Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Shutting down.

[Atomlabor]

1:05 what a creepy sound

[pioneerz450]

@Atomlabor

I know, it haunts me every night since i first saw this video 2 years ago...

[atvboy11]

What would happen if there was faulty wiring and when he turned it nothing happened? lol you would think with all of those buttons and switches. But i guess they make it perfect and test everyone.

[CPTownage567]

thats a fucking shame....

[KuryloDmytro]

As documents say, those workers carried out orders which were given by a party. Or do you think that they dah nothing to do just to play with an atom? The party said. They had no right to disobey. They did everything to make it as safe as they could, but nobody did that experiment before. They are heroes, and the soviet party is guilty for that. If you don't know that, I will say with your words: shut the fuck up!

[KuryloDmytro]

People please be acknowledged with the subject before having your own thought and leaving comments.

[KuryloDmytro]

Hey, they are NOT responsible for the Chernobyl accident!

What the hell are you talking?

[Azerki1]

@KuryloDmytro Acually they are. Imo you should shut the fuck up if you don't know your facts. The power plant didn't fail. They pushed it to its max. The engineers wanted were testing the power plant in failure state but they did a stunt, wanting to prove that it could run at much lower power, which it can't because of the type of reaktor used in them (these types of power planted are used only in Russia and Ukraine i think because the are dangerous. They wanted to prove that they are good).

[KuryloDmytro]

@Azerki1 First of all if you are a such foul-mouthed dork then please try to swear to your mother or father, otherwise you are showing your lack of culture and this do not tune in for a serious conversation. First, where did you see that I wrote that the reactor failed by itself? You fabricated that and now show me your imaginary fact like I wrote it. Second: those perople executed a commands, which were given from above. If you have no who to argue with then go and swear to your parents, not me

[BorisD1992]

@Azerki1 actually the test which was meant to be carried out on the date of the accident was to power down the reactor but because the test its self was rushed due to a demand for more power from Kiev, the reactor was taken well below its operational load making it unstable. When they tried to push it up to its normal power, the reactor wasn't responding and it quickly melted before the control rods were able to fall inside it's core.

[kc2jga]

Please tell me those switch covers were not made down in the janitors office.

[4624tone]

How did they keep these reactors up after '86, I thought radiation was to high to even be thier, let alone work their every day???

[malyleo]

@MedborgarplatsenTV Yummmeeeee, and it glows in the dark. And when you eat it, you'll grow 3rd eye and second dick, right on your forehead... isn't that fantastic??? :)

[totalmetalisation]

Many of you are talking about how dangerous is the nuclear energy, that it must be removed or replaced by some other sources of energy))) But. No one of you is ready to refuse to use the internet, computer, TV and a lot of technologies which make your life pleasant. Or, may be you think that the solar energy, or the other untraditional sources of energy will replace the nuclear one without any difficulties?

[djsuploaded]

@Rogueknight. Lol @ the wanker with the keyboard. My sister has more bollocks than you. I'm shaking here big man.

[Crysis9800]

Why you are so bad? If you don't follow commands every fucking nuclear reactor will go off!! Chernobyl reactor 4 had design problems!!

It's not the same dude!! Fukushima Daiichi Suffered a tsunami although it "survived".. nuclear energy is the safest! We have to take precautions

[Crysis9800]

Why you are so bad? If you don't follow commands every fucking nuclear reactor will go off!! Chernobyl reactor 4 had design problems!!

[djsuploaded]

@ Everyone.

Shut the fuck up. Nuclear energy is unstable & we should find other means of electricity.

End of.

[TheSeinama]

I think why they shut down the reactor, because it was too outdated technology.

[RogueKnight12866]

I think that because of the energy needs still existing in Ukraine, that notwithstanding the rest of the world, including the US, the UN or anyone else that Ukraine should recommission and reactivate the Chernobyl plant to again generate much needed electricity. Nothing in this life is forever, and nothing in this life is for certain. Nothing invented by the mind of man is perfectly done, so there will always be risk in everything we do. I say, reactivate Chernobyl and get it back to work.

