Here's what we're looking at. You're exploring a General Electric type 5 Boiling Water Reactor inside a Mark II containment. The plant would have put out 820 megawatts to the grid. 2:00 - dispense with the radiation monitor... the plant has been thoroughly decontaminated and you're going to be picking up normal naturally occurring background radiation. 0.05 microSieverts/hr is below naturally occurring background radiation. The construction of the plant provides shielding against that, ergo the lower readings inside. 3:45 - hoistwell for the turbine building going down to the truck bay 4:00 - turbine deck... exciter has been removed, the generator stator (with the round wood cover) and high and low pressure turbines remain. 4:15 - that's the generator, which is driven by the turbines spinning at 1,800 RPM producing 820 megawatts of power. Typically it's output is around 24,000 volts of 3-phase AC which is stepped up to a higher voltage - either 115, 230 or 345 kv depending on Long Island's transmission system. The small platform in front of the generator is where the exciter was. The exciter generated the magnetic field for the generator. 4:30 - that long thing under the tarp is the generator rotor - the part that spins inside the stator 5:45 - GaiTronics party line / paging system. The Hear-Here booth provides some sound isolation so you can hear the other party. It gets very noisy when the plant is running. 9:15 - pressure differential - you're entering an air lock to the reactor building. There's a negative pressure in there to keep any contaminants contained within that building. 9:45 - you are now in what's known as the secondary containment. The 'cylindrical' thing is the reactor's primary containment. The grated floors are removable for hoisting equipment between elevations. 12:15 - main hoistwell to the refueling floor 15:25 - RWCU = Reactor Water Clean Up pump suction temperature gauge - as you can see it goes up to 600 degrees F... it gets pretty hot when it's operating. 16:15 - stairs are tiring... yup - the wonders of a reactor building get old when the elevator is out of service... factor in elevated temperatures when the plant is at 100% power. 17:30 - refueling floor and polar crane 17:50 - you're looking down in to the reactor cavity. The netting is covering the drywell. The actual reactor itself is long gone. 18:05 - laydown pit - during refueling, it's filled with water providing a place for some of the reactor internals for temporary storage. Typically the steam dryer and moisture separator gets placed here. 18:25 - radiation monitors that you walk through - not metal detectors 19:30 - spent fuel pool - where fuel is stored to cool down after spending 6 years in the reactor under 40 feet of water. New fuel is placed in there for refueling. The new fuel itself is safe to handle, but for the ease of handling and expediency during refueling, it's placed in the SFP prior to the refueling outage. 20:45 - personnel air lock - passageway between secondary and primary containment (the drywell). The drywell is kept pressurized with nitrogen. 23:00 - equipment hatch 24:05 - you're standing on top of the suppression pool. No fuel rods there - that's what the spent fuel pool is for... just lots of equipment - pumps, pipes, etc... HP = human physics (or radiation protection). 24:55 - you're in the undervessel of the reactor. That's where the hydraulic control rod drives were all located. 27:35 - if caught you'd likely be arrested for criminal trespass 28:00 - truck bay extension - basically a big air lock for bringing in things like fuel assemblies, equipment, etc... unsure what the tanks are for 30:20 - heat exchangers or feedwater heaters 34:00 - chemistry lab 35:50 - some kind of high pressure steam line and isolation valve 36:50 - main switchgear / power boards feeding other plant systems 39:30 - main control room 40:40 - control rod position controls 42:30 - reactor operators train for about 2 years before they're licensed - every extensive, and they're constantly retraining, recertifying, etc. Needless to say they're paid very well. 44:00 - Plus signs on the ground everywhere is where radiological testing was done to certify that area was free of radiactivity as part of the decontamination process (you see them on the walls as well). The plus signs you see there represent a control rod - really a plus sign shaped blade made of neutron absorbing material to control the reaction. 44:15 - a control room is typically staffed with a shift manager, control room supervisor, a couple of reactor operators and a technical advisor. 44:55 - an old hard drive disk pack
@Steven Rivers much cleaner. Natural gas is a fossil fuel that emits carbon and green house gas. While cheaper to generate, the price of gas can fluctuate and increase when demand is high (usually winter). Nuclear power plants have no emissions, and run at 100% power, 24/7. We refuel every 2 years so we're not at the mercy of the commodities market.
@Steven Rivers I grew up on LI in the 70s and 80s. LILCo was a clusterfuck. The NIMBY's are the ones who really killed the plant. The TMI and Chernobyl accidents along with that awful movie "The China Syndrome" didn't help (very mis educated about nuclear power) public opinion either.
Thanks for explaining all of this! Nuclear power is one of my interests and I actually did a big report and interview in high school for it. Almost pursued a career, but I probably won't. Visiting a plant is on my bucket list though, and working at one would be a dream job
@@photon1832 Many plants have open house / community nights. You won't get inside the actual plant itself - but it's usually at a visitor's center and/or the training center / simulator if it's located outside of the plant's secure fenced-in "protected area". We'll sometimes give plant tours to certain groups of students in STEM or nuclear programs at school. To work at one - there's many ways... during refueling outages as a contractor laborer - but you need to know who the company that hires outage contractors for a particular plant. There are non-operations jobs... radiation protection (aka human physics) or security is where many get their foot in the door. Skilled trades - such as electrician, pipe or steam fitter, welder, etc... the local union hall may get those folks in to a plant. On our operations side, we have many Navy veterans who served on nuclear powered submarines and carriers. The college route - there are nuclear engineering programs out there (i.e., at RPI). But no matter how you get in the door - stay out of legal trouble, maintain good credit, don't be a wild child risk taker, don't do drugs and don't be a drunk - otherwise you'll get weeded out early in the selection process.
@Charlie Thorn - you're referring to PWR and RBMK reactors. I work at a BWR plant - so my knowledge is centered around that type of reactor. In our plant, heat exchangers are used for things like residual heat removal during shutdown (i.e., refueling outages) and reactor water cleanup systems to cool the water (which is around 500 deg F in the reactor core) before it hits the filter train. At 24:05 - they're on top of what's known as the suppression chamber. That's where excess steam is dumped in the event of an emergency. The cooler water of the suppression pool will condense the steam into water. But the same pool of water is used for low pressure core injection emergency cooling as well.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane. I walked all those stairs hundreds of times in the 6 years I worked there...and yes, everyone in ops knew what everything did. It has been so stripped down, but enough left for you grasp the big picture. Nice tour, guys!
@@cd6422 Yes. It was a sad exodus as we were ready to put the plant into action when decisions above our paygrade shut it down. I can honestly say that I have never worked with a more capable, professional, efficient, and intelligent group of people before or since that time. Such is the quirk of fate.
@@bougieBoulet Yeah sure, that's possible. But it is extremely unlikely. Shutting down a reactor is not something they take lightly, it's a lengthy process. Making sure it's safe is a priority. But even if the reactor was active, they would still be safer in there than literally anywhere else they have explored. People have an irrational fear of nuclear power.
EPA and all the nuclear regulatory agencies have a lot of rules regarding the safe disposal of radioactive waste. It's also really easy to find the waste... You just use the Geiger counter. It's not like it would be some mystery.
@@bougieBoulet the cleanup process of a nuclear power plant is very thorough. none of that is left there, anything that could be contaminated is put into dry cask storage.
@@shadowgod1009 they have a healthy fear of something going wrong, when this thing was operating there was enough spent fuel in that cooling pound that should it have caught fire do to a catastrophic failure of the cooling pond it would have contaminated most of the northern hemisphere and made it uninhabitable for 1000's of years , we came very close to this very scenario with fukushima
Crazy thing about this particular facility is that it was never actually operated for more than just tests and was decommissioned shortly after being completed due to local opposition after the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl meltdowns.
@@thomasplunkitt5109 Reactors are pretty safe. Even RBMKs BEFORE they fixed the design faults were extremely safe, you just had to not full throttle a stalled reactor. Reactors in the west are designed with negative void coefficients though, so if the chain of events at chernobyl were to start over here, the reactor would stall as it overheated and the reaction would self cancel.
Seems to be a lot of confusion here on what is probably one of the most thorough "tours" of a Boiling Water Reactor you'll find on TH-cam. They don't technically make it into the Reactor Core, as there isn't one. From the top level or Reactor Hall in this case they look down into a massive circular pit which would have housed the Reactor Vessel (which contains the fuel rod assembly/reactor core) before it was decommissioned and removed. The rectangular pit adjacent to this would have been for fuel rod storage. Had they climbed down below the safety netting they would have ended up on top of the plate they refer to as the "aliens nest". The room they entered below that (with the cutaway opening) is where the control rod jacks are housed. This inner chamber is inside a massive upside down concrete light bulb called the Dry Well (accessed through the heavy doors and airlock). The many ominous holes in the floor (with triangular plates on top) have nothing to do with storing fuel rods but rather lead to the slightly more complex labyrinth of tunnels called the Wet Well. Have the lights been left on for decades? Almost certainly. Does that mean its still generating power? No, generally the auxiliary power to run one of these stations comes from diesel generators on site and in this case, we know there's a station next door. It would be a death trap to both intruder and security guards alike without lighting. Its highly likely that some of the halls are still used for storage anyway. Could they encounter radiation here? Unlikely, the clean up process is insanely thorough and this is a baby reactor in the scheme of things. At best, the biggest reading would be from discarded PPE and left over lab samples, I would be more worried about falling/drowning. Had the plant still contained fission materials they would have more likely found themselves shot (in the UK too). What was the long missile shaped object wrapped in a protective cover? That's a rotor, slots inside the stator (large drum with the plywood end cap) but left as one unit it would surely corrode in place. The turbines in this plant are directly driven by the steam from the reactor vessel and thus will have been highly contaminated and removed early on in the decommissioning. Why is there "abandoned" - abandoned equipment everywhere? There will have been thousands of contractors and sub contractors working here throughout a period of bureaucratic frenzy, especially if the electricity company has government funding to burn. Three separate contractors will be commissioned, to fabricate the same safety rail whilst two other firms will be simultaneously removing it and none of them know who is using which ladder and whether or not they've finished with it.... Hope this clears up any misconceptions - Power Station Anorak/Welder
I find it interesting how the "Proper People" don't want to respond to the truth. Their sensationalistic fearmongering has just been hit by the torpedo of truth and all I hear a crickets.....classic.
You have to take them for what its worth. The stuff is interesting, but they make a lot of uneducated guesses at stuff and from the stuff I see that i do recognize, they are pretty far off.
Nuuh Kia dude nothing would happen the system is discharged there are no fuel rods or live ones at last and the coolant is still there so the least that would happen is a pump would start then shut back off for safety reasons
I'm way late to the party, but simply amazing. As I have commented elsewhere, how surreal is it that the people who built, maintained and operated that facility one day after a predetermined shutdown procedure, left and never came back. Weird how some areas look intact, some ransacked, others just left as they were on that last day. It's so intriguing to wonder when the last time someone lay hands on a phone, made a control adjustment, or made a repair, for the last time and didn't know it. Then ALL of that steel, concrete and various materials will most likely be left behind to slowly decay. It must have taken an immense amount of effort to design and build such a facility, only to have it abandoned. Great video, thanks for sharing.
