Ignalina NPP had 2 RBMK-1500 reactors and both were capable of producing 1500 MW of electrical energy each. And following the Chernobyl disaster, they were de-rated to 1360 MW and were still producing 2720 MW total by 2001, which was fascinating, as even today this would be a powerful decent nuclear power plant. The Soviet Union had the most powerful reactors during the 80s and only Japan developed their nuclear energy industry even further as some of their reactors are even more powerful than Soviet ones. But the Ignalina NPP was a truly powerful generating facility and after various reactor safety adjustments introduced after 1986, it could be run even longer. In short, this was an impressive nuclear plant.
EU is over stepping out of their bounds here. Possibly putting Lithuania in debt. A Wise move is to replace RBMK Reactors with just as powerful safer light water-water Reactors before these RBMKs shut down.
I've the last few days been watching documentaries about Chernobyl. One, a BBC documentary, outlines the conversations among those directly in charge of the plant. The main investigator of the accident, in a conversation with another gentleman whose name I haven't caught, reference Ignalina where apparently an incident occurred similar to what happened at Chernobyl--that the rods were not in fact dropped back in, only the tips. I'm still searching about what happened at Ignalina. Just how much was known along the way, known and kept under wraps.
@@mole62ssf The bbc one was the only one actually shot there. unit 3s control room was used as fours Adrian edmondson refused an award for playing the part and that was never announced in the media daniel sandford was there at same time as me doing a 25 year ago special wich says when i was there.
@@rumbler900 Which documentary? The ones from the BBC look like the switchyard control room, absolutely not the units control room. The exterior on those documentarys from the BBC arent RBMK exteriors.
@@mole62ssf it is only partially right though. At Ignalina there was once an incident (unfortunately I can't recall how it particularly was caused) where they had to press AZ-5 (the emergency shut down) like they did at Chernobyl right before the reactor blew up. As at Chernobyl they were detecting a rise in power right after pressing AZ-5 before the reactor shut down. Luckily at Ignalina the control rods could be inserted because the reaction was not as overcritical as it was in the Chernobyl accident when the rods were inserted. At Chernobyl the peak of power caused the rods to get stuck so they could not break the reaction anymore, indeed increasing its power even more so, that it eventually blew up.
It wasnt about rbmk that one was reingineried to be safe ,it was about competition to europeans super atomic power energy France , u cant sell energy for kwh 7 cnts in EU , France wants to sell for kwh 0.70 cnts , thats an issue.you cannot imagine how much cash was stolen of EU donations to shut that nuclear power plant just nobody talks about it.
This power plant was safe! But a incident happened (which later caused the Chernobyl accident), so they actually even knew before the Ignalina incident and Chernobyl accident happened.
You don't know what the fuck you're talkin about the rbmk reactor is a bad design to begin with having graphite on the ends of the control rods plain and simple but the rods in you got a reaction graphite is a moderator increases reaction...
@@trentvo2736 "don't know what the fuck you are talking about" These problems got fixed later, a chance of Chernobyl happening again with a RBMK is practical nihil, those problems were wiped out by the fixes, do more research matey.
@@vervluukt the Ignalina discovery was silenced by KGB. Because Lithuania was then part of a country that has an obsession against being humiliated. Lithuania should have followed Britain in exiting the EU. And if EU was Wise, one improved RBMK be left to operate, until newer, safer and as powerful Western designed Light Water Reactors take over energy and employment needs of the Ignalina area.
@@h.cedric8157 I worked for Atlantic nuclear services at SONGS, working with Bechtel and Westinghouse on the first attempt to resleeve steam generators in unit one, unit one went critical in 1968, & operation until 1980 when it was temporarily off line for approx 1yr for the resleeving project. And went critical for approx 8 years until it was decommissioned. So research was not necessary, but the Russians are cheap and the rbmk reactor is the cheapest way to make a lot of energy, in a unsafe manner, that's why we do not use them for power we use BWR, & PWR for power, graphite moderated reactors like the rbmk is strictly used for enrichment purposes have a nice day knucklehead
Visited Ignalina in 2024, all equipment in turbine hall was already cut into pieces. I was one of last people let to enter reactor hall, before begining of final dissmantling operation of RBMK1500.
EU is similar to USSR, just in fact the colour is different the rest is much the same, once the country joins it loses the power just like the RBMK days before catastrophy in '86
They are not RBMK reactors , they have Advanced Gas Cooled reactors (AGR's) that have a graphite moderated core, and are still in use today. I think theyre at Heysham and Hunterston to name a couple.....
