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E​е​а​к​т​о​р 4

by Biorobots

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відмова (Refusal) voice one translation: "And this is the building of the plant itself, as you can see, there are no massive distractions on which Western mass media keeps insisting. What is damaged is only a block, All industrial and nearby buildings as well as electric poles are intact." voice two translation: "Absolute guarantee of health and safety of all workers is mandatory element of all operations at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. For this purpose, constant dosimetry control is conducted." Phone calls of the militarized Fire Department of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant right after the explosion transcript and translation: Call 1: Caller: Hello, is this Militarized Fire Station #2? Operator: Yes Caller: What is burning on your site? Operator: Explosion int he main building, between the 3rd and 4rh units Caller: Are there people? Operator: yes Caller (male): alarm our personnel! Operator: I am alarming! I have alarmed the commander Caller (male): Alarm everyone, the whole officer corps! Call 2: Caller: Leonid Alekseyevich! Operator: Yes Caller: Hello, Pripyat', 3rd and 4th units, the roof if burning due to accident, explosion. Operator: [unclear] go on! Operator: Have they already confirmed? Caller: Not yet, they had an accident, dispatcher of Pripyat told this Call 3: Operator: Fire department Caller: Hello, Ivankov? Operator: yes, yes Caller: So you are departing to Pripyat... Operator: Hello? yes yes, I hear you! Caller: Go to the nuclear station. The roof is burning on the 3rd and 4th blocks! Call 4: Caller: Hello, Polesskoye? Operator: yes, yes Caller: So you are departing to the nuclear station, The roof on the 3rd and 4th blocks is burning!
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Message of evacuation of the city of Pripyat (The city was founded to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant): "Attention, Attention! Due to the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, adverse radioactive conditions are forming. To ensure radiation safety of people and children in particular, there appears a necessity to conduct temporary evacuation of residents of the city to the nearby towns of Kiev region. For this reason, today, on April 27, Starting from 2pm, buses will arrive to each house, They will be accompanied by police and representatives of city administration. It is recommended to take with you documents, items of absolute necessity and also food for initial time. Comrades! when temporarily leaving your apartments please do not forget to close windows, shut off electric and gas appliances, and turn off water taps. Please stay calm and organized during the temporary evacuation."
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"Radiation... It has neither smell nor color, it has only a voice here it is .....[Geiger counter sound], you are watching the footage that was initially rejected as defective [video shows a colorless video of Prypiat and the Nuclear Power Plant), but is not a defect, this is the face of radiation. The first frame was recorded at the time when were allowed to look out of armored vehicle only for 30 seconds."

about

This EP is in honor of all people who risked and lost their lives in the liquidation process in the Chernobyl NPP accident.

This EP is going to be released on the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

The Chernobyl liquidators also known as "Biorobots", the Soviet official definition: "участник ликвидации последствий аварии на Чернобыльской АЭС"(uchastnik likvidatsyi posledstviy avarii na Tchernobylskoi AES, literally "participant in liquidation of the Chernobyl NPP accident consequences")

Some of the highest doses of radiation were sustained by the workers enlisted to clear debris from Chernobyl’s rooftops. After the explosion, the facility was covered in pieces of highly contaminated graphite, the substance that had been used instead of water to cool the reactor and slow the fission reaction in the Chernobyl plant design.

Initially, authorities tried to use robots to do the job of removing the dangerous debris, but after a few days the high levels of radiation damaged the electronic circuitry of the machines.

The job had to be done by human hands, and so a subset of the workers who became known as "biorobots," were deployed to the rooftops. They would run up to the rooftop for minutes or less, removing just a few shovels of waste before a new crew of liquidators would take their turn. Workers recall feeling pain in their eyes and a lead taste in their mouth due to the high radiation levels.

The EP cover photo is from the rooftop of reactor number three, it was taken by Igor Kostin, who worked at Novosti Press Agency at the time and became the best-known of the Chernobyl disaster photographers. He has said that the white streaks at the bottom of the photo were due to the high levels of radiation below. Indeed, some of his early photography after the accident was damaged beyond recovery.

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released April 26, 2017

All music by Ликвида́тор.
Art layout and design Ликвида́тор.
Recorded on April 2017 at Bzk home studio by Ликвида́тор.

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