTape 1 - Part 3: Comming Soon! Collaboration and voice over by Aenigmaticus Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGL5nEeM6UW9AkiDd4eTUiw This video has been made possible with he collaboration with Aenigmaticus. Then an initial assumption was made that the source of such high activity was the roof of the 3rd block on which was a lot of scattered fuel. But again, a commission led by comrade Voropaev was created. The level of fuel enrichment had to be changed, every time something Well, altogether, from the moment it was launched, there were constant changes and alterations. This, in my opinion, was a defect in the communication system, firstly. Then the phosphate solutions appeared. As we approach the 25th anniversary of the accident at the Soviet nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, it is appropriate to commemorate the life of the academician, Valery Legasov, who in addition to his indisputable scientific accomplishments, also demonstrated a total independence of spirit and complete sincerity regarding this disastrous accident. Figure out, together with the Energy Commission headed by Anatoly Petrovich, what percentage of energy should be in the form of nuclear energy in a given task. Not only were the decontamination tasks performed incredibly quickly, the construction of the new residential villages, where the evacuees were moved, was also incredibly quick. [28], Some in the scientific community were still displeased by Legasov and his legacy. First of all, it leaked through the side gaps and practically passed by the reactor area that had the fuel; and secondly, its quantity was calculated entirely incorrectly. It was used for such cases when, say, key decisions were taken like whether to make the RBMK 1500, or whether to introduce a heat exchange intensifier to this reactor. Three or four or up to ten tons of TNT, this is the maximum that can be said. And didnt go near that Three Mile Island station for three years. We need to think about some special measures to localize accidents for those 28 devices that dont have containments. Nikolai Ivanovich ERMAKOV, Chief of the 16th, Main Department, informed me about this. At the same time, the group that I had called, led by comrade Schupak Aleksander Fyodorovich from our institute, was researching ways to inject these components into the soil in order to absorb the most mobile radionuclides, Caesium being one of them. Now, with the introduction of all these elements, such as lead, for example, we assessed if there would be lead contamination in the area. They could not get any more than 3-4% of radioactivity that had escaped reactor number 4. This is its distinctive feature, if we're not speaking of complex technical aspects. This is why the firefighters' actions were not only heroic but also very professional, thoughtful and correct. This is how we chose dolomite which was quickly shipped. This was during Silayevs time when he has already arrived. Given that there are 2,400 tons, the burning would have continued for 2,400 hours. I have to start the part where I create my memoir. It was the leadership of Gosplan at the time: comrade Baybakov, comrade Voloyants were involved, and comrade Slavsky was among the ones mainly responsible, and comrade Neporozhny. The fact is that, as you know, the Soviet Union was the founder of nuclear energy. [7] At Tomsk Polytechnic University, he started researching gaseous uranium hexachloride in a gaseous fission reactor. The probability of [another] Chernobyl has now increased. That the accident did not pose any threat to the people in Western Europe and other countries. I said the same to them but how can one get access to Gorbachev for a back-and-forth. The idea of creating such an expert group and doing this work was mine. They started to say that they turned the cooling on, turned this or that on. The fact is that expertsthose working directly at the station, experts from Hydrometeorology servicehad precisely measured the fallout dynamics. Do you understand? Groundwater was only 32 meters deep under the Chernobyl station. [7] He opposed a plan to extend the underground cooling system outside the reactor 4 building, as well as other projects he considered to be redundant. Say from cows who. We broke off pieces of facing from one of the buildings and took them from Pripyat to Chernobyl. Starting from the entrance to the station, its external signage, personnel training. The direct opposite to the work of this group was the work of, for example, the Civil Defence group in the composition in which they operated in the initial days. Having done that, they closed the entire thing and for three years, no one even went near the station. On the 26th in the evening. The work was, as before, done in Chernobyl in the former regional Party Committee building, but the living accommodations were moved approximately 50 kilometres away from Chernobyl. The evacuation itself took place in an exceedingly organized manner. They rushed to their cars to evacuate themselves and, in the process, 17 people