Exploring An Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant
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ayyyyyyyyyyy!
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 🤨
Amazing video, absolutely love the content; please keep it up ❤️
@@THE-RETURN-OF-THE-RAT i luv him🥰
This feels like a found footage horror film but it just doesn’t go wrong
Thats almost worse🤣
My god this is accurate
I love this comment.
yeah they just dropped the camera after they stopped recording
The first ever uplifting found footage film
It feels odd seeing Wendigoon walk down the hall at the beginning. I’m so used to seeing him in a chair telling me of unspeakable horrors, that seeing him moving just came as a surprise.
I KNOW!! HE HAS LEGS!!
@@bee.2392 cgi. They aren’t real. Can’t believe y’all are buying it 😂
Still a pretty good render tho, the legs almost look real
His movements too unnatural obviously cgi y'all would believe anything, we all know his legs are melded to his chair if not his lower half being the chair, open your eyes sheeple
He is becoming the horror 😂
I love that everybody’s wearing normal clothes and Wendigoon is wearing a US Military Special Ops helmet.
It’s the safety helmet bro. OSHA rules.
Even abandoned you gotta hit those regulations.
It's so cool that wendigoon went all the way to Chernobyl just to take a bite of the elephant's foot.
I know I'd have to touch it being the most radioactive that'd be rad
He dodged a savory number of bullets and surrendering Russian soldiers to get there!
Supposedly it can kill within days
That sponsor segway was really crazy, first time anyone’s compared the mind destroying taste of the elephants foot to the mindblowing taste of magic spoon cereal (tm)
@@Heliogabalos Chernobylo's
TH-camrs who don’t normally walk around big abandoned places walking around big abandoned places is my new favorite genre.
Logan Paul
@@potapotapotapotapotapota *TH-camrs who have a last name other than Paul.
@@Truly_Rudly hehehe
@@potapotapotapotapotapota Hmmmmm, what did he do in a such a place🤔🪢🧍♂️
Slimecicle!
When you realize Wendigoon is that guy in horror movies. He will press the button. He WILL flip the switch. He will start something he shouldn't have.
*Always Sunny Theme Starts Playing
*WENDIGOON STARTS A NUCLEAR MELTDOWN*
And laugh whilst doing it lmao
@@somegoodsoup7008 ty for this comment it made me laugh
I'm that guy as well, if I was ever in a nuclear power plant I would try my hardest to start it back up
I'm surprised they decided not to open the caution tape door
Wendigoon: *Has tactical helmet with a flashlight equipped for illuminating dark areas*
Also Wendigoon: *uses camera flashlight to see in the dark*
Could be an IR flashlight, I'm still at the start of the video so it's ambiguous.
Fr
he had night vision...
@@EE-ie1bo Which he also doesn't seem to use
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD It's possible, that might go with his night vision goggles. Either way it looks funny
Okay really small detail, but I appreciate that he introduced everyone as his friends before anything else. Too often I feel bad for the cameramen in videos like this because they’re told to stay quiet and ‘not ruin the footage’. I much prefer this kind of set up where everyone’s contributions are accepted and even encouraged. Great people all around.
He even thanked the cameraman, because he knows he's doing a lot of that work and I love that
@Kehath definitely not common with big names, and def not on the side of TH-cam that’s occupied by wendigoon and Markiplier, who are some of the nicer people on this site I would imagine. I’m more referring to small-scale variety creators, and tbh I was making a bit of a straw man as I can’t think of any off people off the top of my head. Also almost every video has a camera man, think of any vlog where you don’t hear the guy behind the camera talking.
Spot on. The cameramen are always in the background even tho their expertise on film is what majorly contributes to the production. Photography/film is NOT easy and NOT simple by any means. There's a reason you can find tons of videos of pros vs amateurs where the pro has a Walmart setup and the amateur has a Hollywood setup that's exponentially more expensive, and the pro far outclasses them with ease
It's insane to me that a facility with millions of dollars worth of material and tech just gets abandoned like that
rich ppl are crazy man
Probably a government contract.
@@bugzy_brain bro the gov owns these. not billionnaires
@@helloneighbour2408 this is a power plant, power is mostly a private industry
@@helloneighbour2408 isnt the government made up of a bunch of billionaires??
