Well, kind of. Demag refused to send its engineers to the Zone to help set up the crane, and told the Soviets that they probably wouldn't be able to figure it out on their own.
I've been so curious about the sarcophagus! It's pretty obvious that building it would have been a huge challenge but I never saw anyone talking about in any of the Chernobyl documentaries I've seen. Thanks for making this video, it was even more interesting than I had imagined!
400,000 cubic meters of concrete, that's a big pour. in Washington State we have a dam called, Grand Coulee Dam, it contains 9,155,944 cubic meters of concrete. just to give perspective. Very interesting video, thank-you.
The amount of things I've learn in so little time with this video is ridiculously high. Been born 1 year before the disaster, this monument always had been for me a thing that existed, and will still exist for decades to come. I was just a part of the story, looking like a makeshift bodge to mitigate the disaster. I've only considered the new arch as an engineering marvel when it was completed. I never knew the original sarcophagus was one too... What a logistical feat too, bringing all of this, all the steel, all the concrete, in so little time. Never knew the arch was the preferred design from the start. It's even more "touching" to see it done, and standing today, after all. Thanks for all your research work and all the historical videos. Where do you find all of these treasures, seriously? =)
Once again another fascinating episode. Thank you so much for all the research and effort you put in to producing these videos. Best wishes to you , your wife and "The Cat" for the Christmas season :-)
And once again you delivered a banger of a video. This series truly is one of the best available on YT. So many new little details that are rarely mentioned elsewhere. I look forward to every new episode in anticipation of the new hidden knowledge that will be revealed. And as a retired master welder, I just marvel at what they accomplished in this very short time. What an incredible feat of engineering! If only the Soviets had put in their efforts earlier to build and house the reactor properly. To make sure they gave it the things it needed to be a stable, safe and happy reactor. Than all of this would not have been necessary. But hats off to the builders that had to work in this most challenging, most alien environment the world had ever seen. They performed a not-so-small miracle. As an aside, there is a file waiting for you in the gmail😇
Another awesome video. Wish I could visit Chornobyl and Pripyat some day. It's my dream to visit for a very long time. I have been fascinated by the Chornobyl disaster since I was a teenager, plus I played S. T. A. L. K. E. R. Shadow of Chernobyl. As a Bulgarian, I would like to see a video on other Bulgarian made equipment, used after the disaster, besides the IZOT hardrive.
Wow this is fantastic. Ive never heard about the train or how they began construction of the shelter object. Most photos online show construction after the DEMAG cranes were installed. I always wondered what the "boxes" were seemingly dumped in the cascade wall. Thank you so much!
Is it true that the miners dug deep under the NPP to install a liquid nitrogen heat exchanger? Is there any document, video, pictures about the heat exchanger it self? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Yes, but those were not only miners, but also Kyiv Metro builders. We briefly mentioned that story here th-cam.com/video/ItxCrvbh3nk/w-d-xo.html , but in January will come a dedicated episode about them.
4:37 I really like your videos. I’ve seen the models in some videos before - perhaps they are worthy of a video? I hope they are repaired after the war.
The more I learn about this, the more I learn what an immense nightmare this was and still is. I remember hearing about this event in the late '80s when I was in elementary school but my stupid child brain could not have begun to comprehend the scope of this disaster. The scale of the logistics for materials and construction under the time constraint are amazing to learn about. I had no idea about the sections of tower crane used as for one wall or the entombed railway cars. These videos are amazing and very informative.
There's a great book called "Midnight at Chernobyl" that goes through everything from the building of the plant and the town, down to the court cases against the operators and the coverups of other nuclear accidents prior to Chernobyl.
That was an interesting video. Not much was said about the construction of the original Sarcophagus in Western countries. The project was insanely big and it had to be done in a hurry.
Its always so hard for me to wrap my head around the construction of the Shelter object. On one hand this thing was built amazingly fast for a structure of this size. At the same time most stories focus on the first few days or weeks of the disaster, so the fact that the reactor wasn't covered until December just feels too long. Could you create a time lime or illustration it being assembled week by week? Thank you for your time and amazing research. Its amazing how much more I have learned in just the past few months of watching these videos on a subject I've been interested in since the mid 90s.
