Nuclear Reactor Cooling Towers | Building Demolition | BlowDown | S01 E01| Free Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2019
- Nuclear Reactor Cooling Towers Demolition:
Blowdown is an explosive four part building demolition series profiling some of the most challenging projects of Controlled Demolition Inc of Phoenix, Maryland. Each of the structures, some notable, others notorious is unique and present the team with challenges ranging from the structural, to the
explosive and to the bureaucratic. In episode one, the team from CDI travels to Sellafield, England to take down four outdated cooling towers on the site of the world’s first commercial nuclear
reactor. Sellafield has a long history of nuclear incidents and mishaps dating back to the infamous Windscale Fire in 1957. Sellafield now stores and treats nuclear waste and is home to 90% of Britain’s industrial radioactivity. The tension is increased by the fact that explosives have never been used on an active nuclear site in the United Kingdom before and it has taken four years to overcome the bureaucratic hurdles. The subjects of the film are four nuclear cooling towers. Each one is 88 m high and has an estimated mass of 5,200 tons. Of particular concern is the fact that the towers are only 40 meters away from a nuclear fuel handling plant. There has been a steady deterioration of the towers and there is the concern of an inadvertent collapse. Explosive demolition has been determined to be the safest and most cost effective means of removing the towers.
Each of the towers will be loaded with three sets of explosives. The first set will be in the legs of the towers, encircling 60% of the circumference. The second set will be set in a predrilled band around the same 60% approximately 20 m up. Charges will also be loaded into 3 vertical slots about 10 meters high which should cause the concrete shells of the towers to deform, rotate and collapse within the drop zone.
With just 10 days to load all four towers, the team struggles safely load and rig more than 4,500 charges and time the explosions to minimize the risks to the surrounding site. The team must evaluate each risk, real or imagined and account for it in the plan. Major concerns are projectiles, ground vibration and air over pressure that could compromise operations at the nuclear facility.
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That is some crazy engineering built in to get these to fall just right. I'd love to have some of that dynamite for some tree stump problems.
contact your local fire marshall and ask about dynamite and tree stumps.
Worked with C.D.I. On the K- cooling tower at S.R.S. It was a blast
Tamping dynamite is, indeed, completely safe since dynamite doesn't generally explode due to impact, or even sparking(though do note she uses a wooden tamper).
Gun-powder not so much, and even less with a steel tamper. As evidenced by what happened to Phineas Gage.
These guys are they can bring anything downthey hold the Guinness book of world record in bringing down the tallest concrete building Americans always do it the best
Us Marylanders are something else, eh?
Marc is the coolest dude ever
43:55
you're welcome
I realized how long the video was so I was like there. Got to be a comment that says time of boom boom lol
Thank you so much
Thx
Thank you.
Thx! Subbed 2 u!
Somebody needs to learn how a cooling tower works...
Wow, they're like paper cups, it almost doesn't even look real! So satisfying! it might seem strange and it will probably never happen but it's on my bucket list to stand inside a cooling tower! There's all sorts of stuff I'd love to do in there like pop a balloon, toss up a paper airplane, shoot a flare gun up through it, and drop a giant bag of 10,000 squeaky rubber chickens inside! Wouldn't that be the echo of a lifetime!
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Ive done it. Theres a few in england what are just abandoned and you can simply walk into.. and these are huge. They are still there now to this day, and all the underground access steps to all the rooms is all flooded.
I played golf on the course at Sellafield, the standing joke was that you could play at night with a black golf ball, because you could see it against the glowing grass.
Lies never
As family business go, this is DEFINITELY one of the cooler ones. "Oh, we blow stuff up and knock stuff over."
explosions make me go YES
@JopieH *yes*
Good job mark
Why do the cooling towers look like paper cups getting crushed?
Poor structural design.
cause they're probably fake
They are strucurally compairable, in their shape and because the fibers in the paper act somewhat similar to the rebar in the concrete.
Literally every cooling tower demolition looks like that. lol
44:25, the cows couldn't care less. :)
8:17 who the hell goes golfing next to nuclear waste
@@FowlorTheRooster1990 yeah I guess... It is still a higher risk area though
I love you guys........ youre the bomb!
Had Fred Dibnah been alive he could have done it with three telegraph poles 50 tyres 50 old pallets 5gallon of red derv and two swan vesta matches
Ughhh British people in the comment section
Do u know who Fred Dibnah was and his Uk fame on BBC TV he used to demolish mill chimneys by the dozen using nothing more than a chisel and wooden props and then set fire to them search on RUclips for him
@@ieatlemons288 Idiot alert
They should have demolition fails at the end of each episodes :D
6:54 Work of art...
CDI are Masters of their Craft.
Narrator starts out saying "TNT" - trinitrotoluene - and later switches to dynamite (mostly nitroglycerin) which is also what the CDI team says.
