“Ahy blyat! Where am I Comrad!? I’ve been fused to the central drainage system for 37 years! Where’s all the workers? I called the head of reactor 4 but nobody was answering the phones....did I miss something?”
6:08 This just lets you realize how incredibly powerful the explosion was. Not only did the pressure in the core lift that incredibly heavy lid, it also blew it up a good 30 meters up while also ripping the entire roof apart.
It is unbelievable. If the engineers actually had a choice to put all relevant data for the operator's. The reactor would not have exploded. Also, if the project wasn't rushed to produce power by the government officials. The plant would not have used short cuts to keep a deadline. There are so many errors. Human, mechanical, and engineering.
Never underestimate steam pressure Its just like how the magma and gases inside a volcano can build up enough pressure to blow out the entire side of the mountain....imagine that
I once worked in a place that was working with weak radioactive Isotopes (Pharmacy industry) and I remember a very similar kind of "checkout" thing you had to go through each time you wanted to leave certain building otherwise your card wouldnt let you through. Basically it just measured if you had any radioactive residue on your feet or hands after working and even though it was more modern, it is amazing to see that pretty much the same design was used back then
Cheeprnobyl s 4th reactor is no longer that dangerous but don't touch the rods because that will cause a explosion that will cover the whole planet of radiation and will kill 27million
it's actually how westerners first realized there had been a nuclear accident. 2 days after the explosion (April 28) workers coming in to Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden to start their shift set off the radiation alarms from their shoes, so they knew it was coming from outside. Swedish officials basically called every country, "did you have an accident?" which was how the Kremlin realized they couldn't cover it up. crazy stuff!!!
Stanislav is a really good person for making sure they don't go to the room with the elephant foot. That's the last place you want to accidentally be. Even if someone claims they know what they're doing, it's on him to make sure people don't. Otherwise everyone in the world would be saying "why didn't he stop them!". Thank you for the video!
@@mopnem8 minutes? You can spend a while in there now. Plant workers frequently traverse the area to take radiation levels. And even before that, trespassers have gone and been fine. I’ve seen estimates from 300-1200 seconds. But I’ve also seen articles say it’s still molten and melting the surrounding area, and others that say it’s only a couple degrees warmer than the normal ambient temp. But yeah, a TON of people have been to and even taken samples of the elephants foot. Infact they had to shoot it with an AK-47 just to get samples, it was the only way they could break off pieces.
Some question is bothering me... if this reactor can produce 33GW of energy, why not do that constantly... or make 10 times smaller reactor. We should explore that more. Let's make Kerbal nuclear reactor simulator... then we all will become experts in the field. Or at least would not be naive.
You need to refuel 10 times as often at 10 times the power. Oxide fuel has pretty poor heat transfer; there is no cooling you can apply to the outside of the fuel pellet that will keep its center from melting if you make enough power, so the fuel has to be in some different form or the power has to be pulsed as in e.g a TRIGA research reactor.
@VVVVV00 it is no longer a danger to go to Chernobyl. I've been and the whole time you probably get more radiation by eating a bunch of bananas than going on a tour. People work at nuclear power plants every day...
My favorite part of the tour was holding a radioactive piece of graphite from the RBMK reactor core in my bare hand without radiation protection. Definitely a trip to remember will come back again
I was so shocked to see the series as that was actually what happened! Especially the last episode where they showed Dyatlov and it was as if he were playing with a toy , He didn't even feel the guilt man!
In the early 2000's I was a janitor for about a year in the building in Manhattan where the Manhattan Project dealt with the radioactive materials. I understand that the building was radioactive until the 90's when either the EPA or OSHA attempted to rip up some flooring and remove the radioactive residue. There's a report about their findings and the clean up undertaken but it's too dense and technical for me to fully grasp. As a janitor I came home every day with black mucus as a lot of the flooring was crumbling and I was inhaling a lot of dust from ledges (even while wearing a mask) that hadn't been touched in years. I spent a lot of time on the loading dock which I believe was once radioactive too and may still have been. There were circular spaces on the floor in the stairwells which I was told were where metal drums of radioactive material had been stored- apparently that flooring was left untouched by the government. And lastly I would take lunch seated on the floor in the basement where I have heard a good deal of the radioactivity was located and potentially not all removed successfully. Do you think I'm at risk of getting cancer from my time working there? I don't know who else to ask and I stay awake at night wondering since I inhaled more material/spent more time in the basement than the average employee there due to the nature of my work. Thank you very much for reading.
I would definitely contact your doctor. Also see if there's any resources you can use or possibly get a hold of another employee that was there. Maybe also another janitor like yourself? I would definitely get myself checked at the very least.
@@Prism_Heavy thank you for your response. Can you please recommend any resources or what tests I could request? My doctor thinks I'm nuts, probably because I'm a woman.
M@Natasha-fi3yv First get a referral to a good oncologist and explain your past work environment. Second, you might be able to work with an advocate for previously employed workers in a possible contaminated area.
@@Em50Lloyd oh so because something's very well made, and popular (for a reason), you can't watch it because then you'd just be a sheep that follows the stream. I see
@@christianbrix2051 Iam interested about power plants for years, and i actually work in one, but y'all sheeps came here from HBO and trying to be ''in''.
Insanity Chicken All elevators do have brakes. But those "brakes" have multiple components that rely on eachother and all of which have to be maintained. Id definently be taking the stairs
Hey Carl, I really appreciate you making this creative commons. Will credit you when sharing a few seconds of your footage in an upcoming video! Also, congrats on 15 million views - wow! - Cindy
The cinematography guys on Chernobyl absolutely nailed the washed out colours - mainly green/browns - that seem to permeate this place. Very impressive but also eerie.