[canadaguy2112ca]

The looks on the operators faces are telling.  The plant is shutdown forever. Must be a strange feeling.

[SMGJohn]

The once biggest and best and well known Nuclear Power plant shut down for good!

Very sad! But then again! Ukraine have plans on repairing the nuclear power plant! And use it again!

[joeyisgoed]

@SMGJohn

You're! A! Big! Fan! Of! Exclamation! Marks!, Aren't! You!?

[SMGJohn]

@joeyisgoed And your point is!? That you want to buy our soap perhaps!?

[joeyisgoed]

@SMGJohn

No!

[counterjihadistswin]

@DaleksAreSupreme01

Where in Murphys Law is said, that the same thing can't go wrong twice? It already did go wrong too often, as I laid out earlier.

All Humans tend to trade short term advantages for long term disadvantages. It's our nature! Conclusion: Humans will NEVER be qualified nor responsible enough to run a NPP.

@DalesksAreSupreme01

Our children are screwed anyway: lost nuclear submarines. SU dumped 29 Submarine reactors (some of them filled) near the island Nowaja Semlja.

[counterjihadistswin]

@counterjihadistswin

Just stick with you opinion, I'm not here to change it. Well then you are the only human, that is not (never) trading short term advantages for long term disadvantages. Even the most successful people admit, that they screw up on that point from time2time.

I think this technology is possibly to leathal to try proving Murphys Law wrong by it.

The best safety mechanism is only as safe as it's weakest part, and that's mankind.

Chernobyl happened because of human failiure.

[counterjihadistswin]

@DaleksAreSupreme01

I can see your point, but...

As long as humans are working at nuclear powerplants, there will never be such a thing as a safe nuclear power plant.

Look at 3-mile Island, look at Chernobyl, look at the Kyshtym Disaster, look at several accidents on russian submarines....

Look at the news from Olkiluoto-3, the o-so-safe EPR reactor: bricolage at the construction site!

I believe in Murphys law: Everything that can go wrong in theory, will go wrong soner or later in reality

[counterjihadistswin]

They lost their jobs! Are you serious! No, your kidding, right?! They lost their priviledge to exchange their time for some work that possibly could damage the environment, health etc. some more!

Nuclear Powerplants with not even a containment! Didn't 1986 give proof enough, that what can go wrong in theory, WILL go wrong in reality?!

FFS people, wake up! Should we really mourn this?! They are free to learn another job (don't forget, they are all higly educated!)

[aquinasua]

@counterjihadistswin you should learn some more about what is nuclear power plants and peopke who's worked there before wrighting bullshit like that in comments

[counterjihadistswin]

@aquinasua

I just finished studying physics at university. I've absorbed every bit of information about chernobyl since it happened. If this doesn't qualify me for posting whatever is on my mind here, what could possibly qualify me then....?!

And for the people: I'm running a successful MLM Business. I could proove you, that out of 100 people at least 90 would rather prefer whining, than taking their life in their own hands when they get the chance to do so. So who's talking bullshit here?!

[aquinasua]

@counterjihadistswin You talking bullshit. You did!

Maybe you should try to work at any NPP, before talking how good your qualification just because you studying phisics in university.

[oO0lol0Oo]

these poor guys!  Thats so bad if you have got such a good job!

and then loosing it!! thats soo bad! Very emotional video. <=::(

[darkbolton]

So what happens to the remaining reactors now. Can they be demolished or do they have to get filled in with concreate and left for thousands of years?

[Jokertour]

The russians smoke in a atomic controll room?? That´s cool

[SCUNKSA94]

& is is there now who works there:?

[steves009]

That would have been such a sad day for so many people working there. Did they find other work?

[RebelAmpIII]

I was born when the NPP C-4 is exploded. I have 1-2 birth defects but these very small defects. When i'm growing up i'm read lot of publications, books about the topic...