I love how Wendigoon can fit Sunday morning lessons and Chernobyl exploration videos in the same channel, and it doesn't even feel out of place
this isn't Chernobyl though??
@@juniperberryyyy It is clearly Chernobyl bro
@@juniperberryyyy its literally Chernobyl
Facts
@@dimitrimolotovvyacheslav4604 this isn't Chernobyl. All the alarm indicators were in English, the lockers had American names. Moreover, there's a bloody war in Ukraine.
Imagine if Wendigoon made an urban exploration channel called Wendigoonin' or something. Or just anything with live-action Wendigoon. I would watch that like crazy.
Would commit murder for even one video like that.
" Wendigoonin' "
Wendigoing
Wendigone
“Wendigoes to…”
I think it’s so cool that Wendigoon was able to run the electricity in this old plant with the raw power of his existence.
that's a pretty good observation
That machine with the tapes is a PDP11, that's pretty rare and valuable in the vintage computer community. To put it into perspective, just the panel with the switches itself is over $2000 on Ebay right now, let alone a whole system (even if it's beat up). I would contact the owners of the property and ask if it can be sent to a museum or something.
Yeah, what an amazing thing to find in such a place, just being left there for 40+ years.
...and those tape drives were probably DEC TE10W - storage capacity up to 46MB. Lovely :)
An historical piece of computing too, UNIX was first developed on a PDP11 at the Bell labs.
@@vaclavsteiger288 Yeah, 50mb per tape was my guess when these kids were all 'naw, kilobytes per tape maybe!'
@@exidy-yt why the random disrespect? Calling the kids because they don't know something kinda obscure?
It’ll go downhill when Wendigoon finds a mason jar full of bottle caps.
He’ll need some Bobby pins to fully explore the area
Or WORSE!
he's got spurrrrrrs that jingle jangle jingle!
@@legoholic516 might need to have science 50 as well to learn the lore
Yo a little off topic but nice profile pic great album
Other abandoned exploration channels : Make things horror, sad, terrifying, and nostalgia
Wendigoon & Friends : Running, Screaming, Singing loudly, Dances, Make weird noises everywhere possible
Wendigoon and his friends running around making noise, flipping switches, twisting knobs and stuff giddily while the eldritch horror that was sealed beneath the facility is wondering why it's lights are flipping on and off
It's going drop a dead dwarf in the Balrog's mug of hot chocolate and awaken Durin's Bane to destroy the world
ahahahahahah wendigoon a goon bro that's why it's in his name jonathan
9:00 hi chemical engineer here. Those are alarms that operators monitor while the plant runs. The ones that were focused on were for tank level and they indicated if the fluid level was too high or low. The top line was the number designated to that tank. There are likely also ones for temperature and pressure.
I think this is GTI in Barnwell, SC, and it was a reactor disassembly facility. They were going to build a plant nearby, and got 2 reactors in, but then aborted the plant, so GTI was built for the reactors, and is now a training facility for LEO/military.
I was looking in the comments for someone’s explanation xD
Hi Walter white here
@@adioamigo22 very likely GTI, just checked their website and they're scheduled for a "private facility rental" december 1st-17th. all the government bookings are listed by name.
Automation engineer here:
The panel is just discrete I/O indication “LAH-XXXX” is the device tag for a level high switch etc. These are not alarms and this panel would probably always be lit up like a Christmas tree. An operator might consult this panel before launching a procedure to ensure the necessary conditions are met, like a source vessel being full or destination vessel being empty etc.
In 30yrs this would be a classic found footage horror opening about nuclear fallout that got restarted by a group of adventure seeking friends
lol
There's just something so wholesome about a bunch of guys having fun exploring just for the heck of it. We need more of this
Boys being boys
Friendship simulator
Our homes are next
Theres whole kot of Urbex content on youtube waiting for you
You might like proper people in that case
Did some research, this is an abandoned nuclear reprocessing site. It was supposed to be used to recycle spent fuel from nuclear reactors, but construction was unfortunately cancelled in the mid 70's. Genuinely an awesome video and a rare view of the interior of a little-known facility! You can find some really good photos from its construction showing these rooms as they were, its pretty fascinating!
