Power Plant Сooling Towers

Чернобыльская АЭС градирни

The ‘Power Plant Сooling Towers’ are two unfinished concrete giants close to building site of Reactor 5 and 6 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. At the present time the towers are two industrial ruins.

The towers were built to evaporate the cooling water from the two newly built reactors. The existing reactors of the power plant had no cooling towers because they cooled the condenser with water from the Pripyat river in open-cycle.

In the end the Power Plant Сooling Towers were never completed. The diameter of the almost finished tower is 120 meters, its height is about 150 meters. Eventually the Chernobyl disaster stopped all works around the site in 1986. Years later the government decided to close down all reactors of the Chernobyl Power Plant. Today, the radiation level is still high, almost 10 times more than normal.

  • Power Plant Сooling Towers
    A view at the cooling towers from Nagortsy.
  • Power Plant Сooling Towers
    The unfinished cooling tower.
  • Сooling towers of the Chernobyl Power Plant
    Both towers in one frame.
  • Сooling towers of the Chernobyl Power Plant
    120 meters wide and its height is about 150 meters. 
  • Cooling tower 2 in a desolate field.
  • Looking up in tower 1.
  • Power Plant Сooling Towers
    The water pipeline was already installed.
  • Power Plant Сooling Towers
    The towers were never completed.
  • The Chernobyl disaster stopped all works around the site in 1986.
  • The ‘Power Plant Сooling Towers’.
  • Power Plant Сooling Towers
    Chernobyl cooling tower.
  • Power Plant Сooling Towers
    Urban exploring Chernobyl and its Industry.
  • Сooling towers of the Chernobyl Power Plant
    Looking up in the cooling tower.
  • The towers were built to evaporate the cooling water from the two newly built reactors.
  • Power Plant Сooling Towers
    Inside the cooling tower.
  • Power Plant Сooling Towers
    ‘290’.
  • Rusting fish pens.
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