They have very different properties.
No wonder there are so many people around who don't know much - ignorance propagates!
Today, after learning the difference between TNT and dynamite, I will continue to go about my life using the terms interchangeably.
They serve the same function, they go BOOM!!! Lmao 😂😂😂
So AC/DC were wrong?
If I'm not mistaken, all that goes up the cooling towers is steam from the pools that cool the reactor core. I don't believe it's radioactive at all. They wouldn't let the demo team in if the towers were hot...
I love this series of documentaries. However the mix on the narration track on this one is WAY too low. I found myself either struggling to hear the narration at times as it's far quieter than the audio track and at times can hardly be heard above the (over) dramatic music.
I love this one
Alright. Don't step on it Stacey is in on this one too.
Wow!
0:34 Yeah, the containment building would hardly have a dent on it if the cooling towers were planned to fall on them.
Yeah, there is nothing radioactive in those towers and there is nothing radioactive outside those containment vessels plus those vessels are made of harder stuff than those towers are..
Michael Clark for a level of nothing that sets off Geiger counters. Safe maybe, nothing not so much.
Factually incorrect in parts, the emissions from the pile fire were never through the cooling towers, they were exhausted up the pile chimneys which had filters named "Cockroft's folley" as had they not been there the release would have been much worse to the surrounding communities
Was called Winscale until after the massive radiation leak because the reactor was on fire, very brave people demoing those towers.
Towers go boom!
They just blew up 2 of these where I live its a crazy thing to see live
Jacksonville?
@@noname-dz7ed no Massachusetts
I love this video
Music is over powering the narration :-(
Yup, the narration audio was barely audible
Would be better if you could hear the narrator clearly .
It fall down and go boom!😆
I hate to tell them, but that curtain isn’t gonna stop ANY debris from going wherever it wants
TWIN TOWERS COMING DOWN !
WHERE HAVE I HEARD THAT BEFORE ?
I really don't understand the need to overly dramatize the events in this show. Just tell the story in a matter-of-fact manner and let it speak for itself!
Go make your own documentary and stfu
This sound like some where from star wars
And those poor birds have no idea what’s coming 42:19
Birds be like yo it 911 all over again
Really enjoyed this. However, the night shot at 37.00 - please don’t dub the sound of cicadas. The only sound close to that you would hear at night in Cumbria is your own teeth chattering because of the cold.
Or the cicadas teeth chattering, if they had teeth and if Cumbria had cicadas.
@@PhilJonesIII lol
The wind moving parts of your house…
If there were cicadas you’d have them flying on the wind.
Generally just the wind and rain.
True, after that the worst offender of sound design is the ridiculous explosion sounds making the simple detonation of explosive charges sound like supersonic shockwaves of energy. There are videos of the towers being demolished all over RUclips, you can compare them and see what I mean!
Ray got his Flip Phone 5000 😂
people working on it: it's not that risky otherwise we wouldn't do it
documentary makers: everyone will die if anything at all goes wrong
So so so much work for a few second explosion but instant gratification! I wonder what the bill was? 💰💰💰
I was wondering the same on another episode
The location of the cooling towers are called, ‘Calder Hall Cooling Towers’
*Command Dyatlov has left the chat*
Radiation has joined the chat
Dogs left the chat 🐾
Hate to see such a wonderful energy resource go to waste. Research Galen Windsor folks.
Ferrybridge cooling towers weren’t badly designed, they were unfortunately positioned for the wind that sheared them.
44:09 is just surreal
This deserves to be a tv show, so good.
Edit: I was a mental retard and didnt know you could legally upload your own tv show to youtube, my bad. (03 / 05 / 21) Or ( 05 / 03 / 21 ) if your American.
It is just uploaded to yt lol
Dylan Milner the channel?
Oliver Clark because he’s not talking to you. He’s talking to Dylan
It was a TV show on National Geographic or the History Channel, depending on market. As an older series (these programmes are now around twelve years old), I expect that the original clients are not interested in repeating the programmes any more, leaving the way open for a RUclips channel like this one to license the content in order to bring them to a new audience and make money from them.
MORE MOST DANGEROUS WAYS TO SCHOOL!!
J M same
@@nicolekim9895 i'm sure the next one is in the works.
CDI is the best in the business I don't know why you want to make it in to a dramatic reality show
I enjoyed watching this, great work lads and lasses,
The cooling towers look like the cuffs of the sleeves of a jacket wrinkling as they collapse
@freedocumentary you need to fix this problem of music overpowering the documentary. FIX IT!
Really interesting documentary. Can't help but wonder how Fred Dibner would have done it. Wooden pegs and a fire, I suppose...
There is absolutely no use telling "them" to change their techniques. These are old TV shows, not a modern production. Check out the flip phones!
The audio is horrible on this video.