Check out the book "Midnight at Chernobyl". It goes through everything from the building of the plant to the early 2000s. It even goes into the experiences of the firefighters, the problems they ran into trying to drain the tunnels underneath, the legal action taken against everyone involved, etc. It's a great read
Pictured is the model at ISP NPP. The model of the Shelter you probably mean - "still exists" - that is all that we know. The model of the power plant we made in 2018 and which was at ABK-1 suffered but was repaired.
Side note: I love that disaster recovery is my favorite part of nuclear engineering. I couldn't care less about the actual reactor, but the robots and cement that saved us from it? Man. What stories.
Intriguing, fascinating, mind blowing,, 👍🌟👍 Thank you kindly for your time and work, CF,, 💖🙏💖 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all,, ✨🤶🇸🇪💞🇺🇦🎅✨
Another excellent informative video that did not disappoint. All of the best for 2025, may you have a Blessed and Prosperous year ahead, and may Father guard you from evil.
@@ChernobylFamily wait, I didn't mean to be ironic, I had never heard this way of calling it until a few weeks ago and I'm surprised that I only noticed it now
Which is just right. To be honest , we still can not wrap our minds around all this despite it being usual. Consider... we are trying to give an insight in our personal perception of the Zone.
Be so kind, first, read description of the channel, and write _fyi_. I am "a bit" long here to know what is what and how it is called. Thank you, peace and love.
come on, just use captions, they are accurate. Also, I like the voice of the author and his pronounciation is quite clear, to be honest, nothing to brag about.
Jesus man. There are tons of channels where people with perfect English talk nonsence about this subject. I am here for science, not entertaining. Use subtitles, please.
These Chernobyl videos are absolutely fascinating, thank you for making them.
Thank you!
This is one of my favorite episodes so far. The engineering of the Zone is always incredible to hear about.
@@AtomicAerials thank you! More to come about the Shelter.
Germany to the rescue, who would have guessed..... But shoutout to all the scientists and engineers who prevented a spread of this nuclear disaster.
Yes
We got payed every single penny, Putzmeister as well as Demag. Our eastern brothers withdraw in 1990 after all we were stupid enough to do to them.
Paid @@alielabdimarras7965
Well, kind of. Demag refused to send its engineers to the Zone to help set up the crane, and told the Soviets that they probably wouldn't be able to figure it out on their own.
We are once again assembling to witness the best of the best at work once again!
Well said
Forever and ever, amen.
I've been so curious about the sarcophagus! It's pretty obvious that building it would have been a huge challenge but I never saw anyone talking about in any of the Chernobyl documentaries I've seen. Thanks for making this video, it was even more interesting than I had imagined!
More will come about it within this series
Чудовий контент, більш ніде на ютубі я не бачив такого! Так тримати!❤
дякую!
I genuinely feel like Shelter Objekt is a brilliant name for an industrial band.
Hehe
The cage for the beast... Incredible job, congrats.
Thank you
Another absolutely wonderful video. Thank you
You are very welcome!
Very interesting, I learned a lot of new information. Good job, can’t wait for the future episodes!
More to come!
Вічна пам'ять ліквідаторам та жертвам Чорнобильської катастрофи.
Eternal commemoration of liquidators and victims of the Chornobyl disaster.
I never knew they buried an entire train, but it makes sense seeing as they needed to build the sarcophagus while limiting exposure
From what I know, that train was actually removed in 2010s, as they needed to disassemble the southern contour.
400,000 cubic meters of concrete, that's a big pour. in Washington State we have a dam called, Grand Coulee Dam, it contains 9,155,944 cubic meters of concrete. just to give perspective. Very interesting video, thank-you.
Right. Perspective is key to understanding the scale.
Thanks for another great history about the disaster of Chornobyl.
Thank you!
Brilliant video; thank you for posting this!
Glad it was helpful!
Absolutely loving the series. Thanks a lot :-)
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you for this one, the concrete train was a totally new thing to me!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I had been wondering about the ceremonies and commemorative events on December 14. Fascinating!
@@AtomicAerials glad to help!
The amount of things I've learn in so little time with this video is ridiculously high.
