The radioactive cloud went far longer than Finland. It was actually a Swedish nuclear power plant that discovered that Chernobyl had exploded. Russia wasn’t open about it at all.
@@ChrisMDSmith79grandpa worked at chapelcross in sw Scotland said the alarms were going off and nobody could workout how as it wasn’t coming from their reactors
@@youngstunna1594 three days. But more of a crazy thought is that the last reactor at chernobyl wasn't shutdown until December 15, 2000 despite the explosion happening in April 26, 1986
My grandad worked at chapelcross nuclear power plant in southwest Scotland he said the alarms kept going off and everyone was chasing their tales trying to find out what was going on and of course nobody knew about Chernobyl at the time because of the media suppression
Fun fact in 2022 at the start of the Ukraine war Russian troops occupied the area around the site and dug trenches everywhere especially in the surrounding forests what they didn’t know was these areas were contaminated some of the most radioactive ground on earth within a few weeks the troops began to get sick when the truth came out the Russians hastily evacuated the site the Ukrainians reoccupied the area and carefully avoided the contaminated areas.
That's what various "most trusted" newsagents like british bullshit corporation would say. But in reality ukrainian regime with help of foreign sponsors was developing nuclear weapons over there. Sarcophague did provide ideal cover from unwanted eyes and allowed nuclear experiments without fear of radiation detection. When attack started, ukrainians started to evacuate all valuable machinery and equipment. They planned to use airport, but that failed and they transported by road (remember Bucha). Note that second russian target was ukrainian Zaporozhia nuclear power plant, where fuel for experiments were manufactured. One day terrible crimes of ukrainian regime will be declassified.
If I remember correctly, the "fun fair" wasn't even open. It was to open the day of the explosion. I was 10 when this happened and can still remember the newscasts for days and days about this.
The human memory is notoriously fickle, especially when it comes to remembering details. Years of research has found that our brains tend to fill in the missing gaps with fiction or other memories when we cannot remember the specifics.
Yes, and every time you recall a memory it is modified slightly...to me that's a little creepy... But I too remember listening to the shortwave which had news about the accident from many different countries.....scary.
"внимание, внимание". Doesn't matter what language it's in, if that truck rolled down my street right now I would know it's time to pack up. @7:40 That's "Liquidators Roof". Men hucked graphite off that roof with hand shovels and wearing paper suits. It's like looking at a graveyard.
It is a graveyard.... it's so eerie seeing old films of the liquidators on that roof that are speckled with little bursts of white where radiation expised the film....
The only thing engineers didn’t account for was Russia coming back and taking over the place. Driving tanks over contaminated land. I hope the soldiers took a tour of the core.
Russian troops who dug trenches in Chernobyl forest during their occupation of the area have been struck down with radiation sickness, authorities have confirmed. (I don't know how much of this is truth or not but around May 2023 this story swept the news)
This story was proven to be false. Yes they dug some trenches but the ChNPP staff took measurements afterwards turns out to get only your anual powerplant worker limit dosis u had to spend 300 days in the trench. And even then you are far from contaminated. Also the suposed rise in radiaton the area sensors picked up wasnt because they drove their vehicles thru contaminated land. The sensors picked up the communication equipment the russians had with them. It is obvious the media just wanted to make allot of clickbait articles and they arent interested in proper fact finding.
How absolutely Stupid can one be, Your sergeant says dig a trench around Chernobyl And you say Okay.. Appears Russians have a hard time recalling and memory.
@@kindnuguz This story is now proven to be false, the media was more interested in making clickbait articles than reporting actual facts. Yes the Russians dug some trenches, after they left the ChNPP personnel took radiation measurements of said trenches and found that if someone would have stayed for more than 300 days in the trench they only would have received the equivalent of a powerplant workers annual limit which is far from being contaminated. Also the radiation sensors placed over the area did indeed pick up a rise of radiation which was the result of the Russians army communication equipment not stirred up dust from the surrounding lands. Also the hospital where the media reported the contaminated Russian soldiers were brought to doesn't even treat radiation sickness.
Duh .....what did they think would happen? Look at bikini alto the ground is the issue that is were the fall out fell so let's dig a hole in the contaminated ground.... sound logical right
They weren't forced, it was their jobs and they did their jobs. They all knew it would likely be a fast or slow death sentence but it had to be done. Russian people are brave and stoic.
@@TruthIsFreedom7777 except they were not russians, the were Ukrainians. Like my teacher from college, who smoked during lessons because nicotine was easing the constant pain he lived in. He was one of the surviving liquidators.
At 37:15 that old engineer seem like he was criticizing that new confinement took too long to design and construct - around 20 years, and then he brags that old sarcophagus took only 5 months to do design and custruct. Yes 5 months is impressive but in 1996, after 10 years it was already detiorating and had to undergo some renovations, so I don't see anything to brag about. At least new one is done properly and will stand for 100 years.
i was thinking the exact same. the old guy has no idea how incredible the design and construction of this humongous thing is. no wonder that old thing took only 5 months, its literally mostly metal plates and maybe a bit of concrete slapped together and welded, not even painted to be properly weather resistant. there was no way on earth to build that new sarcophagus any quicker, look at the insane amount of planning that went in there to have everything go 100% smooth without any problems, fitted and measured to the millimeter
Did someone count the amount of times the voiceover and people in the documentary said that they built the arch a distance from the reactor for safety reasons? Its at least 4 times.
It was built away from the reactor for safety in case something happened to the arch during construction as they would not want to damage the enclosed reactor if they were to build the arch directly over the reactor. 🤦 The point of the arch is to re-enclose the reactor and safely dismantle it. If there were a construction problem during construction if being built directly over the reactor then it could cause unnecessary major problems or deaths. 🤦
It was built some 400m away from unit #4 because the old reactor is still emitting ing radiation at slightly higher than background radiation levels (2+ millisieverts/hour). So if the construction peeps were there for a year it wouldn't be good.
It will stay dangerous for hundreds of years, until the technology becomes available to nullify the radiation that has consumed that building and its ruins within completely. The building cant even be disposed of at this point, which is why its safer to just seal it in a tomb.