died in cars. Valery Alexeyevich Legasov (Russian: ; born September 1, 1936 in Tula, Russia, Soviet Union; died April 27, 1988 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a prominent Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Because his laboratory was a kind of cell that posed questions and formulated them physically; while the answers to these questions were given by specialists, not only from the various departments of the Institute but also from different institutes. I witnessed all this, but it was hard for me to intervene in the process purely professionally while general declarations on this subject were received with hostility. In fairness, I must say that many experts of the Soviet Union spoke, and very actively spoke, against the construction of nuclear power plants without containments. The sarcophagus itself had not yet been begun but the approaches to it had already been concreted. It bore witness to that. The total amount of words for the first tape is around 8000 words, but I might eliminate some of the text. - ", "Scientist who exposed true extent of Chernobyl disaster killed himself a day after second anniversary (As the Deputy Director of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow, Valery Legasov received a distress call on 26 April 1986, asking him to head to Chernobyl. He exposes scary things towards the end.Our Goal:The original tapes are unfortunately not available, but there are original Russian transcripts. That is why we chose SiO2, sand, which would perform the same function, that is, melting, flowing in the same way as dolomite; because magnesium oxide [sic] is a relatively good conductor of heat, the most conductive among all ceramics. All through, I want to tell you, and I dont know if I am succeeding, that it is just about the philosophy of safety. So we started taking various measurements using a specially-designed collimator, which showed that the activity on the roof is not the only source affecting the radiation conditions in the 3rd block. And the RBMK reactor is a single-circuit reactor. That is why the Finnish station was constructed with a cover. And then they paid attention. The first concept, the embanked mound, and why we rejected that. You did not hear what kind of conversations happened with him, [they were] purely operational. To make direct measurements of the reactor, Legasov was driven in an armored personnel carrier to the site which established the reactor had shut down. This is the main thing while the specific details are not so important. Well, so as to not use [TAPE ERASED]. [1] The institute members denied Legasov the position which was perhaps surprising given his seniority and public visibility. We dropped another 80 tonnes of lead; that was the last large drop. Until such time as something was being thrown out of reactor number 4, redundant projects kept appearing, like creating a sort of a skull cap over reactor number 4. Legasov: Correct. They, of course, spent most of their time on-site. And I could not win in these matters because, to the reactor people from the Ministry, I was a chemist, and this allowed them to not listen to my opinions carefully and to treat my suggestions as sort of fantasies. Now once again, solely an engineering approach is used when one device is compared to another. He was afraid of radiation - everyone is afraid of it. I want to stress that out once more: we removed the water just to avoid massive evaporation. Legasov: Check that. However we could not fully eliminate the possibility that such local reactors would appear. And if the operator is killed, falls ill or dies, then all these 211 rods will remain in place. Because the safety of the device in case of some abnormal behaviour For example, a positive reactivity coefficient in this device, should it start to develop, become noticeable, then the operator, and only the operator, could lower the emergency rods. In two hours, as I recall, 45,000 of all the 51,000 residents were evacuated. Since after the release, some of the radioactivity got into the water, the next step to protect, say, the Dnieper sea [sic] and the entire water basin, was the construction of dams that included Celites, that is, substances capable of absorbing radioactive particles and radionuclides should they appear in the water in small or large rivers. I was struck by the time this station put into carrying out a refueling. This wasnt a leader that led us, it was a leader that was just making ends meet, getting money, sending information up to the levels above, sending people to launches or acceptances. I see this as an obvious fact. Footage of Legasov's address does exist -- but perhaps not the whole address. Get started for FREE Continue. [26] Legasov noted that the operators were able to disable the reactor safety systems and stated that improvements to existing RBMK reactors were underway. Even before this commission was created, I had been charged with assessing this project. The ministerial cadres grew up and acquired their own extensive engineering experience. The