The people behind the STALKER film couldn't have chosen a better place to use, its got that perfect eerie atmosphere that meshes well with the games! also really happy they chose a whole bunch of awesome people to be in the project!
What’s it’s name and where is it located? For research purposes obv.
@@yeeyee5820 Barnwell Disposal Facility. It's ran by a training company called Government Training Institute
Do you have a link to the photos?
So dumb that the government won't allow recycling of the fuel. We have the ability to reenrich 90% of waste. But the cold war politicians are so afraid of russia sneaking into the US to steal it...
Damn it, now people are gonna destroy it
i can’t believe wendigoon went to the backrooms just for a video what a dedicated youtuber
I came here to say this but I knew in my heart it was already said
Multiple times at that!
What I love is that it’s just so real. No click bait thumbnail, no 3 am title, no “HAUNTED EXPERIENCE”. A couple of dudes walkin around an abandoned nuclear plant discovering things themselves and making jokes.
Follow Hell On Earth, they make content like this
His thumbnails have a very distinct style, I like them a lot
@@murilopereira7186 for a second I thought this was another backrooms video by Kane pixels
@@michelleobamafootcream9292 same
No fr, I haven't found content like this. It truly hits the spot
having explored plenty of abandoned buildings and facilities myself, i can confidently say that abandoned buildings with the power still on are far more unsettling than just fully dead buildings
Yeah, that’s some backrooms kinda shit… 😳
Eh I’d be more scared of a fully dark building. Way easier to get turned around and disoriented. At least with the lights on they can keep a better mental image of where they are. But I get why it’d be creepy.
@@noobpro9759 Both are their own kinds of scary, imo. Fully dark buildings are obvious, dark and spooky, oooo whats hiding in that dark hallway? But with buildings like these, where there's still remnants of power, it kind of feels like it wasn't abandoned, but rather everyone vanished, and it overall gives a vibe that something is very wrong. People should be here, but it's only you...or is it?
@@chaoz7370 the best ones are the bandos so fresh that nobody's left yet!
@@Lozoot2 I explored an abandoned, overgrown buiilding with some buddies out in a semi-rural, out of the way area & got jumpscared by a sleeping homeless man lmao
25:39 His singing is genuinely gorgeous I rewatched this like 10 times omfg
You know at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Wendigoon started a video with "Hello everybody, Today were going to be creating a Nuclear Meltdown in order to access a pocket dimension to the Backrooms with this abandoned Powerplant I accidentally stumbled upon hiking in the wilderness at 2 a.m" And I'd still watch it
"And as always, thank you for watching!"
Instead of a podcast analyzing the Bible its just brainwashed Wendigoon spreading the great word of the monolith.
Well of course i think any sane person would.
Id watch his videos even if it meant everytime i clicked a small man emerged from the tv and bit the mosr sensitive of parts
Need this video
"I was having a discussion the other day about which 'Fallout' game was the best, but we disagreed. Aaaand since we disagreed, we are going to create a nuclear meltdown because me & Drewski were curious if we could make 'Fallout' happen because we got off track and now we just want to see if we could".
" TSA checking my coat for my stolen nuclear data drive, " is the best phrase dad has ever uttered.
“I am NOT stealing the nuclear floppy disc” is also very good
The slight yellowish lighting in most of the corridors and rooms give this a Backrooms kind of feel, and it's only made more surreal by how the rooms go from large open halls with deep shafts to narrow, uncomfortable corridors. It's such a strange place. I would absolutely love to see Wendigoon and his friends visit more strange abandoned locations like this, it's fun to watch.
It’s so strange seeing Wendigoon interact with the real world, I’m so used to his disembodied head talking to me in the same setting he always does
Imagine if, after Wendigoon pranked him by locking him in the glass cage at 21:40, Drew never appeared on camera for the rest of the video without comment.
It’s like 2 minutes after Wendigoon said he’d never lie so openly to his audience, but it would have made the comments section an incredible place.
(Loved the video!)
Wendigoon: I'm scared of the ocean.
Also Wendigoon: Abandoned Nuclear Power Plants are AOKAY.
heres the thing
you can see the end/the floor of the power plant
oceans are just insanely deep where you can’t even see the bottom, it’s just a big dark blue void
I can't believe Wendigoon became real, truly an ARG milestone
I’m just kind of in awe. This dude is working to make a goddamn movie and stuff, and his content is so eclectic yet fitting, and I love it!! It makes me so happy, and it’s so fascinating. Kudos to Wendigoon and everyone working on this movie, I’m super pumped.
