we should all remeber Chernobyl so that it never happens again. Its quite possible to build a reactor that is 100% safe, the only downside is it costs money, something humans tend to put before lives.
i feel bad for all those people- being forced to leave their home with nothing but two bags of personal items...anywho, that was a amazing video, you put it together really really well.
chernobylio istorija tokia kad buvo du naujokai kurie buvo priimti i elektrine ir jiems kompas mete errorus nors jie nekreipe i tai demesio ir neuzsuko ar neatsuko salto vandens ir bum visur radijacija
you love chernobyl? i thnk LOVED is more appropriate... either way it is an intruiging series of events, particully the numerous conciparcy theories involving the CIA and other western forces..
Pripyat is about 10 hours ahead from Pacific time zone. Evacuation took place while most of us in the USA were asleep. Very sad time, scenes look like "then and now"
OMG you people need to educate yourselves a little on the Chernobyl disaster. where do you people come up with this laughable bullshit . Get some studying done before you start dabbling in a topic you're not informed in.
in 2010 they wil start the reactors and beginning produse electrisitet again but people can't live ther before 400 years have gone number 1 it is a forest ther called red forest and it is the most radioactive place in the world number 2 the houses can't are wort many mony so they wil not remove them number 3 it is so radioactive ther that you can't biuld a single house there if so you must biuld a house what are imune on radioactive(sry bad Eng)
no it still there 10 people died becuse the whas so radioactive in red forest when they buldoze it down you can still se thos buldozers in the forest but i don't think they have remove thos body it is so radioaktive ther in the middle of the forest not even a drakt can protect you but it is brown red becuse thos three is dead full of radioactive in them so only some kilometers where removed the police protect every way to pripyat so no one can't go in the zone but with out the police know
Nopes, its not true. Ill tell you more - forests around that place ( Polessie) one of the most beautiful places. And when people left nature began making its wonderful business. It has rare kinds of birds and animals now. Because human being can;t harm them anymore. If someone deserves to die then it should be those who leaves mcdonalds papers around the forest and hunt those animals. Some bastards caught (and probably ate) beautiful 2 metres catfish from cooling pond
they mutating and it wil say they get bigger because of the radioactive but yes it can happend thos animals can se a little bit rear out like we humens when radioactive attack the celles
(SMGJohn) Nobody died in the Red Forest!!The initial explosion resulted in the death of 2 workers. 38 of the firemen and emergency clean-up workers died in the first 3 months after the explosion from Acute Radiation Sickness and 1 of cardiac arrest. The main casualties were among the firefighters, who valiantly fought the fires which had broken out on the roof of the turbine building. Only thing in the Red Forest were Squirrels, rabbits, deer and after the explosion, high levels of radiation
Have you listened to Titanic accounts from the survivors... they were all there, and yet there are many different accounts of how the ship sank/broke apart as well as what the fate of the captain was, people are unreliable!
You are wrong my rice eating friend, there is no mention of the forest being burned, where do you get your facts, please enlighten my. In the post-disaster cleanup operations, a majority of the pine trees were bulldozed and buried in trenches. Today The nature of the area seems to have not only survived, but flourished due to significant reduction of human impact. The zone has become a classic example of an involuntary park.
The area directly around reactor 4 has no normal wildlife as such. There are some mutations, but most animals died from radiation. Whilst a lot of Chernobyl is now essentially deserted waste land in which animals can live peacefully, much of it is still lethal without proper safety gear.
Almost acnumber7, they were so close, but the distances of the buildings arn't all correct, so they could make the game of course, But they did do a great job on building recreation.
In COD4 they also capture the overwhelming lonelyness and sadness.
I dont know if they still do this, but after the disaster they had a skeleton crew running the remaining reactors and living in a cleaned out part of pripyat, and they would play music on intercoms all over the city to keep people from going insane.
