At first, no information was given that a serious accident occurred. Employees at Forsmark, nuclear power plant Sweden, just over 1200 km from Chernobyl, discovered elevated radioactivity Monday morning April 28, 1986. Believe that Sweden was the first to discover that something is wrong
Quite correct, it's dissassembled and certainly was in the turbine hall, wrapped up and fenced off. May have been removed now as they start decontamination. Bionerd23 has an excellent video where she tours through it all. Her stuff is really cool 👍😁
Back in middle school, after I played my first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game, whenever we'd head to the computer lab, I'd always look at this area on Google Earth. It's amazing the detail they put into those games. You can find the places they based the in game locations off of, like the Yanov train station, sports gym, and many of the abandoned buildings in Pripyat.
Good video but hope you don't mind if I correct few small errors: 1. Correct name for those "cooling vents" are cooling towers. They were never completed along with the reactor 5/6 blocks and were meant to be used for cooling the reactor water of the new blocks as the open ponds were at their maximum capacity already. 2. There original chimney, or ventilation stack as it's called, was dismantled in 2013, what you see is a smaller new ventilation stack only about 2/3 height and half the diameter of the old one, built after that. 3. There was one more town evacuated apart from Pripyat and Chernobyl - Poliskie, plus many villages. 4. People live in Chernobyl town today, about 3000-6000 thousands workers on average if I remember correctly. Those are mainly contractors working around the NSC, newly built spent fuel storage facility, engineers, electricians, research workers and so on. They're only allowed to stay there for a total of about 6 months in a year. There are few shops, bars, gym halls for playing sports after hours, hospital, hotels and all other amenities., Almost all administrative staff is now located in Slavutych, city built for them after the disaster about 30km north-east from the power plant. There are also about 100 resettlers still living in the 30km zone, sadly many now old, sick and disappearing year after year. Interesting fact about the fallout - I work in Scotland, we handle radioactive materials for marking biological samples here. Few days after the Chernobyl disaster the background radiation readings went up several times so they had to take it into consideration in all calculations. I've got few videos from there on my channel for anyone interested in the exploration side of things.
Right on. Thanks for the corrections amd confirmations. The only thing i knew was that they dismantled the tower when the new sarcophagus came on. I was like wait what? Comment section time!
They also didn’t roll the new safe confident into place on wheels. That would never work with a 36,000 ton structure. They slid it in place on Teflon pads using hydraulic jacks.
Interesting Fact: The other reactors in Chernobyl continued to supply electricity for another 10-12 years after the accident until they were eventually shut down
They got abnormally high readings in Sweden as well at the Oskarshamn nuclear reactor and Studsvik (where they produce and manufacture radiation detection hardware). Since there hadn't been any nuclear accidents in Sweden, they figured something massive was going on somewhere else and started digging into it. They found through weather and wind patterns that it had to be Chernobyl, so it was actually the Swedish government who alerted the Soviets about the accident.
I just want to let you know that I'd rather any of your videos than any other in-depth documentary any day! I don't know what it is that pulls me into your videos but I love it, so keep doing you!
"Why worrying about something that is never going to happen ?", damn this sentence was the perfect conclusion of Legasov speech on how "lies" lead to RBMK explosion ....
Always looking forward to new videos! Awesome. Suggestions; DC Sniper, Reagan assassination attempt , Operation shock and aw, Trump/Kim summit, North Korea nuclear test site (Mountain collapsed), and Ernest Shackleton expedition. Keep it up !!
I was 19 when this happened and remember it very well, also I lived near the mountains of North Wales , and remember they had to slaughter a lot of the sheep from the Welsh hill farms at the time..
In all of Europe there were higher readings of nuclear radiation but only in bursts. It came with the wind so the concentration varied a lot. Also in Belgium, they advised to intensely wash vegetables, keep kettle inside. There were some occasions they found out that the concentration in some foods were to high.
I wish you were my history teacher in HS. I'd love for you to show us where ancient dynasties were located & major events like the Roman amphitheaters, bio of Jesus, etc. I could listen to you all day & actually learn. You make it real.