The odd looking window at 26:18 is a radiation-blocking viewing window. These types of windows are used in laboratories that specialize in nuclear chemistry, and the yellow discoloration comes from oil sealed within the different layers of the window. Usually rooms with such windows have no direct access, but the materials inside are manipulated by mechanical arms controlled from outside.
I sincerely hope this facility never actually handled radioactive isotopes considering the lack of knowledge/precaution displayed in this video.
Also known as “Hot cells”.
@@teaveins1466what do you mean?
@@MrDocseidel7 Assuming any hazardous compounds are in the environment, lead paint and asbestos notwithstanding, stuff like putting his helmet on the ground then picking it up and putting it back on is a tad risky to say the least
Hey I went to SWAT school at that power plant!
Hey Donut love your vids. Got any interesting stories about SWAT training there?
Not true, they would never put cops in training in a place with that much darkness.
Tits or ass? If you say tits you're too afraid to get dirty FYI
@@JeanTp333you're joking right?
@@Celtic1020 i reckon he's probably saying that they'd get afraid and start shooting
"I have access to an abandoned nuclear facility, so of course I'm gonna act a fool in it." Glad to know you're honest!
Disappointed by the lack of mutants waiting for you guys in the shadows, but glad you've had a good time :)
not a single feral ghoul!
@@kaiseremotion854 *No snorks, either. A bit disappointed.*
Could absolutely film an SCP film here. The sound, oddly uniform yet entirely bizarre structure of the facility and how quickly it transitions from near suffocating visuals to vast expansive rooms. This is like the *perfect* set piece
Let them film the Stalker movie first and then we'll talk about SCP 😅
Yeah nuclear power plants have such bizarre layouts. I think it could work great with SCP
@@LegioPanda No, we were robbed of SCP HERETIC!!!
@@peanutgallery4 Stalker is infinitely cooler than scp
Absolutely,man. So many cool concepts in The SCP Fandom. It would be a shame if none of them see the light of internet cinema.
If wendigoon had an urban exploration channel it’d prolly be the only thing I watch
I could imagine how giddy wendi was to finally have a good reason to hear his helmet with the attachments 😂
Hes low key a boog boi 🌺 hes got all the kit
@@sn1perdude7110That Rifle he showed a little while back and his helmet and nods is like 10-15k. He’s definitely a prepper.
@@sn1perdude7110 He called him self one in an older vid I think it was ranking youtubers
@@sn1perdude7110 he actually started the boog boi trend. He was the originator of the term I believe
@@purromemes7395 negative ghost rider
I'm gonna appreciate how good of a cameraman this guy is to make a completely mundane regular exploration video feel like an actual found footage movie with how it was shot in some areas.
specially moments like 6:26 in which homie just focuses ominously into the background
Ahh God yes I agree
@@Josuh I was half expecting something to move
This is exactly like a horror movie, but nothing bad actually happens lol
the masculine urge to abandon your wifes at home and explore an abandoned nucellar plant with the boys
Wifes?
@@ciel1083😭
@@ciel1083praise Allah
@@ChickenPadThai Praise these nuts freak.
my wife IS one of the boys in the same way that im one of the girls
I love how this feels like it's building up to a found footage horror movie
It feels like he's in the backrooms.
nah frrrr
Yeah haha
I commented a while ago that me and my sister yell across the house that you posted when we find out, which you saw and said was wholesome. I just wanna say, my sister moved to college 3 months ago, and we now spam text eachother when a new video drops. Old traditions never die, especially wendigoon traditions.
Wendigoon goes to the highest mountains of Tennessee and to the abandoned Nuclear power plants to keep us entertained; that kind of dedication is almost unreal.
I wonder how long until he starts scuba diving?
@@A_Hylian_Not_An_Elf now that is something I’d like to see from wendiboy
And it's also very informative for us
dont forget being in the cave
@@A_Hylian_Not_An_Elf it won't happen, poor Wendi doesn't have any legs to swim with
I used to design control panels like that. The ones with alarms is called an enunciator (i think). Those are alarms for critical sensors in the control system. Employees (operators) monitor those and they light up. LAH = level alarm high, LAL=level alarm low, etc... The number is for the sensor so you can find it on a P&ID diagram.