No, today the reactors are all shut down and only a few people take care of them, because you can´t just switch off an nuclear plant and leave it there like a radio.
what happened there? did it just get some of the explosion from chernobyl? and if it did, how could they live if there was so much radiation that they dont need lights
What's hard to is they never knew until the 27th of April 1986 that reactor 4 had exploded , they lived another 24 hours in Pripyat which was at the time covered with stuff like iodine and strotium - 90 , ceasium floating over their heads. the USSR pretty much said we have the power and look what happened "Pride over saftey not clever!"
In Pripyat, the people where not evacuated until 1pm Sunday afternoon. The town was dead by 4pm. So in theory that is 36 hours. Then it was over several days that the people in Chernobyl was evacuated.
(Bobodekat) Where do you get your figures of 600,000 dead? Please enlighten me. The Chernobyl disaster caused a few tens of immediate deaths due to radiation poisoning. it is difficult to estimate Chernobyl's long-term death toll, which is still a hotly-debated issue. According to the IAEA only 4000 deaths were related to the disaster, but new studies challenge this report and say that up to 90,000 deaths can be attributed
and casulties can be attributed to radiation fallout from Chernobyl.
Note that too,that the death cases of the helicopter pilots, truck drivers, soldiers, etc. who were sent to Pripyat, were reported as heart attack, and banal illnesses. Maybe it's better to be very-very careful trusting these numbers.
took place in Feburary of 1986 The town was built mainly for the workers of the plant. The reacter( number 4 i think)exploded and the people were forced to evacuate. a ghost town once home to 50,000 Around the start of this century, alot of the area was looted,things of value,seats.the only "physical" mutaion seen were Albino sparrows, that died out. nearby graveyard of old vehicles, such as fireengines, and old Soviet and Eastern bloc BMPs and helicopters, they were burnt to fumigate them.
I belive it was roughly up to 24 deaths liked directly, 8 or so firefighters. However There are thosse who have died of cancer and lukeimiea etc. who lived in the area butwhile evidence of radiation is strong, it would be hard to link it back and prove the events in Pripyat caused that.
it was a big thing, and still is as it (so far) is the worst recorded nuclear disaster. I was not alive at the time, but the reactor was blown open and it (by eye witness) was a large fireball. Its also remembered as for years, many who have lived there and the generations of children whosse familys where there, seem to have cancers of some sort. It is important in finding out about atomic energy. And thats ok, I was intrigued by this place.
Yea it is, It made me wonder if, mankind was wipedout, would nature reclaim the world like it has in Pripyat?with trees growing in buildings and rare animal breedding there?
The so-called official dates are still gounded on the report, which was given by the delegation of Valery Legasov (high ranked party officer in the SU that time) in 1987. The report also states, that increase of cancer and leukemia were not measurable after the accident:changes within 0,1%. But half of that percent is still more than 100,000 people
True, it is down to the individual to decide how far to belive the facts, given the time, and the overall meaning of the plant (peaceful atom campagin,was it?), figures may be different to what was released. what ever the case, it seem apparent that there was an icrease,dispite how insignificant, after the incident.
(telestar1) Valeri Legasov wasn't a high ranked party offer in the SU... he was a prominent Soviet scientist in the field of inorganic chemistry, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. And chief of the investigation committee of the Chernobyl disaster.
That time in the Warsaw Pact countries to be a head (engineer, scientist, etc) of such committee, you MUST have a rank in the Party. There wasn't other way to be an academic with the age of 45 years!
Actually, 'damn fuckin soviets', I think. They diactivated ALL the emergency systems during the test, and they made this shit blow up. Nuclear power can not be blamed instead of human bunk...
Why couldn't they have waited for construction of reactors 5 and 6 to finish up? There were two reactors being built in addition to the four that were there. Obviously, construction was halted after this.
You are right about human bunk. The tests were being done by a skeleton crew that had no experience with large reactors of this sort. I doubt the US ever let newbs near the reactor... >.>
It is human bunk when they turned off all the alarm and emergency systems. It was only possible with RBMK-s. In the US you can not turn those systems wodn.
