It is one one of those few
places where you are forbidden to enter if you wear a helmet. Can you
guess why, by the way? Besides, it’s forbidden to cross yellow limiting
lines if you don’t have a permission of the head of the unit control
room. This is so-called brain of the power plant. From here specialists
control the plant and monitor its condition.
What you see are hundreds
of various devices, switches, levers… If you’ve never been to such
places you’ll probably be impressed by all this twinkling and clicking.
The first thought coming to your mind is how it is possible to know how
all this works, to make some decisions, analyse situations? What a great
responsibility, what power are behind all that.
Let’s penetrate one active unit control room and two control rooms for training.
The active unit control room is going to be the first.
Those guys who DO understand how it all works…
Training centre in a separate building of Udomlya city.
The newer type of the unit control desk, the traing centre has some types of control desks.
On these unit control desks
it’s possible to simulate any situation at the nuclear power plant and
the employees have to be able to make prompt and right decisions in all
situations that might happen.
Though, modern NPP are
rather safe, and should any extreme situation happen, notwithstanding
the actions of the operators, all the reactors automatically stop.
Another type of the unit control desk.
The same as that active one we saw the first.
As if a moment from some sci-fi movie…
Even resembles the “Swan” station from the “LOST” series…
And finally the answer, why
one can’t enter the room wearing a helmet… Cause it may simply fall
from his head if he bows and it will possibly be like in the Russian
joke: “Who has thrown a felt boot on the panel?”
