Haunted Hallways: Chernobyl Engineers Revisit The Doomed Reactor

The three men revisited the control room of the third block 30 years after the meltdown.

The control room of the third block of the Chernobyl nuclear plant

The so-called “Golden Corridor" at the Chernobyl nuclear plant connected all of the power stations. This corridor used to lead to the fourth reactor.

This panel monitored the reactor's core.

Oleksandr Cheranov stands in the control room for the first time in 30 years.

The phone used for communication between staff in the control room and the senior engineer

The workplace of the senior engineer control unit

Arcadia Uskova worked in the first unit at Chernobyl. On April 26, he was summoned to help colleagues in the fourth unit. 

The monitor allowed workers to watch the situation in the block offices.

Oleksiy Breusa worked as a senior engineer in the control unit.