@@calj01That's just the amount of time until the exclusion zone becomes 100% safe. I'm sure before that happens the zone will become habitable for the least affected areas in tandem with restricted areas. Either way, not within our lifetime.
The interior shots of Chernobyl look like a tiny model, because there is nothing to really gauge how large it is. It's only exterior shots with humans and trucks that you really realize how large the arch structure actually is.
I've been there for work a few times. Yes you are right, it looks absolutely crazy in person inside. In the clips here with the lighting it looks like a model/movie set on a sound stage thats not 1:1
1:23am & 45 seconds is the time of the first explosion, followed very shortly by the second one. 1:28am is mentioned in the video, which is not accurate
The project is to build what is called a New Safe Confinement - in effect, a giant cover, a kind of dome, to fit over the building that houses the reactor that exploded on 26 April, 1986. An arch on a mammoth scale
So they keep saying half arches but it seems to me that each one is an arch in itself, being the whole of the arch itself. The only half would be that it is individually half of the structure rather than half of the arch. Or am I just nuts?
@@winterspriteI don't remember Chernobyl exploding but I do remember the challenger exploding, I was 8/9 in 1986, my parents didn't want to scare us kids about the radiation ( which did fall across the UK where I am) I didnt know about Chernobyl until i was like 15 but I find it extremely fascinating in a morbid kind of way, it was one of the places I wanted to visit on my bucket list but in mow disabled and with russia invading, its just never gonna happen now, guess I'll just pack my mobility scooter and go Pompeii instead
Good observation. The containment structures of the reactor buildings and the control rooms of the CANDU reactors were built to withstand the impact of a 747 jet. This double walled rain shield and radiation containment structure is neither. I doubt the Russians are interested in spreading the radiation around. Their Belarusian cousins certainly wouldn't be interested.
@@gragor11 I mean... earlier in the war, the Russians had their troops digging trenches in Pripyat's Red Forest, whilst ignoring the warnings from their own nuclear experts telling them not to do so.
@@spannaspinna i was not referring to immediate killing people around, but dispersing a large quantity of radioactive stuff. =» indirect contamination via air and water. It's highly toxic on long term.
So I started watching this, and then I thought about the container in the ocean that is buried and full of radio active material, covered by a cemect oval covering. My question is now a days with SPACE X, REUSABLE ROCKETS, why cant someone build a launch site near Chernobyl, full a SUPERHEAVY ROCKET with the radioactive material, then shoot the stuff out to space, and it will keep going and going away, farther from earth. And since space is fyll of radiation anyways, it wont hurt nothing, and it will get it all away from people, animals, and our food supply. Instead of pouring money into just sheltering it all still here, near people, life and food. SO JUST WONDRRING. ITS A GREAT IDEA I CAME UP WITH, I THINK.
Nice idea. I think the concern is if the rocket failed or exploded prior to it, leaving the earth's atmosphere. If that happened, the contaminated material would be spread over vast areas.
@samanthacuckow51 True. Of course there is risks with everything, but theyve had an outstanding record, taking astronauts to space. So maybe not superheavy, as thats pretty new. SO FALCON 9?
A big part of it is cost $$$. The idea of not using landfills and shooting our garbage towards the sun years ago. But I believe the cost per pound to send something to outer space is $30,000
Oddly, when I first glanced at the title of this post I thought it said, "Selling the Wreckage of Chernobyl". Oh, how nice! Someone will help them get rid of it anyway....
Could they fill the arch with gravel or sand or, better yet, cement, in a hundred years, to keep it contained for longer? I understand they want to study the decay of the elephant's foot and the materials around it, but surely, in a century, they will have learned what they can and encasing it in cement would make it safe for a lot longer.
@@cameronrichardson3108 Doesn't cement get stronger with time? Also, even if it did decay, what timeframe are we talking about? And, does what it decays into increase the release of radioactive material? Lets say it keeps it safe for an extra 500 years. Who knows what sort of technology we'll have by then?
@@BabyMakR ice vastly reduces the longevity of concrete, once it cracks a bit, water gets in and freezes makin* the cracks bigger and so on, I think concrete could possibly cause more of a headache than it would solve
@@cameronrichardson3108 That's true, but, would it increase or reduce the likelihood of the release of radioactive materiel. This is a genuine question. I can see that it would reduce it getting into the air, but could the rock, sand and lime likely to cause problems with, say, causing nuclear reactions to re-start or something? I know unusual, unintuitive things can cause things to happen with nuclear reactions, but, at the end of the day, they have 100 years with the current dome. After they have all the scientific data they need, would filling that dome with something, not necessarily cement, maybe just sand and stone, increase that 100 years?
@@BabyMakR The "sarcophagus" the Russians built to contain it originally in 1986 was made of concrete, it's now crumbling and in danger of collapse, which is why the new safe containment had to be built. Concrete is generally good for about 100 years in ideal conditions, but of course the situation at Chernobyl is far from ideal, and any exposure to the weather will greatly shorten that life unless it's protected. Probably the best way to shield it is with stainless steel, which is what the outer layer of the new safe containment arch is made of. The plan is to dismantle the old concrete structure before it collapses, and then to eventually remove the radioactive debris and material so it can be stored safely in confinement and no longer present a radiation threat. Radioactive elements decay over time and become less radioactive, so the plant is less hazardous now than it once was, but it's still very dangerous at the core so having the old concrete collapse would allow the destroyed core of the reactor to be open to the atmosphere, which we definitely do not want. Hopefully these tasks can be completed within the lifespan of the new safe containment, which I think is estimated to be about 100 years with maintenance and care. Filling the core with sand or gravel or concrete isn't really a responsible course of action, as it would just mean a much larger clean up for future generations. It's much better to remove the radioactive material and store it safely away from the plant. Perhaps one day in the future the destroyed reactor will be cleaned and made safe, though I doubt the surrounding area will ever be considered completely safe, well, not for thousands of years anyway until all the longest lived radioactive elements have decayed away fully.
like to see videos of the track building , they built the dome 100 yards away to work safe from radiation , what about the track builders being next to it
whoever edited this, this is a sign that you have ADHD. We all know by 10 minutes in, that they built a containment buillding, and then moved it over. But at 10 minutes they say it for the 15th time.