Thank christ for that although i think a graphite moderator is a bad idea anyway. Especially with boron or graphite tips on the control rods. It caused an incedent at ignalena and again at chernobyl. Visited the latter in 2010 with a party of 13 planning a revisit now the new containment is in place !! i want my close ups!!. Thanks for the info on the 2 you named for me. I shall set about poking my pc`s nose where it dont belong... again lol
Ignalina never had an accident, these monster units had a superb safety record. Of course the dictatorial EU had to force it's closure when Lithuania joined the club. nothing to do with safety in my opinion, purely political which forced the country to buy it's electricity from elsewhere.
I don't understand why they don't let the plants run there course. They are already there. Use them for the lifetime they were built for. Then dismantle them.
The trouble is that the RMBK could not be upgraded to meet Western safety standards the Soviet PWR types could be with significant upgrades to containment, controls and safety systems.
A lot dishonesty in this video, they had an uncontrolled power excursion prior to Chernobyl and despite all the post Chernobyl fixes the inherent design flaws (quite simply the numbers of steam pipe welds due to the Soviets lack of technology and skilled workers to do the larger welds) leads to leakages of radioactive steam that exposes its workers to radiation outside those acceptable in the West and of course the fundamental issue of their being no containment around the reactor.
@@vervluukt Yeah and then there would be another Chernobyl type of disaster. Ignalina is a sister power plant to Chernobyl. It actually had a mini accident even before Chernobyl had one. There's no way this power plant was safe.
@@esclove3707 The RBMK-1500 was safer than the RBMK-1000. Yes, i know the mini event at Ignalina, it had a small power surge when starting up reactor 1. They noticed this at the Leningtad NPP in 1975, and it happened in Ignalina aswell. And that was one of the contributors to the Chernobyl disaster. And, Ignalina isnt a sister plant, it uses a different RBMK, therefore, it does not classify as sister. If you want to see the sister of Chernobyl NPP, go to Kursk NPP.
Such pitty, politicians did not believe to technicians, nuclear engineers, scientists. They suffered radiophobia, nuclear reactor fear, Atomic energy derangement syndrome And post - Chernobyl histeria! Thanks Beto God, my homeland Is pro - nuclear. I live in Czech republic. I am sad, Ignalina NPP was closed! 😔😭😔
RBMK-1000 and maybe all RBMK reactors have the same dangerous design graphite on the end of the control rods, far as I know all of the bwr reactors in the United States use cadmium rods or blades for the control feature of the reactor, and they drop by gravity instantly when the button is pushed to scram the reactor...
Almost all of the RBMK still in operation have replaced their graphite tip control rods with a better and safer design. It is also further improved and upgraded with more emergency safety devices. Only three I think still remain with the tips made of graphite. But I don't know if currently the remaining are now being dismantled or further improved.
@@jannadrielcervo7753 sometime you just can't improve a poorly designed system, plants using graphite as a moderator are inherently unsafe that's why they were never used in the US except for enrichment purposes, maybe you should tear out some engineering books and do a little more research before making claims, poorly designed reactors should be done away with, decommissioned put small bags and plastic barrels and buried and a safe location where will not affect the people or the water table...
@@vervluukt the entire rbmk design is faulty it is a cheap fast way of making power that is inherently unsafe the design the graphite used as a moderator, bwr and pwr are much safer, and have very good safety procedures in place as long as the operators follow them...
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Ignalina NPP had 2 RBMK-1500 reactors and both were capable of producing 1500 MW of electrical energy each. And following the Chernobyl disaster, they were de-rated to 1360 MW and were still producing 2720 MW total by 2001, which was fascinating, as even today this would be a powerful decent nuclear power plant. The Soviet Union had the most powerful reactors during the 80s and only Japan developed their nuclear energy industry even further as some of their reactors are even more powerful than Soviet ones. But the Ignalina NPP was a truly powerful generating facility and after various reactor safety adjustments introduced after 1986, it could be run even longer. In short, this was an impressive nuclear plant.
I want a RBMK2400 in my garden :)
Haha... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Me to
Can I get a job there ?
well dude we dont want you in the toilet for to o long but yeah sure
EU is over stepping out of their bounds here. Possibly putting Lithuania in debt.
A Wise move is to replace RBMK Reactors with just as powerful safer light water-water Reactors before these RBMKs shut down.
@Artūrs Šilaks You mean VVER, MKER is a development of rbmk which fell out of favor after well you know.
@Artūrs Šilaks VVer is good disain.
but ist it politcali good disain?
The main problem with RBMKs was inconsistent build quality. Chernobyl had many known design faults identified by the KGB.
