LENINGRAD NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, RUSSIA'S NUCLEAR ENERGY
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This footage is filmed on Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LNPP) | Finnish border, about 70 kilometres west of St. Petersburg, the town of Sosnovy Bor. Our camera crew visited LNPP, a top security site, in 1996. Unit 1 is considered to be the oldest ones in the country. LNPP is the primary source of electricity Russia's North-western region, supplying some 50% of the energy to St Petersburg Leningrad region. In 2003 LNPP celebrated its 30th-anniversary Atomic industry specialists often draw attention to the truly crumbling state of the plant, which runs four fatally flawed Chernobyl-style RBMK-1000 reactors. Scientists insist that the reactor should be stopped and taken off the grid. It was shut down in 2003, re-launched for further modernization.
In 1974 there was an Explosion at Leningrad nuclear power plant. In 1996 foreign was tasked with the first comprehensive safety evaluation of the plant.
Interviews with scientists and engineer about Leningrad NPP safety and ecological problems in the region. | waste from the plant routinely pours into the Gulf of Finland. LNPP is causing serious ecological danger to the Baltic Sea area. We filmed in the town hospital, talked to doctors and scientists. Alexey Yablokov, the former environmental advisor to Yeltsin, talks on nuclear power plant impact on the environment, in particular on the safety of Chernobyl NPP's sarcophagus. 9 million people still inhabit the areas contaminated by the Chernobyl catastrophe. Alexey Yablokov gives an interview in his office located in the Institute of palaeontology.
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An interview to medical specialists of St. Petersburg consultative-diagnostic centre pointing on the increasing level of children pathologies caused by LNPP. The experts of the centre's laboratory investigate chromosome changes since 1970-x, but nowadays, it suffers from the lack of financial support. A press-conference of LNPP director Valery Lebedev. He speaks on the plant's history, its structure, control procedures of the power plant, especially of older reactors.
Also depicted are interiors of LNPP including detailed views of reactors, its operating instruments and machines; plant cantina where workers buy food and cover it in polyethene as radiation protection; long shots of LNPP's facade and the area; views of the town of Sosnovy Bor; interiors of children's house.
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Take a unique journey into the heart of this iconic Russian facility, located just 70 kilometers west of St. Petersburg. Our camera crew visited LNPP in 1996, capturing detailed views of its interiors, reactors, and operating instruments. You'll also get a glimpse into the plant cantina, where workers buy food and cover it in polyethene as radiation protection.
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I love to watch videos of close up RBMK-1000 reactors like this. And now I can see what look the tremendous machines like and also what the operators do with them.
Thank you for uploading it!
Rbmk-- Russian badly made krap 😁
@@therandomytchannel4318 rbmk is one of the most efficient and cost effective reactors to be built even for today's standards even tho they had some design flaws
@@alexandrosandreou8585 Some? They have a pretty bad track record. Even in modern day Russia they would never be approved to be built. The flaws known in the RBMK in the 60s and 70s are why the Russians developed the VVER reactor lineup. MUCH safer
@@therandomytchannel4318 the random YTP crap
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The turbo-generator sounds very powerful and chilling. There is so much energy producing you can literally feel it.
Many say that this looks like chernobyl, But it's actually chernobyl that looks like this
Well not anymore it doesn't.
To be honest, It looks like that because it's reactor model is an RBMK 1000
@@T113_T1T1AN Crazy right? Rbmk 1000 model plant
THSI IS NOTTE THREE MILE SISLANDS., ITS ANTHER VIDEO!
@@ilovecops5499 wtf does the 3 mile island have to do with an rbmk reactor in Russia were you on drugs when you typed this comment?
Dangers aside, these are still incredibly impressive pieces of engineering. A modernized RBMK style design with proper containment & void coefficient could be incredibly efficient and inexpensive to operate. Even these, after the modernization are fairly safe, not as safe as a western design with containment, but not "ticking time bomb" either. The sound of the turbine hall puts me to sleep too.
rudolphna54 21:30 Is that how they insert the control rods? :P Where are they anyway?