Once I decided to go to the zone, and see the NPP, Pripjaty and some interesting things on the zone.

sorry for those who worked there, and I respect those who have died in the disaster.

I have not seen the incident on video only, but as long as I live will forever define my life.

sorry for the bad english

[geekforlifevandc]

do you live in ukraine?

[DarkHour404]

wtf is with the Happy elevator music? 

[vasilenko]

@DarkHour404 its a popular song in russia

[gtx265]

I liked the first half, but why is the second half of the video frozen on the smoking guy while music plays?

[docshuck]

this place did more than shut down!

[ScoreOnAir]

there isn't any radiation. it's clear and they can't get sickness because it needs very big dose of radiation to get sick

[Jpressman8]

Even with all the controversy Chernobyl has caused this is still hard for me to watch these men lose their jobs. You can see how upset they are. :( My hat is off to these men.

[lexichronicle2]

Ha ha ha! Nice switch covers there. These guy's reactions are classic. I like the guy lighting the cigarette. :P I'm smoking one watching it.

But yeah, it's really sad that they're basically out of work now, with not a lot else to do in the Ukraine

[Chrstianey]

Most people sound like Greenpeace PRs, but if they need to choose between darkness (no electrical energy), and nuclear power plants, we know what will they choose. Respect to AEC staff.

[gruntpwnsnubz]

how did you still work there with all the radiation

[jonatharivera]

did anyone see that gum stuck on the switch

[Renew3D]

Pripyat lived for Chernobyl power plants. After Pripyat had to be left behind, the former citizens built a new city as close to Chernobyl as they could to keep doing their job. They admitted that after this event they don't know what the fate of that city is.

[DWaves47]

I have read many comments here and on other posts about Chernobyl. Without getting technical the accident was causes by an arrogant control room chief that was not trained and in my opinion not qualified to perform a very dangerous test. A test that had failed 4 times before.

[ReactoR691]

Почему блэк дэй?

Из-за того что персонал без работы остается?

[Skyisnotalimit]

Dam... I feel so sorry for them. They are just fighting to to hold back the tears.

Sorry guys, hope it worked out for you in some other way....

[noahkeebler]

is this supposed to be a sad moment

[Tabby266]

What happend to reactors 1 and 2?

[OmonasLT]

Reactor 1 was closed in 1996, and reactor 2 was closed in 1991.

[WolfmanAF1]

Very Sad day in Ukraine. Just because there was a mistake at one doesnt mean there will be a Mistake at another.

[pioneerz450]

well we still have 5 of those in St. Petersburg

and just listen to that buzzer, sounds scary

they must feel bad, they lost their jobs But this< also ends a Horror chapter in the world, finally its closed

[bfx5]

@pioneerz450 NO

they need a new sarcophagus

[NuklearTV]

We need more safety for these reactors. Many RBMK-type reactors are upgraded with MKER-technology. This is the futur! Not shot downs of nuclear power plants. We need fast breeder reactors and we can old nuclear fuel recycled.

[Risti2ss]

We dont need no reactors, we need less people on the world. Planet is over populated.

[federalfsx]

Okay go screw yourself

[derbaroper]

all of these dangerous RBMK-reactor must be shut down!!!

look at their faces after switching off! it seems like they feel attacked in their honor and pride!! and that's exactly what makes such critical reactors even more dangerous!

[marhalabszar]

they are losing their jobs man!

[Skyisnotalimit]

Yes... Their jobs, houses, everything....

Their entire life....

I just wonder what happend to them later.

[RuknaGeraltas]

Dont you think that they have worked here for 14 more years after the catastrophy? This is their job,maybe now they will not have a job. They worked in contaminated area and now its fnished.

[xeronicus]

no, nuclear power is a must.

These men spent their entire lives keeping these beasts in check, now the damn hippies have had their way, these men lost their jobs.