Я наверное везде спамлю, но я не пойму почему лжефильмы так вирусятся? Я как человек который изучает историю - был шокирован ложью фильма. Что там чёрт возьми происходило? Почему везде давали и пили водку? Тогда действовал сухой закон. И с почему бы это армии завозить ящики вдки? Что за стериотип? Минералку могли. Почему шахтёры были голыми? Они по пояс были голыми, а не полностью. Слова свидетелей и кинохроника в помощ. Ульяна - вообще выдуманный персонаж. Это как там вообще было? Целый арсенал учёных и инженерев в плотную не видят редиационную опасность, а Ульяна (выдуманный персонаж) смогла одна в тысячах киллометрах узнать что произошло по пыли на стекле. Что за бред? Вертолёт разбился по ошибке пилота, а не радиации. Академика никто из вертолёта за не подчинение выбрасывать не собирался - что за чушь, кто это придумал? Почему шахтёров хотели расстрелять? С какой кстати? Их по военной повестке вызывали. Всё снято в сепых тонах, даже мирное время. Стены обшарпаны как в 90-х. Я могу сказать одно - весь этот фильм - идеологическая политическая пропаганда. А трагедию никто так скрывать не пытался. Подготовка к эвакуации началась на утро 26-го числа, а всем предприятиям связанными с ядерной энергетикой - было передано сообщение о аварии на ЧАЭС. Личный опыт родных: Мой дядя был военным врачём в военно воздушных силах. Он забирал был врачём на борту самолёта забиравшего ликвидаторов в Москву. Никаких КГБ за каждым углом не было, никто ни за кем не следил. Моя мама была в Киеве на момент взрыва ЧАЭС. Узнала об этом 30-го числа когда стояла за билетами домой в Волгоград. Неделю не могла улететь, лудей много было. Когда улетела, видела как некоторые люди стоя в самолёте летели.
Love it. I was being born during Chernobyl's explosion in Indiana, USA. Great tour! Very brave to attempt the elevator, packed, with stairs 10 meters away!!
legand has it, the elephant that lost its foot can still be seen walking around late at night, we know that is the same elephant because of its green glow
This is by far the least funny attempts at jokes I have ever fucking seen; it is so goddamn pathetic and obviously has to be on a Chernobyl video because the keyboard scientists know exactly what they are talking about.
What an awesome reactor, the RBMK-1000. Not only it heats up the water to produce steam and electricity, but also it can be used for the synthesis of silicon!
@@TyloRen Apologies as I was not all that clear... I meant walking through the undamaged reactor gave us an idea of what #4 looked like before the accident. Poorly worded on my part.
Incredible. Thank you for sharing your footage and experience with us. Seeing this is very surreal for me, as I've heard countless jokes and serious stories alike about the dangers of this place. I commend you for taking a literal tour of it.
The waste isn't nearly as radioactive as it was a few months after the event. About half as radioactive which means it's fine to walk inside since they're an entire reactor distance away
@Aiz チャンネル probably bait, but whatever. The core in unit 4 melted and sank into the basement, it is shaped like an elephant's foot, which is how it got it's name, and standing in the room with it will give you a lethal dose if radiation in minutes.
Actually, I show about two minutes out of twenty. I understand attention spans are short among today's youths, but (A) TH-cam gives you nice tools to skip ahead if you want and (B) no, I didn't show you the whole process.
It is said that peeling paint and crumbling concrete was the sign of Soviet Construction. Chances are this plant didn't look much better the day it was built
This video will be included in my personal "Best of TH-cam" list. I am a former facilities engineer with 25 years in the aerospace industry, following a brief 2-year period working indirectly with nuclear power equipment. Carl Willis, I find your approach and presentation of this subject to be fascinating and informative; something to be preserved as valuable. Your handling or yootoob comment trolls is exemplary as well.
Thanks for your interest and commendations. The best thing about participating on TH-cam is the opportunity it brings me to connect with other interested and experienced people.
Appreciate you all chancing a life shortening event for our entertainment. Truly fascinating! Amazing how plain and Soviet-esque it all looks in comparison to what I imagined a nuclear facility to look like.
UseTheRightBrain hahaha. Too many stupid western people... I work on building and live in this area and I still alive. Too many mates do the same things and alive too, cause in Ukraine we have $150 per month on ordinary jobs and can have $200-400 working in areas like these. We even eat mushrooms and berries from our forests. Cancer it's only fortuna, Johns from west think they're the cleverest and live in clear nature&eat clean meals but they can have cancer too.
Chokwe I don't want to say that it's absolutely good to live there. But when you live in former USSR - radiation is the one of the last things which you think about, americans and all kinds of burgers can't understand it. Many opportunities to die or be harmed without radiation (endless wars and protests, hard corruption, free and compulsory army when you teen.....), we live in town in 40 min. drive from reactor and you know, nobody don't remember about it in talking or something like that.
@@abcdefghi5785 Americans and burgers? Anyways, tell that to the many people who have been maimed by radiation and children born with many deformities around areas which have been highly exposed to radiation. This shit will make you infertile, it isn't not a "big deal".
Been studying Chernobyl long before the tv show. It’s an incredible testimony to the power of humanity and what we could do to our planet and ourselves.
Phenomenal footage you got here! And the info provided is great too. Between yourself and Bionerd23, there’s a lot of good quality stuff that’s been recorded and uploaded! One can only hope that TH-cam doesn’t just up and vanish like a fart in the wind, taking the trillions of hours of uploaded user content with it, although at some point and some day this will inevitably happen... Hopefully by then there’ll be some form of repository that’ll function to save this material for many more generations to come... I never said it years ago when I first discovered this content, but I will now... Thanks for the upload(s)!!!
Best wishes to everyone at ChNPP. Thanks to Mr. Gramotkin for permitting my group's visits and thanks to Mr. Shekstelo for all his efforts taking us around the plant.
If i may answer for him: The elephant's foot is a mass of a substance called "Corium", which is effectively radioactive lava. Its in the basement of the damaged section of Chernobyl, and its so radioactive that i believe you would be dead in about 2 to 3 minutes if you got near it. I'm sure Carl could add more details, thats all i can remember at the moment
@@terrynixon2758 yes. However, it sounds better to say 1986... I was surprised it took one day for someone to come in and have to show their knowledge of Chernobyl. I figured it might be 30 minutes.
I clean a. Gun rage some times and have to get dress like that but are respirators are way better but to the point there is a Elevator form 1912 and it work and it does get no maintenance the safety switch all way goes of because of the Wait of the lead but it work and no does any to it and if they do they just look at it and they all way say it’s good so I’m mean 1986 ant bad
One twenty three forty two. Perevozchenko looks down on the enormous steel lid of the reactor and sees the impossible. The control rod and fuel channel caps which each weigh 350 kgs are jumping up and down.