This is fascinating, thank you. I've seen pictures of that structure they built but until now I didn't know it was on wheels, which is actually a clever method of dealing with building this. Also I read somewhere (don't remember where, sorry) that there were high doses of radiation found in Norway, Sweden and Finland livestock and crops.
great video, but the chimney in the photo isn't the same as in the map, they dismantled it because the NSC would overlap and built a slightly smaller one just to te side (it's a ventilation stack) but good video
here is a photo of the new one, you can see it's yellow and has a square structure instead of hexagonal www.world-nuclear-news.org/uploadedImages/wnn/Images/Chernobyl%20NSC%20in%20place%20-%20460%20(EBRD).jpg
You can see in the Google map where there's large areas of dead forest. They call the area in the exclusion zone the Red Forest - because all the trees died and turned a reddish color from absorbing massive amounts of radiation. They had planted a lot of conifer trees in the surrounding area after they built the reactor and right after the explosion the closer trees were glowing at night from soaking up radiation. All the fish in the cooling ponds and channels have grown to massive size due to nobody fishing there anymore. The most dangerous thing ever done in the history of mankind is when they had to remove one of the damaged chimneys in order to cover it up with the new dome. If they had dropped it or a chunk of it it would have rendered most of Europe uninhabitable for thousands of years.
the cooling towers were made for block 5 and 6, but all of them were never finished. The cooling pond was used for block 1, 2, 3 and 4. First readings outside of the USSR were made in Sweden.The initial explosion was caused because of a buildup of gasses, because the reactor became unstable at lower output. It dropped under 700 Mw. The meltdown happened little bit later when things really got out of hand.
It's actually not the same chimney. They had to put down the old one (and later deconstruct it), cause it was in the way of new confinement building. The one that is seen now is actually a new chimney, little bit smaller, but putten just to commemorate the last one.
Small correction. While yes, the reactor did eventually melt down, but that was as a result of the race tie exploding at first. So the incident is commonly referred to as a nuclear explosion, not a nuclear melt down.
The ventilation pipe he mentioned later in the video is not the original one. The original pipe was replaced by a smaller one for 2 reasons. 1. Its instability created the chanse for it to fall on the structure above reactor 4 that would colapse as the result. 2. If it wouldnt be removed the new safe convinement wouldnt fit it place above the building. The old pipe was huge so it must have been a big deal taking it down safely. And there are videos whit both the old pipe next to eachother and u could see the new safe convinement build in the distance.
the ventilation tower just behind the Safe Containment Structure was built for that structure, the original one was removed to accommodate placement of the current structure, the old one is/was in storage in the turbine house awaiting further dismantling disposal as it is severely contaminated w/ radation.
Cool video. Very interesting. The "high power line structure" is called a switch yard. It's basically where the power leaves the plant. Also has lines coming back in to the plant for operation.
The Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden was evacuated when high values of radioactivity were measured that day. They then left the building. It turned out that the radioactive levels were higher outside the nuclear power plant than inside. This was, as I understand it, the first international observation that something went wrong at a Russian nuclear power plant. Soon thereafter, they announced from a Russian perspective that this was the case.
yeah, a lot of other countries had noticed extremely high radiation levels too, far worse than Scotland or than in the Alps and much earlier. first it was Sweden, and then other Eastern European countries. the radiation levels detected in Poland (on the same day as Sweden, but separately due to Poland being cut off from non-comunist countries) were (reportedly) millions times higher than average. the radiation cloud literally went over the entire Europe. people in Poland were told to drink iodine-containting fluid called Lygol, due to shortage of iodine pills. when Chernobyl exploded, my mom was literally three days away from planned date of birth of my older brother. glad in wasn't earlier or he could've sustained terrible damage.
The Cooling Chimney you mention at 6:27, that one on google Earth isn't the original iconic chimney stack, the original one was too large and obscured where the 'NSFC' would eventually sit, so they deconstructed the original stack, and then re-built a smaller one slightly away from the area where the 'NSFC' would sit, the deconstructed original stack is being stored in several parts within the abandoned turbine hall of unit 3 I believe, as it's obviously too contaminated to move anywhere else.
Up here in Scotland, the dirt got contamination and that caused high amounts of sheep, cows and other livestock and they had to be killed and some farms completely dug up and turned
You are wrong about the chimney being the same. The original chimney was removed (so the NSC could fit over it). A new chimney was installed on the neighboring roof for reactor 3 to use,because the old chimney was originally shared by reactors 3 & 4.
You should've gone back in time like you did on the bin laden video, images go back all the way to 1984. Although blurry, you can clearly see that between 1986-1988 the scenery of the area changed drastically, and in 2002 you can see the first good quality picture of the old building, way before they started building the fancy shield. Good job with the awesome content!
