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According to considerations that had already emerged before the commissioning of Block 3 and 4, began in 1981, southeast of the main plant with the construction and assembly work for Block 5 (1) and 1983 with Block 6 (third row) of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. These two blocks should each have a capacity of 1000 MW.
These two blocks should be block 3 and block 4 very similar or identical.
The plant was scheduled to be commissioned in November or December 1986.
After the accident, the construction work was stopped immediately, the 268 construction workers left the site and were on leave until further notice.
There were already several serious mishaps in the construction phase:
• Gravel with incorrect grain was used causing voids and
300 square meters of concrete had to be removed again.
• Due to incorrect calculations, a 49-tonne roof panel came off the anchorage and fell down.
Already in 1986, the funds for the construction of blocks 5 and 6 were assigned to another nuclear power plant to avoid a collapse of the power grid.
The construction site was later "frozen" and then preserved for "better times" to later continue the construction. Of course, it never came to that, the blocks were never completed and later disassembled and only the covers stopped.
After the final freeze in 1988, the personnel were assigned to the nuclear power plant in Khmelnytsky.
Block 5 (1) was already almost finished and almost completely furnished.
The red color on Block 5 comes from metal plates used to seal all openings in the building during the Preservation Phase (1988).
Thus, the white concrete walls and everything that is red are steel plates.
From Block 6, at the time of the accident in Reactor 4, only the foundations (3) of the nacelle and the reactor hall stood.
Right next to the machine hall (2) for reactor 5 and the reactor building itself is the pit for the machine hall (3) of reactor 6. Meanwhile, it is flooded and the huge, rusted construction cranes tower like skeletons in the sky.
Right next to it, the 70m high reactor building of Block 5 (1) towers above everything else.
For the first (block 1 and 2) and second (block 3 and 4) series, the cooling water has been taken from an artificially created lake. For blocks 3 and 4 the lake was enlarged again.
Since the lake was already 22 km ² in size and had extended to the northern city limits of Chernobyl, it could not be increased.
Another solution for cooling the third row was needed.
The only possibility was to build cooling towers.
So they began to build 2 cooling towers (4), which should ensure that the cooling water of the two blocks could be properly cooled.
These two blocks should be block 3 and block 4 very similar or identical.
The plant was scheduled to be commissioned in November or December 1986.
After the accident, the construction work was stopped immediately, the 268 construction workers left the site and were on leave until further notice.
There were already several serious mishaps in the construction phase:
• Gravel with incorrect grain was used causing voids and
300 square meters of concrete had to be removed again.
• Due to incorrect calculations, a 49-tonne roof panel came off the anchorage and fell down.
Already in 1986, the funds for the construction of blocks 5 and 6 were assigned to another nuclear power plant to avoid a collapse of the power grid.
The construction site was later "frozen" and then preserved for "better times" to later continue the construction. Of course, it never came to that, the blocks were never completed and later disassembled and only the covers stopped.
After the final freeze in 1988, the personnel were assigned to the nuclear power plant in Khmelnytsky.
Block 5 (1) was already almost finished and almost completely furnished.
The red color on Block 5 comes from metal plates used to seal all openings in the building during the Preservation Phase (1988).
Thus, the white concrete walls and everything that is red are steel plates.
From Block 6, at the time of the accident in Reactor 4, only the foundations (3) of the nacelle and the reactor hall stood.
Right next to the machine hall (2) for reactor 5 and the reactor building itself is the pit for the machine hall (3) of reactor 6. Meanwhile, it is flooded and the huge, rusted construction cranes tower like skeletons in the sky.
Right next to it, the 70m high reactor building of Block 5 (1) towers above everything else.
For the first (block 1 and 2) and second (block 3 and 4) series, the cooling water has been taken from an artificially created lake. For blocks 3 and 4 the lake was enlarged again.
Since the lake was already 22 km ² in size and had extended to the northern city limits of Chernobyl, it could not be increased.
Another solution for cooling the third row was needed.
The only possibility was to build cooling towers.
So they began to build 2 cooling towers (4), which should ensure that the cooling water of the two blocks could be properly cooled.
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