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In our last post showcasing the evolution of the base in Chernobylite, we took a deeper look into our archive containing materials from the early version of the game. What a trip it was! When you look back at this project and compare it with what you see today, in some places you will notice very significant differences.
For example, tables for crafting and refining weapons. Today, they look as if they were cut out alive from a professional workshop. In Early Access, they resembled tables from our grandfather's basement where you could tweak weapons through trial and error, and maybe something would come of it.
Do you remember when fractal worlds used to consist of green rectangular crystals? When you looked at them from a distance, you could get the impression that you were looking at a pile of blocks arranged in a slight disorder. Just like Jenga.
We will probably take a deeper look at all the changes that Chernobylite has undergone over the years in future reports. Of course, you can always read our previous posts, where we gave a very general overview of Chernobylite in Early Access. But if you want to learn more details about the evolution of the key elements of this project... Well, you'll have to be patient ;)
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Today we would like to do something that we should have done from the beginning: answer the question: what is chernobylite? Sure, in interviews or somewhere in our previous materials, you could read that it is a substance that exists in reality and was created as a result of the explosion of the Chernobyl power plant. Now it's worth expanding on this idea a bit and... telling you about something else. Because believe it or not, you can come across some really interesting things when you read about the chemical effects of the disaster.
Chernobylite is a highly radioactive crystalline substance (a glassy material that resembles lava) consisting of zirconium silicate with an admixture of uranium. It was discovered in the basement of the reactor of the 4th nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, where it was created as a result of the melting of the nuclear reactor core.
However, chernobylite is not the only side effect of the events of April 1986. Shortly after the reactor exploded, attempts were made to put out the fire first with water, and then several thousand tons of sand, boron, dolomite, clay and lead were dropped from military helicopters, eventually extinguishing the burning graphite. There was still fuel inside the reactor, which had melted at 2,000 degrees Celsius. In this way, a mixture weighing about 250 tons was created, which consisted of uranium (about 190 tons), zirconium, graphite, concrete and other construction elements, as well as the aforementioned extinguishing agents.
The molten materials made their way to the bottom of the reactor vessel, and after a few days burned through its thick concrete base. Slowly cooling lava called corium occupied lower and lower rooms. There was a fear that the contamination would leak into the groundwater and lead to a gigantic ecological disaster. Therefore, it was decided to "inhibit" the substance on one of the lower floors of the reactor using ground freezing techniques. Thus, it was possible to stop the corium at an altitude above the groundwater level.
Half a year after the catastrophe, the exact location of the corium was established during the construction of the sarcophagus. In one of the rooms, a massive fragment of it was found in the form of a solidified, gray-orange mass that looked like an elephant's foot. Hence its name. "Elephant foot" was an extremely radioactive substance - staying in its vicinity for more than a minute was enough to cause severe radiation sickness, and more than 4 minutes meant certain death after a few days. People taking a picture of this phenomenon put their lives and health at risk.
Over time, the radiation level of the "elephant foot" has decreased (now it takes about an hour to be near it to receive a lethal dose of radiation), but it still remains one of the most radioactive and dangerous objects in the Chernobyl zone. Removal of such a huge corium deposit is impossible, and it is not known whether it will be possible to do so in this millennium!
As you can see, Chernobylite entertains and teaches. You've seen it before, and here's another proof.
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