Yeah, all of the cuts are so fast, instead of staying on a shot long enough to see what is going on it switches shots, but reuses the same clips over and over again.... :(
Need to fill the time so we hear the same sh*t over and over.. I know, it's really stupid, but that's the way the people in charge of the production want it, which in turn are told by others that this is the way. (trust me, it's really dumb, but when you are not #1, you following along)
One of the things that has really pissed me off is the way Pripyat was stripped of everything even vaguely sellable. The citizens evaced with a suitcase full per person. Their homes were left with everything, as were the shops and offices. Fast forward 20 years and people going there post videos of empty stores and apartment. All that radio active material is now in the Ukraine market economy. Thousands died, but some mutts are willing to risk their lives stealing what they could.
Is he the quiet guy I had to turn captions on to 'here' what he was saying? Cause if it is, I suspect he was fucked up by the radiation whilst building the first sarcophagus and may have had surgery on his larynx. That guy is lucky to be alive.
I don’t recall where I saw the number, but my understanding is that some $20 billion - in today’s money - has been spent altogether on health care, construction, soil mitigation, and the emergency response plus the loss of the reactors. That is “space program” money, a stunning number which contributed significantly to the fall of the Soviet Union. I wonder if it has been enough to modify the behavior of the Russian state, a sort of flirtation with death and disaster policy.
Most people talk about time travel and what they would do if they could time travel. My answer has always been to stop this from ever occurring. How i’d do it i havent came to which is fine cause time travel isn’t possible as far as we know
Over 100y, bad stuff decay a bit. Recent robots like Honda or Boston dynamics can be used to properly dismantle the thing. Or rebuild a new sarcophagus in between. They said they can manipulate cranes inside. So they can rip off, unbuild, dismantle, and rebuild on will ... This is just a protective cage. Now they have 90y left to do better inside. Possibly using robots.
In spite of Chenobyl and many others and more and more doubt that carbon is causing global warming nuclear is back, flavour of the month. I remeber the lies and misleading statements of the 1950's in Britain like "electrical power so cheap there will be no need to meter it". When will we ever learn.
Yes. Hydrogen untimely blew the lid off. Hydrogen came from the superheated steam- and oxygen was there being part of the molecules that form water (H2O)- Under high pressure (like a diesel engine) it blew.
I get this is going to last 100 years, 7 years in and from as much as I can find they haven’t done much inside because they still don’t know how they are going to dismantle the original sarcophagus and how to handle that much radiation that is still in the reactor. Or how to do it safely. I take away from this that they have 100 years from when they finished to figure this out……. Plus every other source says 20,000 years before the area is live able for humans. If I am missing something here please let me know.
@@Someguy6571 there the same mate. Chernobyl has the new NSC . And it is very expensive one and an innovative engineering design. While in Fukushima the land area about 50 miles in radius is inhabitable . And they have lots and lots of radioactive water that they dispose in Pacific ocean 🌊🌊 and that's why the Red china is getting mad with them
@@HungSuy-y7h While Chernobyl and Fukushima were level 4 nuclear disasters that is the only thing that is similar. Chernobyl is 10x worse than Fukushima.The amount of radioactive water that is escaping Fukushima is only high within the immediate area around the power plant. When you get to the Chinese Coast the radiation is not detectable.
The amount of terrorism the world's scene in the 21st century I'm always shocked chernobyl hasn't been compromised or attacked. Unless I haven't heard anything about attempts.
Hang on.... Wait... You say only 3% of the Nuclear Radiation escaped... and did the damage it did???? And that 97% is still there, reacting without control.
They dug in and disturbed highly radioactive soil. Could not be any more stupid , to not even have geiger counters and to not take it serious will serve them right
How come we hear nothing against the other places there was accidents ??? Like the one in American and Japan ?? Just funny how we never hear about them
The shoud move the elephants foot deep in the ocean. Deep is far down and not in a smaller country next to russia which was attacked and thats bad. We dont use the deep part of the ocean anyways....Kamala 2024!
Are you dum dum, nuclear energy is the best of the best, far more are killed by coal based energy then nuclear. Infact, if you mismanage anything it'll malfunction. Simple as that
The cloud ended up over north an south wales in the UK 🇬🇧 This is just one of 9 reasons not to let Putin the putrid get his grubby little mits on ANY of these plants.!! No one needs another one!!! 🙏🙏👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
Really should’ve welded the whole thing. You know why last a lot longer no bolts are going to come loose ever and worlds are a lot stronger than those puny little bolts. You’re basically making them material one. I’m basically saying is that material needs become one piece of material rather than mini Rather than having one thing that is supposed to hold up the weight of a war going on what I would do is literally make sure that that thing would be bulletproof would be bombproof. That means no nuclear reactor would be ever to be able to come out there let’s say that the nuclear reactor hit again the whole ceiling I want to make sure that that thing does not come out of the containing structure that’s the whole thing you’re acting like it’s going to survive 100 years. Do you make it out of iron red steel that rust is out or something similar brass or something else like brass copper or something else that doesn’t rust away too easily aluminum to make it thicker But you don’t have to worry about rusting. You have to keep it very moisture control below zero soloed no rust will form for you would have to put on a protective coating and rust neutralizing pocket so there would be no rust. That’s the thing that you had to take to consideration nothing will not be taken care of that’s the thingbecause there’s too much reactive sources in there too people maintaining that thing so I would probably weld the whole thing
Cement is only stable for so long unfortunately. Plus the core itself still contains highly radioactive material that can melt through the concrete underneath it. That’s the biggest concern in my opinion. It just needs to be removed and honestly may never be.
The Chernobyl Shelter Fund and the EBRD paid for it. The money comes from international donors. I am sure the U.S. donated some funds, but they did not pay for the entire thing. A total of 45 donors gave money to the contruction of the shelter. The U.S. is a shareholder of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development along with lots of other countries.