(RawSteelIUT) Following the accident, All work on the unfinished reactors 5 and 6 was halted three years later. The three remaining reactors operate because of an energy shortage in the country. A fire broke out in a building of reactor 2 in 1991; and it was subsequently declared damaged beyond repair and taken offline. Reactor 1 was decommissioned in Nov 1996. On Dec 15, 2000, then-President Kuchma personally turned off Reactor 3. Effectively shutting down the entire plant.
Hard question. A human can not controll nature, even if it's locked into a reactor. They tried to do something good, they wanted to know more, and they felt they up to manage a nuclear power plant without it's alarm and emergency systems. They were wrong.
Today no alarm or emergency systems can be shut down in any nuclear power plants all ower the world. Also in the former soviet areas.
Look at the modern television set in the recently abandoned flat!
Beleive me, that sight was not common in the soviet flats in 1986.Now imagine that hundreds of soldiers were stationed there -shortly after the accident, and evacuation- who were coming from the other side of the Urals, where even the food shops were empty...
Pripyat was one of the best situated town that time in the USSR, (Except Penza-1, -2, Anzamas, etc) because it belonged to the proud family of the "Technological towns of the Ussr". In fact that means, that the inhabitants had not worse life, than the east european nations that time for example. (So "good situated" must have been understanded NOT in its western meaning!!!)
Where did the people get bussed to? Were they only able to take clothes or what? It appears the buildings have been looted and vandalized, who did that? and they must have got a good dose of radiation while doing it, wild how twenty years can cause so much decay, very sad.
I too loved that level in COD4. The farris wheel still stands in pripyat today. The rest of the level is fake. But I still loved the feeling of going through on veteran.
Fun fact: They never ever got to use that ferris wheel. The amusement park was supposed to open in may of 1986. The Chernobyl disaster happened in April and screwed that up.
at 3:18 the sign on the building says:"...Atom will become a worker...". Its a pitty that people did not understand that this very friendly atom can easily annihilate all living...
According to U.N and Nuclear orginizations in Vienna, theres more chance of radiation expose in tiem on a flight, They say any exposer nowadays is shortterm, only long time spent there would be deadly.
the scientist in charge of the test at chernobyl wouldnt allow those below his authority to stop it when it was starting to get out of hand. i dont think anyone would be that stupid in the future.
right. I think scientists now days are more...capable and they know what they are going to cause just by trying to improve something without consulting that with their superiors.
we should all remeber Chernobyl so that it never happens again. Its quite possible to build a reactor that is 100% safe, the only downside is it costs money, something humans tend to put before lives.
andysim232 1 week ago in playlist Chernobyl, Prypiat
Chernobyl the gift that keeps on giving or taking poeple are still dying from it to this day so sad
mikebmix 1 month ago in playlist Chernobyl, Prypiat
Speed (1994) O.S.T
Gencturk92 1 year ago
basszák meg.
Az állat okos, csak élni akar.
Az ember okos. Pusztítani akar.
Bassza meg.
lizakgaborka 1 year ago
that city/village was beatuuiful and very well taken care of
josh666675 1 year ago
i feel bad for all those people- being forced to leave their home with nothing but two bags of personal items...anywho, that was a amazing video, you put it together really really well.
joeprice010 1 year ago
it was too late..
danas123 2 years ago
whats with the harry gregson williams style music?
arkatub 2 years ago
@arkatub
this music is from the keanu reeves speed movie
badturkali 2 years ago
chernobylio istorija tokia kad buvo du naujokai kurie buvo priimti i elektrine ir jiems kompas mete errorus nors jie nekreipe i tai demesio ir neuzsuko ar neatsuko salto vandens ir bum visur radijacija
81indruska 2 years ago
going to keep moment of silence for the victims of Chernobyl please come and join me
Nasty9873 2 years ago 13
we had to do a report on somthing that impacted the earth and i was the only 1 who choose chynobyl
gumpforrest2 2 years ago 3
SAME!!!!!! i love cherbonyl,
baiba1988 2 years ago
you love chernobyl? i thnk LOVED is more appropriate... either way it is an intruiging series of events, particully the numerous conciparcy theories involving the CIA and other western forces..
