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Guys,
I remember watching a Video on You tube about Liebherr History, which included remote Cranes that where build for the chernobyl Nuclear Plant to assist with the Meltdown.
Would anyone have any pics of these cranes??
Regards
James Muldoon
From the Land Down Under
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I don't have any Jim but I remember watching a cool doccu about it and the Liquidators,how they brought in a load of remote controled bull dozers to clean debris from the roofs and the ground,they said that after only a few hours the radiation caused the electrics in the machines to fail I also remember a Ukrainian guy talking about the crane they had brought in to assemble the sarcophagus to entombe the reactor,I think it was a Demag CC4000 here is a Russian forum featuring some interesting and erie photos http://ist.my1.ru/forum/11-101-1Did someone mention that the new LR13000 is to head to Chernobyl to build a newer bigger sarcophagus?
Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"? ... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.
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gbarnewall wrote:I don't have any Jim but I remember watching a cool doccu about it and the Liquidators,how they brought in a load of remote controled bull dozers to clean debris from the roofs and the ground,they said that after only a few hours the radiation caused the electrics in the machines to fail I also remember a Ukrainian guy talking about the crane they had brought in to assemble the sarcophagus to entombe the reactor,I think it was a Demag CC4000 here is a Russian forum featuring some interesting and erie photos http://ist.my1.ru/forum/11-101-1Did someone mention that the new LR13000 is to head to Chernobyl to build a newer bigger sarcophagus? Very interesting, Are they still recovering nowadays? I thought no ones there anymore, except a small group of citizen still live there
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I have heard you can, or will soon, be able to tour the place??
Mark L.
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gbarnewall wrote:Did someone mention that the new LR13000 is to head to Chernobyl to build a newer bigger sarcophagus? I don't think it was the LR. I recall hearing the new Sarens beast was heading there (?). - Chris 
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I can't imagine what the survival rate was for those workers. Probably not too good. Wonder what the story was on the helicopter.
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ITmachine wrote:I can't imagine what the survival rate was for those workers. Probably not too good. Wonder what the story was on the helicopter. I'm wondering the same thing. very neat pics though!
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I remember hearing once that workers doing the clean up in close proximity would receive their lifetime dose of radiation in 14 minutes. I do not recall where I Picked up this info, I am sure at one of the numerous classes I have taken at work, If someone has ever heard different please correct me.
Brad
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Liebherr made two LT1160 which were remotely controlled.
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I remember a story about a special concrete pump build by Putzmeister for use at the Chernobyl facility. I will try to find this story when I'm at home. As far as I know it is already possible to tour the area, though you can't live in the area. There are some photos of the surrounding area and the ghost city on Google Earth. There are still people working at Chernobyl. All reactors have been shut down since the disaster, but the remaining reactors still contain radioactive material which must be cooled and monitored. I can't imagine it's a safe working environment... Martijn
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Not as it would seem and definitely not what you have been told re the Chernobyl blast...2 killed in the immediate blast and 28 deaths from acute radiation exposure and a great deal of argument regarding cancer related deaths since...basically a great deal more deaths on your road network. You will also get far higher radiation doses from daily exposure to natural and technological sources than you will from this and the Japanese ones. The article below is interesting, especially the last paragraph on the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. They actually lived longer than others of their generation because of better medical care provided. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pinning-health-problems-nuclear-disaster
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A brochure about the Putzmeister concrete pumps at Chernobyl: http://www.pmw.de/pm_online/data/BP_1133_US.pdfIt's not the story I was looking for, I will try to find that later. Martijn
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