Have you at least watched the video??? It's the European Union who found it: 2 billion EUROS NOT DOLLARS!! Are you American?I won't be surprised! So annoying and ignorant...
Because of 10 idiots and the arrogant chief engineer who do not have the experience and competence in testing and safety procedures for the nuclear power plant. 🙄
He had the experience and he had the competence. Was he arrogant? Yes. But it was not enough to cause the explosion. What he did lack, was knowledge. Soviet "secretomania" prevented the issues to be known to Diatlov and the rest of the operators(and other nuclear scientists). They knew what they were dealing with, but were lead to think that the AZ5 will save them. Well it did not.
Russia really can't clean there own mess without being funded by Europe.. The only thing they can do is treaten the World with there nukes they good at it though ..😂😂😂😂
This is the terrible legacy of nuclear power when it goes wrong, and sure as night meets day it will happen again. That’s why I’m totally against nuclear power in this format we only have to look across the water to Japan to realise that.
Absolutely false, today we have modern technology far better then mismanaged Soviets, nuclear energy is the best and produces zero emissions for the environment
If not for all the bureaucracies from the different European countries fighting to get their favorite monopolies fist fulls of tax payers money to get a contract to screw in a light bulb on this project this could have been completed years ago and at fraction of the cost!!!
Quick, someone send this to the Russian troops before they dig in when they arrive at the red forest. ….o wait, they already did? 😂. I would love to know how big of the spike in cancer rates is among the troops who deployed there. I’m sure it’s already started considering the exposure they has.
Not even close or this issue wouldn’t be as bad. The core exploded because of negligence, arrogance and it cost so many their lives. Now there’s no choice but to ponder how to remove the waste. Nobody can withstand that much radiation and survive.
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The radioactive cloud went far longer than Finland. It was actually a Swedish nuclear power plant that discovered that Chernobyl had exploded. Russia wasn’t open about it at all.
it went over England too
@@ChrisMDSmith79grandpa worked at chapelcross in sw Scotland said the alarms were going off and nobody could workout how as it wasn’t coming from their reactors
@@cameronrichardson3108 so how long until the world figured out??
@@youngstunna1594 three days. But more of a crazy thought is that the last reactor at chernobyl wasn't shutdown until December 15, 2000 despite the explosion happening in April 26, 1986
Communist corner cutting is a result of top politicians and their sponsors stealing all of the money
My grandad worked at chapelcross nuclear power plant in southwest Scotland he said the alarms kept going off and everyone was chasing their tales trying to find out what was going on and of course nobody knew about Chernobyl at the time because of the media suppression
Fun fact in 2022 at the start of the Ukraine war Russian troops occupied the area around the site and dug trenches everywhere especially in the surrounding forests what they didn’t know was these areas were contaminated some of the most radioactive ground on earth within a few weeks the troops began to get sick when the truth came out the Russians hastily evacuated the site the Ukrainians reoccupied the area and carefully avoided the contaminated areas.
Partially true. Ukrainians who came there entered the same trenches and built their own too.
That's what various "most trusted" newsagents like british bullshit corporation would say. But in reality ukrainian regime with help of foreign sponsors was developing nuclear weapons over there. Sarcophague did provide ideal cover from unwanted eyes and allowed nuclear experiments without fear of radiation detection. When attack started, ukrainians started to evacuate all valuable machinery and equipment. They planned to use airport, but that failed and they transported by road (remember Bucha). Note that second russian target was ukrainian Zaporozhia nuclear power plant, where fuel for experiments were manufactured. One day terrible crimes of ukrainian regime will be declassified.
@@mihajlovucinic011Source?
Yup I remember that
Me when I spread misinformation 😊
If I remember correctly, the "fun fair" wasn't even open. It was to open the day of the explosion. I was 10 when this happened and can still remember the newscasts for days and days about this.
it opened up for a couple days so the soviet union could try and hide the real danger of the situation. it was open until evacuation
The human memory is notoriously fickle, especially when it comes to remembering details. Years of research has found that our brains tend to fill in the missing gaps with fiction or other memories when we cannot remember the specifics.
Yes, and every time you recall a memory it is modified slightly...to me that's a little creepy...
But I too remember listening to the shortwave which had news about the accident from many different countries.....scary.
"внимание, внимание". Doesn't matter what language it's in, if that truck rolled down my street right now I would know it's time to pack up. @7:40 That's "Liquidators Roof". Men hucked graphite off that roof with hand shovels and wearing paper suits. It's like looking at a graveyard.
I'm not sure you can even pronounce that in any language but Russian.
They wore lead vests, and still they all died. The paper suits were at Fukushima. The Japanese care less about their people than Russians!
It is a graveyard.... it's so eerie seeing old films of the liquidators on that roof that are speckled with little bursts of white where radiation expised the film....
We had relatives in the UK that we’re telling us the radioactive cloud wasn’t over England. But we knew it was. The whole thing was so awful
Yes - the cloud went around the world several times...there were hot spots here and there where it rained a lot....
excellent documentary of excellent engineering and construction work by all.
The only thing engineers didn’t account for was Russia coming back and taking over the place. Driving tanks over contaminated land. I hope the soldiers took a tour of the core.
Russian troops who dug trenches in Chernobyl forest during their occupation of the area have been struck down with radiation sickness, authorities have confirmed.
(I don't know how much of this is truth or not but around May 2023 this story swept the news)
This story was proven to be false. Yes they dug some trenches but the ChNPP staff took measurements afterwards turns out to get only your anual powerplant worker limit dosis u had to spend 300 days in the trench. And even then you are far from contaminated. Also the suposed rise in radiaton the area sensors picked up wasnt because they drove their vehicles thru contaminated land. The sensors picked up the communication equipment the russians had with them. It is obvious the media just wanted to make allot of clickbait articles and they arent interested in proper fact finding.
How absolutely Stupid can one be,
Your sergeant says dig a trench around Chernobyl And you say Okay.. Appears Russians have a hard time recalling and memory.