May I ask what a P&ID diagram is?
@@emerablade2021 Piping & Instrumentation Diagram. Like an electrical schematic but for pipes, tanks, reactors, etc in a plant. "Instrumentation" = sensors & control systems.
I'm in no way challenging you, I've had more crazy/unique experiences than most in my lifetime (filled a RX a rockstar ODd on, survived a horrific car crash, was a hostage in a mass shooting, etc... ).
I'm just curious if you can mention, or hint at, who you worked for? Or please just tell us your favorite story from that time.
Finally got to hear the guy that holds the camera while wendigoon talks about scary things for hours on end, keep it up
I love the fact that it's edited like a footage found video. Audio getting cut off, senes that could be longer interrupted with a different clip. It felt like a full on experience!
Well said! I flipping LOVE FF.
if the camera was less hell bent on illuminating every room it would've looked damn spooky too, some of those shots looked straight out of something like the backrooms
@@SerechII agreed
@@SerechII I mean look at that thumbnail it looks exactly like something Kane Pixels would make lol
@@hurricanedude5090 I thought it was a new Kane Pixels video lol
25:40 Hold up full song covers in an abandoned nuclear power plant would actually be dope as hell. Like creepy / melancholic atmospheric songs? That'd be sick man
Also 38:02 goddamn
Idk, metal would play well here too, so would hardstyle/hardcore. Reverse bass echoing would sound beast.
such an underrated moment in the video
@@anon2234 Aw yeah I didn't even think of that
I assure you, watching wholesome fun times in an abandoned nuclear power power with Wedigoon of all people is honestly one of the most entertaining things I have had the oportunity to watch
Make sure to stay safe exploring abandoned places! Dust masks are very very handy and they give you peace of mind, love you boys, stay curious!
Nah, nobody wants to wear masks after 2020
especially the spicy dust
That place is in use constantly. At least 4 airsoft events a year and weekly training for police and other groups as well.
Seeing Wendigoon’s legs is like when they cut to shots of the muppets with legs. That was shocking for a moment.
Edit: In all seriousness, this was an amazing video. Thank you for taking us on this ride.
I thought his legs were still trapped by all those rocks in the cave
Exploration videos that give off “10 year olds with a camcorder” energy. I love it
*watching old wendigoon video*
*he uploads something new*
the feeling of excitement and joy is unmatched.
Was legit doing the same thing lol, felt like the meme of leo from once upon a time in Hollywood ctfu.
WAS ALSO DOING THE SAME THING BAHAHAHA
Same
Im gonna be honest, i can’t watch older TH-cam videos 😂 I always gotta watch newer ones
i love how wendigoon goes from covering conspiracy theories about like gnosticism and the lost stories of the bible to exploring nuclear facilities.
there's a reason he's my favorite!
It’s so crazy to think that he went from in his room talking about giants to this so fast😂 I’ve loved seeing the evolution tho🙏
I wonder what the next stage will be?
@@A_Hylian_Not_An_Elf transcribing the ethereal plane?
@@CrustaceousB That’s his final form. We should still have a while before that happens.
Next stage is searching for the hollow earth, where the giants reside. 😳😳😳
I shoot rifles competitively and we did a zombie themed sniper match here! we shot from the roof, had to crawl through tubes, run through mud, shoot off a truck, etc. and at night me and a few of my friend would go and explore the facility. An absolutely amazing experience so seeing your video pop up and recognizing that control room was the coolest.
That is one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard
Actually on the bit about an armory, that might actually make sense. I took a tour of an old nuclear reactor and there were concrete firing ports built in places. It’s in case someone gets the bright idea to steal some nuclear material/waste or decides to destroy a reactor etc.
I was wondering if that was actually likely to be an armory, I know that security at these places is absolutely not a joke, it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
The irl exploration and on-location content is pure fire my guy, keep up the fantastic work
If you like this kind of content, check out shiey, won't dissapoint.