military divisions were also continuing with the decontamination of the villages that were within the 30-kilometre zone. So, for the Ministry of Medium Machine Building and, in this sense, also for Anatoly Petrovich Aleksandrov, there was an impression that this reactor, if operated properly and with reliability, is very good and normal. Adamovich: [PART OF AN UNINTELLIGIBLE PHRASE] I understand that it is useless to write. That is why they are after me with such terrible force in this aspect. After Rizhkov and Ligachev arrived on the site, as I have already said but I will repeat myself, the original GC left. The first, the most powerful emission was the one that threw millions of curies of radioactivity in the form of noble gases and iodine at high altitude. In his tape recordings, Legasov dictated: "At the station, such unavailability, such disorder, such fright. Slowly, once the most powerful in the country, they began to lose the standard of modern equipment. Because, well, one telegram was just provocative, clearly provocative. The operators made mistakes because they had to complete the experiment which they considered a matter of honour. Yes? An unexpected problem occurred with, for example, specimens lowered into the Finnish station Loviisa. Firstly, it was domestic, which meant that it was not supported by any international experience. Later, the maximum dose was reduced. Since we were late by 10 years in the development of nuclear energy, Adamovich: [CLARIFICATION ON FEINBERG'S LAST NAME]. For the bubbler rooms, the diagnostic elements were inserted through holes drilled into the sidewalls that led to the reactor hall. They gathered at the table and doled out houses and posts to themselves. [7][1] The team began to be concerned with small areas of reactor activity, as well as the integrity of the concrete pad. After this, the ice melted. [7], At Vnukovo airport, Legasov met Boris Shcherbina, the head of the government commission dealing with the accident response. Normally, everything would be stored on a single personal computer, in one or two disks, located next to the operator so that he could at any moment clarify something. Vorobyov Evgeny Ivanovich, the former Deputy Minister of Health, who was later removed, his responsibility was to determine the number of people exposed to radiation, their fate and everything that had to do with people. Whereas our Gosplan made a potent miscalculation, based on an assumption that we have enough fossil fuel that will last for a long time and that we would practically not need nuclear energy. Hello people! "[11], While the initial Soviet investigation put almost all the blame on the operators, later findings by the IAEA found that the reactor design and how the operators were informed of safety information was more significant. And I want this to be underlined. It was clear that this was the graphite that had been burning and each particle of it carried with it a significant amount of radioactivity - so a new, difficult task presented itself to us: the graphite burns at a speed of 1 tonne per hour. In particular, it must be said that not all measures were prudent. For this reason, in VVER reactors, power is limited by the size of the reactor vessel but in RBMK reactors, power is not limited by anything. It simply shocked me. And the bulk of the diagnostic devices were inserted from above, hung on special ropes inside the reactor hall. Then we must describe the accepted scenario of what happened in the reactor with the fuel: the time when it started heating, the time when it stopped heating, the cooling system and so on. So if the temperature reached 2,500 degrees, then it would not be three per cent of radioactivity that gets released but the entire 100 per cent. No edits have been made to the original text, but of course the meaning of some words might be altered from their original language.Why Patreon?Now this translation and the creation of these video costs a lot of time and money. Today, this number can be called a reliably established number so that numbers like in tens of tons or kilotons, etc dont go around. And correlations were found between the contents of individual isotopes, by using relative contents of which we could predict the concentration of, say, Plutonium that was released into the environment. We want to tell you the untold and hidden truth of the Chernobyl disaster. Watch all the Legasov Tapes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPRaak5gqMIgWF6K7oJPJymhMKvB-LJ_C Subscribe \u0026 like \u0026 share these videos to support us. Adamovich: [HARD-TO-HEAR QUESTION ABOUT ALEXANDROV A.P. And the medics sort of supported this. So I started preparing a note in which I described all that was known by that time: how the events had developed, how the destruction of reactor number 4 had happened, what work had already been done, and what work was yet to be performed. He, knowing this, is not in a hurry to create a strong and appropriate alternate organization. Based on their data, we adopted one or another decision. Two