@@kindnuguz This story is now proven to be false, the media was more interested in making clickbait articles than reporting actual facts. Yes the Russians dug some trenches, after they left the ChNPP personnel took radiation measurements of said trenches and found that if someone would have stayed for more than 300 days in the trench they only would have received the equivalent of a powerplant workers annual limit which is far from being contaminated. Also the radiation sensors placed over the area did indeed pick up a rise of radiation which was the result of the Russians army communication equipment not stirred up dust from the surrounding lands. Also the hospital where the media reported the contaminated Russian soldiers were brought to doesn't even treat radiation sickness.
Duh .....what did they think would happen? Look at bikini alto the ground is the issue that is were the fall out fell so let's dig a hole in the contaminated ground.... sound logical right
2:32 there's no way they volunteered. i bet they were forced to do it.
100%
They weren't forced, it was their jobs and they did their jobs. They all knew it would likely be a fast or slow death sentence but it had to be done. Russian people are brave and stoic.
@@TruthIsFreedom7777 oh yeah because living in a communist country is so free of choice
@@TruthIsFreedom7777 except they were not russians, the were Ukrainians. Like my teacher from college, who smoked during lessons because nicotine was easing the constant pain he lived in. He was one of the surviving liquidators.
@@Luna-Maria1659 is there a difference? Russia and Ukraine were one and the same at the time. But your point is well taken.
At 37:15 that old engineer seem like he was criticizing that new confinement took too long to design and construct - around 20 years, and then he brags that old sarcophagus took only 5 months to do design and custruct. Yes 5 months is impressive but in 1996, after 10 years it was already detiorating and had to undergo some renovations, so I don't see anything to brag about. At least new one is done properly and will stand for 100 years.
i was thinking the exact same. the old guy has no idea how incredible the design and construction of this humongous thing is. no wonder that old thing took only 5 months, its literally mostly metal plates and maybe a bit of concrete slapped together and welded, not even painted to be properly weather resistant. there was no way on earth to build that new sarcophagus any quicker, look at the insane amount of planning that went in there to have everything go 100% smooth without any problems, fitted and measured to the millimeter
“Fifty thousand people used to live here…now it’s a ghost town.”
3 people still officially live there
@@lukemorton8431 you obviously never played. Call of duty 4 modern warfare
@@Aussiematee this isn't modern warfare though?
@@Aussiematee lol clearly not😂
@@lukemorton8431 @Aussiematee is saying that the game the OP quoted is from a game called “Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare”.
Did someone count the amount of times the voiceover and people in the documentary said that they built the arch a distance from the reactor for safety reasons? Its at least 4 times.
It's written and voiced by AI
It was built away from the reactor for safety in case something happened to the arch during construction as they would not want to damage the enclosed reactor if they were to build the arch directly over the reactor. 🤦
The point of the arch is to re-enclose the reactor and safely dismantle it. If there were a construction problem during construction if being built directly over the reactor then it could cause unnecessary major problems or deaths. 🤦
Some peoples children 🤦
@@spaceguy564 No it's not. He's my neighbour 😂
It was built some 400m away from unit #4 because the old reactor is still emitting ing radiation at slightly higher than background radiation levels (2+ millisieverts/hour). So if the construction peeps were there for a year it wouldn't be good.
just amazing after all the years that building basement is stil just as dangerous as it was back then
It will stay dangerous for hundreds of years, until the technology becomes available to nullify the radiation that has consumed that building and its ruins within completely. The building cant even be disposed of at this point, which is why its safer to just seal it in a tomb.
The area will not be able to be reoccupied until 24000 years have passed.
@@ConfusionDistortionthousands of years
@@calj01That's just the amount of time until the exclusion zone becomes 100% safe. I'm sure before that happens the zone will become habitable for the least affected areas in tandem with restricted areas. Either way, not within our lifetime.
The interior shots of Chernobyl look like a tiny model, because there is nothing to really gauge how large it is. It's only exterior shots with humans and trucks that you really realize how large the arch structure actually is.
I've been there for work a few times. Yes you are right, it looks absolutely crazy in person inside. In the clips here with the lighting it looks like a model/movie set on a sound stage thats not 1:1
1:23am & 45 seconds is the time of the first explosion, followed very shortly by the second one. 1:28am is mentioned in the video, which is not accurate
Does it really matter ?
@@mar-tin702yes, facts matter.
The project is to build what is called a New Safe Confinement - in effect, a giant cover, a kind of dome, to fit over the building that houses the reactor that exploded on 26 April, 1986. An arch on a mammoth scale
“It was massive. It was unprecedented. It was beyond all previous scale.”
It was MAMMUT!!
(Oh course…)
Mammoet* from my country. 😊
So they keep saying half arches but it seems to me that each one is an arch in itself, being the whole of the arch itself.
The only half would be that it is individually half of the structure rather than half of the arch. Or am I just nuts?
volunteered bravely lmao they had no choice
They probably used prison inmates from the gulag. LOL
Bravely Vouluntold😂
Why ?? Do you not think there are hero's in every country ?? Or maybe they ware just brilliant soldiers who did there job. This hate is terrible 😢😢
I remember when this place exploded
I don’t remember when it exloded (nor the Challenger space shuttle)…however that was because I was baby. I learned about them later on.
@@winterspriteI don't remember Chernobyl exploding but I do remember the challenger exploding, I was 8/9 in 1986, my parents didn't want to scare us kids about the radiation ( which did fall across the UK where I am) I didnt know about Chernobyl until i was like 15 but I find it extremely fascinating in a morbid kind of way, it was one of the places I wanted to visit on my bucket list but in mow disabled and with russia invading, its just never gonna happen now, guess I'll just pack my mobility scooter and go Pompeii instead
I’m 90’s model. Before my time, but you talk about imagine dragons radioactive…
Its interesting to know how bad but the new layer of protection is now here to help with things and help with even more clean up until clean
Did they design it to withstand an incoming missile or drone
Good observation. The containment structures of the reactor buildings and the control rooms of the CANDU reactors were built to withstand the impact of a 747 jet. This double walled rain shield and radiation containment structure is neither.
