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5435546 No.5435546 [Reply] [Original]

Since /g/ doesn't have enough knowledge I'll post the question here:

Why does the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have a chimney (pic related)? It's not a Soviet style cooling tower, those are located in the background.

Any ideas?

>> No.5435552

oversized heater for those cold Soviet winters?

>> No.5435555

In case of an emergencyventing from the safety vessel, the chimney is to spread the radioactivity over a large area (wind) instead of a small area.

>> No.5435556

>The gas circuit is composed of a compressor, aerosol and iodine filters, adsorber for carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and ammonia, a holding tank for allowing the gaseous radioactive products to decay before being discharged, an aerosol filter to remove solid decay products, and a ventilator stack, the iconic chimney above the plant building.

>> No.5435557

>>5435556

OP here, thanks for the clear answer Anon.
I had no idea that it was part of normal operation to vent radioactive gases into the atmosphere.

>> No.5436014

>>5435557
its xenon brah, happens at every nuclear power plant. very very tiny amounts of it are released, and it essentially to nothing within a few days

>> No.5436037

>>5436014
You accidentally the p in raspberry.

>> No.5436134

>>5436014
if it are such tiny and harmless amounts, then why is the chimney so high?

>> No.5436248

>>5436134

in soviet russia, government does what is necessary to protect its citizens

>> No.5436252

>>5436248
Except Chernobyl isn't in Russia.

>> No.5436286

>>5436252

It's in Ukraine and Ukraine is a dirty shithole that is effectively still Soviet Russia.

>> No.5436318

>>5435555
ironic how it kind of actualy succeded

>> No.5436319

>>5436286
Why so mad? Of the former soviet states, only Russia is the real shithole run by a dictator and filled with people who have no respect for human life and dignity.

>> No.5436401

>>5436319
Ever heard of Belarus?

>> No.5436420

>>5436401
damning russia with faint praise

>> No.5436590

its for santa

>> No.5436735

>>5436134
consequence of other factors of the design i suppose. Xenon is a noble gas, as in very heavy, as in sinks to the ground anyway.

>>5436037
better?

>> No.5438088

>>5436590
you're all fucking newfags
it's totally this

>> No.5438109

>>5436252
Ukraine was part of the former Soviet Union as far I know, an "Independent Soviet Republic"

>> No.5438113

>>5436318

not that its presence saved that many lives... or did it?