I got jumpscared as when Wendigoon pushed the button at 9:29 there was a garbage truck outside beeping, so I thought that the alarms in the facility had just gone off
So glad Wendi showed all the buttons and levers and switches getting pulled/pressed because that's the content we TRULY wanted
Wendigoon looks and acts like a kid in a candy shop. This entire channel has been leading up to him larping as a tacticool operator in an abandoned nuclear plant. Love that for him
Wendigoon is dorky enough to go to one of those "haunted experiences," but is also genuine enough to insist that it be a physical location worthy of a horror film
I love that for the most part they're respectful, but they can't help the human urge to touch things that they aren't supposed to
Also the part where they are talking about how smooth the buttons are,,,, god I understand that so much.
Hey Wendigoon, cannot believe I caught this video as it was coming up. I have absolutely loved every single thing you've put out, and thank you for being on this platform. I'm so excited to get into this video
Honestly I appreciate your audio detail, ive never seen a vid capture such clear electrical buzz and voice clarity
James has such little kid climbing/jumping on everything energy 😂
The ringing in the silence is exactly what being alone in the deep dark is like. I’m surprised the microphones caught it
My favorite part is when Wendigoon said “I’m gonna goon” and then he became a wendigo
38:48 absolutely killed me for some reason hahaha😂
I think it was combination of the ‘hey’ and then sudden *SLAM* noise
Shane and Ryan should bring wendigoon along for an investigation in the future! That'd be so fun!
Omg I'd love to see that!
I love how he said "here's 2 million people" as if that's a meager offering to these people
I love how his video about exploring an abandoned nuclear power plant is shorter then some videos about ARGs and icebergs.
I’m living vicariously through Wendigoon because I too would go into an abandoned place and press every button and switch there.
The found footage vibes from this are crazy
You and Lemmino are some of the most insightful documentary makers on TH-cam that show how far the website has come. Keep it up!
25:50 Imagine you're exploring a power plant, and all of a sudden you spot three men slowly walking towards you singing country roads.
I would shit myself
something about the low fov of the camera makes this beautifully claustrophobic and builds a base level of anxiety. I love it.
its so creepy then we have a bunch cheery dudes cracking jokes and having fun
i loved it its exactly like how friends would act like together on a haunting exploration
The panel you’re looking at 9:04 is called a pan alarm. Gives you location of an alarm (valve/breaker/pump/motor) and name of equipment it would flash and make an audible noise if the operator needed informed of something going on with that piece of equipment
Do you remember the reinforced steel door with the porthole that was filmed near the 1/4 point of the video?
The caution strips were well justified. That was probably a waste storage section you came across. And I'm really glad you didn't try to enter.
The plant was never actually active so there was most definitely no real danger. Always better to be safe tho!
@@Tayted Ah, good point. One of them did mention that when they began to explore an office area shortly afterwards. My heart jumps into my throat when I see where urban explorers go, sometimes.
@@GlidingZephyr I’m never going near a nuclear power plant even though I know it’ll probably be fine
My guess is it was intended to be a decontamination room in the even of an exposure. Hence its locality to the showers.
38:40 damn bois got some pipes
I remember exploring the savannah river nuclear site a while back and wanting to take that pdp-11 computer back with me so bad, it's nice to see it's still there and in good condition.
WENDI don’t feel guilty for not putting out as much content. Put your whole heart into your passion project, we’ll still be here
I’m not sure if Wendigoon would be able to dig up much info, but I would love to see a video about some of the history of this place. Like when it was built; when and why it was abandoned; and maybe about some of the people who worked there!
He probably could find a lot of info. Massive sites like this cost upwards of a billion dollars to build and take decades, they are huge endeavors. There is probably a lot of information that the government has published and articles from local news papers.
It's pretty easy to figure out by watching the video, taking note of the surroundings, listening to their conversations, etc.
39:47 ,,,,,,, this shot goes hard as hell
It looks like a start to a music video
Gotta make sure Wendigoon gets his annual “explore cool abandoned places” enrichment. Great video! Can’t wait for the movie!
An OperatorDrewski crossover is not something I ever would have imagined
I imagine Drewski's gonna be in the STALKER movie since he was in SCP Overlord and it's the same director
Now to wait for Habie to show up as well
Wendigoon watching the oldest view: yeah this guy is just asking for it!
