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This is my collection of rare photos I have salvaged from around the web of the Chernobyl reactor core and the immediate accident area.

Here's the long story on where these came from:
I assembled this gallery in 2004-05 after I found myself coming across some amazing pictures on Chernobyl. Everywhere you looked had ominous photos of Pripyat and the exclusion zone. But myself, I was interested in seeing right into the heart of the beast, to see what happened to the fuel, and to see the devastation at the centre of ground zero.

I spent many hours and days searching. I used russian search engines, american search engines, russian spellings, misspellings, and even searched for abbreviations and russian nuclear jargon in order that I could dig up old reports. One report contained the black & white photos you see here with the numbers on them, and has since gone offline a long time ago. I'm glad I grabbed them when I did.

While there may be many more pics on the internet that have been dug up since I did my initial searches in 2004, I like this collection, and will strive to keep it online for perpetuity.

Some of the comments are more fascinating than the photos. Engineers, clean-up workers, environmentalists, students, and people of all sorts have visited, debated nuclear energy, helped with translations, and provided first-hand insight I never thought I'd see. Thank you! And please let me know what you think of the Chernobyl/Chornobyl accident, the Japan meltdowns of 2011 and/or nuclear energy in general.

Date: 02/07/04
Owner: Kerry
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Also under the reactor in the water pond, loosely translated from russian: 1 fuel lava, 2- parosbrosnye pipes with a diameter of 420 mm, 3 - concrete poured in 1986, 4 - a metal tube, limiting the flow of the fuel lava.

Date: 13/07/04
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Comments: 6
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Also in/near the water pond beneath the reactor, loosely translated from russian: 1 - fuel lava, 2 - concrete poured in 1986, 3 - the parosbrosnye pipes with a diameter of 280 mm.

Date: 13/07/04
Views: 183597
Comments: 66
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Underneath the reactor, loosely translated from russian: 1 - Fuel lava, 2 - poured concrete in 1986, 3 - the enclosure of passage to otm. 3.00 m, 4 - door into pom. 214/2, 5 - cable of koroba.(Of ris.ya.e.y.).

Date: 13/07/04
Views: 180166
Comments: 23
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In a water pond beneath the reactor, loosely translated from russian: 1 - pumice-covered fuel lava, 2 - concrete added in 1986, 3 - parosbrosnye pipes, 4 - steam take-off tubes.

Date: 13/07/04
Views: 183436
Comments: 12
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65813_cropped

Colour photo of more fuel slag. TCM is a russian acronym meaning "Fuel Containing Mass (FCM)" in english.

Date: 28/07/04
Views: 499913
Comments: 22
image003

image003

Molten reactor fuel, aka "corium", represents a mixture of mostly uranium dioxide (fuel) and various metals incorporated from containment apparatus. Photo from the

Date: 28/07/04
Views: 375372
Comments: 15
image1

image1

Control room for reactor 4 as of May 2001. Copyright © 2003 Robert Polidori

Date: 28/07/04
Views: 259004
Comments: 67
fruin10m

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Construction of the sarcophagus over reactor #4 at Chernobyl.

Date: 02/07/04
Views: 221198
Comments: 41
constr_works

constr_works

"Shelter object construction in difficult radiation hazardous conditions has been executed due to arduous, self-sacrificing work of hundreds thousand people, representatives of the different professions: designers, miners, builders, assemblers, scien

Date: 29/04/05
Views: 325711
Comments: 23
chernowreck2

chernowreck2

Reasonable diagram of what reactor #4 at Chernobyl probably looks like.

Date: 09/06/04
Views: 311187
Comments: 43
UK_CH_104

UK_CH_104

Russian diagram of the 4th-block Chernobyl reactor. There's concern the lid might collapse, spewing up radioactive contaminants.

Date: 27/08/04
Views: 322092
Comments: 31
sar

sar

So-so movie from within the sarcophagus. Can't see much detail but interesting nonetheless.)

Date: 31/07/04
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