years and one day after the disaster, Legasov took his own life, though not before recording a distillation of his side of the story onto five compact cassette tapes. These were based in Chernigov, onder the command of General Antoshkin who was the chief of staff of that Air Force division. All these instances were in our heads as individual episodes. Where did this come from? However, from stories and literature, I also knew that a part of this committee was engaged in intelligence and counterintelligence work. These were the measures decided upon for containment. It hadnt been shut down in time and had drawn in some contaminated air where people continued to work. This was just as worrying. In this reactor, 1,700 tons. But caesium and strontium, these emissions, they did spread to large areas. Now the investigation, additional investigation is underway and, I think, will probably judge the designers of the RBMK reactorat least they should be judged in my opinionwho made at least three grave mistakes in the design of this reactor. And it turned out that it was determined solely by the lead that comes from automobile exhaust pipes from leaded gasoline. We started saving on containments. In the scientific sphere, I chose a fascinating field for myself which I have already mentionedchemical physics related to creating unusual substances, creating systems that would allow obtaining hydrogen in one way or another, linking places where hydrogen is obtained to nuclear energy generation sites. For me it seemed to be important that during this proactive stage the measures to supply people, to create proper living conditions for them, to gather experience for such a large scale work organisation. Anatoly Petrovich had a deputy for nuclear energy earlier, Eugeny Petrovich Ryazantsev. The water overheats; the pressure is 170 atm. But what does this increasing the reliability of the reactor mean? Somehow, irrespective of rank, irrespective of the task at hand, everyone worked like a finely-tuned team, especially in the initial days. We calculated simply. And I reported to him when they arrived with Ligachev. Heres a way to organize work on construction sites: inconsistency in different types of production, say, the production of fuel elements; the machine-building equipment, the unpreparedness of builders to accept this equipment on time; garbage on construction sites; constant, incomprehensible changes in the number of construction staff (by construction I mean at nuclear power plants), at times too many, at others too few. Can you imagine? It went in one ear and out the other. [5] These ideas were quickly quashed by the authorities. For example, when I visited the site after some time, I found out that the sorbents had been simply poured around the storm sewer when it would have been better to make a sort of pallet that could be quickly replaced after the sorbents became saturated with radionuclides. US 605 of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building was completing the construction of the sarcophagus, which was later named Shelter. They must be included. And this part is tragic, confusing and incomprehensible. Numerous other scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Energy and the Ministry of Energy took active part in our discussions. But what did they boil down to? Chernobyl began, in my opinion, conditionally of course, in 1961; that is, in the very year when Gagarin flew into space or at the time of the last highest achievement of Soviet science and technology. And things never came to serious theory, to serious analysis, to serious strategies, which, all in all, was quite alarming. Helicopters dropped over 5 thousand tons of various materials onto the reactor. Further traditional report lasting in general two hours, room of the academic secretary Nikolai Sergeyevich BABAY, but in order to, discuss the main positions of the report during the break. The operator had detected the first crack [defect in metal] despite the fact that it could not be seen with the naked eye. However, his effort was mainly directed towards managing these situations: firstly, by organisational means; secondly, by a system for improving the documentation that must be at stations and with the designer; thirdly, he was quite concerned about creating supervisory bodies that would control the situation. Moreover, the designer to this day If the designers of the RBMK reactor or my colleagues from my own institute heard me now, they would tear me to pieces because they think that I dont understand the philosophy of safety. Because even the best figures today show that, in solar energy, the cost of human labour will be a 100 times more for a unit of power, and the cost of materials a 150 times more, than coal and nuclear power plants. Here is the fate of this forest. It contains the above introduction and the original translation of the text, which I will replace with my revised version when I finish it. The station was under the supervision of our neighboring Ministry of Energy. Oct 8, 2020 - The original