25 yrs since it's operated bit the lights are still on....huh, my wife and kids must've been there last. Every day I come home from work and every single light in the house is on
@@williamstone7544 the power plant is still hooked up to the grid which means the power is coming from the grid. The power is produced elsewhere since this plant is offline
I was thinking the same thing while watching. So many other exploring channels are destructive and rude, but these guys just politely explore and cause no harm, even tries to educate when they can.
I see a lot of people saying its not a nuclear power plant for some reason, while the reactor was removed (for obvious reasons) this is absolutely a boiling water reactor nuclear power plant.
@@TJBfilms The plant would have been thoroughly sanitized and had all (or most) of all radiation removed. they would have been shot if there were still nuclear materials in the building.
Loved the control room, reminded me of plants I ran 30 years ago. You learn the plants by tracing lines and drawing them from memory on a board. You learn the SCADA and Control systems from Operation Handbooks and PNID drawings.
You’re obviously far more capable and intelligent than I. Truly impressive work to run a plant like this. I hope the pay was good too. Nuclear energy is perfect it’s a shame so many people hate on the cleanest form of energy we know of.
@@cyclonic7134 lol Correct P&ID Piping and Instrumentation. Operations training back then consisted of tracing lines, valves pumps compressors until you knew to draw them from memory.. You didn’t pass the unit until you could do it twice. Some of these plants were so big just to walk from one side to the other took 20 minutes.., at pace.Thousands of valves and miles of pipe Just getting signed off the various units was 3 or 4 years.
I’m a Control System Engineer on the Gulf Coast. My guess is there is several jobs , and each job has different responsibilities. The more job qualifications you have the more you know. The more you know the more you make
I like how y'all were worried about walking near the pedestrian 480V temporary line, but then stroll right by the humming cabinets fed from the 69,000 V line hah.
@Jason Cougar There are likely other nearby areas that are still using that power. As a result, the building is being fed with electricity even if it isn't using much of it.
Those who say ignorance or more ignorant than then the proper people since no one else seems to know what’s going on like they didn’t even watch the video
THATS WHAT THAT IS!!!!! I've had this for years and years as far as my memory goes..I'm 28 and I could never explain my fear of commercial generators.. underground to above ground man hole pipes, ......ugh...water towers.... semi trucks... boats.. ships... giant pipe bolts..God I could keep going Now I know after years of fearing these things that it has a name!! Thank you random youtube comment person!
The HOT on the control panels behind the nets meant that there is electricity flowing through it. The net was likely put up when the plant was closed for safety. That was crazy high power as you could hear. The funny thing about the computers in the control room is that if they were from the 1980s then given their size they probably each had about the same computing power as a 90s desktop. Computers up until the 80s were still very large. The thing labeled CDC might have been an old removable multi platter storage drive.
All those physical buttons, switches, dials, gauges, cables and mysterious magnetic data storage media... obviously the lights are still on because nobody could find the light switch.
@@ilovecops5499 There is no core. At 17:50 they look down into where the reactor vessel--which contained the core--was. When plants are decommissioned they remove the entire reactor vessel and core because it's easier to dispose of it and store the contaminants (the by products of nuclear fission) along with spent fuel rather than decontaminating it in place.
Truly Infamous it gives a certain feel to abandon buildings and to quote the initial comment it very much feels like a warm welcome The building wants you to feel warm and safe and not have to waste time with your own lights
Hi Guys, the computer discs at 44:55 are called Winchester discs. I used to use a Quantel PaintBox in 1984 and it had a stack of about 6 or 8 discs of about 15" diameter and hardwired into the computer with no external cover. The computer was the size of a standard domestic refrigerator enclosed in a glass cabinet. When writing to disc it was noisy. PaintBox was pre-Photoshop and cost about a million dollars for a basic unit. We can buy the same now for about 1 or 2 thousand dollars and is a laptop with Photoshop. Love the vids, keep up the good work and stay safe.
I worked on plants for about a decade, have a couple things to point out. The turbine area is referred to as the "turbine deck". The end that had plywood over it used to connect with a shaft to the generator, which is missing, though the mounting blocks are apparent. Since this is an old reactor, and most likely retired (though that's an assumption, I haven't watched the whole video yet), this facility is probably a BWR or boiling water reactor. That is the older type of reactor setup, which uses a single loop between the reactor and the turbine, with no heat exchanger or second loop. This is not a definite, again since I just started watching this, though it's good to know of BWRs anyway. Some are still in operation, I believe. The second type, as you mentioned in the video is a PWR, or Pressurized Water Reactor, which uses two loops and a heat exchanger. Your description of the process was a little faulty, I have to mention. The fuel rods heat reactor water, creating steam. The steam pressure provides the force to move through the system and drive the turbine (whether PWR or BWR). As the steam cools late in the cycle it is condensed and returned to the reactor by means of the cooling towers that are often so prominent. If I have more comments, I'll chime in again.
timestamp 24:00 "where the fuel rods might have been?" - no - torus tank. It was a donut-shaped tank that ringed around beneath the reactor. That tank was used for cooling the reactor water under certain circumstances. Those floor penetrations were for circulation pipes that penetrated the bottom of the torus tank. Among them are also remnants of the saddles that were the foundation of the tank. I haven't watched more yet, but there should be several large penetrations, maybe covered over, that went from the bottom of the RPV, the reactor pressure vessel down to the taurus tank. They were pipes, and very large pipes.
timestamp 25:00, I was at first skeptical you actually were in the reactor, and while technically you weren't, because the bottom of the reactor vessel was gone, you were indeed standing at the base of where the bottom of that reactor was located. Looking up, that's the top of the shroud, where the fuel rods penetrated, their elevation within the reactor determining the quantity of steam they produced. If this site were still intact, you would have not gotten anywhere near there - even if you were alone. SERIOUS kudos for posting the most entertaining abandoned exploration video EVER!
timestamp 36:00, every power plant has a transmission station of course. If this is (and I suspect it is) a GE Mark 1 reactor, it used to put out around 1,000 plus megawatts most likely. Larger transmission lines may handle 650,000 volts for each set of 3 phases, so what you're looking at is some of the larger examples of power distribution components like fuses or whatnot.
Reactor is/was a General Electric BWR design. The Turbine-Generator is/was a 820 MW General Electric. First thing under the black tarp was the 4 pole generator field which rotates at 1800 RPM for 60 hertz power output . In areas with 50 hertz power, nuclear units turn at 1500 RPM. Fossil units turn at twice that speed and are 2 pole (3600 & 3000). The field uses DC current to produce a rotating magnetic field inside the stationary generator core (stator) which then produces 3 phase AC power (820MW) at maybe 24 to 30,000 volts. The generator core and field are cooled by running in pure hydrogen gas at about 60 psig. The high voltage stator windings are cooled by pure deionized water circulating through the copper conductors themselves. The high purity of the water makes the water an insulator. By the way, the low pressure turbine rotors ot this unit were removed and used on another nuclear turbine. This plant was never allowed (licensed) to produce more than 5% rated power before it was decommissioned. 820 MW is a little over 1 million horsepower. I was an GE engineer who specialized in working on these large machines (nuclear and fossil fired) although I never worked on this one. Largest one I ever worked on was the two million horsepower units (3) at Palo Verde Station outside Phoenix, AZ. They were the largest in the world at that time I think, maybe not now but still close to largest i"m sure.
Two main factors contributed to the eventual demise of the plant. 1) The Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and the 1986 Chernobyl accident created local and environmentalist opposition to the plant. 2) A satisfactory emergency evacuation plan for the area, required after the Three Mile Island accident, could never be developed because of the area's unique physical location. Without an approved evacuation plan, the operating license could not be approved and the reactor was dismantled. Had the unit gone into operation as planned, it is estimated that it would have prevented the emission of an estimated three million tons of carbon dioxide per year.
So they were basically in physical test phase using some first-batch fuel when stuff happened and they couldnt keep up with needs the regulatory board for nucear power came up with ? So, they just had it scraped ? ... is that the same for the other reactors shown from the outside at the end too ( meaning for the whole plant ), or was it jst this one unit ? P.S.: Also, at 24:11 - nice joke :D .... those are probably closed up oppenings for the main closing valves ( now taken away and scrapped ) for the water entering reactor vessel itself ? ( www.nuclear-power.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ABWR_reactor.jpg ) Interresting these reactors use the same wessel as a steam-generator. Meaning activated water had to make it into the turbine ( corporate.vattenfall.com/globalassets/corporate/about_energy/illustrations/boiling_water_reactor2.jpg ) ... were having the russian VVER400 design, using a secondary loop of water for steam-production, whyle keeping the reactor water in liquid form going trough the heat-exchangers. ... cant imagine this one wessel thing as so much more of the technology could have been contaminated and was thus active even in the turbine ! ( 4.bp.blogspot.com/-IK9ztN5iYrM/Uj9XQpQp4ZI/AAAAAAAABKk/9zR6QK4rNC0/s1600/vessel.gif ) How on earth do these turbines and stuff get checked and repaired at the annual stoppage during re-fueling - one would have to check and dezactivate the whole thing before the dissassembly ! ( hence all the shielding around the turbines ).
FYI the "metal detector" with the big transformer isn't a metal detector. It's actually a radiation detector that makes sure workers are clean before leaving the reactor and possibly contaminating the entire facility.
They probably got the idea from the archway, which says "Metal Alarm" on the left and "Explosive Alarm" on the right. But yeah, the cabinet on the left is definitely a particulate detector.
I would recommend that you take an atmospheric measuring device with you when you are traveling in unknown buildings and especially in lower-lying rooms. There are odorless gases that can be extremely dangerous for you. Before you can detect any lack of oxygen by yourself, it could be too late.
I love the whispering - common reaction when in awe of huge structures (and of course, unsure at times if anyone is around!) I also like your tones and actions showing respect in top explorer tradition.
That's from the high pressure sodium or metal halide high bay lights. 60 hz is the frequency at which electricity "alternates" the humming is because the ballasts are aging. Journey electrician.
The experts are here in the comments, lol. I think having an expert tour guide like that would really change the video. When it's just the two of them exploring the unknown, they are taking us on a journey and we experience all the tension, fear, wonder and sense of awe right along with them. I feel like most if not all of that emotion the whole feel of the video would be completely different and imo, less interesting and unique.
You guys were pretty close on most of your educated guesses on what was what. You were actually standing where the fuel rods once were when you found that abandoned scaffold. The area joining the reactor core is called the spent fuel pool. This is where they staged the new rods and storage for used rods. When moving rods, they must remain under water to prevent contamination from going airborne and it helps reduce gamma radiation as well. The walls you noted as being very thick are a special concrete that contains lead to absorb gamma radiation. Source- I worked in a nuclear power plant for approx 4 years.