Nice overview of then and now, thanks! Remember that incident well, also that the radioactive clouds rained down in Scotland and the Netherlands, where I live, as well. Also very much impressed by the episode of River Monsters where Jeremy Wade went there and actually fished in the pond and waterways near the reactor.
There's a lot of cool places there, I used to go to Google Earth and see the pictures that were attached. Places like the red forest (it became red because of the radiation cloud that passed over it), the city of Prypiat, the vehicle cemetery, the train station...
They said that the radiation that drifted over the United States would be no problem unless you were flying around 2000 ft. for more than 5 hours. It was during this time (1986) that I was an airborne traffic reporter for several radio stations in Charlotte. NC., spending 3 hours each morning and 3 hours each evening at an attitude of about 2000 ft. Well, 34 years later I'm still here and have never suffered any effects from radiation. But don't think it didn't freak me out!
Inside the new cover and mounted to the ceiling are remote controlled robot arms that will tear down the old cover and the facility itself. There are train rails that hold scrap cars that are being filled inside for rail removal.
I came across a docu on this Radar Station which also did LF/VLF experiments that very well could have been instrumental in the meltdown of the reactor at this power station. The installation was under the name of DUGA. The common name among US radio operators was The Russian Woodpecker. The theory is that this station which was known to interfere with the operational testing of Chernobyl was not supposed to be operating that day but it was. It made the instruments read false at the time of the meltdown. Look it up. Can't let a great conspiracy go to waste.
1:45 You mentioned they put it on wheels. Well they considered that but with the massive amount of weight they scratched that idea. The tracks are made out of Polytetrafluoroethylene as well as the pads that are attached to the new cover. It can easily slide over one an other. So no wheels were used to move the gigantic thing.
The new confinement structure was not moved on wheels, it was moved on Teflon pads and pushed by hydraulic pistons. The weight of the structure would have crushed the whole wheel and axle assemblies.
It was NOT wheels that were used to put the building in place as the massive weight wouldve destroyed any suspension in existence. Instead, they used dozens and dozens of teflon pads for the building to slide on and then pushed the building using hydraulic pistons.
I don't believe it was on tracks because wheels would not survive. They were skids which were lined with Teflon pads slid into place. Saw the Nova program that showed the skid installation.
sweden also got some radiation, theres a documentary on this where the workers that worked on forsmark (now a closed nuclear powerplant) could not enter their plant because it detected radiation on their shoes.
I was suprised you didnt mention scandinavia because the most amount of radioactive waste was detected north of chernobyl, sweden and norway. In the area around trøndelag in Norway farmers still need to measure the amount of radiation in the animals before slaughter. In 2016 they reduced the amount of municipalities that need to check the amount of radiation in the animals from 145 municipalities to just 37. Link to a 3 day old norwegian article about this (use google translate): www.nrk.no/nordland/33-ar-etter-tsjernobyl-ma-fortsatt-37-norske-kommuner-male-radioaktivitet-i-husdyr-1.14575384
Probably not With the dome being built of to the side there will be less radiation and with the orignal containment blocking the radiation and the workers would of had personal Geiger counters of Geiger counters around the area to know the radiation and medical check ups regularly
At wylfa power station in Anglesey, Wales the workers going into the the reactor buildings were setting off the radiation detectors. Because over Anglesey and other parts of north Wales it rained from the radioactive cloud.
@@forresthaggertychannel4301 No problem. I've liked your stuff for a while now just couldn't find your channel for a little. I like the style of content you make. Just hitting "Record" and seeing now it goes type of feeling. You seem very educated with Google maps, and clearly do actual research. You also seem very humble, something I find is a good quality. Keep it up bud!
@@forresthaggertychannel4301 Thanks for the answer, but only English subtitles are available, I don't know if there is another way to activate in my language, Portugues do Brasil..
I just was reading about this. There wasn't an explosion or what you'd think of as an explosion. Long techno-babbly story short - it was more like what a black hole ejects out. The radiation went up so high in the atmosphere that only some type of a nuclear event could have shot it that high up. No chemical or steam explosion came close to ejecting it up that high. Said it was similar to an astrophysical jet that shoots out of a black hole only on a much smaller scale.
chernobyl is still partially inhabited while prypyat is the abandoned city. Also the og chimney was dismantled and a new smaller one was put there to fit the new safe confinement
It didn't just melt down. It exploded. And that new covering was paid for by more than 40 different countries and organizations. Go watch the series "Chernobyl". I think it's on HBO. That covered bridge is shown in the show when Anatoly Dyatlov walks into the bridge corridor and actually realizes the severity of his mistake. The show is awesome, informative and the music they use just makes it that much more daunting.
