https://tube.loping.net/videos/watch/1684d54b-4ce6-4a9c-b313-024fb0d8a747 This video continues our long-term project to build a functional hardware simulator of a Chornobyl RBMK reactor control room. In the first part, we built a functional replica of an RBMK reactor control panel. Now it is time to give it a brain. We have recreated the operator console for SKALA — the computer system used to monitor the RBMK reactors of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Our simulator can process thousands of reactor parameters. It allows us to enter real SKALA request codes, retrieve values, check warning and emergency setpoints, monitor individual reactor channels, launch programs, and investigate potentially dangerous conditions inside the reactor core. In this episode, we demonstrate how operators used SKALA to check reactor thermal power, coolant flow, control-rod positions, energy distribution, channel power, and the margin before a boiling crisis. We also show how the system could identify specific channels requiring attention and send them to the enormous reactor-channel mnemonic displays known as MTK. The console will eventually be connected to our reactor control panel, SKALA status display, and a complete scaled replica of an MTK. Together, they will form one interconnected simulator of an RBMK reactor control room. This project was created with the invaluable help of former and current experts from the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant who worked with this technology and helped us reconstruct many details that were never properly documented. Subscribe to follow the next stages of the project — and tell us in the comments which SKALA function you would like us to recreate next. Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:21 Project news 01:35 Main components explained 02:30 You can look very deep into the systems 03:29 Reactor’s thermal power 05:42 Working with setpoints 08:02 Let’s enter codes from those stickers 10:18 Per-channel parameters 12:39 Checking the energy distribution 13:51 Per-channel power monitoring 16:07 Coolant control 17:24 Working with mnemonic displays 19:00 Obligatory Cat Performance 20:20 Setpoint programming 21:15 Share your ideas Project updates and bonus materials: https://www.patreon.com/thechernobylfamily http://buymeacoffee.com/chernobylfamily Full collection of behind-the-scenes of this project: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1495148 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:44:04 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.loping.net https://tube.loping.net/lazy-static/avatars/8a56e488-2120-4649-a417-badf5893657b.png https://tube.loping.net/videos/watch/1684d54b-4ce6-4a9c-b313-024fb0d8a747 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.loping.net/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.