Are you serious? You do know that if that fucker blows ur fucked and even if you do get a certain distance away you will get cancer from the radiation or probably still die from the radiation. Imagine a nuke right and that nuke could blow any moment if someone does one wrong mistake but at the same time you are trying to harvest power from it that is basically a nuclear power plant. ( Not very factual but yeah also this comment is not meant to be some sort of 100% explanation of why someone would quit working in a nuclear power plant )
I dont think he stop working because of that reason because it is too childish, modern nuclear power plants is incredibly safe and you have higher chance of your house collapse then something go wrong inside them.
As a former GE guy, this stuff is like an entire generation and leap of technology backward from today (Obviously) its just really cool to see this stuff. Usually when I get to it, something bad happened.
Just the fact that you walked into the plant WITH NO PROBLEMS means that no matter what would you do in that control room, nothing catastrophic would happen. Otherwise the owner would know about you the second you entered the power plant. (my opinion)
When it´s unloaded (even if it would be loaded with all rods, but not properly in proper possition with proper start process) you can dance cha cha on that panel and you would not even start super mario on that computer, neither the reactor
I've said this before, but if you tried to enter a building with fissile material still inside (including spent reactor fuel) you would be shot dead before you could get in the front door. The government does not fuck around when it comes to radioactive sources, which is why the rad levels in this decommissioned plant were so low.
@@MegaFPVFlyer Maybe not shot, but one of the reasons why decon is done so extensively in all decommissioned NPP's is because the operator of the plant is contractually bound to either completely disassemble and dispose of everything that is even slightly radioactive, if not it needs to be heavily guarded 24/7 all at the operators expense. Until everything that is contaminated has been removed and disposed of, and the site has been verified clean by something like the NRC it cannot be declared decommissioned, and until it is, the bills will keep rolling in for the operator.
The "metal detectors" are radiation detectors. You scan workers as they enter and leave to see if they are contaminated. There's a fun story of a nuclear plant worker who used to set the detectors off every morning as he came IN to work. They thought he must be stealing radioactive stuff and sneaking it out somehow then contaminating himself at home. Turned out he had really high natural radon gas levels in his house.
Coincidentally, this is how they figured out something was up in some other part of the world at a nuclear facility in Sweden during the Chernobyl disaster, before the Soviets released anything officially. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20140514STO47018/forsmark-how-sweden-alerted-the-world-about-the-danger-of-chernobyl-disaster
seeing the stuff that people do/did with radiation (i.e. nuclear boy scout story) - cant be too secure tbh. Also, stealing radioisotopes is quite a real concern.
As someone who spent six years nuclear contracting: THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. Common triggers: antique radium dial watches, tungsten welding rods, tungsten rings, motorcyclists during temp inversions (Radon), medical isotope receivers (they know, they filed paperwork, they set off alarms because they're trolls)
Radon is nasty stuff. It's the second biggest cause of lung cancer after smoking. If you've ever known anyone who was never a smoker but had lung cancer, chances are it was caused by radon.
I did my internship in the biggest nuclear powerplant of my country. I'll never forget how amazing it all was for the whole 3 months I've been there. Amazing people as well. 40:00 thing is, this is still true for the stuff today. They go hardcore with the saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
@The Proper Peoples Ik hoop echt op meerdere van deze powerplants!! zo gaaf om te bekijken. Deze video was de mooist complete erover. Heb de anderen ook gezien die veel kleiner waren enz. maar die vond ik minder spannend maar ook wel heel mooi!! Love you guys!!!
Screw everything. Imagine being the architect who had to draw all of this up and make sure every pipe fitting was in the right place. Every wire there was ran to the right place... all of that crap. That has got to be the most intense drafting job on the planet.
There would have been a team of dozens of engineers and draftsmen, maybe even upwards of a hundred. I'm not play it down though, it would have been a massive task.
Architects had a very minor role in this. More engineers than you could imagine. An average welder would not even be considered, most every weld had to be done by certified welders capable of doing welds certified by x-ray.
Architects do the basic structure, each sub contractor would provide shop drawings for their trade and have to work around everyone else's routing plans.
@Bipolar Gemini ok, well I kinda lived through this whole thing and why it closed down, I lived in New York as a kid and this plant was secretly being built too close to homes and residents, worry from the public grew and they shut the plant into this kind of graveyard state. There is no doubt there is a lot of labour, materials, and design plan costs. They later had to clean it out from the very little use this place saw, which also costs a lot of money. You can look up the cost of the whole thing if you do not believe me. This isint even all of this plant, there is a lot more (more reactor buildings and some staff buildings). There are papers you can look for the total city cost for the city of New York, which estimates to 6 billion... FuCk oFf
@@AircraftTurnAndBurn What is the reactor they are in? I'm looking through the comments and there's people who seemingly know every little thing, but I still haven't found someone mentioning the GODDAMN name... can you help please? :D
@@sarasilgado949 like it too, but I cannot trust comments without sources/references... If there is an engineer I would like to see a linkedin profile or s.th. like that..
Nice vid guys! Having worked at a nuclear power plant it is a complete different world once you get inside. Unfathomable amounts of money go into building and maintaining these facilities. And look what happened to this one...
For those wondering why it still has power, it's because they can't just abandon something like this, the government regulations don't allow it. So they have to keep the sump pumps working and the smoke alarms working, and probably have to inspect it and test for radiation periodically, so the lights stay on. And basically, it's cheaper to keep a minimal level of maintenance, and pay the power bill forever, than it is to fully tear it down.
What I would want to know more than anything is where this power plant's name & location so I can do some research on Google & look it up on Google Maps & see what happened to it & why it got shut down in the first place?
@@sithlordbilly4206 they have to be relicensed every few years, often requiring upgrades or major repairs to get a new license, and so if it's a smaller or more expensive design, it may not be economical to keep it working. Remember that these plants have a designated lifetime, because the inner parts of the reactor core that can't be repaired or replaced once it goes into operation do wear out and corrode and weaken from constant bombardment, so to extend the lifetime past the design life they have to do expensive inspections of the inner parts of the reactor to certify that it is still strong enough for another 10 years or whatever, and the older it gets, the more frequent and invasive these are. In some places, where it's a really high output plant with minimal issues it's worth it to keep it running, but at some point it costs less to mothball it. For instance, the last nuclear plant in California was going to be finally retired after many extensions because the next one was going to be expensive, but the state is stepping in and asking them to keep it running to help maintain energy stability in the state grid, and probably going to give some subsidies to help offset the costs of getting another extension.
It’s insane that the lights still work in this power plant that hasn’t been active in 25 years. Even more insane is that everything is intact, and there isn’t any sign of spray paint ANYWHERE.
2 years for a reply lol. We have multiple generating sites on the property, in the way of gas turbines (we run kerosene). Fun fact.. the turbine deck was actually refurbished years ago, because they filmed the beginning of the movie "The Dictator" there. The last time I was inside, you could still find bits of hay, because part of the filming involved goats. More recently, the entire building has been surrounded by a massive fence and a ton of security cameras, because the last "urban explorers" lit a fire in the control room.
@@ablemagawitch cool never said I didn't want them to just stating there was probably some stupid law saying they couldn't glad to see they have a patreon and sponsors 👌
A lot of the electronics were what my company manufactured and I tested and repaired it. The GE MAC7000 line was bought out by Bailey controls Co. I worked there 1975-1995. The Keyboard was an Intecolor which was a data terminal that connected to more modern digital controllers in the Network 90 system. All those racks in the hall with gray faced modules with red test points, were simple analog units. Those big things that had "CDC" on them were changable hard drives. They were probably 2-10 Megabyte drives. By today's standard, would only store a couple pictures from a digital camera.
Actually they were 67 mb cartridges. Used the same ones on a DEC RM03 disk drive back in the 80s. The keyboard was part of an HP graphics terminal. The brown one sticking out of the console.
Yeah those circular devices that you found that you said looked like a tape are the big brothers of our modern day hard drives. I know this because I had a brother in law that worked for the Air Force on the A-10 Simulator and this is what all the different programs were copied to in order to run the thing. It took 5 of those entire casings to run an entire mission for the computer as well as the simulator and this wasnt a 3D simulator
Thanks guys! That was one of the coolest fucking videos on the internet! I watched it 3 times and sent to to most of my friends. Not only did I watch it three times but I read every single comment and was completely fascinated
People commenting on the lights: Most abandoned places... Especially those that produced eletricity or mechanics left the lights on, even though these buildings are abandoned, there will still be security patroling the building every so often to make sure everything in the building is okay and there aren't any trespassers or people who thought it would make a great shelter. As abandoned buildings are prime locations for illegal events. it also helps prevent animals entering the building that could do damage or even harm themselves, Hence why they found tracks in the darkest place.
No, Not all the lights were actually on. They left them on in places where the light will reflect more, thus covering more area and thus saving more energy. It's called strategic lighting. Covered it in theatre class.
So, commenting on strategic _stage_ lighting (much different than real-world light engineering)... You have 50,000W of lights (at least in my theatre) in a typical mid-size theatre... You don't really need strategic lighting :P
I'm sure electricity is needed to run heaters during the winter months as well. Freeze/thaw/freeze cycles in an unheated building will deteriorate the place in no time.
I live nearby this reactor. It’s a pretty cool part of history, shame that it never went into full use and a shame that the taxpayers are still covering the costs of a failed project.
Bloody amazing. You just look at all the levels, pipes, fittings, cranes, chambers etc. etc and wonder at the planning and engineering that went into it. I had to chuckle when you came across the old CDC (Control Data Corporation) hard disk pack. Yep, old drives were the size of washing machines in those days. I was also amused at you reaction to hearing the energized transformers humming in the power supply room.
44:36 - 45:17 The CDC Model 877 hard disks you see here (the entire case is one disk, with five platters stacked on top of each other) stored 80 megabytes of data each.
Lol yeah was still swapping platters in the early 90's! Head crashes were pretty spectacular too. Made quite a noise....and the smoke! Ooooeeee did it stink!
Absaloutly fascinating that somthing this massive and intricate is just left totally abandoned lost in time almost, just blows my mind the time, materials, planning and effort to build this place and now it's just... I don't even know, just incredible
22:30: that is the drywell, not the reactor. The reactor is kept inside the bioshield, which was the cylindrical shape you face when you enter the drywell. Where you thought the fuel rods went in were part of the suppression pool system. The alien nest part was under the reactor. That is where the drives for the control rods go. Normally, that area is very radioactive, even when a reactor is shut down for maintenance.
sidewaysrussian can you give me a time stamp to look at? I am an engineer at a nuke plant and also a have an operator certification so I should be able to answer any question you have
sidewaysrussian nothing super interesting. They look like markings that were put there for installing either pipe supports or cable chases. I'm not sure why their are so many. The plant looks completed. The construction crew may have marked all places that were structurally acceptable to hang "stuff" from.