+KiriyaAoi after the chernobyl accident, i believe all RBMK 1000 and 1500 designs were lowered from a ~4 coefficient, to about a 1-2.5 coefficient.
+leerman22 In the video they did not lower any. In RBMK reactor like such, the fuel can be lowered by "simply" unscrewing some blocks and inserting the fuel assembly into the reactor. They use a special machine that is attached to the ceiling of the containment building. The rods are about 50ft below the puzzle looking area.
+leerman22 The control rods on this, as with most boiling water reactor designs, are inserted from below the reactor.
A reactor like that exists, It was sedisgned in the Soviet Union in the early 1980's and is called the MKER reactor and it has solved all the issues with the RBMK, void coefficient, slow scram, containment etc. The blueprints are ready for a 800MW MKER reactor but the Russians have decided to focus their efforts on the VVER reactor and the BN-Series of fast reactors.
looks like a nice place to work
Dyatlov walks in and says gentlemen lets start
😂😂😂
I love how gonzo this is. It captures a really interesting enterprise.
I love how the $oviets are so creative, hospital number six, power plant number 7, just so creative
school number 5, supermarket number 8
Blandness of soviet life
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Somebody that speaks russian
americans were better Iphone 11 and Iphone 12 :D same shit around the world
The accident in 1975 at the Leningrad nuclear power stationis very similar to the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Similarly, it occurred at night, just as in the work before it was 1 turbo generator, and the power of the reactor was at the level of 50% of the nominal. Similarly, before the accident, the power (due to an operator error) failed to zero, and in the same way it began to be raised. But for the reasons of the accident, these two events are different. This I found a little, then if I inserted it would be a lot.
And the KGB suppressed that information from getting to other reactor operators. A state secret.
Wait. What accident in 1975? And similar to Cherbonyl.
@@DrunkHog At Leningrad, a technological channel failed and released fission products from damaged fuel assembly into the nearby graphite stack. Some say it's because someone forgot to open a valve which would allow water into that channel, others say this was the first warning of a Chernobyl type of accident incoming.
A nuclear reactor! Generates heat in the core here. A series of pumps here and here, send a constant supply of water to the core, the core turns the water to steam which gets sent to the turbine and the result is electricity 🙂
@@cmillerg6306KGB had nothing to do with nuclear industry in the USSR.
Thank you very much,this footage is amazing
nice footage, some nostalgic pictures there, the woman with the abacus and such
Oh my god. I thought you were kidding, but that woman is actually using a fricken abacus.
A couple rooms over they're splitting the atom and harnessing thousands of pounds of steam pressure to turn turbines, and she's there flipping beads back and forth to calculate the change for this guy's bag of cucumbers.
@@pyro4002 Abacus is quite fast and convenient for shops. It's still used today. Good thing this lady is selling food at the canteen and not working on the actual powerplant systems, don't you think?
You are not wrong. The project is the same. And look to Smolenskaya AES: it's the exact copy of reactors 3 and 4 of Chernobyl'skaya AES. As for Leningradskaya AES, the project is the same.
My right ear enjoyed this video
I played the turbine hall part, the sound up loud 🔊 over my Bluetooth speaker until after 7 mins my room mate comes upstairs to say " what's that sound??" LMAO 🤣
@@therandomytchannel4318 LOL
From 20:50 *THAT´S THE STYLE MATE, that´s the style!*
That guy knows what he´s doing, wish people today could still just listen to an engine (which it is, just a HUGE steam-engine) and know what´s wrong/good with it :-)
-The reactor seems acting act
-C'mon, poke it with a stick
The guy is walking on top of 3600 MW monstrosity. It’s literally just few meters below him. 🙃Without non-stop cooling that would be enough to evaporate him in a moment. It’s essentially a real-life Death Star.
@@joez.2794 Well yes, it will resist actively and you’ll have to try pretty hard to achieve that goal.
24:36 id be tweaking out a bit...
Ancient Soviet reliable RBMK still running. Fresh wind from the past. 👌
just make sure that wind isn't carrying cesium, strontium, etc...
Fun fact, LNPP II-1 and II-2 released
@@Ratmasssss they are not new RBMKs though they are PWR reactors to replace RBMK the units as they retire due to age.