So yes, their honor and pride have been hurt, their livelihoods have been removed from them.

Honor the mean and women who kept it running for so long. They tamed a nuclear beast, and for that, they have my gratitude.

[Tabby266]

@xeronicus

No, they tamed a freaking minature SUN!

[matador5135]

@xeronicus You have a very good point, however the post soviet infraestructure in former Soviet Republics went to shits due the economic collapse. I think it was more of liability over the safety and maintanance of this nuclear plants. Besides that their equipment and technology was very outdated. Nowadays with the advances in nuclear technology, reactors have decreased in size, making them better to maintain and safer. I think we have to reevaluate nuclear reactors as a good alternative fuel.

[AletheAce]

@xeronicus so what you are saying is that a few people getting a job is more important than earth, its future and all its people?

[xeronicus]

@AletheAce

Nuclear power = safe

The only reason you are posting here now is because of the disaster in japan, because you feel it would backup your side and negate ANY ramblings about nuclear power being safe.

Well hate to break it to yah jockey boy, but it IS safe.

Only reason the japan disaster happened is because they only had one backup system,

Which the tsunami took care of.(took out the water pumps generators)

Also, way to necro post

[RogueKnight12866]

@AletheAce Yes in this case, people having the means to support themselves and their families trumps the idea you and your birkenstock sandals and hippie V-necks spew about getting rid of nuclear technology. We should build infinitely MORE OF them, just to spite you Greenpeace psychotic types. In fact, I'd make it a crime to interfere with the building or operation of nuclear power, punishable by life without parole, or death. In your case, I'd sentence you to death, slow and extremely painful.

[AletheAce]

@RogueKnight12866 who the fuck do you think you are? you want my death? come here and i kick the living shit out of you you fucking maggot cocksucker..hmm what to expect from a 9 year old who has no idea whats going on...i feel sorry for you man, if you want to i give you some tips how to make friends

[AletheAce]

@xeronicus lol you got a point there..

[katukatakato]

@xeronicus

they tamed it? they killed thousands of people. it's a shame that the power plant continued it's work that long.

[aermartin]

I belive the russians or in this case urkranians are very well educated in science etc etc, good mechaniccs. But they look like our bakery personell in sweden. :D pls yes do shut down ^^

[archertux]

thank you very much for mark of our overalls and PPE. :-/

[indyboom]

its what we do

[aermartin]

yeah well.. it looks like bakery personel. And im still pissed of we have NPP at all ( as one people on this planet ) ... expecially since I live in Sweden and we had alot of the fallout from '86 incident carried with the wind to our northern parts.

[MoonlightEmbrace]

Well now, you wouldn't expect the reactor core to be surrounded by cardboard walls now, wouldn't you ?

Those walls are probably packed-full of lead and other radiation-absorbing materials, so there's no need to be wearing a hazmat or NBC suit.

Let alone, it would probably be against safety regulations to build a NPP that couldn't shelter the personnel from the reactor's radiation, even in the case of a meltdown.

[aermartin]

the walls are prolly all cement with led in it ... i remarked the hats/outfit in general.

[MoonlightEmbrace]

oh, sorry. I took your remark as being sarcastic, didn't want to be rude.

[chucknorris687]

@aermartin If by well "educated," you mean design thieves then yes. Very well educated. : )

[totalmetalisation]

@aermartin You think that Russians and Ukrainians look like bakery personell, Try to imagine that these people are the professionals in their job, and they've spent many years to learn their skills, and may be they have the salary the twice lower than yours. So, how they should look in your opinion?

[werdCanada]

@totalmetalisation these "professionals" are the 1's that pushed this junky soviet facility and caused this whole mess, shoulda been a candu!

[malyleo]

@aermartin Yeah dude what the fuck do you think workers in Forsmark look like? There is a reason for them to dress this way, dumbass.

[inachu]

I wish the 60 minute investigation with ed bradley the black dude was on youtube.