I've the last few days been watching documentaries about Chernobyl. One, a BBC documentary, outlines the conversations among those directly in charge of the plant. The main investigator of the accident, in a conversation with another gentleman whose name I haven't caught, reference Ignalina where apparently an incident occurred similar to what happened at Chernobyl--that the rods were not in fact dropped back in, only the tips. I'm still searching about what happened at Ignalina. Just how much was known along the way, known and kept under wraps.
The heads of the power plant ignored these warnings and put safety second while money came first.
@@mole62ssf The bbc one was the only one actually shot there. unit 3s control room was used as fours Adrian edmondson refused an award for playing the part and that was never announced in the media daniel sandford was there at same time as me doing a 25 year ago special wich says when i was there.
@@rumbler900 Which documentary? The ones from the BBC look like the switchyard control room, absolutely not the units control room. The exterior on those documentarys from the BBC arent RBMK exteriors.
@@mole62ssf it is only partially right though. At Ignalina there was once an incident (unfortunately I can't recall how it particularly was caused) where they had to press AZ-5 (the emergency shut down) like they did at Chernobyl right before the reactor blew up. As at Chernobyl they were detecting a rise in power right after pressing AZ-5 before the reactor shut down. Luckily at Ignalina the control rods could be inserted because the reaction was not as overcritical as it was in the Chernobyl accident when the rods were inserted. At Chernobyl the peak of power caused the rods to get stuck so they could not break the reaction anymore, indeed increasing its power even more so, that it eventually blew up.
It wasnt about rbmk that one was reingineried to be safe ,it was about competition to europeans super atomic power energy France , u cant sell energy for kwh 7 cnts in EU , France wants to sell for kwh 0.70 cnts , thats an issue.you cannot imagine how much cash was stolen of EU donations to shut that nuclear power plant just nobody talks about it.
This power plant was safe! But a incident happened (which later caused the Chernobyl accident), so they actually even knew before the Ignalina incident and Chernobyl accident happened.
You don't know what the fuck you're talkin about the rbmk reactor is a bad design to begin with having graphite on the ends of the control rods plain and simple but the rods in you got a reaction graphite is a moderator increases reaction...
@@trentvo2736 "don't know what the fuck you are talking about" These problems got fixed later, a chance of Chernobyl happening again with a RBMK is practical nihil, those problems were wiped out by the fixes, do more research matey.
@@vervluukt the Ignalina discovery was silenced by KGB. Because Lithuania was then part of a country that has an obsession against being humiliated.
Lithuania should have followed Britain in exiting the EU.
And if EU was Wise, one improved RBMK be left to operate, until newer, safer and as powerful Western designed Light Water Reactors take over energy and employment needs of the Ignalina area.
@@h.cedric8157 I agree.
@@h.cedric8157 I worked for Atlantic nuclear services at SONGS, working with Bechtel and Westinghouse on the first attempt to resleeve steam generators in unit one, unit one went critical in 1968, & operation until 1980 when it was temporarily off line for approx 1yr for the resleeving project. And went critical for approx 8 years until it was decommissioned. So research was not necessary, but the Russians are cheap and the rbmk reactor is the cheapest way to make a lot of energy, in a unsafe manner, that's why we do not use them for power we use BWR, & PWR for power, graphite moderated reactors like the rbmk is strictly used for enrichment purposes have a nice day knucklehead
Visited Ignalina in 2024, all equipment in turbine hall was already cut into pieces. I was one of last people let to enter reactor hall, before begining of final dissmantling operation of RBMK1500.
EU is similar to USSR, just in fact the colour is different the rest is much the same, once the country joins it loses the power just like the RBMK days before catastrophy in '86
Lol u dont know a thing
I dont knew we had gulags
Not great, not terrible.
Находясь бы на территории БССР ,работала и модернизировалась до сих пор !!!!!
Did i just hear right ? rbmk graphite reactors are still in use in uk shit they kept that quiet anyone know where ie wich plants
They are not RBMK reactors , they have Advanced Gas Cooled reactors (AGR's) that have a graphite moderated core, and are still in use today. I think theyre at Heysham and Hunterston to name a couple.....
Thank christ for that although i think a graphite moderator is a bad idea anyway. Especially with boron or graphite tips on the control rods. It caused an incedent at ignalena and again at chernobyl. Visited the latter in 2010 with a party of 13 planning a revisit now the new containment is in place !! i want my close ups!!. Thanks for the info on the 2 you named for me. I shall set about poking my pc`s nose where it dont belong... again lol
Just looked at heysham god that is one ugly building jeez pripyat looked better than that.
oops
www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/11/nuclear-reactors-offline-fault-power-plants
Ignalina never had an accident, these monster units had a superb safety record. Of course the dictatorial EU had to force it's closure when Lithuania joined the club. nothing to do with safety in my opinion, purely political which forced the country to buy it's electricity from elsewhere.