Any kind of alarm would make me shit my pants if I worked in a place like that 😬😬😬
Even turbine trip?
8:55 Dyatlov be like: "LOOK AT IT!! Fucking amateurs, you stalled the reactor! How the fuck did you get this job!?"
that is funny lol
Your going to say, you did everything right again you incompetent asshole!! 😁
Dyatlov in real life or Dyatlov from a TV show?
Come spread your newly acquired Nuclear PHD from the HBO University
Yes, Comrade Ancarno!
there should be a filter for these comments. America explains the world to the world...
Nobody:
Nothing
Dyatlov:
Heavy breathing
That steam coming up through the floor at 24:44 is rather curious. Yeah I know it can't be coming from the core but it's still disconcerting..
grooveclubhouse yez
I wouldn't be so sure.
@@mihaster As I know, the system is absolutely closed, as every nuclear reactor. There is no tank there, the cooling water is flowed in many pipes around the uranium rods (more accurately around the graphite block).
Water enter the pipes and steam quit from it. The radioactive steam can leave only to the generator. So I don't know what was this.
I have a theory, when they notified about TV filming the plant, they cleaned everything including the top of the reactor, and some moisture leaked inside the lead blocks and now evaporating on camera.
Yeah and you know everything and they dont huhuh
Other than the computers in the control room (They could have been 1990's computers for that matter.), everything I saw in this video could have been Soviet 1980's.
3:03 , the guy reading the book looks like he’s wondering why some pages are missing
That isn't funny.
watch the operator at 4:35-4:50. he just does something for nothing only for the cams. it looks like he is going to note something, when he picks up a pen. then he just closes the notebook with nothing noted:)
Like Dr Evil : He man, not you behind the controls pretending doing something :).
Well, if you had video cameras a few inches from YOUR face...
@@cmillerg6306 Compared to other areas?
I was once on a class trip at one powerplant that had combined wood chipping-plywood line
Operators were literally half sleeping, but when they noted that boss and my class were aproaching, they instantly started staring the monitors and used pens to track lines on screens pretending they would be doing something.
@@jarskil8862 Yeah it does look like a hell of a boring job. Most of the time the plant is running fine and there is very little to do in the control room other than read some old theory text books or glance at the screens and instruments and look on knowingly. Sometimes if you're lucky an alarm sounds and you can press the 'ignore warning' button 🙂
Gotta love the steam coming directly off the reactor...
The steam in RBMK is only slightly radioactive, because it contain a little amount of salts.
It's probably just ambient moisture boiling off on the pressure tubes
watch out for that positive void coefficient
At 6:00 that was Dyatlov.
Wondering what time (year?) I thought he went to prison and died? With the color monitors, this control room looks more modern (later) than Chernobyl. ???
@@cmillerg6306 Well this isn't Chernobyl anyway, although a similar plant. This is 10 yrs after Chernobyl.
Its not, the description lists this video at 1996, Dyatlov died in 95
William Forbes Yeah and this isn’t the Chernobyl plant anyway.
Its Jim1. He is mine frend3es.
Guy listening in at the reactor: ” not great, not terrible”
NIce beeping sounds in the control room. Everybody cool, it's not that it's going to explode right? RBMK cannot explode..
Minute 25:05, I'm curious what kind of sound you're looking for, even when you put the mic down. Thanks for uploading, beautiful.
can someone please add some english subtitles? that would be really awesome.
22:11 - he's listening to the stream of radiation going through his head xd
He's delusional! Get him out of there!
can you get out of the toilet please akimov did somethign
@@greensworld4391 Oh my... what did he do this time?
@@anatolydyatlov963 Power surge, someone said there is graphite on the ground.
@@greensworld4391 That's impossible! Take him to the infirmary, he's delusional. What does the dosimeter say?
23:30
Hey, there's something strange here...
Nah, it's fine.
But I thought for sure that...
Nah, it's fine.
Why do these workers poke the reactor with sticks and listen to the reactor this way?
There is a Edm techno party happening down there!
