As a result, a basis emerged that could be discussed widely, critiqued and supplemented. There was no exact, predetermined plan of action - our Government Commission had to improvise. And this part is tragic, confusing and incomprehensible. But she still, Having collected all the necessary technical documents and f, KALUGIN having received some idea about the structure of the station, about, possible troubles that might be there, I jumped to my house. There were not enough of these devices for everyone who were involved in the work. there was no one to rely on, that is, the highest party authority. However, on the other hand, it was plain to see how he crumpled that package of money, not like a prize. For several months, the extent of the emissions from reactor number 4 was debated, even in the science community. But nevertheless, judging by this basic overview they also had concluded that around half of fuel was inside the reactor and another half had escaped. This is impossible. Altogether this was like a victory speech. But I get only 180 and for me, a bonus of 100 roubles is important. This would perform the same task as the lead in places where it was possible to stabilise the temperature by spending excessive energy on the decay of dolomite components. Adamovich: Sorry, but the first commission, they must have then called. Because waiting for it to arrive would mean that we would have to stabilize the temperature on a much higher level when we wanted to do that on a lower level. Valery Alekseyevich Legasov ( Russian: ; 1 September 1936 - 27 April 1988) was a Soviet and Russian inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Boris Eudokimovich [Scherbina] remained the leader of the Government commission, but a decision was made that all further work on the site would be performed by a second group. For that concrete supply had to be organized. It is difficult to overestimate the work of the supply group, which was organised by the chairman of the of the Gossnab of Ukraineworking on behalf of Vitaliy Andreyevich Solov, the chairman of Gosplan of Ukrainewho, sitting in Kiev, worked miracles to ensure that all the work was carried out in Chernobyl with all the needed materials even though the amount needed was, of course, ridiculous. The most active advocate of nuclear energy safety in our country was Viktor Alekseyevich Sidorenko. The diagnostic wells worked continuously and measured the radioactivity of the groundwater, and if required, the service wells could be turned on to pump out the contaminated water. The original deadline for this construction was at the end of September, but various issues that naturally come up prevented this work from being completed in time. I cost the government around 25 million roubles in these failed projects. This I did with quite a lot of enthusiasm. In the tapes,. Yes, he wasnt. He instructed Meshkov to gather a group of specialists, to be called from Moscow if needed, and investigate the cause of the accident. The Operative group had to take many decisions about accepting or rejecting help from abroad, that was proposed at some time. Early in the morning, Boris Eudokimovich Scherbina would gather the members of the GC. Then I was called to the Politburo meeting on the 5th of May. [7] Nikolay Antoshkin, an air force general involved in the liquidation remembers: "I met Valery Alekseevich as soon as he arrived. But at the time it was understandable that they were preventative just in case some mass got through by accident. Legasov: Yes, two or three times we went by these suits. At least not at the age that I currently am, just into my fifties. He was appointed by the Soviet Government to investigate the Chernobyl disaster less than 24 hours after it occurred. He got them all from the metallurgical factories of Ukraine or somewhere else, and all of these materials were delivered. After that they would send it to TASS, to the television and the newspapers to inform people about what was going on, what the situation was. He exposes scary things towards the end.Our Goal:The original tapes are unfortunately not available, but there are original Russian transcripts. When someone crossed out something, the operator could interpret it as right or wrong and could perform arbitrary actions. Because they are competent specialists, sensible people; they can make calculations and have other skills. We, as experts, were saying that. The permission for evacuation is issued by the Ministry of Health of USSR; not the Council of Ministers or the Central Committee of the CPSU but the Ministry of Health. Luckily, Kokoshin had enough wisdom, or not enough time, to not write that article. Bryukhanov was accused of mismanagement and that operator error was the primary cause of the accident, while design flaws were also a factor. Groundwater was only 32 meters deep under the Chernobyl station. But sadly, no proper scientific analysis of the actual situation took place to analyze all the possible problems and find ways to avoid them. That is, we considered it not as a competitor to nuclear energy but as an addition to it. And eventually, Major Antoshkin reported to us in the Government Commissions evening meeting that on that day, they had dropped 1100 tonnes of materials. But then it turned out that the sidewalls of the reactor were wrecked. It was calm on the outside, and we wanted to solemnly celebrate our Victory Day late in the evening on the 9th. Second, at the high temperatures that we had measured at some points, the process would get reversed. Accordingly, the Minister was called immediately, and all the listed experts who had to depart were summoned. 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. It could have been hot graphite blocks that had remained in place - seeing as graphite burns evenly, generating whitish burning products as an ordinary chemical reaction. One must understand which processes are happening with the radioactive elements, how they differ from other processes, what can be introduced and what that will lead to. And I even saw a team of young people, led by Fyodor Alekseevich Scherbakov, working. April 26 19 Valery Legasov dictated a tape recorder in. But it was resolved in a very odd manner. He, in my opinion, organised the work perfectly. Legasov: No, that is just a mistake. It was necessary to simultaneously organize a number of tasks that were of completely different types. Physicists make up the majority. All this receded into the background in front of the will to tackle the situation as quickly as possible. [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. Eventually all came to the following number: between 3% to 4% of the fuel was thrown out of reactor number 4 reactor. Powerful vacuum cleaners were used before the concreting; they cleaned up a lot of contaminated dust. Of course there was a concern that if temperatures in the core were significantly higher than our estimates, say 1600-1700C, the lead would just evaporate and be carried out of the reactor, causing additional contamination of the surrounding areas and rendering this measure ineffective. Of course, we continuously gathered air samples on filters to measure the amounts and the dynamics of the radioactivity that was being exhaust. Do you understand? But to make it the primary method of work based on that, it was absolutely obvious that this was impossible. You would start moving along this corridor and suddenly run into a wall. This by no means was an easy operation. So he was in shock. All this left an impression of a sort of eclectic imagenot coherent, not complex. And the pinnacle of these achievements was Gagarins flight into space. Legasov: So, on that day and the following days, there was regular communication with Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov and Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh. This is how the idea of channel type RBMK reactor with graphite blocks, etc came about. As forty first year, but still in the worst variant. And yet, because 10 years had been lost and because the international philosophy that every device had to be inside a containment was not necessarily adopted, these devices were introduced into the national infrastructure. Dollezhal Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering (NIKIET) led by comrade Egorov supplied us with most precise data on isotope composition and on the spread of radioactivity. Between 25 and 75 rem is a matter for the local authorities. At the same time, another group of researchers was occupied with another task, specifically, studying the migration of radionuclides inside the 30-kilometre zone and around it. The system for warning the Ministry of Energy about an accident was adopted beforehand, long before the accident. And once containment became optional, temptation arose to build another [reactor] line that would help the country without overloading the machine building industry. And nuclear equipment has become just one in a range of manufactured items. I was certainly irritated by the situation that had developed between the Ministry and the science leadership. The miners are working heroically there but there is no information about the level of radioactivity they work in; what is happening in the Brest region nearby, who is measuring it, and how. That is why the calculations had to be very precise accounting for all the measures that were taken. For example, the fact that I learnt that Ramsomson, an American, had analyzed the safety of nuclear power plants. On the contrary, I myself went to the dangerous areas of the 4th reactor building several times, to clarify reconnaissance data or to estimate the amount of work remaining for certain operations, and always had to take soldiers with me for help. He fought for it. Do you understand? So this was the team: Neporozhny, Slavsky, Voloyants, Baybakov. And I saw the face of that man who, on the one hand, was very proud that he had managed to do this difficult task in such difficult conditions. The station personnel was also surprising in a way. 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