I live in vilnius and i dont want to abandon me city
RBMK 1000 IS DANGEROUS DESIGN
Ignalina NPP nuclear reactors were of the type RBMK-1500 and not RBMK-1000
I don't understand why they don't let the plants run there course. They are already there. Use them for the lifetime they were built for. Then dismantle them.
Because ting goes boom and then u dead
@@unitforce7417 not with upgraded rbmk’s
Agreed, it was a solid plant. Different from Chernoybl
The trouble is that the RMBK could not be upgraded to meet Western safety standards the Soviet PWR types could be with significant upgrades to containment, controls and safety systems.
2:29 Subtitles tho...
ill go to disney shows. they took these children😂😂😂
😂😂😂
A lot dishonesty in this video, they had an uncontrolled power excursion prior to Chernobyl and despite all the post Chernobyl fixes the inherent design flaws (quite simply the numbers of steam pipe welds due to the Soviets lack of technology and skilled workers to do the larger welds) leads to leakages of radioactive steam that exposes its workers to radiation outside those acceptable in the West and of course the fundamental issue of their being no containment around the reactor.
Looks powerfull tho. Sad but not in use actually a good thing after the Chernobyl but still it have helped Lithuania a lot.
Should've kept running for about 16 years more in my opinion, this power plant was pretty safe and Lithuania would have more electricity.
@@vervluukt yea and meanwhile now in russia and some other places in the world you can find this chernobyl type of power plants soo
@@probasketspec5025 The operational ones are all in Russia, Leningrad 1 (The first RBMK ever built) was shutdown december last year.
@@vervluukt Yeah and then there would be another Chernobyl type of disaster. Ignalina is a sister power plant to Chernobyl. It actually had a mini accident even before Chernobyl had one. There's no way this power plant was safe.
@@esclove3707 The RBMK-1500 was safer than the RBMK-1000. Yes, i know the mini event at Ignalina, it had a small power surge when starting up reactor 1. They noticed this at the Leningtad NPP in 1975, and it happened in Ignalina aswell. And that was one of the contributors to the Chernobyl disaster. And, Ignalina isnt a sister plant, it uses a different RBMK, therefore, it does not classify as sister. If you want to see the sister of Chernobyl NPP, go to Kursk NPP.
Graphite moderated reactors are safe.
Such pitty, politicians did not believe to technicians, nuclear engineers, scientists. They suffered radiophobia, nuclear reactor fear, Atomic energy derangement syndrome And post - Chernobyl histeria! Thanks Beto God, my homeland Is pro - nuclear. I live in Czech republic. I am sad, Ignalina NPP was closed! 😔😭😔
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Good Project Guys
I hate the project it looks like chernobyl nuclear plant and i live in lithuania
If you don't know how to make it by yourself , just go to inplix website.
Chernobyl North
I live here lol
i used to live there
Same
fricking UE
RBMK-1000 and maybe all RBMK reactors have the same dangerous design graphite on the end of the control rods, far as I know all of the bwr reactors in the United States use cadmium rods or blades for the control feature of the reactor, and they drop by gravity instantly when the button is pushed to scram the reactor...
Those problems aren't there anymore.
Almost all of the RBMK still in operation have replaced their graphite tip control rods with a better and safer design. It is also further improved and upgraded with more emergency safety devices. Only three I think still remain with the tips made of graphite. But I don't know if currently the remaining are now being dismantled or further improved.
@@jannadrielcervo7753 The remaining are getting further improved.
@@jannadrielcervo7753 sometime you just can't improve a poorly designed system, plants using graphite as a moderator are inherently unsafe that's why they were never used in the US except for enrichment purposes, maybe you should tear out some engineering books and do a little more research before making claims, poorly designed reactors should be done away with, decommissioned put small bags and plastic barrels and buried and a safe location where will not affect the people or the water table...
@@vervluukt the entire rbmk design is faulty it is a cheap fast way of making power that is inherently unsafe the design the graphite used as a moderator, bwr and pwr are much safer, and have very good safety procedures in place as long as the operators follow them...
This powerplant was like chernobil but 5 times more powerful ;) at the end they only used 30% power. ;:
1.5 time
muslim ottomans.... lmfao