@@melissawickersham9912 he listens for leaking pressure tubes. This type of reactor contains hundreds of small diameter tubes, which contain the fuel and the cooling water. This design allows fuel rod changes without shutting reactor down. Of course this design comes with several flaws. The relative thin tubes can and will break from time to time.(thats why the shown procedure must be done at least once a day) Soviet scientists guess that 7 broken tubes in a row will likely cause a complete destruction of the reactor, as the released heat will also destroy near by tubes. Also this designs leads to comperable high radioactive emissions, even in its normal operation state. (Its much harder to shield hundreds of tubes, than a big, single reactor vessel) These reactors are still very dangerous and would be never allowed to be operated in western countries.
This is already a historical footage.
After this video (shutdown of the reactor) was filmed, the block (unit 2) isn't running anymore.
Attention! 360 degree camera.
ruclips.net/video/X05JHdA7cBc/видео.html
Это уже исторические кадры.
После того, как сняли это видео (останов блока), блок уже не работает.
Внимание! камера на 360 градусов.
Very nice video.. But i dont see the circulating pumps in the video !! What the man was listening on the top of reactor ? Thanks for your answers
Is that guy standing on top of an OPERATING REACTOR using that rod to detect unusual vibrations?????? And was that little wisps of steam coming out of the floor tiles?????
But this is the first time I have seen an abacus actually being used. From what I have read, up until the mid 2000's they were still widely used.
I just wish there was an English translation available, but the photography was great.
This plant operated until 2030 and now control room modernized replaced with big lcd screen,i saw it on russian rosatom youtube channel....
Um... are you from the future?
So is that Sony Trinitron multiscan for sale now?
I'm just wondering what and why they're listening to the reactor here. 22:16
im asking me the same thing
My guess is they are listening for leaks. Probably part of their routine inspections.
Maybe he is just a summer worker doing silly things not knowing he is being filmed :D
nuclear reaction/ fissions of atoms colliding
RBMK is supposed to be periodically inspected with "stethoscopes" like these to see if the water pipes are rumbling with steam bubbles.
Dear santa, now i want my own rbkm reactor...
It’s still running and I can confirm it’s absolutely safe. No more than an chest x-ray. Even if you look into the graphite around this fine structure. Graphite that don’t exists I like to add.
Nuclear energy is our only way to survive and the rbmk reactor is the cheapest solution available. We have to build more.
jesus... they were using selsyn motors to indicate the height of the control rods (all those thick round meters in the large central wall display. Nothing wrong with selsyn motors.. they're kind of cool. One the one hand, it's a bit primitive, on the other, that approach is pretty simple, as they contain no electronics (to get fried). Just odd.
They are also extremely loud when running.
14:24 >ear protection
I wonder if it actually sounds this loud or if its just because of the microphone used
@@ICANanimations don't worry the sound in the turbine hall is much louder than the video why do you think everyone wears ear buds when working in the turbine hall
SO cool! Like being there!
They're both RBMK reactors. Just like all the units (1-4) of Chernobyl.
This is literally like Chernobyl, but with computers and more safety
cool video thanks
Each video i see of RBMK-1000 makes me want to go there
Thanks for information keep going 🤠 greeting from Morocco
my right ear enjoyed this
I would walk on the reaktor cover stones or put my ear on the pressure pipes.
That makes one of us.
Antiquated control room equipment.
oh this vid is awesome
They really need to keep the turbine hall cleaner
They barely had money to keep the plant running, let alone hire a cleaning crew. As long as it worked it was good enough
The turban hall looks fine to me, just as noisy as our local power plant turban hall, we are running older turban units from the 70s
The abacus at the lunch counter.
24:35 That's me or there is steam that comes from the reactor core through the upper biological shield?
Hehe, it´s nothing. I saw some document about ChNPP where the guy is walking on the same spot of reactor nr. 3 and there is much more steam coming from the lid.
Remember.. it´s just a big boiler.. nothing more :)
Probably ambient moisture boiling off on the pressure tubes
Ye, pretty sure that after Chernobyl they actually installed geiger counters in the plants to better gave them idea if there actually was some dangerous leak....ofc in reactor hall the background radiation would be bit higher than normal, but if there ever really was any leak in the reactor, all geiger counter would warn them off right away.