Eggboy my ass would so far gone so quick like I would be running threw the building screaming everyone go to think the one guy denied the core exploding
3:44 "We're about to go into a place very likely contaminated with radioactive dust....here is your cheap painters mask held on by rubberbands to keep you safe."
So pleased seeing all these jokes, discussions and memes about part of history of my country) The serial is literally a masterpiece, it has some little weird moments, but it is definetly not propaganda The mentality and course of actions soviet/russian officials showed very well
Each one of those blocks is 350kgs, and the lid below is another 10,000. The blocks on reactor four were seen jumping as the fuel rods broke apart below and the whole cap was blown into the air when the reactor exploded. Kinda amazing looking at that
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"This tour is great, one question though. *Does anyone else taste metal?"*
... yes
why is this
and also is this a reference
@@flueberly no, having the taste of metal in your mouth is a symptom of radiation sickness
@@horse3355 dum dum duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmm
@@flueberly its a reference to the HBO series "Chernobyl"
france probably not
* Comrad Dyatlov suddenly comes out of the toilet after 33 years. *
😂😂😂
“Ahy blyat! Where am I Comrad!? I’ve been fused to the central drainage system for 37 years! Where’s all the workers? I called the head of reactor 4 but nobody was answering the phones....did I miss something?”
GET OUT OF HERE STALKER
😂😂😂😂😂
11:42 2 roetngens really not that high, but it's something ''Comrade Dyatlov''.......he's delusioanl!
Everybody gangsta until you confuse building 2 with building 4
nicely played
😂😂😂
Ha ha ha
But what about building 7
@@dustintaylor7849 wrong disaster.
6:08 This just lets you realize how incredibly powerful the explosion was. Not only did the pressure in the core lift that incredibly heavy lid, it also blew it up a good 30 meters up while also ripping the entire roof apart.
The overhead crane and fuel handling machine were also destroyed. It’s really terrifying.
@@roybm3124 Of course they were.
@@ScarOne314 was your comment really needed? You sounded rude…
@@BlackOilyMenKissing how is someone supposed to know how words are going to sound like in your head?
Man no kidding, I was thinking it was gonna be a lot smaller 😅
Everybody gangsta until you hear the tour guide say "not great, not terrible"
Not Great, not terrible i have seen worse 😂
Or say "completely normal phenomenon"
*_starts bleeding_*
Everybody's gangsta till you hear the tour guide say " It's not 3 Roentgen it is 15000 Roentgen"
Everybody gangsta until the control rod caps start dancing’.
I can count the number of times I've been to Chernobyl on one hand... and that number is 13.
Eyy derpy pfp
Cuz that many fingers or you know how to count on a finger more than once? Sorry for shitting on your joke too
@@Ethernet480 yeah the joke is he mutated from how much he was there
that's clever dude
This meme is overused
everybody gangsta until the control rod caps start jumping
Patyx *insert pikachu surprised face*
Lmaooo
Nah ur just delusional
@@yujinhikita5611 eh?
Leon C haven’t you watched Chernobyl on HBO
The scale of the physics and engineering involved in these places is fascinating.
Who do you think run them? Your IQ must be incredibly low, please don’t comment again bub
Something only USSR/Russia could fund. Ukraine can wave bye bye to that now.
Ukraine has four nuclear power stations…
And this is just Gen 2 nuclear plant design. How much cooler the Gen 4 will be.
Not really. An nuke plant is nothing more than a glorified steam generator.
" he kinda gets annoyed at us asking to go see the elephants foot"
Careful if you annoy him too much he might just oblige you
Chris Hanson! Is that you???
@@kancer_mufen *looks dubiously at your display picture. So youve seen my show with NBCs dateline. Would you like to take a seat 💺
I hear its a sight to die for.
Visiting nuclear reactors is the best, cleanest pleasure.
Who the fuck asks to see that? I'm surprised he didn't slap the crap out of them.
Guide : "As you can see, this is the graphite of the power plant.."
Comrade Dyaltlov: "you didn't see Graphite! Because it isn't there!"
Not funny at all
@@jameshighway2308 it's pretty funny
a bunch of retards that watched hbo miniseries lulz
Ur delutional. Ur confused.. the core is still there
@@jameshighway2308 it is kinda funny
Enjoyed our trip up the stairs and our 800 chest x-rays.
3.6 Roentgen, not great, not terrible.
8 billion chest x rays.
Если не давать управление реактором тупым украинцам,все будет безопасно
fun fact: units 1, 2, and 3 were still being operated after the explosion, these units did eventually close down, unit 3 closing in 2000
Wow that's cool
Why it's good condition restart and power up
@@rahulsolorider9440 because of the radiation from reactor 4
And all had pretty heavy accidents.
@@rahulsolorider9440 outdated and requested by the EU
Before may '19: what a tragedy
After may '19: explain me how a RBMK reactor explode, comrade?!
nicola lazzaro I keep seeing these comments someone please explain I'm confused, what happened after may 19?
@@spookeylordzey8432 another explosion...on HBO
The Chernobyl TV show
IT DIDN 'T EXPLODE!!!
You're all delusional....TO THE INFIRMARY WITH YOU COMRADES
It's hard to believe that an explosion in reactor 4 was big enough to lift a metal lid that large into the sky and land on it's side!
was just trying to play heads or tails
@@dezzieskidney26 PFFT ay reactor three heads or tails?
@@ieatroofing tails
It is unbelievable. If the engineers actually had a choice to put all relevant data for the operator's. The reactor would not have exploded. Also, if the project wasn't rushed to produce power by the government officials. The plant would not have used short cuts to keep a deadline. There are so many errors. Human, mechanical, and engineering.
Never underestimate steam pressure
Its just like how the magma and gases inside a volcano can build up enough pressure to blow out the entire side of the mountain....imagine that
*Reactor lid starts violently bumping up and down*
Yo this is part of the tour right?
That is an "interactive" tour! What did you expect??
Tis nuclear whack-a-mole, comrade.
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Brad: "Yoooooo, the reactor lid was dancing when we got down beside it! Chernobyl was a fucking MOOOOVIEEEEE broooo!"