Must be ur speakers its fine
... and when Sellafield is finally gone there will be bugger all employment in an area that is already almost impossible to find work in.....
35:45 Nokia There.
You Know what I mean!
Riad Hossain 😂
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wow
I thought those lattice legs were either solid steel or super thick tubing- but 10:48 -just reinforced 14 or 16 inch concrete for all that load? wow
The narrator needs to stop saying that there's a problem after every detonation on every documentary. It was perfectly clear that it went fine.
Uh oh
Cooling towers?
And that might- yup it went boom
Or is it a- forget it
I love the part when it pops like a balloon
Matt must be a South African ex mining Master blaster judging by the accent.
yeah, was thinking the exact same thing!
Almost made it look all too easy;)...
0:23 - 0:26 "And a toxic neck, see there's a dead baby" according to RUclips's auto-generated captions
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😂
Sellafield, the world's worst nuclear accident. Chernobyl, "Hold my beer".
whoever mixed the audio - are you deaf?!
ikr, it was so hard to hear, the narrarator sounded like a faint background noise
interesting but if the leg coverings were intact did that mean the charges didn't go off and be considered as a problem
Erik Andreassen no. The explosions go off inside the concrete legs. The explosion doesn’t “reach” the leg coverings. The explosions are just meant to destroy the legs and the coverings make it so the leg debris don’t fly all around.
Make em wanna holla
Fred dibnah would have taken those down with ease
19:47 Random demolition
24:07 Another random demolition
43:54 Main demolition
I live close to this .
44:28 cows didn't care
Really wish the video would play & circle would stop going round & round
1:04 Chernobyl: Am I a joke to you?
"or will they create another nuclear disaster"
Are they serious? There is nothing radioactive in those towers.
Got hyperbole?
It wasn't hyperbole. It was quite literal. They aren't worried about the towers themselves. They are worried that if the towers do not fall correctly, they could fall on the buildings storing the nuclear waste and the spent fuel rods, and the reprocessing plant. If the towers fall on those buildings, or damage them severely enough, it could create a disaster. They talk about it, starting at 7:30.
Next video should be a series of controlled demolitions of USA's ,Russia's ,North Korea's ,France ,China ,UK and India's nuclear stockpiles.
What a foolish, ignorant statement. Have you ever read a history book? (I doubt it.)
"Those who beat there swords into plows, end up plowing for those who don't!"
Interesting documentary but I wish this channel could figure out how to properly do the voice over. The music is always just as loud as the voice, drowning it out.
Also, while definitely interesting, I wish this documentary had just been 25 minutes. It felt like it repeated itself a lot.
Pretty sure this was originally meant for a TV time spot. Probably had to fill in a 60min slot including commercials.
The whole thing behind the dust is once it's on the ground it will have dust as you clean it up if it's to risky I wouldent blow it up owner knows his explosives and has experience he really took it down fast like a tree he knocked it and back cut it
06:23
Nice flex.
they kinda look like wet toliet paper cardboard tubes xD
Don't the Reactors hold the Reactor core if so then what happened to the core. Where did they move the core?
There is Zero nuclear material in the cooling towers. .whats the big deal bringing down a cement tower? Now removing piping from the containment vessel is something else. Once it is down and in cooling ponds not so easy to bring down the containment vessels they are not radio active either.. That said.. with the amount of steel in them they are going to be super hard. High strength concrete and yes the steel. Likely easier to just de commission and leave the containment intact
No whooping, no hollering - consummate professional.
Image destroying cooling towers beside other towers that may start the apocalypse..if you make a mistake just imagine.
CrazyData Gaming Imagine going to first grade and learning how to properly capitalize words.
oh plz shut up
GDpro 28ッ Imagine being a jerk that thinks its funny that everything isn’t prefect just IMAGINE
CrazyData Gaming ok listen I have ocd and it hurts to look at the comment
@@crazydatagaming9640 *perfect
Use to think blowing stuff up was less work but it's really just reverse engineering it
44:14 a burst of steam escapes from the pipes in the foreground as the explosions happen.
Random coincidence?
Pat McBride noticed that too!
I certain that's the concrete dust being pushed out by the explosive cutting charges.
42:20 it starts your welcome
I'm pretty sure there was a British version of this documentary using the same footage with zero drama bullshit.
Yeah it was 6 minutes long 😂
Why are there sound effects... IN THE FUCKING REAL-TIME SEGMENTS?!?!
Almost can’t hear the narrator
What happened to the narration volume??? Can hardly hear him! Poor mixing.
Volume is fine
18:11 Glasses on and no sun. When you talk to people.... take them of !!!
These are safety goggles you idiot.
Is this what happened in ironbridge
Stacey, I'm still single.
I guess you could say that was a nuclear detonation.
tone down the music so you can hear the narrator,s talking
Go tell discovery.