I’ve learnt more in the months I’ve been subscribed to your channel Forrest, than I have in my whole life! You’re like my own personal teacher!! (Although I’m now having to share you with loads more subscribers!) lol!! Another fascinating and detailed video. Keep them coming :-)))
Sharon Collard you are very funny! You were one of my earliest subscribers, so don’t worry. You will always hold a special place in my heart and I always look forward to your comments :))))))))
If you are on google earth or google maps, you can drag the person over the nuclear power plant site and there is actually a view of inside the control room.........!
Sometimes a good idea, in time turns out to be not your best idea, the really dumb thing is after realizing the mistake you go on to do the same thing over and over again,
The "cooling vent" is not for reactor 4 but for unfinished reactor 5 that's near the vent. Reactor 5 was never completed because of the disaster at unit 4 in 1986.
*Fifty-thousand people used to live in this city, now it's a ghost town intensifies*
Pumba70 I feel more for the animals n dogs 😪😪 I’m sick I know
Call of duty?
Pumba70 lmao cod 4
Pumba70 Call of Duty Modern Warfare much.!! Yeah i love it to the Pripyat mission good for u.! :)
Ehhhh a call of duty phrase
It's that time again boys and girls. Prepare to absorb knowledge.
Prepare to absorb nuclear radiation
Kraftwerk.
Nice Profile pic.
*pseudo knowledge
3.6 roentgens of knowledge
You don't need flashy infographics when the content is so interesting. This format works really well!
hackhenk I think interesting always over rides flashy. Giving our attention to interesting is in our DNA:)))))
@@LordBelakor ok
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow Of Chernobyl
At first, no information was given that a serious accident occurred. Employees at Forsmark, nuclear power plant Sweden, just over 1200 km from Chernobyl, discovered elevated radioactivity Monday morning April 28, 1986. Believe that Sweden was the first to discover that something is wrong
Some Swedish also involved in the making of the miniseries.
1:22 344 glazed donuts per bald eagle
Not the same chimney. Original was removed and stored inside one of the reactor buildings.
Quite correct, it's dissassembled and certainly was in the turbine hall, wrapped up and fenced off. May have been removed now as they start decontamination. Bionerd23 has an excellent video where she tours through it all. Her stuff is really cool 👍😁
Back in middle school, after I played my first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game, whenever we'd head to the computer lab, I'd always look at this area on Google Earth. It's amazing the detail they put into those games. You can find the places they based the in game locations off of, like the Yanov train station, sports gym, and many of the abandoned buildings in Pripyat.
Good video but hope you don't mind if I correct few small errors:
1. Correct name for those "cooling vents" are cooling towers. They were never completed along with the reactor 5/6 blocks and were meant to be used for cooling the reactor water of the new blocks as the open ponds were at their maximum capacity already.
2. There original chimney, or ventilation stack as it's called, was dismantled in 2013, what you see is a smaller new ventilation stack only about 2/3 height and half the diameter of the old one, built after that.
3. There was one more town evacuated apart from Pripyat and Chernobyl - Poliskie, plus many villages.
4. People live in Chernobyl town today, about 3000-6000 thousands workers on average if I remember correctly. Those are mainly contractors working around the NSC, newly built spent fuel storage facility, engineers, electricians, research workers and so on. They're only allowed to stay there for a total of about 6 months in a year. There are few shops, bars, gym halls for playing sports after hours, hospital, hotels and all other amenities., Almost all administrative staff is now located in Slavutych, city built for them after the disaster about 30km north-east from the power plant. There are also about 100 resettlers still living in the 30km zone, sadly many now old, sick and disappearing year after year.
Interesting fact about the fallout - I work in Scotland, we handle radioactive materials for marking biological samples here. Few days after the Chernobyl disaster the background radiation readings went up several times so they had to take it into consideration in all calculations.
I've got few videos from there on my channel for anyone interested in the exploration side of things.
Right on. Thanks for the corrections amd confirmations. The only thing i knew was that they dismantled the tower when the new sarcophagus came on. I was like wait what? Comment section time!