Been born 1 year before the disaster, this monument always had been for me a thing that existed, and will still exist for decades to come. I was just a part of the story, looking like a makeshift bodge to mitigate the disaster. I've only considered the new arch as an engineering marvel when it was completed. I never knew the original sarcophagus was one too... What a logistical feat too, bringing all of this, all the steel, all the concrete, in so little time.
Never knew the arch was the preferred design from the start. It's even more "touching" to see it done, and standing today, after all.
Thanks for all your research work and all the historical videos. Where do you find all of these treasures, seriously? =)
Thank you!
Well... on our bookshelf, mostly.
@@ChernobylFamily you have a seriously specialized book collection.
Once again another fascinating episode. Thank you so much for all the research and effort you put in to producing these videos. Best wishes to you , your wife and "The Cat" for the Christmas season :-)
So nice of you! Thank you! BTW, next week will be the Cat Special episode!
Thank you, wonderful video. Shelter itself is enormous project. Thank you for making this series
And once again you delivered a banger of a video. This series truly is one of the best available on YT. So many new little details that are rarely mentioned elsewhere. I look forward to every new episode in anticipation of the new hidden knowledge that will be revealed.
And as a retired master welder, I just marvel at what they accomplished in this very short time. What an incredible feat of engineering! If only the Soviets had put in their efforts earlier to build and house the reactor properly. To make sure they gave it the things it needed to be a stable, safe and happy reactor. Than all of this would not have been necessary. But hats off to the builders that had to work in this most challenging, most alien environment the world had ever seen. They performed a not-so-small miracle.
As an aside, there is a file waiting for you in the gmail😇
Where did you find those floorplans? They’re fascinating. Also wondering if they’re available in an English translation.
@JailedTrump uff... i do not remember already. That is a good idea, I guess we will make translation on Patreon, as there we can post texts and files.
I doubt that you will find a translated version
@ttl3000 there, the thing is very specific terminology. But this can be an easy project for us. We will do it.
@@ChernobylFamily wow
Another awesome video. Wish I could visit Chornobyl and Pripyat some day. It's my dream to visit for a very long time. I have been fascinated by the Chornobyl disaster since I was a teenager, plus I played S. T. A. L. K. E. R. Shadow of Chernobyl. As a Bulgarian, I would like to see a video on other Bulgarian made equipment, used after the disaster, besides the IZOT hardrive.
Very impressive in a scary sort of way. Thanks for the video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow this is fantastic. Ive never heard about the train or how they began construction of the shelter object. Most photos online show construction after the DEMAG cranes were installed. I always wondered what the "boxes" were seemingly dumped in the cascade wall. Thank you so much!
Fascinating episode!
thank you for these great and informative video’s!
Thank you!
Is it true that the miners dug deep under the NPP to install a liquid nitrogen heat exchanger? Is there any document, video, pictures about the heat exchanger it self? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Yes, but those were not only miners, but also Kyiv Metro builders. We briefly mentioned that story here th-cam.com/video/ItxCrvbh3nk/w-d-xo.html , but in January will come a dedicated episode about them.
Teleconstudio also have nice footage of this on their channel. 8 years ago duration 6:15.
@roybm3124 yes. Legendary crew.
Can we find the wish granter inside?
Well, you know...
4:37 I really like your videos. I’ve seen the models in some videos before - perhaps they are worthy of a video? I hope they are repaired after the war.
I believe you saw probably different ones, as there are few. These specifically are far from being public. Indeed, they are worth a video.
privit chel, what "music" do you use for the background?
It is called SCP-x2x, by Kevin MacLeod.
The more I learn about this, the more I learn what an immense nightmare this was and still is. I remember hearing about this event in the late '80s when I was in elementary school but my stupid child brain could not have begun to comprehend the scope of this disaster. The scale of the logistics for materials and construction under the time constraint are amazing to learn about. I had no idea about the sections of tower crane used as for one wall or the entombed railway cars. These videos are amazing and very informative.
There's a great book called "Midnight at Chernobyl" that goes through everything from the building of the plant and the town, down to the court cases against the operators and the coverups of other nuclear accidents prior to Chernobyl.
9:20 I see Tatra trucks and cement mixers were also helping at Chernobyl 💪🇨🇿
This is true!
That was an interesting video. Not much was said about the construction of the original Sarcophagus in Western countries. The project was insanely big and it had to be done in a hurry.