Why would it be there on the open table like that? And it was abandon in 89.. Why would they worry about something that passed 3 years prior to its closing? the elite/NWO/Illuminati/whatever.. they highly worship Saturn. You need to research the elite with Saturn worship and the cube. It's the possible Lucifer/Baphomet/whatever. So it is very very strange that of all the planets listed there, the only one with the name and its "orbit" was Saturn? And then.. on top of that.. what the hell was that other orbit that was not even on the paper going in close to the Sun and out to the left? This makes me think "Power Plants" were used for more than just "powering" cities. Just as CERN is not used for what it's been described as. This is freaky..
@@SirRorschachJack Let me get this straight. You think it is more likely that the photocopies of the solar system are here because of a crazy conspiracy rather than just an employee being interested in space ? Man... My work has nothing to do with space and yet because I'm interested in that field I have a lot of space related stuff lying around. This is a power plant, not a spaceport. It's basically a big facility where we heat water to produce electricity. The nuclear aspect of it has nothing to do with space at all. And why the hell would people let these papers there if they were hiding something ? I know conspiracy theories are very tempting to believe, but when your mind gets so distorted that you end up seeing them everywhere when there are much more simple explanations maybe you should stop and wonder if you are not going too far with them. Get help.
@@MannyLectro You have no idea what's going on in the world. You don't understand how to take in information and hold it for future observation/truth seeking. That's on you. You take it as black and white. Can't do anything to closed off "normal" people. Especially when I literally say "research" the topic. You obviously have not. Have a good day dude.
FYI, the "Tape Things" you found, near the end? They were the platters for a real HDD (Look at the side view and you will see the platters stacked) You took the entire thing and inserted it in the HDD tower (size of a small washing machine) There's a locking mechanism that allows you to remove the blue dome, leaving the stack behind Once in the tower, the platters would spin up to speed and the HDD Read/write heads would emerge from the side All of that, probably for about 6-10MB storage [MASSIVE, back in the day]
if this reactor has been inactive for years, it's been probably abandoned a while back too, so why are the lights still on? How is this place still supplied in electricity?
Did some research, and this is Marble Hill nuclear power plant, and it is in the process of being demolished, so that's why the electricity is turned on here, the reactor is not active, and the power source is the local power grid.
When you went thru the cylinderical interlock, you entered the "drywell" area" which surrounds the reactor itself. The bottom area was designed to be dry, but moisture did accumulate there, that's why you saw corrosion. When you went thru the little doorway, the item above you with the multiple holes, is actually the bottom of the reactor assembly.
We had been planning for this location for awhile but then we saw it was starting to get attention and decided we had to go now before it was too late. Didn't watch your video yet cause we didn't want spoilers before we went in, but I'll check it out!
Just finished all the subtitles for this... alone... that was painfully tedious work. The echos make it really hard to hear them. Go review them so they can be published folks.
I Turned the subtitles on immediately after reading this comment kind of forgot how much work is put into writing subtitles but yeah it takes a lot of work
Tsuser Gaming: You did a fantastic job with these subtitles! All of the other videos I've watched on TH-cam with subtitles suck because the words are always way off from what is actually being said most of the time. Thanks so much and good job! :)
Amazing that you just were able to walk into this place. You would have thought security guards would be around. Those consoles in the main control room remind me of the movie "The China Syndrome.
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Here's what we're looking at. You're exploring a General Electric type 5 Boiling Water Reactor inside a Mark II containment. The plant would have put out 820 megawatts to the grid.
2:00 - dispense with the radiation monitor... the plant has been thoroughly decontaminated and you're going to be picking up normal naturally occurring background radiation. 0.05 microSieverts/hr is below naturally occurring background radiation. The construction of the plant provides shielding against that, ergo the lower readings inside.
3:45 - hoistwell for the turbine building going down to the truck bay
4:00 - turbine deck... exciter has been removed, the generator stator (with the round wood cover) and high and low pressure turbines remain.
4:15 - that's the generator, which is driven by the turbines spinning at 1,800 RPM producing 820 megawatts of power. Typically it's output is around 24,000 volts of 3-phase AC which is stepped up to a higher voltage - either 115, 230 or 345 kv depending on Long Island's transmission system. The small platform in front of the generator is where the exciter was. The exciter generated the magnetic field for the generator.
4:30 - that long thing under the tarp is the generator rotor - the part that spins inside the stator
5:45 - GaiTronics party line / paging system. The Hear-Here booth provides some sound isolation so you can hear the other party. It gets very noisy when the plant is running.
9:15 - pressure differential - you're entering an air lock to the reactor building. There's a negative pressure in there to keep any contaminants contained within that building.
9:45 - you are now in what's known as the secondary containment. The 'cylindrical' thing is the reactor's primary containment. The grated floors are removable for hoisting equipment between elevations.
12:15 - main hoistwell to the refueling floor
15:25 - RWCU = Reactor Water Clean Up pump suction temperature gauge - as you can see it goes up to 600 degrees F... it gets pretty hot when it's operating.
16:15 - stairs are tiring... yup - the wonders of a reactor building get old when the elevator is out of service... factor in elevated temperatures when the plant is at 100% power.
17:30 - refueling floor and polar crane
17:50 - you're looking down in to the reactor cavity. The netting is covering the drywell. The actual reactor itself is long gone.
18:05 - laydown pit - during refueling, it's filled with water providing a place for some of the reactor internals for temporary storage. Typically the steam dryer and moisture separator gets placed here.
18:25 - radiation monitors that you walk through - not metal detectors
19:30 - spent fuel pool - where fuel is stored to cool down after spending 6 years in the reactor under 40 feet of water. New fuel is placed in there for refueling. The new fuel itself is safe to handle, but for the ease of handling and expediency during refueling, it's placed in the SFP prior to the refueling outage.
20:45 - personnel air lock - passageway between secondary and primary containment (the drywell). The drywell is kept pressurized with nitrogen.
23:00 - equipment hatch
24:05 - you're standing on top of the suppression pool. No fuel rods there - that's what the spent fuel pool is for... just lots of equipment - pumps, pipes, etc... HP = human physics (or radiation protection).
24:55 - you're in the undervessel of the reactor. That's where the hydraulic control rod drives were all located.
27:35 - if caught you'd likely be arrested for criminal trespass
28:00 - truck bay extension - basically a big air lock for bringing in things like fuel assemblies, equipment, etc... unsure what the tanks are for
30:20 - heat exchangers or feedwater heaters
34:00 - chemistry lab
35:50 - some kind of high pressure steam line and isolation valve
36:50 - main switchgear / power boards feeding other plant systems
39:30 - main control room
40:40 - control rod position controls
42:30 - reactor operators train for about 2 years before they're licensed - every extensive, and they're constantly retraining, recertifying, etc. Needless to say they're paid very well.
44:00 - Plus signs on the ground everywhere is where radiological testing was done to certify that area was free of radiactivity as part of the decontamination process (you see them on the walls as well). The plus signs you see there represent a control rod - really a plus sign shaped blade made of neutron absorbing material to control the reaction.
44:15 - a control room is typically staffed with a shift manager, control room supervisor, a couple of reactor operators and a technical advisor.
44:55 - an old hard drive disk pack
@Steven Rivers much cleaner. Natural gas is a fossil fuel that emits carbon and green house gas. While cheaper to generate, the price of gas can fluctuate and increase when demand is high (usually winter). Nuclear power plants have no emissions, and run at 100% power, 24/7. We refuel every 2 years so we're not at the mercy of the commodities market.
@Steven Rivers I grew up on LI in the 70s and 80s. LILCo was a clusterfuck. The NIMBY's are the ones who really killed the plant. The TMI and Chernobyl accidents along with that awful movie "The China Syndrome" didn't help (very mis educated about nuclear power) public opinion either.
Thanks for explaining all of this! Nuclear power is one of my interests and I actually did a big report and interview in high school for it. Almost pursued a career, but I probably won't. Visiting a plant is on my bucket list though, and working at one would be a dream job
@@photon1832 Many plants have open house / community nights. You won't get inside the actual plant itself - but it's usually at a visitor's center and/or the training center / simulator if it's located outside of the plant's secure fenced-in "protected area". We'll sometimes give plant tours to certain groups of students in STEM or nuclear programs at school.
To work at one - there's many ways... during refueling outages as a contractor laborer - but you need to know who the company that hires outage contractors for a particular plant. There are non-operations jobs... radiation protection (aka human physics) or security is where many get their foot in the door. Skilled trades - such as electrician, pipe or steam fitter, welder, etc... the local union hall may get those folks in to a plant. On our operations side, we have many Navy veterans who served on nuclear powered submarines and carriers. The college route - there are nuclear engineering programs out there (i.e., at RPI). But no matter how you get in the door - stay out of legal trouble, maintain good credit, don't be a wild child risk taker, don't do drugs and don't be a drunk - otherwise you'll get weeded out early in the selection process.
@Charlie Thorn - you're referring to PWR and RBMK reactors. I work at a BWR plant - so my knowledge is centered around that type of reactor. In our plant, heat exchangers are used for things like residual heat removal during shutdown (i.e., refueling outages) and reactor water cleanup systems to cool the water (which is around 500 deg F in the reactor core) before it hits the filter train.
At 24:05 - they're on top of what's known as the suppression chamber. That's where excess steam is dumped in the event of an emergency. The cooler water of the suppression pool will condense the steam into water. But the same pool of water is used for low pressure core injection emergency cooling as well.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane. I walked all those stairs hundreds of times in the 6 years I worked there...and yes, everyone in ops knew what everything did. It has been so stripped down, but enough left for you grasp the big picture. Nice tour, guys!
You worked in that exact plant?
@@thatcarguydom266 Yes Indeed
That is amazing. Shame they closed it down. We need more of this technology around. We are too dependent on fossil fuels
@@cd6422 Yes. It was a sad exodus as we were ready to put the plant into action when decisions above our paygrade shut it down. I can honestly say that I have never worked with a more capable, professional, efficient, and intelligent group of people before or since that time. Such is the quirk of fate.
Are you sure this place is safe? These guys wouldn’t face the danger of radiation?
Ironically, this might be one of the safest abandoned buildings I've seen you guys enter.
He said Ironically
@@bougieBoulet Yeah sure, that's possible. But it is extremely unlikely. Shutting down a reactor is not something they take lightly, it's a lengthy process. Making sure it's safe is a priority.
But even if the reactor was active, they would still be safer in there than literally anywhere else they have explored. People have an irrational fear of nuclear power.
EPA and all the nuclear regulatory agencies have a lot of rules regarding the safe disposal of radioactive waste. It's also really easy to find the waste... You just use the Geiger counter. It's not like it would be some mystery.
@@bougieBoulet the cleanup process of a nuclear power plant is very thorough. none of that is left there, anything that could be contaminated is put into dry cask storage.
@@shadowgod1009 they have a healthy fear of something going wrong, when this thing was operating there was enough spent fuel in that cooling pound that should it have caught fire do to a catastrophic failure of the cooling pond it would have contaminated most of the northern hemisphere and made it uninhabitable for 1000's of years , we came very close to this very scenario with fukushima
Crazy thing about this particular facility is that it was never actually operated for more than just tests and was decommissioned shortly after being completed due to local opposition after the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl meltdowns.
retarded local opposition
My parents knew some of the contractors who built it. He told my parents if they ever made it fully operational to move as far away as we can.