Graphite on the floor*
Each weighing 350 kg. But it’s too late
I once worked in a place that was working with weak radioactive Isotopes (Pharmacy industry) and I remember a very similar kind of "checkout" thing you had to go through each time you wanted to leave certain building otherwise your card wouldnt let you through. Basically it just measured if you had any radioactive residue on your feet or hands after working and even though it was more modern, it is amazing to see that pretty much the same design was used back then
Cheeprnobyl s 4th reactor is no longer that dangerous but don't touch the rods because that will cause a explosion that will cover the whole planet of radiation and will kill 27million
I'm mean Chernobyl
I'm polish so I'm am not that good at this
it's actually how westerners first realized there had been a nuclear accident. 2 days after the explosion (April 28) workers coming in to Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden to start their shift set off the radiation alarms from their shoes, so they knew it was coming from outside. Swedish officials basically called every country, "did you have an accident?" which was how the Kremlin realized they couldn't cover it up. crazy stuff!!!
goodbye normal comment section, hello HBO Chernobyl references
Not terrible, not great
cmon sofa god don't be stupid we all know an rbmk reactor can't explode -_-
exactly dude
It’s not great, but certainly not horrifying either
More like hello stalker references
Tip: Go on this tour while having Covid so you can't taste metallics.
Now thats a big brain. Doesnt matter if you affect people dont get radiation is what matters xD
big brain time
Isn't that a bad thing
@@shruthisrikumar5907 well yes but the meme here is going on a tour while having corona so you cant TASTE Metal
@@mauricbreimer9371 ok
*Everyone gangsta till the steel caps start jumping up and down*
to be honest that is exactly what i was thinking
i saw this in a video... is terrifing!
Scariest thing 🔥
Bacicly when egineers go away from thier buildings to get ammo and then whentthe get back its all dead
I believe that indicates you’re about to enter into a boss battle.
Stanislav is a really good person for making sure they don't go to the room with the elephant foot. That's the last place you want to accidentally be. Even if someone claims they know what they're doing, it's on him to make sure people don't. Otherwise everyone in the world would be saying "why didn't he stop them!".
Thank you for the video!
Lol, taking them to a place where you'd die within 8 minutes is a little less than being a good person.
The corium lava “foot” is well below the concrete pad of the reactor. Not even really a room. And they were nowhere near reactor #4 anyway.
I'm Sorry Guys😢
“You want to see Elephant’s foot? Go to Kenya.” 😊
@@mopnem8 minutes? You can spend a while in there now. Plant workers frequently traverse the area to take radiation levels. And even before that, trespassers have gone and been fine. I’ve seen estimates from 300-1200 seconds. But I’ve also seen articles say it’s still molten and melting the surrounding area, and others that say it’s only a couple degrees warmer than the normal ambient temp.
But yeah, a TON of people have been to and even taken samples of the elephants foot.
Infact they had to shoot it with an AK-47 just to get samples, it was the only way they could break off pieces.
Now let’s see reactor 4!
I’ve heard that’s where the party’s at.
Lmao black humor is morbid
Entrar allí es morir en ese instante, demasiada radiación encerrada durante años
no the party is somewhere else.. men, please escort these comrades to the local party headquarters
I wonder what it would actually look like right now
"Not core"
When one nuclear power plant fulfills your entire 5-year-plan's energy goal in 4 microseconds
When a thousand tons flys in the air.
33GW,
Deborah Woods superior Soviet technology.
Some question is bothering me... if this reactor can produce 33GW of energy, why not do that constantly... or make 10 times smaller reactor. We should explore that more. Let's make Kerbal nuclear reactor simulator... then we all will become experts in the field. Or at least would not be naive.
You need to refuel 10 times as often at 10 times the power. Oxide fuel has pretty poor heat transfer; there is no cooling you can apply to the outside of the fuel pellet that will keep its center from melting if you make enough power, so the fuel has to be in some different form or the power has to be pulsed as in e.g a TRIGA research reactor.
meanwhile in control room
*"oh look, a red button"*
I'm a nuclear reactor there is no self destruct button, but there is an AZ-5 button (Scram, Emergency shutdown) button
@@neozen6890 with graphite lined control rods it is the self-destruct button
@@stuartchristopher6002 Yes
@@neozen6890 what's inside those rods?
@@berg8427 uranium
If going to Chernobyl nuclear power plant is on your bucket list, you gonna want it at the end of your list.
No not really
@@Lemontarts01Explain. I can't wait to read your genius response...
@VVVVV00 it is no longer a danger to go to Chernobyl. I've been and the whole time you probably get more radiation by eating a bunch of bananas than going on a tour. People work at nuclear power plants every day...
@@VVVVV00you wont die from going into the chernobyl plant like the video 😂
My favorite part of the tour was holding a radioactive piece of graphite from the RBMK reactor core in my bare hand without radiation protection. Definitely a trip to remember will come back again
K C hope you doing fine comrade
did they give you the propaganda number?
How's your DNA doing comrade?
@@RonalCive10 His DNA melted but he is fine.
@@RonalCive10 he has no hand, no DNA, and is buried in a lead casket, but he's okay.
Dosimeter reads 3.6 roentgen.. don't worry it's like a chest x-ray.
more like 400 chest x-rays
😉
1000 х chest x-ray
Not great, not terrible
@Zajaka You didn't see graphite on the ground. YOU DIDN'T! *barfs*
These comments are just getting annoying
*"I don't see any graphite."*
- said Comrade Dialtov going through corridor full of graphite from core.
I was so shocked to see the series as that was actually what happened! Especially the last episode where they showed Dyatlov and it was as if he were playing with a toy , He didn't even feel the guilt man!
Minute?
@@michele9487 imagine that your arrogance whipes out entire cities full of young people
Fun fact that scene was made up for the purpose of the show
J For Jacqy That’s pretty typical Soviet thinking, human life has very little value in communist countries.
In the early 2000's I was a janitor for about a year in the building in Manhattan where the Manhattan Project dealt with the radioactive materials. I understand that the building was radioactive until the 90's when either the EPA or OSHA attempted to rip up some flooring and remove the radioactive residue. There's a report about their findings and the clean up undertaken but it's too dense and technical for me to fully grasp. As a janitor I came home every day with black mucus as a lot of the flooring was crumbling and I was inhaling a lot of dust from ledges (even while wearing a mask) that hadn't been touched in years. I spent a lot of time on the loading dock which I believe was once radioactive too and may still have been. There were circular spaces on the floor in the stairwells which I was told were where metal drums of radioactive material had been stored- apparently that flooring was left untouched by the government. And lastly I would take lunch seated on the floor in the basement where I have heard a good deal of the radioactivity was located and potentially not all removed successfully. Do you think I'm at risk of getting cancer from my time working there? I don't know who else to ask and I stay awake at night wondering since I inhaled more material/spent more time in the basement than the average employee there due to the nature of my work. Thank you very much for reading.