Also Wendigoon: oh, some random switches and buttons in abandoned nuclear plant!
Its so cool that the small creator known as Wendigoon found the Wish Granter! Truly, this is one of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. moments of all time.
Nooo Wendigoon don’t touch the Wish Granter it’s an illusion noooo stop wishing to be rich Wendigoon those aren’t coins nooo 😭😭😭
nice to know that even when going through dangerous adventures, our boy still wears a cool dad shirt underneath all the gear
38:33 majestical
Agreed
At 6:32 the camera shifts back to the hallway and Wendigoon' voice gets muffled and it was so much like a backrooms moment. Haven't even made it past that in the video. Kudos to Chad for great camera work.
If I'm not mistaken, this is the government training institute. While yes, it was in fact originally built to be a nuclear power plant, it was never activated. Currently it's used for training military and law enforcement, and even airsoft events.
That room around 12 minutes in where windigoon asked if that was an armory is in fact one. That is a prefab unit to meet naval standards for warships back in the day.
The window with liquid behind it you found is a nuclear material processing machine called a hot cell. They are used to either inspect nuclear fuel rods or chemically and mechanically process extremely radioactive materials like spent nuclear fuel pellets to separate the heavier than Uranium/Plutonium elements and fission products that are made in the fission process the reactor uses to generate power. These heavier than Uranium/Plutonium elements and fission products are extremely valuable and useful for a variety of scientific, medical, and other purposes. The majority of these elements they extract are worth thousands to millions of dollars per gram, due to their usefulness and the fact that they don't occur naturally on the earth due to their unstable nuclei. Also due to their unstable nuclei, they have extremely small half-life's which causes them to emit deadly amounts of radiation , even in small quantities from far away. Due to the complex nature of the separation process, most machines have to be manually operated by a technician who physically moves the substances around with some kind of manipulator implement, which means they need to be able to see what is happening inside of the machine. This is why there is a window to see into such a dangerous area and not meters of concrete and lead shielding, the glass is lead glass used to shield the technician from gamma rays and x-rays, and the liquid inside is either water, polyethylene, or, more likely due to the age of the facility, a Zinc Bromide solution to shield against ionizing neutrons. Lead Glass has a higher refractive index and dispersion than normal glass, which compounded with the increased difference in optical indices between the Glass and the liquid, causes the large amount of optical distortion you guys saw. The effect is apparently much worse with Zinc Bromide than the other two mediums, which is one of the reasons they stopped using it.
Some of the compounds the machine could be used to extract and what they can be used for: Cobalt-60, Cesium-137, and iridium-192 are used in radiotherapy to treat cancer, sterilize medical equipment, and used for a variety of gauges and sensors. Fluorine-18 is used to make a sugar that patients can take that will kill certain cancer cells with its radiation and can be used as a trace in medical radioactive imaging. Cobalt-57 is used for calibration of certain devices and is also used as a medical tracer. Iodine-123 is also a medical tracer and is used to take thyroid uptake scans. Americium-241 is to make smoke detectors (yes you have radioactive nuclear reactor waste sitting in your room above you right now). It is funny because people are so scared of nuclear reactors because of their waste's radiation, but it is likely that over 1000 times as many people's lives have been saved by nuclear waste than have ever died by it. If you don't take Chernobyl into account, then it is probably greater than 10,000 times. Neptunium-237 and Americium-241 are also used to create Plutonium-238 to make spacecraft RTGs, which are used to power most spacecraft missions past mars as the density of sunlight at that distance from the sun is far to low for solar panels. Voyager 1 and 2 both used Plutonium RTGs to power them, Voyager 2's is still producing enough power to keep the spacecraft functioning almost 50 years since it launched. I'm kinda surprised they left the machine you discovered somewhat assembled, because they try to limit potential access to machines and designs due to the fact that they are crucial in regular reactor operation and nuclear weapon creation. Would recommend looking up videos of hot cells in use, they are fucking crazy.
Imagine living next to an abandoned nuclear reactor and suddenly you here ghostly "TAKE ME HOME...... COUNTRY ROADS"
Half of the video was just three guys obsessively pressing buttons and turning dials. Best content on this website 🖤
Dude this unironically feels like a found footage film 😳
3:23 it already gives me chills kinda xD