Ignalinos atominės elektrinės naujos technikos dokumentacijos archyvas. Visaginas

Abstract

A construction of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) started in 1974 and just one year later a memorial stone was placed to mark the would-be Sniečkus settlement. In 1989 the construction of the unit 3 discontinued. It took 11 years to built the world‘s most powerful nuclear plant. The construction of the INPP necessitated 142 km of roads, 50 km of railways, 390 km of communication lines, 334 km of electricity lines, 133 km of sewerage lines and 164 km of thermal lines. The INPP situation between the old times and the future is marked by an erection of a new archive building. The one-storied rectangular volume lies within the territory of the plant. The exterior contrasts with a ferroconcrete aesthetics of the 8-9th decades. Northern and southern facades are neutral in order they could emphasize eastern and western ones. They symbolize dawn and dusk. The information kept on shelves of the archive – a particular informational code.