--- title: Using Your Own RBMK Reactor Control Center At Home description: The Chornobyl Family project has created a home-usable replica of the RBMK reactor control room and its SKALA industrial control system. Two videos demonstrate... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/using-your-own-rbmk-reactor-control-center-at-home-vqgndqzc0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Using Your Own RBMK Reactor Control Center At Home | daily.dev og:description: The Chornobyl Family project has created a home-usable replica of the RBMK reactor control room and its SKALA industrial control system. Two videos demonstrate... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-your-own-rbmk-reactor-control-center-at-home-vqgndqzc0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VqGNdQZC0.png og:image:alt: Using Your Own RBMK Reactor Control Center At Home og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Using Your Own RBMK Reactor Control Center At Home **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Chornobyl Family project has created a home-usable replica of the RBMK reactor control room and its SKALA industrial control system. Two videos demonstrate the operator console, including how codes are entered to interact with the system, obtain sensor readings, set setpoints, and run automation programs. A second video covers the physical construction of the control panel and a monitor-based visual representation of the simulated reactor core. The project builds on previously covered work about the original SKALA system and the 1990s modernization of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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