Mike climbing to the roof of the BN-350 fast breeder reactor facility

We successfully concluded our safeguards work yesterday afternoon and in an hour we are catching a plane back to Almaty in eastern Kazakhstan. It's been a fascinating trip and I have numerous interesting pictures to share. But as the connection here is very slow and unreliable, this is the only one you get for now. It was taken during our multi-ladder climb to the roof of the facility to bring the GPS time-synch node online. I would never have guessed that I would find myself scaling the side of a former Soviet reactor facility as part of my job.