@@_monti142 Biden voters 😂
@@thomasplunkitt5109 Reactors are pretty safe. Even RBMKs BEFORE they fixed the design faults were extremely safe, you just had to not full throttle a stalled reactor. Reactors in the west are designed with negative void coefficients though, so if the chain of events at chernobyl were to start over here, the reactor would stall as it overheated and the reaction would self cancel.
@Alin S this plant on Long Island so if they have evacuate where are they going
Seems to be a lot of confusion here on what is probably one of the most thorough "tours" of a Boiling Water Reactor you'll find on TH-cam. They don't technically make it into the Reactor Core, as there isn't one. From the top level or Reactor Hall in this case they look down into a massive circular pit which would have housed the Reactor Vessel (which contains the fuel rod assembly/reactor core) before it was decommissioned and removed. The rectangular pit adjacent to this would have been for fuel rod storage. Had they climbed down below the safety netting they would have ended up on top of the plate they refer to as the "aliens nest". The room they entered below that (with the cutaway opening) is where the control rod jacks are housed. This inner chamber is inside a massive upside down concrete light bulb called the Dry Well (accessed through the heavy doors and airlock). The many ominous holes in the floor (with triangular plates on top) have nothing to do with storing fuel rods but rather lead to the slightly more complex labyrinth of tunnels called the Wet Well. Have the lights been left on for decades? Almost certainly. Does that mean its still generating power? No, generally the auxiliary power to run one of these stations comes from diesel generators on site and in this case, we know there's a station next door. It would be a death trap to both intruder and security guards alike without lighting. Its highly likely that some of the halls are still used for storage anyway. Could they encounter radiation here? Unlikely, the clean up process is insanely thorough and this is a baby reactor in the scheme of things. At best, the biggest reading would be from discarded PPE and left over lab samples, I would be more worried about falling/drowning. Had the plant still contained fission materials they would have more likely found themselves shot (in the UK too). What was the long missile shaped object wrapped in a protective cover? That's a rotor, slots inside the stator (large drum with the plywood end cap) but left as one unit it would surely corrode in place. The turbines in this plant are directly driven by the steam from the reactor vessel and thus will have been highly contaminated and removed early on in the decommissioning. Why is there "abandoned" - abandoned equipment everywhere? There will have been thousands of contractors and sub contractors working here throughout a period of bureaucratic frenzy, especially if the electricity company has government funding to burn. Three separate contractors will be commissioned, to fabricate the same safety rail whilst two other firms will be simultaneously removing it and none of them know who is using which ladder and whether or not they've finished with it.... Hope this clears up any misconceptions - Power Station Anorak/Welder
I love that term. Anorak. To describe a geeky fanatic lol.
Were you or still are a Nuclear Power Plant worker at one point because you just friend my brains
What's with all the black markings on the walls?
I find it interesting how the "Proper People" don't want to respond to the truth. Their sensationalistic fearmongering has just been hit by the torpedo of truth and all I hear a crickets.....classic.
You have to take them for what its worth. The stuff is interesting, but they make a lot of uneducated guesses at stuff and from the stuff I see that i do recognize, they are pretty far off.
I respect your self control to not push any buttons...
I would have allahu ackbar'd the fuck out of that place on accident. Buttons are my weakness
LMAOO
Nuuh Kia I would have tried that rusty elevator
Mike7998 are those vehicles abandoned at 0:53?
Nuuh Kia dude nothing would happen the system is discharged there are no fuel rods or live ones at last and the coolant is still there so the least that would happen is a pump would start then shut back off for safety reasons
I'm way late to the party, but simply amazing. As I have commented elsewhere, how surreal is it that the people who built, maintained and operated that facility one day after a predetermined shutdown procedure, left and never came back. Weird how some areas look intact, some ransacked, others just left as they were on that last day. It's so intriguing to wonder when the last time someone lay hands on a phone, made a control adjustment, or made a repair, for the last time and didn't know it. Then ALL of that steel, concrete and various materials will most likely be left behind to slowly decay. It must have taken an immense amount of effort to design and build such a facility, only to have it abandoned. Great video, thanks for sharing.
I worked in a nuclear plant close to 30 years ago. This was like a trip through time. Thank you.
Neat
Can I ask what the Chambers with doors were for ?
@@12marcusboy can you give me a time stamp?
@@Grumpy27n23 21.16 mate
@@12marcusboy decontamination chamber.
25 yrs since it's operated bit the lights are still on....huh, my wife and kids must've been there last. Every day I come home from work and every single light in the house is on
Thomas Goller now this is a hilarious comment. I’m sure they moved the thermostat up 5 degrees also ha ha
time to invest in some automated switches!
How are they generating power without a running nuclear reactor.
@@williamstone7544 the power plant is still hooked up to the grid which means the power is coming from the grid. The power is produced elsewhere since this plant is offline
@@thomasgoller7621Cheers mate.
Dude you are what exploring channels should be! No dramatic bs and no clickbait.
I was thinking the same thing while watching. So many other exploring channels are destructive and rude, but these guys just politely explore and cause no harm, even tries to educate when they can.
I see a lot of people saying its not a nuclear power plant for some reason, while the reactor was removed (for obvious reasons) this is absolutely a boiling water reactor nuclear power plant.
@@TJBfilms The plant would have been thoroughly sanitized and had all (or most) of all radiation removed. they would have been shot if there were still nuclear materials in the building.
Like that annoying josh guy, hate him.. talking trash from start till end, getting over excited or scared of every little bs, almost unwatchable
Kodi022 despite other replies stating that they didn’t know buck shit about this particular plant
Watching this almost 8 years later- Man what a place to explore. I can’t imagine what it would be like to walk around such a complex masterpiece.
Loved the control room, reminded me of plants I ran 30 years ago. You learn the plants by tracing lines and drawing them from memory on a board. You learn the SCADA and Control systems from Operation Handbooks and PNID drawings.
You’re obviously far more capable and intelligent than I. Truly impressive work to run a plant like this. I hope the pay was good too. Nuclear energy is perfect it’s a shame so many people hate on the cleanest form of energy we know of.
You mean P&ID drawing, right? Like a process flow diagram.
@@cyclonic7134 lol Correct P&ID Piping and Instrumentation. Operations training back then consisted of tracing lines, valves pumps compressors until you knew to draw them from memory.. You didn’t pass the unit until you could do it twice. Some of these plants were so big just to walk from one side to the other took 20 minutes.., at pace.Thousands of valves and miles of pipe Just getting signed off the various units was 3 or 4 years.
I’m a Control System Engineer on the Gulf Coast. My guess is there is several jobs , and each job has different responsibilities. The more job qualifications you have the more you know. The more you know the more you make
What's ironic is the building was made to create power. But now does nothing but consume it.
Lol so true
whats ironic is that ur mother was made to create babies and now she just consumes them
@@zzoega no u
@@zzoega That went from 1 to 100 real fast
Whatev .. 😑
I like how y'all were worried about walking near the pedestrian 480V temporary line, but then stroll right by the humming cabinets fed from the 69,000 V line hah.
what time in the video
Because they are ignorant and excited 😆
*Kane34572* sometime after 36:50
You can see written on the transformer “fed from 42F 69Kv yd.”
69Kv = 69,000 volts
@Jason Cougar There are likely other nearby areas that are still using that power. As a result, the building is being fed with electricity even if it isn't using much of it.
Those who say ignorance or more ignorant than then the proper people since no one else seems to know what’s going on like they didn’t even watch the video
I am facing my megalophobia watching this. You guys are brave to be here.
THATS WHAT THAT IS!!!!! I've had this for years and years as far as my memory goes..I'm 28 and I could never explain my fear of commercial generators.. underground to above ground man hole pipes, ......ugh...water towers.... semi trucks... boats.. ships... giant pipe bolts..God I could keep going
Now I know after years of fearing these things that it has a name!! Thank you random youtube comment person!
@@screemobear7034 Same here; I never knew this was an actual phobia.
@@screemobear7034 same here
Anything that is about the size of a very large ship I get a little squeamish
This place is uber creepy to me
I couldn't even imagine the amount of labor hours it takes to construct a power plant like this.
That place looks insanely complicated. I can't imagine how long it would take to design and build (and debug) something like this.
@Jwad now active the plant or not
@@doyouknow7035 can you just walk in active power plants on India? Cause you know that's like bad for you don't you?
Ask the people of chernobyl
You sound like a software dev 👍
My grandpa was a nuclear engineer for ge, never really said anything about it sadly and now he's passed on
You better whisper so the radiation doesnt wake up
I hear the radiation has a drinking problem, past out long before they came
If I was radiation, I would wake up and ask if they had cheese cake.
3.6 roentgen not great not terrible
SAOrules based
TexBoy broccoli
The HOT on the control panels behind the nets meant that there is electricity flowing through it. The net was likely put up when the plant was closed for safety. That was crazy high power as you could hear. The funny thing about the computers in the control room is that if they were from the 1980s then given their size they probably each had about the same computing power as a 90s desktop. Computers up until the 80s were still very large. The thing labeled CDC might have been an old removable multi platter storage drive.
I think they were old bourneli platters
Nearly 6 years too late to this video, but this is genuinely the best urbex video I've watched. Incredible. Well done boys!
All those physical buttons, switches, dials, gauges, cables and mysterious magnetic data storage media... obviously the lights are still on because nobody could find the light switch.
😆
there is no such things as magnetic data storage media 💀😂
@@niel4477 ?
Ever seen a cassette tape? Or a floppy disk?
@@DJB1ack0u7 Yes i figured that out after some research
Plain old removeable disk packs from a 1970s or 1980s era disk drive, each pack maybe holds 50MB to 100MB - probably still readable data! - j q t -
Most abandoned places have a creepy feel to them but those lights made the power plant oddly welcoming.
This nucklera power is not abandoned it is running and online. they entered the beast.i.e. core, at 21 minutes into the videos.
@@ilovecops5499 There is no core. At 17:50 they look down into where the reactor vessel--which contained the core--was. When plants are decommissioned they remove the entire reactor vessel and core because it's easier to dispose of it and store the contaminants (the by products of nuclear fission) along with spent fuel rather than decontaminating it in place.
I do kind of enjoy that florescent hum.
Truly Infamous it gives a certain feel to abandon buildings and to quote the initial comment it very much feels like a warm welcome The building wants you to feel warm and safe and not have to waste time with your own lights
Almost as if ghosts are inviting you to hang out.
Hi Guys, the computer discs at 44:55 are called Winchester discs. I used to use a Quantel PaintBox in 1984 and it had a stack of about 6 or 8 discs of about 15" diameter and hardwired into the computer with no external cover. The computer was the size of a standard domestic refrigerator enclosed in a glass cabinet. When writing to disc it was noisy. PaintBox was pre-Photoshop and cost about a million dollars for a basic unit. We can buy the same now for about 1 or 2 thousand dollars and is a laptop with Photoshop. Love the vids, keep up the good work and stay safe.