DeltaTango45 2 years ago
Pripyat is about 10 hours ahead from Pacific time zone. Evacuation took place while most of us in the USA were asleep. Very sad time, scenes look like "then and now"
sugarplummsmax 2 years ago
music it's kinda innappropriated
BlackAdder719 2 years ago
so sad
mickeynismocat 3 years ago 5
que historia tan triste
cristian905 3 years ago
i believe there are species mutation in red forest
Kenttas 3 years ago 3
you're telling me.
RadioOperator01 2 years ago
MGS
LatinGamerps3 3 years ago
jaja this song is from the game Metal Gear Solid,i think than it is the main theme
omarendon7 3 years ago
no, it's the Main theme of a movie called "Speed" with Keanu Reeves
darkjack86 3 years ago
thanks, i couldnt figure out where i heard it before
stollensecret 2 years ago
Uhh hungarian Ikarus bus!
macosa7 3 years ago
Yeah:D
kollegahun 3 years ago
Very Good vid!!! Gratz for author!!! ;))
BartCalcium 3 years ago
wow is that threre cuntry or ours
wenfire99 3 years ago
Please. Go to a library & do some real research.
Then, you can talk to the grown-ups.
projectdarkgrey 3 years ago
imm ok!
wenfire99 3 years ago
кашмар!!!
katletik 3 years ago
Do you people know nothing of the Chernobyl Disaster, Get some studying done before you start dabbling in debate you're not informed in!!
projectdarkgrey 3 years ago
OMG you people need to educate yourselves a little on the Chernobyl disaster. where do you people come up with this laughable bullshit . Get some studying done before you start dabbling in a topic you're not informed in.
projectdarkgrey 3 years ago
This is so sad i live in a small citie i think it was peacefull there.....sorry.... sadness... :(
fraiadyemanja 3 years ago
ide be lehet menni?
beszoptad1 3 years ago
in 2010 they wil start the reactors and beginning produse electrisitet again but people can't live ther before 400 years have gone number 1 it is a forest ther called red forest and it is the most radioactive place in the world number 2 the houses can't are wort many mony so they wil not remove them number 3 it is so radioactive ther that you can't biuld a single house there if so you must biuld a house what are imune on radioactive(sry bad Eng)
SMGJohn 3 years ago
Red forest was burried soon after disaster. So it just dont exist
Astra253 3 years ago
no it still there 10 people died becuse the whas so radioactive in red forest when they buldoze it down you can still se thos buldozers in the forest but i don't think they have remove thos body it is so radioaktive ther in the middle of the forest not even a drakt can protect you but it is brown red becuse thos three is dead full of radioactive in them so only some kilometers where removed the police protect every way to pripyat so no one can't go in the zone but with out the police know
SMGJohn 3 years ago
Nopes, its not true. Ill tell you more - forests around that place ( Polessie) one of the most beautiful places. And when people left nature began making its wonderful business. It has rare kinds of birds and animals now. Because human being can;t harm them anymore. If someone deserves to die then it should be those who leaves mcdonalds papers around the forest and hunt those animals. Some bastards caught (and probably ate) beautiful 2 metres catfish from cooling pond
Astra253 3 years ago
they mutating and it wil say they get bigger because of the radioactive but yes it can happend thos animals can se a little bit rear out like we humens when radioactive attack the celles
SMGJohn 3 years ago
Ahh,its so sad I haven't met any mutating animal over there... But sure you know better;) I will try searching more.