@@thanosmaster-abel559 Disliked your videos. 👌
They also didn’t roll the new safe confident into place on wheels. That would never work with a 36,000 ton structure. They slid it in place on Teflon pads using hydraulic jacks.
@@prot07ype87 he also got reported
Interesting Fact: The other reactors in Chernobyl continued to supply electricity for another 10-12 years after the accident until they were eventually shut down
They got abnormally high readings in Sweden as well at the Oskarshamn nuclear reactor and Studsvik (where they produce and manufacture radiation detection hardware). Since there hadn't been any nuclear accidents in Sweden, they figured something massive was going on somewhere else and started digging into it. They found through weather and wind patterns that it had to be Chernobyl, so it was actually the Swedish government who alerted the Soviets about the accident.
I just want to let you know that I'd rather any of your videos than any other in-depth documentary any day! I don't know what it is that pulls me into your videos but I love it, so keep doing you!
"its Preep- Yaht"
I also loled at Bryan-sk. A city of Bryans :) The video is great though
You can see old satelite photo on maps ! It's possible to see before, day following explosion and the sarcophagus construction
Aucune Crainte where can I find these photos!?
But for soviets one question remains
*How the RBMK reactor explodes*
"Why worrying about something that is never going to happen ?", damn this sentence was the perfect conclusion of Legasov speech on how "lies" lead to RBMK explosion ....
Hahahhah
Lies , thats how!
Delusional. Get him to the infirmary
Astra Lyne - the stack is burning, I saw it...
Always looking forward to new videos! Awesome. Suggestions; DC Sniper, Reagan assassination attempt , Operation shock and aw, Trump/Kim summit, North Korea nuclear test site (Mountain collapsed), and Ernest Shackleton expedition. Keep it up !!
Owen Brehm huh? Bonnie n Clyde liquid bomb plot that was joint uk n USA together
So sad, people loved living there! Modern apartment blocs, playgrounds,gardens, animal homes! Now all gone and no one there :(
I was 19 when this happened and remember it very well, also I lived near the mountains of North Wales , and remember they had to slaughter a lot of the sheep from the Welsh hill farms at the time..
Everyone Gangsta till Dyatlov emerges from the restroom
In all of Europe there were higher readings of nuclear radiation but only in bursts. It came with the wind so the concentration varied a lot. Also in Belgium, they advised to intensely wash vegetables, keep kettle inside. There were some occasions they found out that the concentration in some foods were to high.
It's amazing that they built the giant ass sarcophagus but I'm sad Chernobyl doesn't look like Chernobyl now
Exactly. I wish they would have just left the old sacrophagus. So many memories from STALKER games
I wish you were my history teacher in HS. I'd love for you to show us where ancient dynasties were located & major events like the Roman amphitheaters, bio of Jesus, etc. I could listen to you all day & actually learn. You make it real.
I watch the trailer of Chernobyl, the TV show and now my recommended is filled with Chernobyl.
This is fascinating, thank you. I've seen pictures of that structure they built but until now I didn't know it was on wheels, which is actually a clever method of dealing with building this. Also I read somewhere (don't remember where, sorry) that there were high doses of radiation found in Norway, Sweden and Finland livestock and crops.
great video, but the chimney in the photo isn't the same as in the map, they dismantled it because the NSC would overlap and built a slightly smaller one just to te side (it's a ventilation stack) but good video
here is a photo of the new one, you can see it's yellow and has a square structure instead of hexagonal www.world-nuclear-news.org/uploadedImages/wnn/Images/Chernobyl%20NSC%20in%20place%20-%20460%20(EBRD).jpg
Great video! Most underrated channel on TY.
You can see in the Google map where there's large areas of dead forest. They call the area in the exclusion zone the Red Forest - because all the trees died and turned a reddish color from absorbing massive amounts of radiation. They had planted a lot of conifer trees in the surrounding area after they built the reactor and right after the explosion the closer trees were glowing at night from soaking up radiation. All the fish in the cooling ponds and channels have grown to massive size due to nobody fishing there anymore.
The most dangerous thing ever done in the history of mankind is when they had to remove one of the damaged chimneys in order to cover it up with the new dome. If they had dropped it or a chunk of it it would have rendered most of Europe uninhabitable for thousands of years.
I thought that the red forest was called that to counter the German black forest.