I would definitely contact your doctor. Also see if there's any resources you can use or possibly get a hold of another employee that was there. Maybe also another janitor like yourself? I would definitely get myself checked at the very least.
@@Prism_Heavy thank you for your response. Can you please recommend any resources or what tests I could request? My doctor thinks I'm nuts, probably because I'm a woman.
For your safety, see a doctor and just get checked
M@Natasha-fi3yv First get a referral to a good oncologist and explain your past work environment. Second, you might be able to work with an advocate for previously employed workers in a possible contaminated area.
@@debbiekerr3989 Thank you for this recommendation.
ChernobylHBO was probably the best mini series I’ve ever watched “what is the cost of lies” still gives me goosebumps
Another sheep, who is here just becouse it is now popular ..
@@Em50Lloyd oh so because something's very well made, and popular (for a reason), you can't watch it because then you'd just be a sheep that follows the stream. I see
@@Em50Lloyd dumbass
@@chrisplays0666 You are bitch.
@@christianbrix2051 Iam interested about power plants for years, and i actually work in one, but y'all sheeps came here from HBO and trying to be ''in''.
You did not see graphite because it's not there!!
There can't be any!! Impossible.
@@neilwilson5785 I aint going back in there nigga
If you watch
Chernobyl on HBO you get to see what they did during the explosion
@@your_mom-ei8md No Shit, Sherlock
Yeah, it’s on the roof. So he will get a shovel and 80 rubles for cleaning the roof
Google will be like:
*Rate your visit*
Help others visiting *Chernobyl Reactor Hall* know what to expect.
5 stars. Though I did taste a bit of metal in my mouth..
3 stars. Not great, not terrible.
@@tae5216 it's not three stars. It's 15,000.
@@JinKee it was quality on par of *33,000W!*
well you can expect dyatlov coming out of the toilet after 35 years 😂😂😂
The guy getting left outside the lift is like the perfect start to a found-footage horror film.
Everyone would be shitting bricks if one dude has the loud geiger sound ringtone
OMG that's evil
Or the “Air Raid Siren”
Its all fun in games until they pressed AZ-5 in the elevator
I get the reference but az-5 in the elevator makes no sense
AZ-5 is a reactor shutdown, the elevator knew that a capitalist was on the elevator, so it automatically pressed AZ-5 and fucking died lmao
What was the az5 button?
Uncle it’s the scram button that shuts down the reactor in a emergency however it would be located in the control room.
BMWDriver, no it is a button that inserts all 211 boron rods which reduces reactivity.
Press AZ-5 to pay respects.
"To blow up reactor"
“Beep” *explosions*
F
Great, now there's graphite on the roof.
Ф
Great unit 2 tour video! Whoever said that the camera positioning wasn't great, shame to them! It's perfect! Great video!
I'm sorry Kid😢
his mic is potato tho
when the elevator door shut and that guy got stuck out... every horror movie ever
ThatGamerZayol I know! you couldn't stage a better opener to a dark comedy. Abbott and Costello Meet The Reactor.
All elevators have brakes... Only in hollywood will you see a falling car.
Insanity Chicken I was talking when the door closed and the guide got separated from the other guys.
also the counter balances would have an effect on the fall
Insanity Chicken All elevators do have brakes. But those "brakes" have multiple components that rely on eachother and all of which have to be maintained. Id definently be taking the stairs
Chernobyl is less toxic than the Fortnite community
Barack Obama lol
Fuck Fortnite
Lol
Não tenha dúvida que sim ^^
The community and sweats make it bad
This is so sad
Alexa play Radioactive by Imagine dragons
And i am singing it now.. Oo. Oo.o.o. Radioactive.. Radioactive
Bikram Aditya Das underrated comment 😂😂👌🏽
Nice one. U get one thumb up.
I'm beathing in the chemicals!! (inhale) aaaaahhhhhhh!! :D
A man who knows Da good memes
Hey Carl, I really appreciate you making this creative commons. Will credit you when sharing a few seconds of your footage in an upcoming video! Also, congrats on 15 million views - wow! - Cindy
And that is how an RBMK reactor explodes.
Lies.
*KGB pulls a gun*
*KGB Enters Chat*
*KGB wants to know your location*
Do you dare doubt the supremacy of our great Soviet Nuclear Technology?
lies that the reactor exploded?
The cinematography guys on Chernobyl absolutely nailed the washed out colours - mainly green/browns - that seem to permeate this place. Very impressive but also eerie.
Я наверное везде спамлю, но я не пойму почему лжефильмы так вирусятся?
Я как человек который изучает историю - был шокирован ложью фильма. Что там чёрт возьми происходило?
Почему везде давали и пили водку? Тогда действовал сухой закон. И с почему бы это армии завозить ящики вдки? Что за стериотип? Минералку могли.
Почему шахтёры были голыми? Они по пояс были голыми, а не полностью. Слова свидетелей и кинохроника в помощ.
Ульяна - вообще выдуманный персонаж. Это как там вообще было? Целый арсенал учёных и инженерев в плотную не видят редиационную опасность, а Ульяна (выдуманный персонаж) смогла одна в тысячах киллометрах узнать что произошло по пыли на стекле. Что за бред?
Вертолёт разбился по ошибке пилота, а не радиации.
Академика никто из вертолёта за не подчинение выбрасывать не собирался - что за чушь, кто это придумал?
Почему шахтёров хотели расстрелять? С какой кстати? Их по военной повестке вызывали.
Всё снято в сепых тонах, даже мирное время.
Стены обшарпаны как в 90-х.
Я могу сказать одно - весь этот фильм - идеологическая политическая пропаганда.
А трагедию никто так скрывать не пытался. Подготовка к эвакуации началась на утро 26-го числа, а всем предприятиям связанными с ядерной энергетикой - было передано сообщение о аварии на ЧАЭС.
Личный опыт родных:
Мой дядя был военным врачём в военно воздушных силах. Он забирал был врачём на борту самолёта забиравшего ликвидаторов в Москву. Никаких КГБ за каждым углом не было, никто ни за кем не следил.