Astra253 3 years ago
(SMGJohn) Nobody died in the Red Forest!!The initial explosion resulted in the death of 2 workers. 38 of the firemen and emergency clean-up workers died in the first 3 months after the explosion from Acute Radiation Sickness and 1 of cardiac arrest. The main casualties were among the firefighters, who valiantly fought the fires which had broken out on the roof of the turbine building. Only thing in the Red Forest were Squirrels, rabbits, deer and after the explosion, high levels of radiation
projectdarkgrey 3 years ago
ye but it whas so radioactive there havent you sen the national geographic documentar about Chernobyl it based on reality from people have told
SMGJohn 3 years ago
Have you listened to Titanic accounts from the survivors... they were all there, and yet there are many different accounts of how the ship sank/broke apart as well as what the fate of the captain was, people are unreliable!
projectdarkgrey 3 years ago
hmm ye you migth have rigth there
SMGJohn 3 years ago
You are wrong my rice eating friend, there is no mention of the forest being burned, where do you get your facts, please enlighten my. In the post-disaster cleanup operations, a majority of the pine trees were bulldozed and buried in trenches. Today The nature of the area seems to have not only survived, but flourished due to significant reduction of human impact. The zone has become a classic example of an involuntary park.
projectdarkgrey 3 years ago
The area directly around reactor 4 has no normal wildlife as such. There are some mutations, but most animals died from radiation. Whilst a lot of Chernobyl is now essentially deserted waste land in which animals can live peacefully, much of it is still lethal without proper safety gear.
carlos1112 3 years ago
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Apparently "Call of Duty 4" is a favorite of pathetic loser Vidiots everywhere.
CrudeDude 3 years ago
Good video
SimonDolan 4 years ago
That music is from the SPEED movie
SnickersMuis85 4 years ago
Giornalista kolléga, a video címe helyesen: 'Pripyat, the dead city' lenne :)
gyurmagyurka 4 years ago
In Call Of Duty 4 I think it has been rebuilt perfectly.
acnumber7 4 years ago 2
i agree..
it looks much the same as all the footage i've seen of pripyat so far.
dougle125 4 years ago
Almost acnumber7, they were so close, but the distances of the buildings arn't all correct, so they could make the game of course, But they did do a great job on building recreation.
airsoftmama 4 years ago
In COD4 they also capture the overwhelming lonelyness and sadness.
I dont know if they still do this, but after the disaster they had a skeleton crew running the remaining reactors and living in a cleaned out part of pripyat, and they would play music on intercoms all over the city to keep people from going insane.
CyranoMontoya 3 years ago
No, today the reactors are all shut down and only a few people take care of them, because you can´t just switch off an nuclear plant and leave it there like a radio.
NKA23 3 years ago 4
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Vote for John McCain ...he fully supports the nuclear industry and believes we need to build more reactors....
CrudeDude 4 years ago
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Another weird thing is that some of the original residents actually went back to live there. Wouldn't wanna meet them during a visit...
Bhakthavachalam 4 years ago
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The cool thing is that at night they don't need lights. Everything just glows......
CrudeDude 4 years ago
what happened there? did it just get some of the explosion from chernobyl? and if it did, how could they live if there was so much radiation that they dont need lights
metseagles423 4 years ago
it's in chernobyl isnt it?
dougle125 4 years ago
its in pripyat....it was built originally for the workers of the power plant, and their families.
szerdahelyigyerek 4 years ago
What's hard to is they never knew until the 27th of April 1986 that reactor 4 had exploded , they lived another 24 hours in Pripyat which was at the time covered with stuff like iodine and strotium - 90 , ceasium floating over their heads. the USSR pretty much said we have the power and look what happened "Pride over saftey not clever!"
Timsalt3100 4 years ago 3
In Pripyat, the people where not evacuated until 1pm Sunday afternoon. The town was dead by 4pm. So in theory that is 36 hours. Then it was over several days that the people in Chernobyl was evacuated.
57hissyfits 3 years ago
its horrible i wish these things would never happen
MCRrocker97 4 years ago
Lol yeah why dont you take your 50. cal and snipe some russians you bastard
fbtmof4 4 years ago
thanks, capt macmillan...
xfoxworthyx 4 years ago
50.000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town...