He did a investigation at the hospital next to chernobyl in the basement and found weird looking aborted babies.

[noah3824]

The third reactor was not in terrible shape, it was just the fear of it doing the same thing the C4 did, which was not very likely, as these RBMK reactors were all updated following the C-4 accident.

[archertux]

You right. I working on ChNPP now.

[juokinguolis]

What is ChNPP Chernobyl nuclear power plant ? - how you can work there rhere are alot of radiation and nuclear power plant is shutted down

[archertux]

Me and 3500 people works in ChNPP every day. You're probably thinking: stop the reactor, put the castle and go home?

You can visit english version of our official website and get more information about our cases.

URL: new (dot) chnpp (dot) gov (dot) ua (slash) eng

[miragef19]

can you tell me whats the last song respect that you are working thare

[redSKORPION50]

@archertux I always wondered what is happening there now, thankyou for giving the web page, im going to have a look at that.

What is actually done there now? Is there any power made there any more?

[chillaxer1993]

@archertux how long can you stay in there at a time without getting serious radiation sickness

[GtaGekkerd]

@archertux Realy? are there now on this time so many guys working?

is it not dangerous? there are a lot of radiation arround it?

[windson7]

@archertux You... are working in extreme radiation conditions? how much do they pay you to ruin your body :D

[crisolean]

@archertux is it still dangerous there?

[computersmasher]

what a waste just because they were too cheap to make safety a priority

[professionalvr]

Very exellent choise of music . It's Chi- Mai by Ennio Morricone from the french movie with Jean-Paul Belmondo"Le Professionnel.

[Manwitharuinedface]

wat the music at the beginning?

[Manwitharuinedface]

wats the music at the beginning?

[professionalvr]

It's probably a russian music.

[noah3824]

the men look healthier than most ukrainians, but the pay is good, (i should know i work in a nuke reactor) but most people arnt educationally fit to work in one, well, i am

[ethanswish123]

Well, the way you wright determines that...

[iFLAGEDurVideo]

unemployment

[MaoaM92]

does anybody know what's the music at the end?

[BUNGLEJYME]

I love those high tech switch covers.

[gobo760]

Man, I was going to say the same thing. They looked like little tin foil boxes held on with dental floss. If the brains of the plant were held together with scotch tape and bubble gum, it's no wonder they shut the plant down.

[paF4uko]

They all look so sad... but that had to be done even earlier - after the accident with the 4th reactor back in 1986...

[dieselscience]

paF4uko,

They're looking sad because they'll all be unemployed soon.

[paF4uko]

Yup. I didn't say anything else.

[deamze08]

lots

[grofuss]

How many men in white hats does it take to turn a switch? Ask the smoking man, he looks serious.

[kabelmann]

What is this great song playing in the background?

[gtfeckner]

What an emotional video. I work as an engineer at a NPP, and it is the most interesting, rewarding and amazing job in the world (well paid too). I´m sorry for all those honest workers, I´d feel like them if I couldn´t do this anymore. It´s a shame that pepole without any knowledge of Reactor Physics have such great political power.

[nickmctrick]

Tell that to the thousands of abandoned children with genetic defects, cancers, and no future living in squalid, over-crowded, state-run mental institutions as a direct result of the Chernobyl accident.

If you're an engineer, you might enlighten us on how you're going to manage nuclear waste with a half-life of 100,000 years +.

Reactor physics has nothing to do with it. No man made system is perfectly safe.

[DecommMan]

Sorry - the plant was shutdown in Dec 2000.

[DecommMan]

In December 2000 when the last of the three operating units was shutdown - now they are fully engaged in planning for the final D&D of the plants. Thats a ways off yet.

[Georgematic08]

When was this filmed?

[archertux]

15th Dec 2000

[riccardobevilacqua]

you are not allowed to smoke in npp!

[archertux]

you wrong. its allowed.

[riccardobevilacqua]

Sorry, but it is not!