Моя мама была в Киеве на момент взрыва ЧАЭС. Узнала об этом 30-го числа когда стояла за билетами домой в Волгоград. Неделю не могла улететь, лудей много было. Когда улетела, видела как некоторые люди стоя в самолёте летели.
Lots of soviet buildings are that way, washed out blues and greens dominated the color scheme of soviet architecture
Soviet air farce 😉had green cockpits ... for that threating "Borg" effect. 🤣
Should have taken a Rad-X before going in.
Yup, so drink some cossacks vodka to take the edge off the radiation.
TJP77 I've marked it on your map
DGK For Life *PDA*
get outta there - Stalker!
Watch out for the Dark Ones...
Love it. I was being born during Chernobyl's explosion in Indiana, USA. Great tour! Very brave to attempt the elevator, packed, with stairs 10 meters away!!
Guide: This small uranium pellet holds enough energy to power whole city for few weeks
My brain: *C H E W I T*
Same thing for me but weed
Holden Mcgroine no makes your organs burn man
Law Licht your profile picture signifies a man of culture.
KONO POWAH
How it feels to chew 5gum
*_Runs off and looks for the elephant's foot_*
Oh hey, there it is!
*dies*
legand has it, the elephant that lost its foot can still be seen walking around late at night, we know that is the same elephant because of its green glow
@@jamesdeegan7365 r/cursed comments
@@genabrickner3536 trust me, my comment doesnt deserve the fame, its not too cursed
This is by far the least funny attempts at jokes I have ever fucking seen; it is so goddamn pathetic and obviously has to be on a Chernobyl video because the keyboard scientists know exactly what they are talking about.
*casually worries about their friends running into the single most radioactive object on the planet*
What an awesome reactor, the RBMK-1000. Not only it heats up the water to produce steam and electricity, but also it can be used for the synthesis of silicon!
I've heard it is great at tossing graphite too
@@swisscheese3094 awesome!These pencils have been getting more expensive by the day.
6:27 That was a jump scare.
"Oh don't worry. That's Dmitry. He's been stuck under reactor for 35 years."
Sounded like the steel rods were starting to jump up and down.
No that was just me in the toilet
@Book of Rhymes That and Taco Bell
i thought something was about to happen
Reactor hall starts at 05:49
You're welcome
thx
Thank but you wish me but I can't see you wear are you man
Thanks for the shortcut
Thanks
420 likes
“Gentlemen, thank you for coming today. Please do visit the gift shop as you leave.”
@Logic Police I would do that tbh even if it costs 2 livers
@Logic Police I would like to buy one radioactive piece of graphite, and put it in a girl bag please, also add some bad paper in there.
Hmmm. Why is the gift shop at the bottom of the cooling floor 🤔
gift is the german word for poison btw 😅
@@bayyer04 Damn-
Rrading a 3.3 on top of our decommissioned Chernobyl reactor..... Reading a 6.8 off a clock at my local antique shop.... Priceless!!
Old ones used radium for glow-in-the-dark dials.
Is anyone else here after watching Chernobyl on HBO? That shit was harrowing
Alec Tudusaku episode 2 was crazy
Yes! Just saw episode 2 last night
Great show. The podcast with the producer is great too, provides insight into the episodes.
After watching those episodes I have become very interested by Chernobyl lmao
Show is 10/10 fuck game of Disney thrones . Love learning stuff as well. Can't wait for ep 3
11:28 2.0 Roentgen per hour? Take him to the infirmary, he's delusional.
Lol good reference
He's in shock, get the medics, get him out of here.
Ah I see you a man of culture
I get it dude
good reference
" I just looked inside of the reactor core!!!"
It's like the beginning of a horror movie when the guy misses the elevator at the start.
its okay until mutants start showing up
@@royhsieh4307 four leg pickles
@@myreactiontothatinformatio6344 funniest shit I've ever seen
@@myreactiontothatinformatio6344my mother wins
@@myreactiontothatinformatio6344AS IN EATING THE PICKLES
What's cool at Chernobyl is that you can listen to music and news all day long, there is a lot of radio activity.
;o)
Fallout 4 😊
I`m guessing this video got a huge boost after the Chernobyl show aired.
Just incredible. Seeing how #4 looked before the accident really adds some scale to the incident. Thanks for sharing!
Do you have a timestamp for this? I can't find the part in the video
@@TyloRen Apologies as I was not all that clear... I meant walking through the undamaged reactor gave us an idea of what #4 looked like before the accident. Poorly worded on my part.
@@FireDude13 oh ok I thought you were saying they were in reactor four lol
@@ThatFATbannana Tis what happens when one copy n' pastes for likes
just searched "Chernobyl" once and my fccing recommended vids are mostly nuclear reactor stuff.
Lol relatable
Same hahahaha
Yeah, I watched one NASA video and now I only have space and JPL recommendations
Samme
Aljon i didnt even search it up, youtube recommended it for me because someone said something on snapchat
Incredible. Thank you for sharing your footage and experience with us. Seeing this is very surreal for me, as I've heard countless jokes and serious stories alike about the dangers of this place. I commend you for taking a literal tour of it.
This video makes me taste metal
You are mistaken comrade. You did not taste metal because it's not there!!
It’s weird. I know what you mean by taste metal but I don’t know how I know the taste? 🤔
@@Bigfitz92 Licked a battery at childhood
Watching the movie made me taste metal, lol
Metal does not taste.
It's in better condition than Detroit.
everywhere is
True.
Jesse Huhtikangas it's not run by democrats
At you won't die from radiation in Detroit.
@@albireotheredguard1599 Nah just gun shots
I love how everyone in the comments is a nuclear physicist after watching a TV show
Ikr.
😂
"Good. I know how a nuclear reactor works. Now I don't need you."
You’re more negative than an electron
Yes
Damm the lid is MASSIVE. Hard to imagine that huge hunk of steel being blown out and flung on its side all by steam.
That wood effect panelling inside the elevator is by far the most disturbing thing I've seen yet on Chernobyl.
Welcome to socialist style of furnituring, I still have some similiar wall panels in my house. It's ugly but lasts forever.