Actually very happy that you used contamination and radiation properly unlike most news companies. Very nice video
the cooling towers were made for block 5 and 6, but all of them were never finished. The cooling pond was used for block 1, 2, 3 and 4. First readings outside of the USSR were made in Sweden.The initial explosion was caused because of a buildup of gasses, because the reactor became unstable at lower output. It dropped under 700 Mw. The meltdown happened little bit later when things really got out of hand.
It's actually not the same chimney. They had to put down the old one (and later deconstruct it), cause it was in the way of new confinement building. The one that is seen now is actually a new chimney, little bit smaller, but putten just to commemorate the last one.
Small correction. While yes, the reactor did eventually melt down, but that was as a result of the race tie exploding at first. So the incident is commonly referred to as a nuclear explosion, not a nuclear melt down.
The ventilation pipe he mentioned later in the video is not the original one. The original pipe was replaced by a smaller one for 2 reasons. 1. Its instability created the chanse for it to fall on the structure above reactor 4 that would colapse as the result. 2. If it wouldnt be removed the new safe convinement wouldnt fit it place above the building. The old pipe was huge so it must have been a big deal taking it down safely. And there are videos whit both the old pipe next to eachother and u could see the new safe convinement build in the distance.
Great Video Forrest, as usual
the ventilation tower just behind the Safe Containment Structure was built for that structure, the original one was removed to accommodate placement of the current structure, the old one is/was in storage in the turbine house awaiting further dismantling disposal as it is severely contaminated w/ radation.
This is now my favourite TH-cam channel. Just chill educating content that's well researched and smoothly enunciated. 10/10
You know it's a true American when he starts using Football fields for measurement
Was this from my suggestion i left on another video haha? I’m glad you did it, great video
808sandBlvke I think it was you that put the idea in my head:))))
Forrest Haggerty that’s awesome, thanks for the great informative vids again
Cool video. Very interesting. The "high power line structure" is called a switch yard. It's basically where the power leaves the plant. Also has lines coming back in to the plant for operation.
The Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden was evacuated when high values of radioactivity were measured that day. They then left the building. It turned out that the radioactive levels were higher outside the nuclear power plant than inside. This was, as I understand it, the first international observation that something went wrong at a Russian nuclear power plant. Soon thereafter, they announced from a Russian perspective that this was the case.
Interesting as hell the things they did 50+ years ago. Great subject matter Thanks for your time and effort
The reactor didn’t meltdown, it literally exploded. It began spewing deadly ionising Radiation into the air the moment the roof was gone.
Yes, and that’s a meltdown.
The arch wasn't on wheels, it sat on metal beams that were sat on top of Teflon pads that were hydraulically pushed with push pull units
Liam Moore thank you! That’s good for me to know!
Awesome video man, never fail to impress
XxBstric17xX thank you again. I’m happy you enjoyed it again!!!:)))
yeah, a lot of other countries had noticed extremely high radiation levels too, far worse than Scotland or than in the Alps and much earlier. first it was Sweden, and then other Eastern European countries. the radiation levels detected in Poland (on the same day as Sweden, but separately due to Poland being cut off from non-comunist countries) were (reportedly) millions times higher than average. the radiation cloud literally went over the entire Europe. people in Poland were told to drink iodine-containting fluid called Lygol, due to shortage of iodine pills. when Chernobyl exploded, my mom was literally three days away from planned date of birth of my older brother. glad in wasn't earlier or he could've sustained terrible damage.
It's terrifying to think of the destruction of that one disaster. Great video Forrest.
I wish we could just live in peace.
I'm just now discovering this channel, fantastic material, simply perfect knowledge.
The Cooling Chimney you mention at 6:27, that one on google Earth isn't the original iconic chimney stack, the original one was too large and obscured where the 'NSFC' would eventually sit, so they deconstructed the original stack, and then re-built a smaller one slightly away from the area where the 'NSFC' would sit, the deconstructed original stack is being stored in several parts within the abandoned turbine hall of unit 3 I believe, as it's obviously too contaminated to move anywhere else.
yeah, i miss my ventilation stack.
Up here in Scotland, the dirt got contamination and that caused high amounts of sheep, cows and other livestock and they had to be killed and some farms completely dug up and turned
You are wrong about the chimney being the same. The original chimney was removed (so the NSC could fit over it).
A new chimney was installed on the neighboring roof for reactor 3 to use,because the old chimney was originally shared by reactors 3 & 4.