I used a Quantel Hairy I think it was called for broadcast graphics.
That control room was insane. You guys are lucky to have been able to find that.
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I worked on plants for about a decade, have a couple things to point out.
The turbine area is referred to as the "turbine deck". The end that had plywood over it used to connect with a shaft to the generator, which is missing, though the mounting blocks are apparent.
Since this is an old reactor, and most likely retired (though that's an assumption, I haven't watched the whole video yet), this facility is probably a BWR or boiling water reactor. That is the older type of reactor setup, which uses a single loop between the reactor and the turbine, with no heat exchanger or second loop. This is not a definite, again since I just started watching this, though it's good to know of BWRs anyway. Some are still in operation, I believe.
The second type, as you mentioned in the video is a PWR, or Pressurized Water Reactor, which uses two loops and a heat exchanger. Your description of the process was a little faulty, I have to mention. The fuel rods heat reactor water, creating steam. The steam pressure provides the force to move through the system and drive the turbine (whether PWR or BWR). As the steam cools late in the cycle it is condensed and returned to the reactor by means of the cooling towers that are often so prominent.
If I have more comments, I'll chime in again.
"Metal detectors" - no - Dosimetry scanner. They were used to detect/measure radiation on workers.
timestamp 24:00 "where the fuel rods might have been?" - no - torus tank. It was a donut-shaped tank that ringed around beneath the reactor. That tank was used for cooling the reactor water under certain circumstances. Those floor penetrations were for circulation pipes that penetrated the bottom of the torus tank. Among them are also remnants of the saddles that were the foundation of the tank. I haven't watched more yet, but there should be several large penetrations, maybe covered over, that went from the bottom of the RPV, the reactor pressure vessel down to the taurus tank. They were pipes, and very large pipes.
timestamp 25:00, I was at first skeptical you actually were in the reactor, and while technically you weren't, because the bottom of the reactor vessel was gone, you were indeed standing at the base of where the bottom of that reactor was located. Looking up, that's the top of the shroud, where the fuel rods penetrated, their elevation within the reactor determining the quantity of steam they produced.
If this site were still intact, you would have not gotten anywhere near there - even if you were alone.
SERIOUS kudos for posting the most entertaining abandoned exploration video EVER!
Timestamp 34:00, radiation levels and other data was routinely checked on various systems, hence the lab.
timestamp 36:00, every power plant has a transmission station of course. If this is (and I suspect it is) a GE Mark 1 reactor, it used to put out around 1,000 plus megawatts most likely. Larger transmission lines may handle 650,000 volts for each set of 3 phases, so what you're looking at is some of the larger examples of power distribution components like fuses or whatnot.
You know, after watching HBO's Chernobyl, I am something of a nuclear physicist myself.
Not great not terrible.
@@poodlecomb5053 I rate it 3.6 / 15000
He's delusional, take him down the infirmary.
@@kadenwatt2033 lol
A nuclear physicist has probably 2 years more schooling than community College but that's it
I thought Homer Simpson would be in the old fridge.
YEAH FINALLY SOMEONE WHO GETS IT LMAO
I swear to god if it was in a town called Springfield…..
Doh!
Nah, he's still stuck between two soda machines.
I really feel like someone should leave a box of doughnuts and a family photo of the Simpsons in the control room
These videos are special. Just imagining the history behind what now lies abandoned induces an emotion i find hard to put into words.
Reactor is/was a General Electric BWR design. The Turbine-Generator is/was a 820 MW General Electric. First thing under the black tarp was the 4 pole generator field which rotates at 1800 RPM for 60 hertz power output . In areas with 50 hertz power, nuclear units turn at 1500 RPM. Fossil units turn at twice that speed and are 2 pole (3600 & 3000). The field uses DC current to produce a rotating magnetic field inside the stationary generator core (stator) which then produces 3 phase AC power (820MW) at maybe 24 to 30,000 volts. The generator core and field are cooled by running in pure hydrogen gas at about 60 psig. The high voltage stator windings are cooled by pure deionized water circulating through the copper conductors themselves. The high purity of the water makes the water an insulator. By the way, the low pressure turbine rotors ot this unit were removed and used on another nuclear turbine. This plant was never allowed (licensed) to produce more than 5% rated power before it was decommissioned. 820 MW is a little over 1 million horsepower. I was an GE engineer who specialized in working on these large machines (nuclear and fossil fired) although I never worked on this one. Largest one I ever worked on was the two million horsepower units (3) at Palo Verde Station outside Phoenix, AZ. They were the largest in the world at that time I think, maybe not now but still close to largest i"m sure.
why would they build the reactor and then only let it operate at 5% of its designed output ? Was there a design flaw of accident or something ?
Two main factors contributed to the eventual demise of the plant. 1) The Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and the 1986 Chernobyl accident created local and environmentalist opposition to the plant. 2) A satisfactory emergency evacuation plan for the area, required after the Three Mile Island accident, could never be developed because of the area's unique physical location. Without an approved evacuation plan, the operating license could not be approved and the reactor was dismantled. Had the unit gone into operation as planned, it is estimated that it would have prevented the emission of an estimated three million tons of carbon dioxide per year.
Did some research last night damn public outcry and not approving the evacuation orders ! thanks for your reply !
So they were basically in physical test phase using some first-batch fuel when stuff happened and they couldnt keep up with needs the regulatory board for nucear power came up with ? So, they just had it scraped ? ... is that the same for the other reactors shown from the outside at the end too ( meaning for the whole plant ), or was it jst this one unit ?
P.S.: Also, at 24:11 - nice joke :D .... those are probably closed up oppenings for the main closing valves ( now taken away and scrapped ) for the water entering reactor vessel itself ? ( www.nuclear-power.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ABWR_reactor.jpg ) Interresting these reactors use the same wessel as a steam-generator. Meaning activated water had to make it into the turbine ( corporate.vattenfall.com/globalassets/corporate/about_energy/illustrations/boiling_water_reactor2.jpg ) ... were having the russian VVER400 design, using a secondary loop of water for steam-production, whyle keeping the reactor water in liquid form going trough the heat-exchangers. ... cant imagine this one wessel thing as so much more of the technology could have been contaminated and was thus active even in the turbine ! ( 4.bp.blogspot.com/-IK9ztN5iYrM/Uj9XQpQp4ZI/AAAAAAAABKk/9zR6QK4rNC0/s1600/vessel.gif ) How on earth do these turbines and stuff get checked and repaired at the annual stoppage during re-fueling - one would have to check and dezactivate the whole thing before the dissassembly ! ( hence all the shielding around the turbines ).
That is so fascinating. Thanks for sharing
FYI the "metal detector" with the big transformer isn't a metal detector. It's actually a radiation detector that makes sure workers are clean before leaving the reactor and possibly contaminating the entire facility.
yes, i used to work in building these. most likely a scintillator crystal with pmt tubes. highly sensitive.
I was thinking that too. I mean, why would there be metal detectors:D
@@Miktai torille perkele
Mikko T for security.
They probably got the idea from the archway, which says "Metal Alarm" on the left and "Explosive Alarm" on the right. But yeah, the cabinet on the left is definitely a particulate detector.
40:10 “Let’s fire this bad boy up!” 😂
Me and my wife watched this one together, I streamed it to my T.V. off my laptop. One of the best walk through's I've ever seen.
I would recommend that you take an atmospheric measuring device with you when you are traveling in unknown buildings and especially in lower-lying rooms. There are odorless gases that can be extremely dangerous for you.
Before you can detect any lack of oxygen by yourself, it could be too late.
Stay out of sump pump pits. During construction they filled with argon and WILL kill you. Been there done that, watched three dudes die in one.
@UrbanExplorer1000 obvious by argon
duh
Spot on. Look up the term; Stratification.
Yes but they did complete the recording, editing and posting the video and lived to tell the story right?
FANTASTIC!!!
I was freaking out the whole time, cause I googled power plants, probably a bad idea while watching this viedo?
but it was a really good video!
This is Dan Bell. My two well three favourite explorers
can you please go explore it to please dan haha
Can you explore it too please? :)
RnK I love your vids, and i watched your vid first before I watched this one, si it was super cool to see different reactions and explores.
10:23 that beep scared tf out of me
I love the whispering - common reaction when in awe of huge structures (and of course, unsure at times if anyone is around!) I also like your tones and actions showing respect in top explorer tradition.
Am I the only person who loves that constant 480 volt Transformer Humm throughout the video?
Arthur White ah, you know, that does make a little more sense
Me too
yeah 60 hz hum more likely.
That's from the high pressure sodium or metal halide high bay lights. 60 hz is the frequency at which electricity "alternates" the humming is because the ballasts are aging. Journey electrician.
+Nick I think Productions guy knows what the frequency is and means ;) And yeah its sorta a nice hum. I love hearing fans as I sleep so yes its great!
Me: why are we whispering
You: it's scarier
Me: oh
Maybe they just don't want to get caught by shouting if there's security checking the premises.
my all time fave sub-exploration vid, watched it a few times over the last couple of years (and again now) and it's *still* awesome!
it would be nice to have expert tour guides telling and showing these guys and us what everything actually is and what it does.
The experts are here in the comments, lol. I think having an expert tour guide like that would really change the video. When it's just the two of them exploring the unknown, they are taking us on a journey and we experience all the tension, fear, wonder and sense of awe right along with them. I feel like most if not all of that emotion the whole feel of the video would be completely different and imo, less interesting and unique.
Yes, but that would be legal and less fun.
You guys were pretty close on most of your educated guesses on what was what. You were actually standing where the fuel rods once were when you found that abandoned scaffold. The area joining the reactor core is called the spent fuel pool. This is where they staged the new rods and storage for used rods. When moving rods, they must remain under water to prevent contamination from going airborne and it helps reduce gamma radiation as well. The walls you noted as being very thick are a special concrete that contains lead to absorb gamma radiation. Source- I worked in a nuclear power plant for approx 4 years.
Just curious, why did you stop working at a nuclear power plant? It looks like the coolest thing ever.
Are you serious? You do know that if that fucker blows ur fucked and even if you do get a certain distance away you will get cancer from the radiation or probably still die from the radiation. Imagine a nuke right and that nuke could blow any moment if someone does one wrong mistake but at the same time you are trying to harvest power from it that is basically a nuclear power plant. ( Not very factual but yeah also this comment is not meant to be some sort of 100% explanation of why someone would quit working in a nuclear power plant )
I dont think he stop working because of that reason because it is too childish, modern nuclear power plants is incredibly safe and you have higher chance of your house collapse then something go wrong inside them.
koool56 True but who knows when that plant was made? What if it was made 35 years ago and has had not the most professional maintenance?
Armor Matty Everyone know when plant was made, it is easy to research. As far as I know no one use plants which is 35 years old
Should've used the geiger counter on the 40--yr-old thing in that fridge.
