“Lift everyone!” - dispatchers talks in the first minutes after the Chernobyl explosion

April 26 is the anniversary of the accident at the Chernobol nuclear power plant, the largest man-made disaster in the history of mankind. At 1 hour 23 minutes on April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant during testing of a turbogenerator, which completely destroyed the reactor.

Among the most likely causes of the accident are personnel error or significant structural defects, writes Work.ua. Alternative versions are being promoted - a local earthquake, sabotage, and even forgery of data that were officially made public after the investigation.

28 people, the first liquidators, as they will be called later, died from radiation sickness - an acute lesion of the human body that occurs after large doses of radiation. In general, the list of first victims is a little less than 50 people. Now, according to various Chernobyl-based organizations, 38 thousands of liquidators and victims of the accident die annually.

The network again publishes a record of the first telephone conversations of dispatchers who were on duty on the night of the disaster. They report accidents and call firefighters.

-What is burning there?
— An explosion on the main building between the third and fourth blocks...
-Are there people there?
- Yes! Raise our lineup!

- I’m picking it up! He raised the boss.
- Everyone, everyone, the entire officer corps, raise the officer corps!

— Leonid Alekseevich?
- Yes
- Hello. Pripyat, the third and fourth blocks, the roof is on fire as a result of an accident, an explosion.
- … Let's!

- Has it already been confirmed?
- They haven’t confirmed it. They had an accident. This is what the Pripyat dispatcher said.

- Fire protection.
- Hello. Ivankov?
- Yes Yes.
- So you are leaving for Pripyat... Hello!
- Yes, yes, I hear.
— You are leaving for the nuclear power plant. There are the third and fourth blocks, the roof is on fire.

- Fire protection.
- Hello. Polesie?
- Yes.
- So you are going to the nuclear power plant. There the roof of the third and fourth blocks is on fire.

The elimination of the accident and its consequences, according to the certificate of the Ministry of Finance of the USSR from July 16 1991, in 1986-1990 cost about 12,6 billion Soviet rubles. Scientists have calculated the cumulative damage from the accident for these 4 of the year at the station in 200 billion rubles in prices of 1990 of the year.

If we count at the official dollar exchange rate introduced in November 1990, $7 billion and $111 billion, respectively. For example, the damage from the accident at the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant was estimated at $74 billion. The total damage from the explosion of power unit 4 is estimated at $200 billion.

The new reactor shelter cost 2,15 billion euros. The shelter was supposed to isolate the old sarcophagus and the destroyed reactor hidden in it.

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