I quite like it ngl
Imagine how cool it was in in the 1960s when it was designed ;)
90% of all lifts in Russia are similar or worse. My house was build in 2000 and have the same style cabin. You're welcome
Konas place must be painted with that Industrial/Air-Frame Green Paint
Why does the algorithm think I watched Chernobyl? ( I did )
Because it quite literally knows you did
me too
We are being "watched".
Google is spying on us and we don't know that 😈
@@giliy_18you are right
press AZ-5 to get out of the elevator
louiscrasher what’s the whole AZ-5 thing is it like a button that goes to reactor 4
a meme from the serie
@@Kangaru13 its the total shutdown button of the reactor, which also serves as detonator because cheap sovjet design
Press AZ-5 to geg launched into the stratosphere
Que comentários cruel!!
This is the invisible dance that powers entire cities without smoke or flame, and it is beautiful
So fascinating that these people mention [radioactive] 'hot spots' and then immediately rush to check it out. We are a weird, weird breed.
This is just a normal focus for enthusiasm from nuclear engineers. The hot stuff is the interesting stuff.
@@Carl_Willis no mean to offend :) just find it all fascinating. Thanks for the video!
@@Carl_Willis what spicy stuff??? Can i eat them :3
They ran out to throw bolts at them and see what happens
The waste isn't nearly as radioactive as it was a few months after the event. About half as radioactive which means it's fine to walk inside since they're an entire reactor distance away
Me: *on a tour in Chernobyl*
Other people on the tour: "Oi what u got in your hand??"
Me:"Graphite"
*Thanos meme* “impossible”
You didn’t see graphite because it’s not there
@@Maxims1 He saw burnt concrete
@@joshualogan6655 burnt concrete not burning.
@@ElevatedEyes2023 You are delusional, take him to infirmary.
Everyone : if you press anything wrong on the elevator we might die
Weird silent dude : yes
Press the wrong floor button and it opens to the elephant's foot! Instant death.
Benjamin Leslie fairly certain the elephants foot is in unit 4. The one they have sealed off
Benjamin Leslie sure you were
@@slugs1043 r/whooosh
@Aiz チャンネル probably bait, but whatever. The core in unit 4 melted and sank into the basement, it is shaped like an elephant's foot, which is how it got it's name, and standing in the room with it will give you a lethal dose if radiation in minutes.
Even if it's old I am amazed how they could build such thing and make it work.
Where is this place? It looks familiar but i cant remember...
Anatoly Dyatlov c h e r n o b y l R e a c t o r. # 2
Hmm its neigbor house secret base
it took me five minutes to read your name thank yo u for this gem
Not far from the toilets
You fucked up
"I'm not going to show you the whole process because it's pretty boring watching..."
Shows the whole process.
I KNOW -- exactly what I was going to say! Very other-wise interesting & cool video however, thanks for posting, Carl Willis!
But worth watching for.
Actually, I show about two minutes out of twenty. I understand attention spans are short among today's youths, but (A) TH-cam gives you nice tools to skip ahead if you want and (B) no, I didn't show you the whole process.
@@Carl_Willis
I would expect maturity from someone criticizing youth.
@@Carl_Willis should totally upload the whole thing. I'd 100% watch it.
Friend: How was the tour of the Reactor Hall of Unit 2?
Me: *not great, not terrible*
@Dorian ModeIt's a reference to HBO Chernobyl bruh
@Captain Arthur Phillip If haven't see the show, you won't get it
Я служу советскому союзу
yea just about a chest x-ray
@@IntrovertCoder more like 400
It is said that peeling paint and crumbling concrete was the sign of Soviet Construction. Chances are this plant didn't look much better the day it was built
This video will be included in my personal "Best of TH-cam" list. I am a former facilities engineer with 25 years in the aerospace industry, following a brief 2-year period working indirectly with nuclear power equipment. Carl Willis, I find your approach and presentation of this subject to be fascinating and informative; something to be preserved as valuable.
Your handling or yootoob comment trolls is exemplary as well.
Thanks for your interest and commendations. The best thing about participating on TH-cam is the opportunity it brings me to connect with other interested and experienced people.
@@Carl_Willis Great video, great presentation! This was my first look at an actual reactor. Fascinating. Thanks, Carl Willis!
✌💙😸
I'd love to hear about some of the other stuff on your "best of" list if you'd like to share! Always looking for great stuff to watch.
What the hell is yootoob?
I dont know why this was recommended for me but sure, why not ! Great video
AddyC Google is getting to know you
Yes, and Google thought he could need a little bit of digital exposure of radioactivity :D
+Junkers in a way its kinda helpful but its also creepy and im struggling to decide which takes precedent
AddyC you look like a wasteland wanderer thats why
Piper been playing fallout 4 recently and he totally does
The comment section never fails to entertain me.
Stupid comments!
Snaggletooth
Comrade Dyatlov approves.
Appreciate you all chancing a life shortening event for our entertainment. Truly fascinating! Amazing how plain and Soviet-esque it all looks in comparison to what I imagined a nuclear facility to look like.
15 years later "what is this bump growing in my neck?"
15 years and 3 weeks later ''oh it's a foot !"
@@Bolix345 ᵃⁿᵈ ˢᵒᵐᵉ ᵃⁿᶦᵐᵃˡˢ
UseTheRightBrain hahaha. Too many stupid western people... I work on building and live in this area and I still alive. Too many mates do the same things and alive too, cause in Ukraine we have $150 per month on ordinary jobs and can have $200-400 working in areas like these. We even eat mushrooms and berries from our forests. Cancer it's only fortuna, Johns from west think they're the cleverest and live in clear nature&eat clean meals but they can have cancer too.
Chokwe I don't want to say that it's absolutely good to live there. But when you live in former USSR - radiation is the one of the last things which you think about, americans and all kinds of burgers can't understand it. Many opportunities to die or be harmed without radiation (endless wars and protests, hard corruption, free and compulsory army when you teen.....), we live in town in 40 min. drive from reactor and you know, nobody don't remember about it in talking or something like that.
@@abcdefghi5785 Americans and burgers? Anyways, tell that to the many people who have been maimed by radiation and children born with many deformities around areas which have been highly exposed to radiation. This shit will make you infertile, it isn't not a "big deal".
can you imagine seeing those rod caps popping up and down?
yes, why
Cause that's what hapned @@Normandy-e8i
@@shatterofficial4483 i know :)
What are you talking about Comrade? Are you stupid? A RBMK Reactor cannot explode.