Yes that thing has been absorbing rays for decades 😂
they wil definetly broke him XD
Everyone knows that’s where they keep the alien hearts.
As a former GE guy, this stuff is like an entire generation and leap of technology backward from today (Obviously) its just really cool to see this stuff. Usually when I get to it, something bad happened.
Great video guys! It's also cool to see so many comments from people who have worked in similar plants sharing their knowledge.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just the fact that you walked into the plant WITH NO PROBLEMS means that no matter what would you do in that control room, nothing catastrophic would happen. Otherwise the owner would know about you the second you entered the power plant. (my opinion)
When it´s unloaded (even if it would be loaded with all rods, but not properly in proper possition with proper start process) you can dance cha cha on that panel and you would not even start super mario on that computer, neither the reactor
I've said this before, but if you tried to enter a building with fissile material still inside (including spent reactor fuel) you would be shot dead before you could get in the front door. The government does not fuck around when it comes to radioactive sources, which is why the rad levels in this decommissioned plant were so low.
@@MegaFPVFlyerThese dumbasses are still stupid AF for doing it
@@MegaFPVFlyer Maybe not shot, but one of the reasons why decon is done so extensively in all decommissioned NPP's is because the operator of the plant is contractually bound to either completely disassemble and dispose of everything that is even slightly radioactive, if not it needs to be heavily guarded 24/7 all at the operators expense. Until everything that is contaminated has been removed and disposed of, and the site has been verified clean by something like the NRC it cannot be declared decommissioned, and until it is, the bills will keep rolling in for the operator.
The "metal detectors" are radiation detectors. You scan workers as they enter and leave to see if they are contaminated.
There's a fun story of a nuclear plant worker who used to set the detectors off every morning as he came IN to work. They thought he must be stealing radioactive stuff and sneaking it out somehow then contaminating himself at home. Turned out he had really high natural radon gas levels in his house.
Coincidentally, this is how they figured out something was up in some other part of the world at a nuclear facility in Sweden during the Chernobyl disaster, before the Soviets released anything officially.
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20140514STO47018/forsmark-how-sweden-alerted-the-world-about-the-danger-of-chernobyl-disaster
Homer Simpson?
seeing the stuff that people do/did with radiation (i.e. nuclear boy scout story) - cant be too secure tbh. Also, stealing radioisotopes is quite a real concern.
As someone who spent six years nuclear contracting: THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.
Common triggers: antique radium dial watches, tungsten welding rods, tungsten rings, motorcyclists during temp inversions (Radon), medical isotope receivers (they know, they filed paperwork, they set off alarms because they're trolls)
Radon is nasty stuff. It's the second biggest cause of lung cancer after smoking. If you've ever known anyone who was never a smoker but had lung cancer, chances are it was caused by radon.
I did my internship in the biggest nuclear powerplant of my country. I'll never forget how amazing it all was for the whole 3 months I've been there. Amazing people as well.
40:00 thing is, this is still true for the stuff today. They go hardcore with the saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Wow... I think this is the most incredible abandoned find. You all are so lucky
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I got to say that electrical buzz noise instantly scares the shit out of me .
nathan whitworth Just the 60hz hum
Typical electrical sounds, but still unnerving.
"Roll on one!"
AS LONG AS THER'S A BUZZ,YOU SHOULD NOT STAY THERE,OR MABY,IT'S ALREADY TO LATE.AS LONG AS THE LIGHT'S ARE ON,''STAY OUT FOR YOUR OWN SAFTY...
@@fiddlesticksbessette398 buzz is good
60hz hum is the worst noise in the universe.
“There’s so much to see here” *zooms in on a broken light*
@The Proper Peoples Ik hoop echt op meerdere van deze powerplants!! zo gaaf om te bekijken. Deze video was de mooist complete erover. Heb de anderen ook gezien die veel kleiner waren enz. maar die vond ik minder spannend maar ook wel heel mooi!! Love you guys!!!
I’ve seen someone else mention it but seriously why does it sound like someone saying “I saw it happen” at 26:00 it doesn’t sound like either of them
Elite Minx30 Dude i thought i am the only one hearing that thing
I heard it. Clear as day.
sounds a little scary, just heard it
Jeeeesus that's creepy
To me it sounds like someone is saying "I saw him"???
Screw everything. Imagine being the architect who had to draw all of this up and make sure every pipe fitting was in the right place. Every wire there was ran to the right place... all of that crap. That has got to be the most intense drafting job on the planet.
What about the bigest particle accelerator wouldn't that be harder
There would have been a team of dozens of engineers and draftsmen, maybe even upwards of a hundred. I'm not play it down though, it would have been a massive task.
GE had teams of architects and this is not a big plant. Intense work but they followed a template.
Architects had a very minor role in this. More engineers than you could imagine. An average welder would not even be considered, most every weld had to be done by certified welders capable of doing welds certified by x-ray.
Architects do the basic structure, each sub contractor would provide shop drawings for their trade and have to work around everyone else's routing plans.
Wow, that was insane! Just imagine the amount of engineering that went into building this!
@Bipolar Gemini about 6 billion, not 50 million dollars lmao
@Bipolar Gemini ok, well I kinda lived through this whole thing and why it closed down, I lived in New York as a kid and this plant was secretly being built too close to homes and residents, worry from the public grew and they shut the plant into this kind of graveyard state. There is no doubt there is a lot of labour, materials, and design plan costs. They later had to clean it out from the very little use this place saw, which also costs a lot of money. You can look up the cost of the whole thing if you do not believe me. This isint even all of this plant, there is a lot more (more reactor buildings and some staff buildings). There are papers you can look for the total city cost for the city of New York, which estimates to 6 billion... FuCk oFf
Aaaand he deleted his comments lmao
Probly would have to pay some1 1 million dollars
@@AircraftTurnAndBurn What is the reactor they are in? I'm looking through the comments and there's people who seemingly know every little thing, but I still haven't found someone mentioning the GODDAMN name... can you help please? :D
This was the coolest video I have watched on abandoned sites.Thank you for the extensive tavel through! Were you scared at any point?
i’ve been binge watching your videos for hours since i found your channel, so far this is my favorite and most interesting one!
Smithers, theres a pair of blundering oafs desecrating my beloved abandoned plant!......*scowls*.....release the hounds!
Fifty 1 Fifty SEEEEEEE MYYYYYY VEST
"Right away Mr. Burns."
"The emotional support hounds then the attack hounds"
D'OH!!!
Fifty 1 Fifty lol I live somewhat close to it and I ride my bike near it and beagles bark once you are on the property
Man who knew so many people were nuclear engineers on TH-cam lol
Tbone Scriv lol exactly my thoughts!!! Cool though, love the informational comments
@@sarasilgado949 like it too, but I cannot trust comments without sources/references... If there is an engineer I would like to see a linkedin profile or s.th. like that..
As it turns out, I am! Not surprising that I found this, as have others of similar background.
Some of us work in the industry you goof 😃😃
@@leander_1_ If it's BS it's pretty impressive BS
Nice vid guys! Having worked at a nuclear power plant it is a complete different world once you get inside. Unfathomable amounts of money go into building and maintaining these facilities. And look what happened to this one...
You guys are AWESOME!! Absolutely mind boggling exploration!
I absolutely LOVED this one. Looks like Aperture Science
Could of swore I saw a potato in there.
The cake is a lie!
Eh. Looks more like Black Mesa to me.
In the end, it was a triumph for science.
omg i was thinking that the whole time, looks exactly like the levels from portal 2
For those wondering why it still has power, it's because they can't just abandon something like this, the government regulations don't allow it. So they have to keep the sump pumps working and the smoke alarms working, and probably have to inspect it and test for radiation periodically, so the lights stay on.
And basically, it's cheaper to keep a minimal level of maintenance, and pay the power bill forever, than it is to fully tear it down.
Well after all, making the future pay is their business model anyway.
Okay. That makes sense why there were still a lot of lights still turned on in that place.
What I would want to know more than anything is where this power plant's name & location so I can do some research on Google & look it up on Google Maps & see what happened to it & why it got shut down in the first place?
@@sithlordbilly4206 they have to be relicensed every few years, often requiring upgrades or major repairs to get a new license, and so if it's a smaller or more expensive design, it may not be economical to keep it working.
Remember that these plants have a designated lifetime, because the inner parts of the reactor core that can't be repaired or replaced once it goes into operation do wear out and corrode and weaken from constant bombardment, so to extend the lifetime past the design life they have to do expensive inspections of the inner parts of the reactor to certify that it is still strong enough for another 10 years or whatever, and the older it gets, the more frequent and invasive these are.
In some places, where it's a really high output plant with minimal issues it's worth it to keep it running, but at some point it costs less to mothball it.
For instance, the last nuclear plant in California was going to be finally retired after many extensions because the next one was going to be expensive, but the state is stepping in and asking them to keep it running to help maintain energy stability in the state grid, and probably going to give some subsidies to help offset the costs of getting another extension.
@@sithlordbilly4206Shoreham Nuclear power plant in Brookehaven, NY (Long Island)
That was SO COOL to see!!! Thank you for sharing, Wow!!
It’s insane that the lights still work in this power plant that hasn’t been active in 25 years. Even more insane is that everything is intact, and there isn’t any sign of spray paint ANYWHERE.
2 years for a reply lol. We have multiple generating sites on the property, in the way of gas turbines (we run kerosene). Fun fact.. the turbine deck was actually refurbished years ago, because they filmed the beginning of the movie "The Dictator" there. The last time I was inside, you could still find bits of hay, because part of the filming involved goats. More recently, the entire building has been surrounded by a massive fence and a ton of security cameras, because the last "urban explorers" lit a fire in the control room.
@@millerbeer8743bruh why ruin a historical place just leave it there
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Watching in 2019: "Patience. You will. You will..."
Pretty sure you can't support someone breaking the law without being a party to a crime or some law like that
@@BuiltNotBought1987 they have sponsors now haha
@@BuiltNotBought1987 They have Paetrons now supporting their hooligan riff raff rapscallion behaviours ;)
They have Paetrons now supporting these hooligan riff raff little rapscallions' behaviors ;)
@@ablemagawitch cool never said I didn't want them to just stating there was probably some stupid law saying they couldn't glad to see they have a patreon and sponsors 👌
This must have been the Motel 6 of nuclear reactors...they left the light on for you. ;)
Love it! Hahah
Nothing like that warm buzz
Best. Comment. Ever.
Yeah I was wondering WHY the lights are on?
@@googlepleaseleavemealonean6198 I was wondering why the door was left open.
That opening with the blinking lights always brings me into the right mood for this episode. Very well done
Awesome video, thank you for sharing every inch of the building. When you explore a place like this are your hearts racing the whole time?
The last thing i want to hear in a nuclear power plant is: "Oops"
No, the only thing that you wouldn't want to hear is the nuclear meltdown alarms going off because that is a VERY bad thing.
"D'oh!" --Homer Simpson
They did, on April, 26, 1986 at 1:23 am
Oops my bad.