Its always so hard for me to wrap my head around the construction of the Shelter object. On one hand this thing was built amazingly fast for a structure of this size. At the same time most stories focus on the first few days or weeks of the disaster, so the fact that the reactor wasn't covered until December just feels too long. Could you create a time lime or illustration it being assembled week by week?
Thank you for your time and amazing research. Its amazing how much more I have learned in just the past few months of watching these videos on a subject I've been interested in since the mid 90s.
a Timeline showing the building of the parts to the complete sarcophagus would be perfect!
Check out the book "Midnight at Chernobyl". It goes through everything from the building of the plant to the early 2000s. It even goes into the experiences of the firefighters, the problems they ran into trying to drain the tunnels underneath, the legal action taken against everyone involved, etc. It's a great read
Dismantling the sarcophagus in the future won't be an easy task.
You are very much right.
This is the first time I realize the scale of the plant, the sarcophagus and the arc
Alex. Can you give your opinion on "The Battle of Chernobyl"? Does it accurately document the post disaster situation?
Which Sarcophagus model was damage in 2022? Not the one at the power plant, right?
Pictured is the model at ISP NPP. The model of the Shelter you probably mean - "still exists" - that is all that we know. The model of the power plant we made in 2018 and which was at ABK-1 suffered but was repaired.
👏👏👏awesome video!
If we're measuring purely for scale of complexity, I would think the ISS is pretty arrogant for that top spot.
Side note: I love that disaster recovery is my favorite part of nuclear engineering. I couldn't care less about the actual reactor, but the robots and cement that saved us from it? Man. What stories.
I had the same thought when I first saw the title of the video. "Are LHC and ITER a joke to you?"
Intriguing, fascinating, mind blowing,, 👍🌟👍
Thank you kindly for your time and work, CF,, 💖🙏💖
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all,, ✨🤶🇸🇪💞🇺🇦🎅✨
Same to you!
💖💖💖
Why so much dislikes? Are those rusbots?
Seems like it.
Za Monolit ✊
Nice video
Thank you!
greek?
Good. Thanks.
Wow I wonder if the codename “monolith” was later on used in the stalker games because of this
Another excellent informative video that did not disappoint.
All of the best for 2025, may you have a Blessed and Prosperous year ahead, and may Father guard you from evil.
What was the purpose of all that red substance?
Which specifically?
Why everyone is suddenly starting to use Chornobyl instead of Chernobyl?
Yes, really, why? Maybe, because something is happening around :))
Because Russia being a massive ****
Kyiv / Kiev
Chornobyl / Chernobyl
Ukrainian / Russian transliteration
maybe because this is Ukrainian name?
@@ChernobylFamily wait, I didn't mean to be ironic, I had never heard this way of calling it until a few weeks ago and I'm surprised that I only noticed it now
I appreciate these videos but i have to admit they leave me in a weird mood . !
Which is just right. To be honest , we still can not wrap our minds around all this despite it being usual. Consider... we are trying to give an insight in our personal perception of the Zone.
Why not "Chornobyl" in the title?
Read the FULL title once more and then think. It is called "making things searchable".
@@ChernobylFamily Stupid me. That was my 1st guess.
No worries!
FIRST DAMN IT
Congratulations!
My wife distracted me with a cat 😺
@@meandmymoore2030 I Have a cat as well hahaha
Love the accent
I don't.
Monoliiiitt
More complex than the LHC ya rekn🤣🤣🤣
It's not even CLOSE to the most complex structure ever built where do you get that bollocks, its big and heavy complex it is not
Maybe we know something, which is not for a general audience.
Subscribe for more ;)
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Chornorbyl isnt the same as chernobyl, fyi. Ones a place in ukrane, ones a soviet reactor.
Be so kind, first, read description of the channel, and write _fyi_. I am "a bit" long here to know what is what and how it is called. Thank you, peace and love.
Jesus man. Please just hire an English speaking narrator
come on, just use captions, they are accurate.
Also, I like the voice of the author and his pronounciation is quite clear, to be honest, nothing to brag about.
Maybe it's because I work with Ukranians and I am used to it, but for me the accent is quite clear, and I actually like it.
Jesus man. There are tons of channels where people with perfect English talk nonsence about this subject. I am here for science, not entertaining. Use subtitles, please.