I doubt the Russians are interested in spreading the radiation around. Their Belarusian cousins certainly wouldn't be interested.
@@gragor11 I mean... earlier in the war, the Russians had their troops digging trenches in Pripyat's Red Forest, whilst ignoring the warnings from their own nuclear experts telling them not to do so.
Attacking this on purpose is absolutely identical to sending nuclear weapon, or attacking an ordinary nuclear plant.
@@Benoit-Pierre I don’t see how when nobody’s living there , it’s already an exclusion zone so there’s no area denial
@@spannaspinna i was not referring to immediate killing people around, but dispersing a large quantity of radioactive stuff. =» indirect contamination via air and water. It's highly toxic on long term.
So I started watching this, and then I thought about the container in the ocean that is buried and full of radio active material, covered by a cemect oval covering. My question is now a days with SPACE X, REUSABLE ROCKETS, why cant someone build a launch site near Chernobyl, full a SUPERHEAVY ROCKET with the radioactive material, then shoot the stuff out to space, and it will keep going and going away, farther from earth. And since space is fyll of radiation anyways, it wont hurt nothing, and it will get it all away from people, animals, and our food supply. Instead of pouring money into just sheltering it all still here, near people, life and food. SO JUST WONDRRING. ITS A GREAT IDEA I CAME UP WITH, I THINK.
Nice idea. I think the concern is if the rocket failed or exploded prior to it, leaving the earth's atmosphere.
If that happened, the contaminated material would be spread over vast areas.
@samanthacuckow51 True. Of course there is risks with everything, but theyve had an outstanding record, taking astronauts to space. So maybe not superheavy, as thats pretty new. SO FALCON 9?
A big part of it is cost $$$. The idea of not using landfills and shooting our garbage towards the sun years ago. But I believe the cost per pound to send something to outer space is $30,000
@weiher32 No matter the cost, sending nuclear anything bad to space, where radiation already is, whete all counties pitch in for this, is worth it.
Ahhh yes we have already polluted earth so let's start polluting the whole universe as well 😐
Oddly, when I first glanced at the title of this post I thought it said, "Selling the Wreckage of Chernobyl".
Oh, how nice! Someone will help them get rid of it anyway....
Amazing feat of engineering !
Gaz UK.
7:26 this guy is in serious need of subtitles!! 😂
Could they fill the arch with gravel or sand or, better yet, cement, in a hundred years, to keep it contained for longer? I understand they want to study the decay of the elephant's foot and the materials around it, but surely, in a century, they will have learned what they can and encasing it in cement would make it safe for a lot longer.
Issue with cement is like everything else it decays too unfortunately
@@cameronrichardson3108 Doesn't cement get stronger with time? Also, even if it did decay, what timeframe are we talking about? And, does what it decays into increase the release of radioactive material? Lets say it keeps it safe for an extra 500 years. Who knows what sort of technology we'll have by then?
@@BabyMakR ice vastly reduces the longevity of concrete, once it cracks a bit, water gets in and freezes makin* the cracks bigger and so on, I think concrete could possibly cause more of a headache than it would solve
@@cameronrichardson3108 That's true, but, would it increase or reduce the likelihood of the release of radioactive materiel. This is a genuine question. I can see that it would reduce it getting into the air, but could the rock, sand and lime likely to cause problems with, say, causing nuclear reactions to re-start or something? I know unusual, unintuitive things can cause things to happen with nuclear reactions, but, at the end of the day, they have 100 years with the current dome. After they have all the scientific data they need, would filling that dome with something, not necessarily cement, maybe just sand and stone, increase that 100 years?
@@BabyMakR The "sarcophagus" the Russians built to contain it originally in 1986 was made of concrete, it's now crumbling and in danger of collapse, which is why the new safe containment had to be built. Concrete is generally good for about 100 years in ideal conditions, but of course the situation at Chernobyl is far from ideal, and any exposure to the weather will greatly shorten that life unless it's protected. Probably the best way to shield it is with stainless steel, which is what the outer layer of the new safe containment arch is made of.
The plan is to dismantle the old concrete structure before it collapses, and then to eventually remove the radioactive debris and material so it can be stored safely in confinement and no longer present a radiation threat. Radioactive elements decay over time and become less radioactive, so the plant is less hazardous now than it once was, but it's still very dangerous at the core so having the old concrete collapse would allow the destroyed core of the reactor to be open to the atmosphere, which we definitely do not want. Hopefully these tasks can be completed within the lifespan of the new safe containment, which I think is estimated to be about 100 years with maintenance and care.
Filling the core with sand or gravel or concrete isn't really a responsible course of action, as it would just mean a much larger clean up for future generations. It's much better to remove the radioactive material and store it safely away from the plant. Perhaps one day in the future the destroyed reactor will be cleaned and made safe, though I doubt the surrounding area will ever be considered completely safe, well, not for thousands of years anyway until all the longest lived radioactive elements have decayed away fully.
like to see videos of the track building , they built the dome 100 yards away to work safe from radiation , what about the track builders being next to it
whoever edited this, this is a sign that you have ADHD. We all know by 10 minutes in, that they built a containment buillding, and then moved it over. But at 10 minutes they say it for the 15th time.
Yeah, all of the cuts are so fast, instead of staying on a shot long enough to see what is going on it switches shots, but reuses the same clips over and over again.... :(
hahahah
Need to fill the time so we hear the same sh*t over and over.. I know, it's really stupid, but that's the way the people in charge of the production want it, which in turn are told by others that this is the way. (trust me, it's really dumb, but when you are not #1, you following along)
Remove the material to where ???
They can just send it to Africa like the rest of the world does with their "recyclables."
One of the things that has really pissed me off is the way Pripyat was stripped of everything even vaguely sellable. The citizens evaced with a suitcase full per person. Their homes were left with everything, as were the shops and offices. Fast forward 20 years and people going there post videos of empty stores and apartment. All that radio active material is now in the Ukraine market economy. Thousands died, but some mutts are willing to risk their lives stealing what they could.
