Talk:Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus

Cooling slab?

1) What is a cooling slab? Is it just the tunnel it self? Did they build smth in the tunnel? Did they circulate air or smth in the tunnel to cool?

2) And. "When the building became overly radioactive ...". When was that?

3) "it became impossible to directly screw down the nuts and bolts or apply any direct welding to the sarcophagus". So first they built a sarcophagus, and shortly after, when they wanted to bolt this to the ground, the radiotion was too much. Or to weld the pieces of the sarcophagus together? But how did they place those pieces there? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.38.5.154 (talk) 00:42, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

"radioactive lava"?

"radioactive lava" = Corium (nuclear reactor)? --Abdull (talk) 00:24, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

500,000 construction workers??

Someone recently claimed in a (real-life) discussion that 500,000 workers were employed (and contaminated) for the construction (due to the high radiation levels, each one could only work for a few seconds before having reached a maximum radiation exposure). Is that possible? I find that hard to believe. (I don't know if there was a confusion with the liquidators. Any sources confirming this? -- megA (talk) 17:50, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Move to "Object Shelter"

The article should be moved to the title Object Shelter, which is the official name of the building. The current article, oddly enough, doesn't even mention this name, only the popular name. --NetRolller 3D 05:19, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

I'd like to second this, but it was referred to as the "Shelter object" on the Chernobyl Webpage. [1] MikeofAttica (talk) 20:50, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Not sealed

Reading this article gives one reassurance. "Halt the release of radiation." "Lock in" radioactive material. This implies that the sarcophagus seals off everything inside it, and perhaps that is what one expects it to do. But the structure was never meant to form a seal. By design, there are many holes in the structure, and they are completely open. The sun shines in. Birds fly in and out. The holes have with a total area of about 1500 sq meters. See the video documentary "NOVA – Inside Chernobyl’s Sarcophagus" part 3, at 5:15. [2] Does the article need to be reworded to reflect this? Jedwards01 (talk) 17:22, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Copied Text?

The article is very similar to the text found at http://chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/sarcophagus - this is not listed as a WP mirror. 94.195.208.253 (talk) 23:21, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

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Mention of Robots

"When the building became overly radioactive, it became impossible to directly screw down the nuts and bolts or apply any direct welding to the sarcophagus, so this work was done by robots."

The reference provided says absolutely nothing about this claim, and I find it somewhat dubious that the Soviet Union could manufacture a robot precise enough to do such work in the span of a month, that could also withstand the amount of radiation coming off the reactor at that time.

Upon inspection, this claim has been here since the article was first created; I believe it originated via a critical mistranslation of information in its source by a non-native English speaker. The source, here, incorrectly uses the word "riveting" instead of "riveted" which I believe may be the source of some confusion.

If anyone has evidence to the contrary, that robots were in fact used to finish construction on the sarcophagus, please revise the article, or leave it in the talk so that someone else may do so.

2600:6C67:5080:4E46:61EA:9827:D7B1:5093 (talk) 23:02, 29 November 2020 (UTC)