Construction of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was at times reminiscent of the agricultural rather than a strategic facility. This is evidenced by 32 declassified KGB documents that describe errors of architects, builders, engineers, loafers. Some of the published documents are completely based on the information from KGB agents (informants), who worked on the construction of the nuclear power plants.
KGB documents were published by the Ukrainian liberation movement.
Construction of Charnobyl began on August 15, 1972 when the first cubic meters of concrete and a capsule with a letter to future generations appeared. The very next year, local security officers reported that the construction site looked like a disaster. KGB Chairman working under the USSR Council of Ministers wrote to the management about the use of equipment designed for smaller loads and builders who were sloppy when making the foundation.
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Ліпень 1973 г.
[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”198651″ img_size=”642×800″][vc_single_image image=”198655″ img_size=”642×800″][vc_single_image image=”198659″ img_size=”642×800″][vc_column_text]In his report of July 1973, Major Tyutyunnik noted the low-quality asphalt and poorly welded reinforcement cages, which were delivered to the construction of the Charnobyl nuclear power plant.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”198679″ img_size=”642×800″][vc_single_image image=”198684″ img_size=”642×800″][vc_column_text]
December 1978
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Window dressing and a desire to finalize the object on the anniversary of the revolution could have caused a man-made disaster at Charnobyl already in 1978, when the second NPP unit was launched in spite of damaged waterproofing of one of the units. The KGB agent learnt about the possible catastrophe from the agent “Yura”.
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September 1982
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]A few years later the Communist Party of Ukraine received the summary report of the first serious emergency at the Charnobyl.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”198710″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]
May 1983
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]And in 1983, KGB lieutenant colonel Samoilov told his superiors about the security flaws of the reactors, which were used at several nuclear power plants in the territory of Armenia, Ukraine and the RSFSR.
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July-August 1984
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Just a year later Charnobyl began cracking at the seams. Structural engineering fittings in the reactor room began to break down through the heat and floor slabs started sagging due to inefficient insulation.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”198728″ img_size=”large”][vc_single_image image=”198732″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]The Soviet secret services were well aware that some elements of the Charnobyl reactor were made in haste. The experts, who is referred to as “ZHVA” in the KGB report warned about bursting steel-zirconium adapters in the reactor tubes. There were about 1,700 such adapters in the reactor, and experts were not able to figure out which one was malfunctioning.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”198738″ img_size=”large”][vc_single_image image=”198742″ img_size=”642×800″][vc_single_image image=”198785″ img_size=”642×800″][vc_column_text]An explosion occurred at the Charnobyl nuclear power plant on
April 26, 1986. Among the causes of the accident were imperfect reactor structure and unskilled staff who worked at the Charnobyl nuclear power plant. And this was known long before the accident took place.