Most was taken away and buried by authorities
How much did that cost?
Enough to party 🎉🎉🍺🍺
GPT says 2.1 billion euro.
I've long believed that "Shelter Objekt" is a brilliant Industrial band name.
I'm sure he's a nice guy, but imagine having to sit in a meeting with Nicolai Steinberg...
Is he the quiet guy I had to turn captions on to 'here' what he was saying? Cause if it is, I suspect he was fucked up by the radiation whilst building the first sarcophagus and may have had surgery on his larynx. That guy is lucky to be alive.
Hear* @@gragor11
@@gragor11 probably to many smokes
@@spannaspinna could be
I don’t recall where I saw the number, but my understanding is that some $20 billion - in today’s money - has been spent altogether on health care, construction, soil mitigation, and the emergency response plus the loss of the reactors. That is “space program” money, a stunning number which contributed significantly to the fall of the Soviet Union. I wonder if it has been enough to modify the behavior of the Russian state, a sort of flirtation with death and disaster policy.
A control room to control the control room?
Most people talk about time travel and what they would do if they could time travel. My answer has always been to stop this from ever occurring. How i’d do it i havent came to which is fine cause time travel isn’t possible as far as we know
Half-life should be described also.
**grabs nearest crowbar**
So in 2116 they will have to build another since this one will only last 100 years. I’ll be dead by then but the future people I hope gets it done.
I reckon humanity will be long gone by then, profound stupidity has us by the balls!
Over 100y, bad stuff decay a bit.
Recent robots like Honda or Boston dynamics can be used to properly dismantle the thing.
Or rebuild a new sarcophagus in between. They said they can manipulate cranes inside. So they can rip off, unbuild, dismantle, and rebuild on will ...
This is just a protective cage. Now they have 90y left to do better inside. Possibly using robots.
In spite of Chenobyl and many others and more and more doubt that carbon is causing global warming nuclear is back, flavour of the month. I remeber the lies and misleading statements of the 1950's in Britain like "electrical power so cheap there will be no need to meter it". When will we ever learn.
It is cheap, non polluting and safe if it's done right. Chernobyl was literally an accident waiting to happen and it did happen
What company moved the arch? Meuhmeuh?... Mammoet as in Mammoth
It wasnt a buildup of Hydrogen gases at the turbine that caused the catastropic explosion?
Yes. Hydrogen untimely blew the lid off.
Hydrogen came from the superheated steam- and oxygen was there being part of the molecules that form water (H2O)-
Under high pressure (like a diesel engine) it blew.
Pfft hydrogen won't explode. Get back to work comrade
@@Nookdashiddole But the mix of hydrogen and oxygen gas will. There are a tons of video available about this topic on YT :)
Fun mystery: who exactly came up with the idea and process of the new containment system.
Forever an effin mystery...
I get this is going to last 100 years, 7 years in and from as much as I can find they haven’t done much inside because they still don’t know how they are going to dismantle the original sarcophagus and how to handle that much radiation that is still in the reactor. Or how to do it safely. I take away from this that they have 100 years from when they finished to figure this out……. Plus every other source says 20,000 years before the area is live able for humans. If I am missing something here please let me know.
NSC cost very much expensive 😢 Philippines cannot afford it.
what a scary place to work
The company Vinci that built designed the scarophagus sends the engineers they don't like or aren't performing well to work on it
....for the next 65,000 years, yes
Ironically a ''Safety Test'' causes a disaster😎
I love mammoet
The music is drowning out your voice.
JUST remember Chernobyl and Fukushima mate 😅
Fukushima Is no where near the level of destruction and calamity that Chernobyl caused. Not even remotely close a comparison.
@@Someguy6571 there the same mate. Chernobyl has the new NSC . And it is very expensive one and an innovative engineering design. While in Fukushima the land area about 50 miles in radius is inhabitable . And they have lots and lots of radioactive water that they dispose in Pacific ocean 🌊🌊 and that's why the Red china is getting mad with them
@@HungSuy-y7h While Chernobyl and Fukushima were level 4 nuclear disasters that is the only thing that is similar. Chernobyl is 10x worse than Fukushima.The amount of radioactive water that is escaping Fukushima is only high within the immediate area around the power plant. When you get to the Chinese Coast the radiation is not detectable.
@@akiira69 mate the NSC is very expensive ! The filipinos cannot afford it ! By the way mate do you know the meaning of NSC in Ukraine mate ?
@@akiira69 and Fukushima is a ghost town for 2,000 years mate
Only covered up the problem. It will be a problem for ever
Why would they not use a massive water tower to put water in the system
The amount of terrorism the world's scene in the 21st century I'm always shocked chernobyl hasn't been compromised or attacked. Unless I haven't heard anything about attempts.
why? what is there to fight over?
the cost of fixing that place?
One of my neighbours is a refugee from Ukrainian war,he was one of the pilots of the helicopters his initials are H.D
Good for 100 years, only 24,900 years to go !😂
Hang on.... Wait... You say only 3% of the Nuclear Radiation escaped... and did the damage it did????
And that 97% is still there, reacting without control.
They dug in and disturbed highly radioactive soil. Could not be any more stupid , to not even have geiger counters and to not take it serious will serve them right
Lots of active Russian cities looks like this.
Some day our children maybe with the help of aliens will develop ways to use radiation or clean it completely disposed of.
People on RUclips go exploring up in there often. It must not be sealed very well😂🤨
How come we hear nothing against the other places there was accidents ??? Like the one in American and Japan ?? Just funny how we never hear about them
They were pretty much nonevents in comparison.
The shoud move the elephants foot deep in the ocean. Deep is far down and not in a smaller country next to russia which was attacked and thats bad. We dont use the deep part of the ocean anyways....Kamala 2024!
So how is this currently with the War between the countries?
Hhmm 🤔 and they still dont know enough to stop playing with nuclear fission
Are you dum dum, nuclear energy is the best of the best, far more are killed by coal based energy then nuclear. Infact, if you mismanage anything it'll malfunction. Simple as that
How about just clean it up!!!!