@@Balnazzardi Only they might max out at 3.6 roentgen per hour - not great not terrible.
21:12 this guy is walking on top of 3600 MW of heat, neutrons and gamma rays 🙃
It's not at the Finnish border, but on the opposite south coast of the Gulf of Finland, towards Estonia.
RBMK -1000 is the best reactors in the world
Best and cute
I am really sorry, but I have no idea what they are doing around 22:29. He seems to be listening to each of the ports on the floor. Is he listening for odd noises in the gas channels, but I don't know for sure. Does anyone know what they are doing?
+R Re According to fuel bundle diagrams, the center tube in each fuel bundle is dedicated for instruments.
Watching this video is like stepping back in time to the USSR.
Is it safe to walk around on top of the reactor with no protection? I thought i saw a photo of the old reactor 4 hall of chernobyl before the explosion with them wearing protective suits.
during refueling only the crane operator is in the reactor hall behind a leaded glass
You're only in trouble when those cover blocks start dancing. When that happens, run.
@@LordZontarThey never danced
25:25 asmr
Is that steam coming from hole in 24:48 is not radioactive?
Its just moisture in the tube boiling off, they had geiger counters to alert them if there was a leak
7:39 did bro just slap the control panel or did the reactor explode lol
No he switched off something
Faszinierend.
heh there's steam comming directly from the reactor. And are those windows in the reactor hall???
Probably ambient moisture boiling off on the pressure tubes. And yes, those are windows in the reactor hall.
RBMK-reactors do indeed leak a significant amount of radiation into the environment by design. Significantly more than most western designs.
To my eye, those are electric light fixtures, not windows. (but I did wonder about that at first). Anyone?
@@maniak1768 what no no reactor does that or else it wouldn't be in operation in the first place
@4:19 Oleksiy on his 17th birthday was not too happy to be filmed whilst trying to do his school homework he even hid his pen in his homework book because he was so angry
How about some translation and sub titles that would make my
Right, it's mainly video-only. Wonder what the technician is listening for with his "ear horn" pipe?
Do they work with this continuous high noise in the background?
Steam and water are loud combined with pumps.
Ive been at forestry leftover burning powerplant and the sound there is loud AF.
Yes even when the plant is shut down
Gotta love the very scientific approach of some dudes ear checking its all good down below....jesus
The guy at 20:50 - listens to each channel in turn, each one sounds like the gates of hell being opened "yep, that one's good!"
I have a question, what are the yellow pipes with electric motors for next to the turbines?
They look like remote control valves, the wheel on it is probably a manual backup.
if your left ear loved this video you have your headphones on backwards 😉
wow.....!
Where is comrade Dyatlov?
Dead, this was in 1996, dyatlov died in 95
At toilet.
English subtitles would have been appreciated..
Tolles AKW!
A nuclear reactor without any containment building. Dumb, insane and wreck less
And almost nobody knows that this plant had a pretty serious accident already in 1975 (and more later), but it was classified.
Well there is no need for a containment building with this reactor type.it had biological shield thick re-enforced steel concrete shield ,water in between and a 1000 plus tonne reactor lid what more do you need
@@alexandrosandreou8585 hahahahahahahahahahahaha
quick fact the background behind the first guy talking at the beginning of this video is to remind the employees the layout of the plant and how it works before they clock in for their shift still half drunk from the night before
i used to call it how to mix a cocktail board blayt
As of today (this was obviously shot in the 90's) these reactors will soon be decommissioned sometime this decade (I even believe one has already been shutdown.) They are building much better designed VVER units right next door to replace them.
Units 1 & 2 are now closed (shutdown). Two new VVER units are running instead and two more VVER units are planned to replace RBMK-units 3 & 4.
Here is more information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Nuclear_Power_Plant
As of 2022 there are still 4 RBMK units running, tho they will be shut down by 2028 as new plants are brought online in a few countries. These RBMKs still running do have HUGE safety upgrades
Smoke comes out of graphite, press az 5!
What are they listening to on top of the reactor?