This comment section is Pure Gold
Been studying Chernobyl long before the tv show. It’s an incredible testimony to the power of humanity and what we could do to our planet and ourselves.
Chernobyl is a testiment to how government fucks everything up.
Me too, there's an excellent book titled "Midnight In Chernobyl" which taught me an awful lot more about the events and aftermath.
Study chelyabinsk 40
@@Defiance. Fukashima Daiichi is an example of private companies fuciing things up.
@@Defiance. soviet union*
Phenomenal footage you got here! And the info provided is great too. Between yourself and Bionerd23, there’s a lot of good quality stuff that’s been recorded and uploaded! One can only hope that TH-cam doesn’t just up and vanish like a fart in the wind, taking the trillions of hours of uploaded user content with it, although at some point and some day this will inevitably happen... Hopefully by then there’ll be some form of repository that’ll function to save this material for many more generations to come...
I never said it years ago when I first discovered this content, but I will now... Thanks for the upload(s)!!!
PO 0 of
More video about the work of the ChNPP on the official channel of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Best wishes to everyone at ChNPP. Thanks to Mr. Gramotkin for permitting my group's visits and thanks to Mr. Shekstelo for all his efforts taking us around the plant.
Chernobyl NPP Do they still do these tours now that the new come is over it and is disassembling the old one?
Chernobyl NPP cooooll
Carl Willis what is the elephants foot?
If i may answer for him: The elephant's foot is a mass of a substance called "Corium", which is effectively radioactive lava. Its in the basement of the damaged section of Chernobyl, and its so radioactive that i believe you would be dead in about 2 to 3 minutes if you got near it. I'm sure Carl could add more details, thats all i can remember at the moment
Let's all jump on an elevator that was last maintenanced in 1986!
Lol the last reactor was shutdown in 2004 not 1986.
@@terrynixon2758 yes. However, it sounds better to say 1986... I was surprised it took one day for someone to come in and have to show their knowledge of Chernobyl. I figured it might be 30 minutes.
@@jgfunk happy now? Go back to yer crib
@@terrynixon2758 2000*
I clean a. Gun rage some times and have to get dress like that but are respirators are way better but to the point there is a Elevator form 1912 and it work and it does get no maintenance the safety switch all way goes of because of the Wait of the lead but it work and no does any to it and if they do they just look at it and they all way say it’s good so I’m mean 1986 ant bad
"2 Roentgen an hour, it's pretty low... for this power plant." Yeah, I guess it would be since it once peaked at like 10,000 or more.
15000, a few hours after the accident. It was probably a lot higher in the core itself
@@tommy_asd nope! It was 3.6 Roentgen at the highest. Soviet official confirmed it
@@tommy_asd 1500-12000 zona m,zona n 50-2400R/h
@Jamie Mels I think he was joking
Yeah lmao
This was incredibly fascinating- great work here.
One twenty three forty two. Perevozchenko looks down on the enormous steel lid of the reactor and sees the impossible. The control rod and fuel channel caps which each weigh 350 kgs are jumping up and down.
Turbulent Thrombosis imagine that I would shit myself
@@Batmansmokesdope I'd die of fear before anything else kills me
Eggboy my ass would so far gone so quick like I would be running threw the building screaming everyone go to think the one guy denied the core exploding
3:44 "We're about to go into a place very likely contaminated with radioactive dust....here is your cheap painters mask held on by rubberbands to keep you safe."
You'd need a few screws loose to go there without your own gear, anyway. Then you deserve what you get.
Cheap painters mask hold much of the dust, that is, for casuals only
It is the only thing necessary, the radiaton will not hurt you, but the pieces radiating from inside your body will
I wouldn't use those for paint either. Maybe just dust particles
And they're not even wearing the fuckin' hats!
"You cannot rest while Super Mutants are nearby"
Oh god
😅
Lmao fallout reference
“WHAT!? NYAAAAH!! WHATS THAT NOISE!?!? ONLY ONE OF US SURVIVES THIS, HUMAN! AND IT WON'T BE YOU!"
@@idkwhattocallmyselfbruh yes thanks 🙄
"This is a power plant that is known for having a lot of spicy stuff around" - Bit of an understatement there..
7:32 It's not 3.3 It's 15000...
😂😂
1. They were reading 3.3 Milli röntgen. The Chernobyl operators read 3.6 röntgens, more than 1000x the radiation they measured there.
2. no
When u change the unit but its not still enough
power plant: *jump up and down*
Everyone: achhh blyat, here we go again
Achh Blin, here we go again*
You do know вгуат in English means B*tch right? So practically your saying, “ahhh b*tch, here we go again”
@@ahiltonskid2007 might want to brush up on your Russian before you try to give people lessons bro, blyat means fuck, cyka is bitch.
Clay Masilek nope, it means both fuck and bitch, depending on the context. Basically, works the same way as Polish kurwa
So pleased seeing all these jokes, discussions and memes about part of history of my country)
The serial is literally a masterpiece, it has some little weird moments, but it is definetly not propaganda
The mentality and course of actions soviet/russian officials showed very well
Im getting radiation poisoning from just watching this.
1phone1gamer
Haha me from that field of view of his camera
I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂
But the site is fairly safe now
Edit: not the lab, I mean the zone of exclusion.
Nathan Camara emphasis on fairly
Radiation is a harmful effect but calling it radiation poisoning is a very poor choice of word because it's a whole different mechanism.
Anyone here in 2024?
Each one of those blocks is 350kgs, and the lid below is another 10,000. The blocks on reactor four were seen jumping as the fuel rods broke apart below and the whole cap was blown into the air when the reactor exploded. Kinda amazing looking at that
"There is no fuel, no water, this reactor has been decommissioned."
Control rods and fuel channel caps: jump up and down
"Oh shit"
Imagine the caps started doing that at 6:27 in the video....
That would actually be quite a good joke to play on visitors.
@@rickwiggins283 Lol that would scare the shit out of visitors 😂
Lol
Ohh.. were fucked up
*Graphite everywhere*
"That's part of the tour, right?"
You didn't see graphite, because it's not there!
It's not possible, there isn't any!
TELL ME HOW DOES A RBMK REACTOR EXPLODE?
Zack Kratochvila “Not a meltdown, an explosion.”
What graphite???