It’s Chornobyl !
The cloud ended up over north an south wales in the UK 🇬🇧
This is just one of 9 reasons not to let Putin the putrid get his grubby little mits on ANY of these plants.!!
No one needs another one!!!
🙏🙏👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
Grow up..
Putin makes sense.
You only know the western spin on the facts- and even I as am American knows the media is full of shish
ChOrnobyl!!!!! not Chernobyl
Really should’ve welded the whole thing. You know why last a lot longer no bolts are going to come loose ever and worlds are a lot stronger than those puny little bolts. You’re basically making them material one. I’m basically saying is that material needs become one piece of material rather than mini Rather than having one thing that is supposed to hold up the weight of a war going on what I would do is literally make sure that that thing would be bulletproof would be bombproof. That means no nuclear reactor would be ever to be able to come out there let’s say that the nuclear reactor hit again the whole ceiling I want to make sure that that thing does not come out of the containing structure that’s the whole thing you’re acting like it’s going to survive 100 years. Do you make it out of iron red steel that rust is out or something similar brass or something else like brass copper or something else that doesn’t rust away too easily aluminum to make it thicker But you don’t have to worry about rusting. You have to keep it very moisture control below zero soloed no rust will form for you would have to put on a protective coating and rust neutralizing pocket so there would be no rust. That’s the thing that you had to take to consideration nothing will not be taken care of that’s the thingbecause there’s too much reactive sources in there too people maintaining that thing so I would probably weld the whole thing
CCCP ❤
Why don’t they pour cement all over it?
well at some point they want to reach that elephant foot and remove and dispose of it
Cement is only stable for so long unfortunately.
Plus the core itself still contains highly radioactive material that can melt through the concrete underneath it. That’s the biggest concern in my opinion.
It just needs to be removed and honestly may never be.
Its cement. It leaves underground seepage open.
It MUST be taken apart and cleaned.
@@rdallas81 precisely. The elephants foot and nuclear waste are still insanely radioactive.
Like you said it needs to be removed.
This accident is why we don't build nuclear reactors here in the United States. They were banned in 1995
Dude usa have 93 nuclear reactor running. Watts bar 2 was brought online in 2016
it only cost 2 billion? nato has given ukraine something like 130 billion,
I am guessing the US paid for this?
The Chernobyl Shelter Fund and the EBRD paid for it. The money comes from international donors. I am sure the U.S. donated some funds, but they did not pay for the entire thing. A total of 45 donors gave money to the contruction of the shelter. The U.S. is a shareholder of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development along with lots of other countries.
@@stormbowman7148 I wonder when america is gonna get help.
Have you at least watched the video??? It's the European Union who found it: 2 billion EUROS NOT DOLLARS!! Are you American?I won't be surprised! So annoying and ignorant...
@@Got2LearnWikipedia probably gives detail of who gave how much ...
Because of 10 idiots and the arrogant chief engineer who do not have the experience and competence in testing and safety procedures for the nuclear power plant. 🙄
He had the experience and he had the competence. Was he arrogant? Yes. But it was not enough to cause the explosion. What he did lack, was knowledge. Soviet "secretomania" prevented the issues to be known to Diatlov and the rest of the operators(and other nuclear scientists). They knew what they were dealing with, but were lead to think that the AZ5 will save them. Well it did not.
But did the turbine supply enough water to keep it cool? Guess not 😂 nookdashiddole ok wait😂😂😂😂😂
Super Sus home
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Safety was a joke to the Soviets Their people weren’t worth the costs
Weird so much time has already went by and 30 years LATER they put a dome over it?????
Change the title as you still can not get access as normal pedestrian.
Russia really can't clean there own mess without being funded by Europe.. The only thing they can do is treaten the World with there nukes they good at it though ..😂😂😂😂
Clown 🤡
Boring same ole info we've known about for the past 10 years.
This is the terrible legacy of nuclear power when it goes wrong, and sure as night meets day it will happen again. That’s why I’m totally against nuclear power in this format we only have to look across the water to Japan to realise that.
Absolutely false, today we have modern technology far better then mismanaged Soviets, nuclear energy is the best and produces zero emissions for the environment
If not for all the bureaucracies from the different European countries fighting to get their favorite monopolies fist fulls of tax payers money to get a contract to screw in a light bulb on this project this could have been completed years ago and at fraction of the cost!!!
Quick, someone send this to the Russian troops before they dig in when they arrive at the red forest. ….o wait, they already did? 😂. I would love to know how big of the spike in cancer rates is among the troops who deployed there. I’m sure it’s already started considering the exposure they has.
Kill 100s?????? What a joke of a propaganda doc
++1
all this is in vain if ukraine and russia can't form an agreement
How many % of that money from Europe went to private wallets? Ukraine and corruption is extream.
Dont worry. Vinci and Bouygues don't work for free. They always collect invoices, and never pay bills.
England Usa noobs
It is Chornobyl not Chernobyl
Lol 😂🎉
happy that NO British engineers were hired they would make sure it would have a fall point built into it
can't they just put a bunch of rocks and dirt on it
Only sand will help
Nope. They want to dismantle it. Robots like Honda or Boston are perfect fit.
That will help mainly sand.
But you have the issue of the radioactive material melting through the foundation underneath. A very dangerous thing
NO!
NO!
Chernobyl was hit with a nuclear ICBM. Not a reactor meltdown.
Nope...listen to the people who worked there on that day.
Not even close or this issue wouldn’t be as bad.
The core exploded because of negligence, arrogance and it cost so many their lives.
Now there’s no choice but to ponder how to remove the waste.
Nobody can withstand that much radiation and survive.
You're lost.
Let me guess, the earth is flat?
Go get educated
I thought this was an update about what was going on now what a load of crap
Another AI voice. Yuk
How do you know that this is a Ai voice? Can you teach me how to detect all the Ai voices please?
its cool. how much did communism pay you as a engineer?
Risks outweigh the benefits