Photographing the Most Radioactive Places in Chernobyl

[smn1234]

https://petapixel.com/2019/08/27/the-sarcophagus-photographing-the-most-radioactive-places-in-chernobyl/

[cleeus]

Notice the Windows XP wallpaper in this picture: https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2019/08/11-3.jpg

[mattmar96 → cleeus]

Yikes. Hope its not connected to the internet..

[dheera]

"Of course, I’m not going to go in there to take pictures! For reference, staying in this place would be deadly in just a few minutes."

What about sending a drone or robot inside and take the pictures safely from outside?

[Alupis → dheera]

The radiation levels have killed "drones" several times before.

[jameslevy → Alupis]

Fortunately, there were plenty of"human drones" available to assist with removing graphite.

[dheera → Alupis]

Tank chassis robot with lead foil casing around the electronics then?

[sebazzz]

If the other control room is contaminated now, wasn't it unsafe to work in after the explosion? They still had a few reactors in operation for a time.

Good to see the control room still runs Windows XP with default Teletubby background. I wonder whether this is a vulnerability and an upgrade is planned.

[Alupis → sebazzz]

It's unlikely to have any internet connection there - so there's little to no risk.

[pvg → sebazzz]

There are three control rooms mentioned, it seems - the current 'Arch' control room and the original control rooms for units 3 and 4. Article says that even the unit 4 control room was once decontaminated and stripped of equipment. The unit 3 one is the one that was used for years after.