Nice video, I did not realize how bad that meltdown was, and is still a danger.
There have only been two level 7 nuclear events in history. The first was Chernobyl, the second was Japan in 2011.
Joker OneNineSevenZero yea, the level of RAD is still high. But mostly, even in Chernobyl and Pripyat, radiation is low/normal
If you haven't already, watch the mini series Chernobyl. It's an excellent dramatization of the events.
Wow I did not know Chernobyl has street view, hope they add more streets to explore in the future
Wow really? I'm gonna check this right now. Didn't know either..
You should've gone back in time like you did on the bin laden video, images go back all the way to 1984. Although blurry, you can clearly see that between 1986-1988 the scenery of the area changed drastically, and in 2002 you can see the first good quality picture of the old building, way before they started building the fancy shield. Good job with the awesome content!
1:22
Heard that fly?
:D
Nice overview of then and now, thanks!
Remember that incident well, also that the radioactive clouds rained down in Scotland and the Netherlands, where I live, as well.
Also very much impressed by the episode of River Monsters where Jeremy Wade went there and actually fished in the pond and waterways near the reactor.
Love your videos man! Maybe you could do something on the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
There's a lot of cool places there, I used to go to Google Earth and see the pictures that were attached.
Places like the red forest (it became red because of the radiation cloud that passed over it), the city of Prypiat, the vehicle cemetery, the train station...
They said that the radiation that drifted over the United States would be no problem unless you were flying around 2000 ft. for more than 5 hours. It was during this time (1986) that I was an airborne traffic reporter for several radio stations in Charlotte. NC., spending 3 hours each morning and 3 hours each evening at an attitude of about 2000 ft. Well, 34 years later I'm still here and have never suffered any effects from radiation. But don't think it didn't freak me out!
Inside the new cover and mounted to the ceiling are remote controlled robot arms that will tear down the old cover and the facility itself. There are train rails that hold scrap cars that are being filled inside for rail removal.
Forrest Haggerty back at it again with the cool content. Awesome vid my man!
I came across a docu on this Radar Station which also did LF/VLF experiments that very well could have been instrumental in the meltdown of the reactor at this power station. The installation was under the name of DUGA. The common name among US radio operators was The Russian Woodpecker. The theory is that this station which was known to interfere with the operational testing of Chernobyl was not supposed to be operating that day but it was. It made the instruments read false at the time of the meltdown. Look it up. Can't let a great conspiracy go to waste.
On my bucket list to visit Pripyat
1:45 You mentioned they put it on wheels. Well they considered that but with the massive amount of weight they scratched that idea. The tracks are made out of Polytetrafluoroethylene as well as the pads that are attached to the new cover. It can easily slide over one an other. So no wheels were used to move the gigantic thing.
The new confinement structure was not moved on wheels, it was moved on Teflon pads and pushed by hydraulic pistons. The weight of the structure would have crushed the whole wheel and axle assemblies.
It was NOT wheels that were used to put the building in place as the massive weight wouldve destroyed any suspension in existence. Instead, they used dozens and dozens of teflon pads for the building to slide on and then pushed the building using hydraulic pistons.
i got Cernobyl HBO ad
The confinement was not build on wheel , it where slideing pads
Great video! I love these.
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Love your content
Excellent! Sorry I didn’t find this channel earlier.
Great video, three mile island would be something cool to cover if you wanted to stick with the nuclear disaster theme
I don't believe it was on tracks because wheels would not survive. They were skids which were lined with Teflon pads slid into place. Saw the Nova program that showed the skid installation.
nice video forrest. soon can you take a look at fukushima for me? that would really make my day
You’re a smart man! These are so interesting and entertaining. Thankyou!
sweden also got some radiation, theres a documentary on this where the workers that worked on forsmark (now a closed nuclear powerplant) could not enter their plant because it detected radiation on their shoes.
I was suprised you didnt mention scandinavia because the most amount of radioactive waste was detected north of chernobyl, sweden and norway.
In the area around trøndelag in Norway farmers still need to measure the amount of radiation in the animals before slaughter.
In 2016 they reduced the amount of municipalities that need to check the amount of radiation in the animals from 145 municipalities to just 37.