Russian transcripts from the recorded tapes of Valery Legasov. And finally, elements such as clay, for example, served as filtering elements meant to prevent part of the radioactive isotopes from getting into the external environment. Academician personally watched this, being on board the turntables. This is my point of view but I dont know how this will turn out. It was a serious problem and it was resolved by the army with great intensity. Thank God that it did not happen here or in a factory but on a railway tanker car transporting phosphorus. I have already spoken about that. But why didnt they understand him? It would be, so to say, outside international standards, outside international regulations. valery legasov cause of death. [I began] to speak about the necessity of the next generation of reactors to be safer; say TTER reactors or liquid salt reactors that I was trying to present as the next steps towards safer reactors. But with Dolgikh, I myself spoke on the telephone many times. The pipe system of roof support would protect the sarcophagus against the possibility of radioactive dust being carried out. He instructed Meshkov to gather a group of specialists, to be called from Moscow if needed, and investigate the cause of the accident. More and more resources were spent on creating facilities that were not directly related to nuclear energy. [7] Legasov developed a plan to extinguish the reactor fire using nitrogen gas pumped throughout the plant's pipe network but the pipes were too badly damaged to be effective. Since Anatoly Pavlovich was himself a reactor man, creator or participant in the creation of many reactors, he needed me not as a reactor scientist, but as someone who, from the outside, could give unusual advice, find unconventional solutions. And at the same time, England first and then the United States of America began to develop their energy sector, not as separate nuclear power plants but as a nuclear power industry. But, naturally, I couldnt considerably change this situation. During thisthis may not be for publishing or maybe it isdo you know what caught my eye? It was not clear what to do in it. But the main criminals are those leaders of energy in the 60s who despite the opinion of experts, and Soviet experts Say, at our institute, there is corresponding member Sidorenko Viktor Alekseyevich; he is now the Deputy Chairman of Gosatomenergonadzor. However, Sidorenko and I stayed behind to finish the decontamination work while Sidorenko continued to investigate the role of Gosatomenergonadzor (USSR State Committee on Supervision of Safe Conduct of Work in Atomic Energy) in what had happened and what was going on now. So as to not limit the plans to introduce new nuclear power capacities and considering the overload of the machine building industry, create a parallel branch in nuclear energy that would allow building sufficiently powerful reactors without using the shell concept, without burdening the machine building industry with the complex technology for manufacturing highly reliable reactor shells that are required for VVER reactors. [7] Legasov received many telegrams from around the world containing advice ranging from benevolent to provocative. This wasn't rejected, but as far as I know, even now no such information group has been created. I saw this; it bothered me. In this time, there would be an emission of radioactivity in aerosol form over large distances. Many young people arrived. All these issues were gradually solved during the design phase and were refined during the construction of the sarcophagus of reactor number 4. And then to catch up, quickly, this option was proposed. This internal contamination had happened because of the ventilation intake. So we organized a supply of these materials from our Armenian and Transcarpathian deposits and shipped them in by trains. This is underwear that we were dreaming of. There was zero information; well, it only confirmed what had been obtained by other simpler and more reliable methods. Bryukhanov was accused of mismanagement and that operator error was the primary cause of the accident, while design flaws were also a factor. The medics did not sign the protocol. Svetliy brought a case with samples of various materials that had been melted using a laser or as a molten mass. It was necessary to accommodate the army divisions as well as the various construction organizations that had arrived to help solve this situation. Whenever we came to some reasonable scientific decisions, the leadership of the Government Commission was able to, with the help of the Operative Group or one of its members, instantly obtain all the necessary materials that we needed in order to implement it in a fantastically short time, literally within days, and sometimes hours. This, altogether, is a serious question about how to, and to what extent, cover such large, very unpleasant and difficult events that affect and alarm almost the entire population of the country, and not merely our country. 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