You cannot eat, cannot drink, cannot smoke.

This is to avoid any incorporation/inhalation of radioactive isotopes!

I have no idea if you have ever been in an npp in your life.

[galacnor]

I heard u not

[DecommMan]

Maybe not in western country NPP, but in some eastern european NPP is a diff story.

[LateBlt]

The fact that workers are permitted to smoke cigarettes within a reactor control room is the most obvious thing that sets the culture in this video apart from an American counterpart, but one other detail that struck me was that the safety coverings preventing accidental triggering of the switches appear to be tied down with string. I understand that the likelihood of those switches getting turned while those covers are down is rather low, but that kind of thing just wouldn't fly in Amerika. :)

[galacnor]

Love your thinking can help but thinking that some stupid guy would bring his kid in (even if its highly unlikly and unlawfull) and the kid thinking hmm shiny foil i have seen candy wraped in foil lifting the cover by first pulling the string and turning the key and unhappily being rewarded with beeing sounds and lights and the fireing of hts father or mother from the power station i bet there is like a key for those things in america

[archertux]

To: RaioCech (...continue 2)

The reasons for the disaster at the Chernobyl atomic power plant is too multifaceted to be present in several sentences.

[archertux]

To: RadioCech (...continue)

RBMK - a product of the Cold War. These cheaper than other types of reactors and building nuclear power plants with them faster. In the USSR, it was important to overtake the U.S. in terms of the number of nuclear power plants, but the contract VVER reactors and fast neutron reactors went to the atomic submarines.

Now there is the international agency the IAEA, which monitors the level of security at all nuclear power plants worldwide.

[archertux]

I just noticed that this movie corrupted. After the guy with a cigarette there is other stuff. See the Video Response, but it is Russian. Although there is only music.

[Revelde20]

the scientist look preety "pistoff" ; like ..shit, I'm going to lose my fckng job like! the last dude is like "I'm going to smoke my last cigarrette ,before I lose my benefits (getting cancer because of the job) .

[RadioCech]

It was a good thing turn OFF the Chernobyl plant, but you have see the face of the onest worker all around ? They have probably loose their job! This is not good for the worker and their family, they are not responsible for the Chernobyl disaster, but only the past Soviet government.

[archertux]

Nobody loose job. They crying because they love this job - they love generating electricity. I still working on Chernibyl NPP and I know that the decommissioning of the Chernobyl NPP is premature because № 3 reactor has not yet formulated their service life. This was a purely political decision, as I wrote below.

After the accident at the fourth unit in 1986, all RBMK reactors have been improved with a view to the impossibility of a repetition of such an accident

[RadioCech]

You are or was an Chernobil worker ?

[archertux]

I am working in Chernobyl NPP now.

[RadioCech]

Can I know your personal opinion for this disaster? Because there are too many distortion for this nuclear history, but, as you know, the future probably will be only nuclear in the world and the "green" power will be only maximum 10% for the total ammount of the energy, due to the typical not constant characteristic.I think if there are better information to discover the real, and not political problem for the nuclear power, will be better for the energy in the future.

[archertux]

No big problems at nuclear power plants. There is a problem of recycling and processing of radioactive waste because it lacks refineries for processing. Type RBMK reactors (as the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and some Russian) from the outset have been imperfect, acknowledged that even the general designer of the RBMK-reactors. But today RBMK highly refined and no longer constitute a threat to nuclear and radiation safety of the world, although to build new reactors of this type will not be.

[Randomeone01]

They said they did it on December 15, 2000

[FUTUREFFMEDIC]

I'm lost here, is this before the explosion? Like the events leading up to it?

[fjodor]

This is not reactor number 4 which exploded. This is one of the reactors which kept operating.

[archertux]

Buttons? What role has the appearance of the buttons? 24 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per day Ukraine has lost that in order for the international community was to warm the soul!

[klipsch21]

those buttons look cheap, no wonder the plant had so many problems