AgressoExpresso 4 years ago
there have been 600.000 people death
BOBODEKAT 4 years ago
(Bobodekat) Where do you get your figures of 600,000 dead? Please enlighten me. The Chernobyl disaster caused a few tens of immediate deaths due to radiation poisoning. it is difficult to estimate Chernobyl's long-term death toll, which is still a hotly-debated issue. According to the IAEA only 4000 deaths were related to the disaster, but new studies challenge this report and say that up to 90,000 deaths can be attributed
and casulties can be attributed to radiation fallout from Chernobyl.
projectdarkgrey 3 years ago
just to say,28 or 29 deaths are caused directly by this.
Million other deaths are caused by this too only no one knows.
Radiation is an invisible killer.
Try to find info how much percent people more died from cancer not only in places close to Pripyat,then maybe you get fascinated.
melancholysunflower 4 years ago
scarry wideo.....looks mutch like war
Varshone 4 years ago
Note that too,that the death cases of the helicopter pilots, truck drivers, soldiers, etc. who were sent to Pripyat, were reported as heart attack, and banal illnesses. Maybe it's better to be very-very careful trusting these numbers.
telestar1 4 years ago
there is something very strange about this video after watching it many times i have found it pause the video 30 seconds into it...
thecoolbrian 4 years ago
Looks like Freddie Mercury in his early moustache years.
zooropah82 4 years ago
good idea.
haterzpwn 4 years ago
These videos need more info i briefly studyed about it in class and even the teachers didn't give much info.. any one want to give out any info here?
haterzpwn 4 years ago
took place in Feburary of 1986 The town was built mainly for the workers of the plant. The reacter( number 4 i think)exploded and the people were forced to evacuate. a ghost town once home to 50,000 Around the start of this century, alot of the area was looted,things of value,seats.the only "physical" mutaion seen were Albino sparrows, that died out. nearby graveyard of old vehicles, such as fireengines, and old Soviet and Eastern bloc BMPs and helicopters, they were burnt to fumigate them.
toyotasera55 4 years ago
How many people died?
haterzpwn 4 years ago
I belive it was roughly up to 24 deaths liked directly, 8 or so firefighters. However There are thosse who have died of cancer and lukeimiea etc. who lived in the area butwhile evidence of radiation is strong, it would be hard to link it back and prove the events in Pripyat caused that.
toyotasera55 4 years ago
So if only 24 people died why is it such a big thing? Was the explosion really that big? Thanks for the info any way.
haterzpwn 4 years ago
it was a big thing, and still is as it (so far) is the worst recorded nuclear disaster. I was not alive at the time, but the reactor was blown open and it (by eye witness) was a large fireball. Its also remembered as for years, many who have lived there and the generations of children whosse familys where there, seem to have cancers of some sort. It is important in finding out about atomic energy. And thats ok, I was intrigued by this place.
toyotasera55 4 years ago
Sounds interesting.
haterzpwn 4 years ago
Yea it is, It made me wonder if, mankind was wipedout, would nature reclaim the world like it has in Pripyat?with trees growing in buildings and rare animal breedding there?
toyotasera55 4 years ago
The so-called official dates are still gounded on the report, which was given by the delegation of Valery Legasov (high ranked party officer in the SU that time) in 1987. The report also states, that increase of cancer and leukemia were not measurable after the accident:changes within 0,1%. But half of that percent is still more than 100,000 people
telestar1 4 years ago
True, it is down to the individual to decide how far to belive the facts, given the time, and the overall meaning of the plant (peaceful atom campagin,was it?), figures may be different to what was released. what ever the case, it seem apparent that there was an icrease,dispite how insignificant, after the incident.
toyotasera55 4 years ago
(telestar1) Valeri Legasov wasn't a high ranked party offer in the SU... he was a prominent Soviet scientist in the field of inorganic chemistry, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. And chief of the investigation committee of the Chernobyl disaster.
projectdarkgrey 3 years ago
That time in the Warsaw Pact countries to be a head (engineer, scientist, etc) of such committee, you MUST have a rank in the Party. There wasn't other way to be an academic with the age of 45 years!
telestar1 3 years ago
There is when you marry an Officers daughter as he did.
projectdarkgrey 3 years ago
btw, one of the reactors in my country is the most powerfull in the world.
dvornikas 4 years ago
Ignalia?
giornalista 4 years ago
its ignalina
dvornikas 4 years ago
What a pity...