Link to a 3 day old norwegian article about this (use google translate):
www.nrk.no/nordland/33-ar-etter-tsjernobyl-ma-fortsatt-37-norske-kommuner-male-radioaktivitet-i-husdyr-1.14575384
Finland also measured 6x higher readings
I was serving in West Germany at the time.
@Hal 9000 yes, sometimes LOL.
@Hal 9000 CFB Baden-Baden 84-88 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry
Excuse my ignorance but what happened to the workers who built the new dome over the site? Did they suffer any effects from radiation?
Probably not
With the dome being built of to the side there will be less radiation and with the orignal containment blocking the radiation and the workers would of had personal Geiger counters of Geiger counters around the area to know the radiation and medical check ups regularly
34 years ago today. This popped up in my recommendations today.
Your content is excellent. I'm super glad I hit that sub button. I learn something every time I come back. Thank you!
At wylfa power station in Anglesey, Wales the workers going into the the reactor buildings were setting off the radiation detectors. Because over Anglesey and other parts of north Wales it rained from the radioactive cloud.
My be future birthplace of Godzilla
This was the first video I watched of yours. Nonetheless I subscribed, I like your content and want to keep watching!
Oh no I’m happy you enjoyed it! Thank you for becoming a subscriber!
@@forresthaggertychannel4301 No problem. I've liked your stuff for a while now just couldn't find your channel for a little. I like the style of content you make. Just hitting "Record" and seeing now it goes type of feeling. You seem very educated with Google maps, and clearly do actual research. You also seem very humble, something I find is a good quality. Keep it up bud!
For some reason, I found your videos very calming
Atlas Magnus that’s very interesting!:)))))
Soooo ur the first person I’ve sub to that’s under 100K. Great vids
Dren Zajmi that’s kinda funny, but thank you for the sub!
Keep on going Forrest great posts
These videos are so simple yet so effective and informative. Love your videos mate!
Very cool your channel, you don't have subtitles in Portuguese do Brasil??
I do not. I’m sorry. You might be able to turn on subtitles in your language.
@@forresthaggertychannel4301 Thanks for the answer, but only English subtitles are available, I don't know if there is another way to activate in my language, Portugues do Brasil..
You should be able to do it through the settings icon that looks like a gear.
I just was reading about this. There wasn't an explosion or what you'd think of as an explosion.
Long techno-babbly story short - it was more like what a black hole ejects out. The radiation went up so high in the atmosphere that only some type of a nuclear event could have shot it that high up. No chemical or steam explosion came close to ejecting it up that high. Said it was similar to an astrophysical jet that shoots out of a black hole only on a much smaller scale.
chernobyl is still partially inhabited while prypyat is the abandoned city. Also the og chimney was dismantled and a new smaller one was put there to fit the new safe confinement
Damn I love your videos could you do *BONNIE N CLYDE* if haven’t please
Good video. Not great, Not terrible
This place still gives me shivers by thinking about it
Strontium and cesium probably being the main isotopes emitted
f22 raptor you are totally right
Thank you sir for making the wonderful videos here. We get to learn so much. Were you ever a school teacher?
It didn't just melt down. It exploded. And that new covering was paid for by more than 40 different countries and organizations. Go watch the series "Chernobyl". I think it's on HBO. That covered bridge is shown in the show when Anatoly Dyatlov walks into the bridge corridor and actually realizes the severity of his mistake. The show is awesome, informative and the music they use just makes it that much more daunting.
I’ve learnt more in the months I’ve been subscribed to your channel Forrest, than I have in my whole life! You’re like my own personal teacher!! (Although I’m now having to share you with loads more subscribers!) lol!! Another fascinating and detailed video. Keep them coming :-)))
Sharon Collard you are very funny! You were one of my earliest subscribers, so don’t worry. You will always hold a special place in my heart and I always look forward to your comments :))))))))
Forrest Haggerty Awww, how lovely!! I look forward to getting your replies :-))) I could sit and listen to your videos all day long!! :-))
Forrest Haggerty Oh, and watch as well! I might be blind as a bat (hence the specs!) but I do pay attention !! :-D
If you are on google earth or google maps, you can drag the person over the nuclear power plant site and there is actually a view of inside the control room.........!
Sometimes a good idea, in time turns out to be not your best idea, the really dumb thing is after realizing the mistake you go on to do the same thing over and over again,
The "cooling vent" is not for reactor 4 but for unfinished reactor 5 that's near the vent. Reactor 5 was never completed because of the disaster at unit 4 in 1986.