A lot of the electronics were what my company manufactured and I tested and repaired it. The GE MAC7000 line was bought out by Bailey controls Co. I worked there 1975-1995. The Keyboard was an Intecolor which was a data terminal that connected to more modern digital controllers in the Network 90 system. All those racks in the hall with gray faced modules with red test points, were simple analog units. Those big things that had "CDC" on them were changable hard drives. They were probably 2-10 Megabyte drives. By today's standard, would only store a couple pictures from a digital camera.
Actually they were 67 mb cartridges. Used the same ones on a DEC RM03 disk drive back in the 80s. The keyboard was part of an HP graphics terminal. The brown one sticking out of the console.
Yeah those circular devices that you found that you said looked like a tape are the big brothers of our modern day hard drives. I know this because I had a brother in law that worked for the Air Force on the A-10 Simulator and this is what all the different programs were copied to in order to run the thing. It took 5 of those entire casings to run an entire mission for the computer as well as the simulator and this wasnt a 3D simulator
Thanks guys! That was one of the coolest fucking videos on the internet! I watched it 3 times and sent to to most of my friends.
Not only did I watch it three times but I read every single comment and was completely fascinated
Rewatching this now that I’m in school to me an industrial electrical maintenance tech. So interesting, cheers after 5 years!
People commenting on the lights:
Most abandoned places... Especially those that produced eletricity or mechanics left the lights on, even though these buildings are abandoned, there will still be security patroling the building every so often to make sure everything in the building is okay and there aren't any trespassers or people who thought it would make a great shelter. As abandoned buildings are prime locations for illegal events. it also helps prevent animals entering the building that could do damage or even harm themselves, Hence why they found tracks in the darkest place.
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Yeah, burning lights for 25 years and still going. Sounds about right
No, Not all the lights were actually on. They left them on in places where the light will reflect more, thus covering more area and thus saving more energy. It's called strategic lighting. Covered it in theatre class.
So, commenting on strategic _stage_ lighting (much different than real-world light engineering)...
You have 50,000W of lights (at least in my theatre) in a typical mid-size theatre... You don't really need strategic lighting :P
I'm sure electricity is needed to run heaters during the winter months as well. Freeze/thaw/freeze cycles in an unheated building will deteriorate the place in no time.
i can’t tell you how many times i’ve watched this video fully. one of my favorite videos on the internet.
Tagging you so you can watch it again in 2022
This place is HUGE...Wow. I love yalls vids. Keeps me intrigued.
I live nearby this reactor. It’s a pretty cool part of history, shame that it never went into full use and a shame that the taxpayers are still covering the costs of a failed project.
Where is it
@@epic2105 I’m pretty sure it’s on Long Island
@@epic2105 wading river Long Island NY
in soviet russia, power plant explore you.
XD
Chernobyl.....
nice job. :)
lol
quite literally
"Oh, I had the Geiger counter set to the wrong decimal point. I don't feel so good."
I see a Darwin Award in somebodies future, or a nomination at a minimum.
Oh don't worry, an order of magnitude error is not enough to cause any health issues let alone nausea.
Was it set at 3.6 Roentgen?
Bloody amazing. You just look at all the levels, pipes, fittings, cranes, chambers etc. etc and wonder at the planning and engineering that went into it. I had to chuckle when you came across the old CDC (Control Data Corporation) hard disk pack. Yep, old drives were the size of washing machines in those days. I was also amused at you reaction to hearing the energized transformers humming in the power supply room.
Most interesting to me is how little dust there is after 25 years. I guess it's sealed up pretty tight?
Thanks for exploring! 🤩
44:36 - 45:17 The CDC Model 877 hard disks you see here (the entire case is one disk, with five platters stacked on top of each other) stored 80 megabytes of data each.
how do people even live with that much space
Young bucks have no idea. In the mid 90's internet porn took 10 minutes to view 1 topless picture
Lol yeah was still swapping platters in the early 90's! Head crashes were pretty spectacular too. Made quite a noise....and the smoke! Ooooeeee did it stink!
At least I find a comment about those hard disks! I know it's not ok to steal stuff during urbex, but that is such a relique...
That isa lof of diosk storage. external SATA 2 dr4ive I got last week is only 2 megabytes. They were way ahead backl in the 1950's.
Awesome video!
How did I knoe tou would be here 😅
So satisfying exploring this stuff
Absaloutly fascinating that somthing this massive and intricate is just left totally abandoned lost in time almost, just blows my mind the time, materials, planning and effort to build this place and now it's just... I don't even know, just incredible
22:30: that is the drywell, not the reactor. The reactor is kept inside the bioshield, which was the cylindrical shape you face when you enter the drywell. Where you thought the fuel rods went in were part of the suppression pool system. The alien nest part was under the reactor. That is where the drives for the control rods go. Normally, that area is very radioactive, even when a reactor is shut down for maintenance.
seems like you know stuff about power plant. what are those crosses or Xs on every single wall inside ?
sidewaysrussian can you give me a time stamp to look at? I am an engineer at a nuke plant and also a have an operator certification so I should be able to answer any question you have
9:52 or 10:11 those "+" and "T" marks are on every single wall in pretty much every single room a few feet apart from each other. Thanks for reply.
sidewaysrussian nothing super interesting. They look like markings that were put there for installing either pipe supports or cable chases. I'm not sure why their are so many. The plant looks completed. The construction crew may have marked all places that were structurally acceptable to hang "stuff" from.
sidewaysrussian I think the t or X are there to check if any structure is having deformation thus are going to break
43:14 Halley's comet? It passed by in 1986, maybe they were astronomy fans in the control room?
Or planet X, lol.
Why would it be there on the open table like that? And it was abandon in 89.. Why would they worry about something that passed 3 years prior to its closing? the elite/NWO/Illuminati/whatever.. they highly worship Saturn. You need to research the elite with Saturn worship and the cube. It's the possible Lucifer/Baphomet/whatever. So it is very very strange that of all the planets listed there, the only one with the name and its "orbit" was Saturn? And then.. on top of that.. what the hell was that other orbit that was not even on the paper going in close to the Sun and out to the left? This makes me think "Power Plants" were used for more than just "powering" cities. Just as CERN is not used for what it's been described as. This is freaky..
I hope you are just joking Sir Rorschach
@@SirRorschachJack Let me get this straight. You think it is more likely that the photocopies of the solar system are here because of a crazy conspiracy rather than just an employee being interested in space ? Man... My work has nothing to do with space and yet because I'm interested in that field I have a lot of space related stuff lying around. This is a power plant, not a spaceport. It's basically a big facility where we heat water to produce electricity. The nuclear aspect of it has nothing to do with space at all. And why the hell would people let these papers there if they were hiding something ?
I know conspiracy theories are very tempting to believe, but when your mind gets so distorted that you end up seeing them everywhere when there are much more simple explanations maybe you should stop and wonder if you are not going too far with them. Get help.
@@MannyLectro You have no idea what's going on in the world. You don't understand how to take in information and hold it for future observation/truth seeking. That's on you. You take it as black and white. Can't do anything to closed off "normal" people. Especially when I literally say "research" the topic. You obviously have not. Have a good day dude.
You guys are my original urbex explorers, fantastic explore & good to see you're still looking at some cool places 😮
What I find amazing is how many of the lights still work. HP sodium’s and Metal-Halides go out fairly regularly .
FYI, the "Tape Things" you found, near the end?
They were the platters for a real HDD (Look at the side view and you will see the platters stacked)
You took the entire thing and inserted it in the HDD tower (size of a small washing machine)
There's a locking mechanism that allows you to remove the blue dome, leaving the stack behind
Once in the tower, the platters would spin up to speed and the HDD Read/write heads would emerge from the side
All of that, probably for about 6-10MB storage
[MASSIVE, back in the day]
the cdc model 877 had 80mb storage capacity
Wow ! Large for its day. CDC = Control Data Corporation.
finally, thanks for telling this guy. I was about to.
@Bill Williams And 1 terabyte of storage on a HDD you can hold in your hand....
if this reactor has been inactive for years, it's been probably abandoned a while back too, so why are the lights still on? How is this place still supplied in electricity?
the local government has to keep funding these facilities
Joe Moreno why? So the power plant stays safe?
Yea probably they don't want something like Chernobyl happening again
Houston Walker ah I think that's a good reason
Did some research, and this is Marble Hill nuclear power plant, and it is in the process of being demolished, so that's why the electricity is turned on here, the reactor is not active, and the power source is the local power grid.
love this stuff great going guys thanks for the tour.
When you went thru the cylinderical interlock, you entered the "drywell" area" which surrounds the reactor itself. The bottom area was designed to be dry, but moisture did accumulate there, that's why you saw corrosion. When you went thru the little doorway, the item above you with the multiple holes, is actually the bottom of the reactor assembly.
haha i did this video first on youtube and now proper people are on it already damnnnn
Dark Exploration fuck off
check my profile for urbex videos as well. New video tm
We had been planning for this location for awhile but then we saw it was starting to get attention and decided we had to go now before it was too late. Didn't watch your video yet cause we didn't want spoilers before we went in, but I'll check it out!
+Dark Exploration dude stop promoting ur self
Thanks guys. I went in the middle of summer and the ticks were insane. Hope you guys had better luck than me haha
Just finished all the subtitles for this... alone... that was painfully tedious work. The echos make it really hard to hear them.
Go review them so they can be published folks.
Published! Thanks everyone.
Report any errors below with timestamp and I'll update my copy of the subtitles and submit a fixed copy eventually.
I Turned the subtitles on immediately after reading this comment kind of forgot how much work is put into writing subtitles but yeah it takes a lot of work
Tsuser Gaming turned them on, thx
Tsuser Gaming: You did a fantastic job with these subtitles! All of the other videos I've watched on TH-cam with subtitles suck because the words are always way off from what is actually being said most of the time. Thanks so much and good job! :)
20:21 "lound" should be loud
The whole place is buzzing and lit from within. That is precisely what makes it so scary! So, is there anyone else in here?
Amazing that you just were able to walk into this place. You would have thought security guards would be around. Those consoles in the main control room remind me of the movie "The China Syndrome.
lol the diagram of the solar system says "not to scale"
No diagram of the solar system is to scale, otherwise the planets would be tiny ass dots.
exactly why its so funny :)
because,why would it even need to say that?,its fuckin obvious
Welcome to single-level bureacracy
JMGRICH it means that the model isn't to scale. Being to scale doesn't mean actual size. It just means on like a map 1 inch = 1 mile
35:36 Good thing they fixed it with duct tape. Otherwise there could have been a nuclear disaster.
Glad Homer Simpson was on the job.
its not duct tape its like a lead/zinc tinfoil adhesive thing
you can still buy it to repair gutters
The fiber reinforcement inside that duct tape is woven tighter than the radiation wavelength, so it's totes legit.
One of my favorite videos from you guys. This is the one that got me hooked.
This was an awesome video,, I enjoyed every second of it,, great job guys!