Ita must was a beautiful city...
I hope one day mens will can return in Pripyat and in all the beautiful zones there around it.
leo901z 4 years ago
a true disaster damn fuckinf factory
drunkkiller2832564 4 years ago
Actually, 'damn fuckin soviets', I think. They diactivated ALL the emergency systems during the test, and they made this shit blow up. Nuclear power can not be blamed instead of human bunk...
giornalista 4 years ago
why?
liverpoolroxx 4 years ago
Why what?
WHY did they deactivate all the alarm systems? Because they belived they can handle the power plant.
WHY did they have to make the test? Because they wanted to know what happens to the reactor in extreme conditions.
WHY did they do it in the middle of the night? Because Kiev needed the provided power at daylight.
WHY did they screwed all up?
giornalista 4 years ago
Why couldn't they have waited for construction of reactors 5 and 6 to finish up? There were two reactors being built in addition to the four that were there. Obviously, construction was halted after this.
You are right about human bunk. The tests were being done by a skeleton crew that had no experience with large reactors of this sort. I doubt the US ever let newbs near the reactor... >.>
RawSteelUT 4 years ago
It is human bunk when they turned off all the alarm and emergency systems. It was only possible with RBMK-s. In the US you can not turn those systems wodn.
giornalista 4 years ago
(RawSteelIUT) Following the accident, All work on the unfinished reactors 5 and 6 was halted three years later. The three remaining reactors operate because of an energy shortage in the country. A fire broke out in a building of reactor 2 in 1991; and it was subsequently declared damaged beyond repair and taken offline. Reactor 1 was decommissioned in Nov 1996. On Dec 15, 2000, then-President Kuchma personally turned off Reactor 3. Effectively shutting down the entire plant.
projectdarkgrey 3 years ago
Hard question. A human can not controll nature, even if it's locked into a reactor. They tried to do something good, they wanted to know more, and they felt they up to manage a nuclear power plant without it's alarm and emergency systems. They were wrong.
Today no alarm or emergency systems can be shut down in any nuclear power plants all ower the world. Also in the former soviet areas.
giornalista 4 years ago
oh..icic..thanks.the power plant is for electricity rite?
liverpoolroxx 4 years ago
Look at the modern television set in the recently abandoned flat!
Beleive me, that sight was not common in the soviet flats in 1986.Now imagine that hundreds of soldiers were stationed there -shortly after the accident, and evacuation- who were coming from the other side of the Urals, where even the food shops were empty...
telestar1 4 years ago
Who looted the flats?
Pripyat was one of the best situated town that time in the USSR, (Except Penza-1, -2, Anzamas, etc) because it belonged to the proud family of the "Technological towns of the Ussr". In fact that means, that the inhabitants had not worse life, than the east european nations that time for example. (So "good situated" must have been understanded NOT in its western meaning!!!)
telestar1 4 years ago
Where did the people get bussed to? Were they only able to take clothes or what? It appears the buildings have been looted and vandalized, who did that? and they must have got a good dose of radiation while doing it, wild how twenty years can cause so much decay, very sad.
PJB567 4 years ago
They got moved to several USSR cities and villages, they could never return to their hometown.