They listen for any leaking preassure tubes
It's an RBMK-3000.
what are they doing with that rod ?
+Wolfcat Wildcat Instrumentation device, has to do with audio.
+Wolfcat Wildcat. as far as i can tell its a listening rod. they touch it to the steam channels through the holes and listen for leaks. each fuel rod channel has an individual steam pipe attached at the top and so you can pinpoint precisely which channel is leaking if any.
23:30 WHAT HE DID ???
I dont know but radioactive steam seeping from the reactor top.
Probably ambient moisture boiling off on the pressure tubes
Stop spewing bullshit.
*3.6 Roentgen, Not bad.. Not good..*
So let's be glad it was "only" Chernobyl that blew up.
Как же шумно на БЩУ. Ты шпион? Откуда записи?
this plant is built like reactor 3 and 4 at chernobyl, but two buildings so a mirrored version of chernobyls 3 and 4 pre explosion... this is prettymuch chernobyls identical twin
No, it's more like phase 1 of Chernobyl (unit 1/2) the identical twin would be the Kursk NPP
Red Tyto коггда ЧАЭС достроишь?
! ObamaTookMyCat ! Please, there was a big safety adjustment! Nowadays these are pretty safe man.
Ah the RBMK-1000, the boogeyman of Nuclear reactors, huge and dangerous when messed with, like a big Russian bear.
Graphite smoke!
i AM THE GUY IN THE BACK THER. THANE M,EE!
Is it possible that the alarm signals in Chernobyl sounded similar?
Ofc LNPP also runs on RBMK 1000 its basically chernobyl but its not, just lnpp
the 6th block is the newest powerign unit
Working in a Soviet-era nuclear power plant is waaaaaaaaaay, waaaaaaaay down there on anyone's list of "Things To Do".
But in 1996, you did the job you did.
Да, на БЩУ довольно шумно.
22:00 What is he doing?
Im not going to say with 100% Certainty but I have a good guess that he is using that Listening Rod to Hear the Flow of Steam in each Channel and make sure that it is within normal Conditions.
In RBMK Each Steam Channel is Individualized so he can pinpoint a Disruption or Strange sound coming from the Reactor.
He is searching for a leaked "pressure tube", I think. For sure there are visible instruments in the controll room, to watch over the pressure in the tubes. In soviet russia the always trusted more in human abilitys intead of machines in the end. Its a safety procedure.
cheking for normal coolant flow in each individual pressure tube thru hearing
He's listening to the steam tubes trying to find out which one is leaking. 🤣 OMG I can't believe after Chernobyl they seriously let these things continue to operate knowing they have no proper containment structure. 😖
They had no choice. No technology and resources to build containment structure, and no luxury to stop all facilities of the type.
wow ther still using Chernobyl style reactors thats completely crazy
This block was switched off dec 22 2018, the other three blocks in Leningrad are still in operation, and some of them are older than Chzernobyl Block 4 which exploded. The one in the video had issues (some molten fuel channel) in the 70's and again in the 2000s but then was retrofitted and "improved" :) But on the other hand, water cooled nuclear power plants all get grumpy when they lack their cooling, which can happen as seen in Japan...
Ye, after Chernobyl they made significant security updates to all remaining RBMK reactors, making similar kind of disaster/accident pretty much impossible to happen. Ofc in theory if there would be nuclear accident in one of these reactors it would be still much worse situation than that of any western nuclear reactor. Anyhow the thing is that even the Chernobyl accident would not have likely ever happened if they had not just performed that safety test (ironic) in first place or tried to force it through on low power that went exactly against their instructions and all safety regulations.
I find it funny that eastern operators wear lab coats and other protection while western operators just wear polo's and dockers.
A uniform is for a reason.
1: Compliance through unity and lack of the individual.
2: enforcing this is not worth it
Белые одежды используют в основном на АЭС с реакторами РБМК-1000 и других одноконтурных реакторах.
На ВВЭР-1000, например, используются костюмы
@@nikolaychukas that's interesting, do you know why?
At my workplace we got to wear hi vis vests, not that I mind or anything it's just ppe and work regulations