Yes, they only could take luggages for "a few days" because they wantet to avoid panic. They told people that they can return to their home soon.
giornalista 4 years ago
tbh that is pretty fucked up seeing the place as it was and how it ended up. And the whole shit was no accident either.
headSwarm 4 years ago
Good grief that is really spooky, the before and after. Awesome vid.
headSwarm 4 years ago
500 buses evacuated 50,000 citizens
3 days after disaster.
coflekgnorg 4 years ago
ive been interested in this place since I played the sniper level on Call of Duty 4
BluntedMF 4 years ago
I too loved that level in COD4. The farris wheel still stands in pripyat today. The rest of the level is fake. But I still loved the feeling of going through on veteran.
jodom1979 4 years ago
Wrong, the hotel is real, the town square is real, the bumper cars are real, the Palace is real, the swimming pool is real etc etc
robster230 4 years ago
ok, yes i agree with the visual cue's.. farris wheel pool ect... But the map layout is fictious.
jodom1979 4 years ago
Fun fact: They never ever got to use that ferris wheel. The amusement park was supposed to open in may of 1986. The Chernobyl disaster happened in April and screwed that up.
RawSteelUT 4 years ago
It's right. One more reason to call it a ghost town...
giornalista 4 years ago
haha same here
victorweer9991 4 years ago
haha. this song is so familiar. is that Speed. what the hell
BluntedMF 4 years ago
at 3:18 the sign on the building says:"...Atom will become a worker...". Its a pitty that people did not understand that this very friendly atom can easily annihilate all living...
dvornikas 4 years ago
I don't watch this video at night. Never.
wehrmachtsniper1 4 years ago
Lol can I ask why?
Smokinblunts 4 years ago
It creeps me out enough in the daytime.
wehrmachtsniper1 4 years ago
I have some strange interest in Pripyat. Its something I always took interest in even did a paper on it in Highschool
jodom1979 4 years ago 4
same here ^^ its very interesting
dvornikas 4 years ago
~ signed ~
I hope I can visit the town someday!
grindingsilence 4 years ago
There is a chance, my friends was in the city in april 2007, and we're planning a journey also in 2008, which also I want to parcipate in :)
giornalista 4 years ago
where are you from?
I saw a video diary of this guy from australia who got there!
grindingsilence 4 years ago
I'm from Hungary, bordered with the Ukraine. We're going to Pripiat in April.
giornalista 4 years ago
Oh, congratulations!
I´m from Germany and so it´s a long way to go there.
But today I bought a dvd about pripyat!
grindingsilence 4 years ago
Really? I'd like to travel there too. But it could be a bit dangerous. If you just think of Tvrtko's book (Pokoli történetek)...
kollegahun 4 years ago
According to U.N and Nuclear orginizations in Vienna, theres more chance of radiation expose in tiem on a flight, They say any exposer nowadays is shortterm, only long time spent there would be deadly.
toyotasera55 4 years ago
@giornalista Akkor magya vagy? :D
dadask98 1 year ago
Death city...it is very ghostly.Great video.
Ondraaa99 4 years ago
tell this story to everyone... every day, everyone
vxchun 4 years ago 5
It from the "Speed" movie with Keanu Reeves
Xesevi545 4 years ago
What music is used in this ?
BikerSpike 5 years ago
Chernobyl was a human failure, so I think you don't have to be afraid.
PubliusEnigma 5 years ago
Well, it was also a failure of the RBMK system. I don't think those types of reactors are used anymore.
RawSteelUT 4 years ago
uuum... there's a RBMK type reactor still running in my country... but the government wants to shut it down and build a new powerplant
dvornikas 4 years ago
After Chernobyl RBMK-s was... how to say... "developed", so now you can not turn off the alarm and emergency systems. RBMK is safe now.
giornalista 4 years ago
Great Video.
I would not be surprised to see more Ghost European Cities in the future. Reactor 4 has holes now and it will hold no more.
This is sad, really sad...I live in Miami, Fl. and We have 5 Nuclear Plants here, I can't imagine what would happen here if one of those explodes.
tony5682 5 years ago
the scientist in charge of the test at chernobyl wouldnt allow those below his authority to stop it when it was starting to get out of hand. i dont think anyone would be that stupid in the future.
Willforbes296532 4 years ago
right. I think scientists now days are more...capable and they know what they are going to cause just by trying to improve something without consulting that with their superiors.
tony5682 4 years ago