Dark side of the chernobyl shelter

[rawdog268]

@skyofcastle actually armstrong was exposed to more radiation than these workers.ever heard of the sun before moron?

[JoanJettforever]

how will they get rid of the radiation in the reactor?!

[filipzla]

@JoanJettforever They cant. Radiation will be there forever. The land, the water, everything.

It has to pass a lot of time so people can go back there and live. The whole radiation is 20cm of the surface of the ground for 30 years. So it has to pass a lot of time so the whole radiation can go deeper in the ground so it wont have big effect on the environment.

[woodhead39]

chernobyl is apparently haunted

[MusicFlyte]

@woodhead39 I don't know about haunted, but it certainly seems to be an eerie place if you think about the horror of the incident. :\

[woodhead39]

@skyofcastle hahaha right?

[leukat11]

gimme shelter !

[dcs002]

Thank you for posting this. I had no idea this was still an ongoing concern.

[lilnicky47]

@dcs002 then look up whats happening with fukushima in japan and you will shit

[HedgehogStudios1]

That's not a shelter that's an anti-Fallout; New Vegas IRL shield

[yamaha212121]

@BMuris It is called New Safe Confinement. But it has went through several delays. I think now it's supposed to be completed by 2015

[BMuris]

This sarcophagus was designed to last only 15 years I believe. There was supposed to be built another enclosure that goes over the current sarcophagus that should last for 100 years, but I don't know what happened with that money.I think that was supposed to be built by 2010.

[xxfallout1]

why are they guys not wearing masks ???

[FRoZeNxPyRo]

2:46.

Looks like a skeleton caught is some wire...

[aCapNuneBbon]

people from appollo put on a moon surface a lot of useful machines, som of which are still being used today for practical and scientific research. you are just showing your ignorance posting stupid comments - watch video - do your research - think - post comment.

[3x3cu70r]

Do I see Terminator 2 at 3:04?

[StropewafelBWC]

i came



[GARYisweet]

im suprised they dont turn all the nuclear waste into nukes, just t have them bliw up in there face

[TheGodParticle]

Well one can afford to put men on the moon when their power stations aren't going for melt down. When are they going to get their shit together before they balls it up for the rest of us?

[thegillfishguy1]

They'd probably be fine in spacesuits, those protect against everything… the only problem is that they cost a an insane amount of money to make

[rappy90]

Awesome song to have for this

[lilnicky47]

ughh i hate it when i see people wearing those dinky dust masks for radiation!!!!

[XCobalt]

Thanks for the Hawking voice, guys ;))

[isurfu2ube]

BRAVEST MEN ON THE PLANET!!!!!!!!! WORKING IN THE RADIATION ZONE!! WHICH DAMAGES ALL THE CELLS IN YOUR BODY! One of my Friend worked there and he received enough radiation that has something with his blood due to radiation, but he still lives has a wife and healthy enough to have a kid :)

[drewb993]

a fun fact is that the reactor in the next building, reactor 3, stayed in service as a power plant until 2000. that means the big candy cane tower they were repairing that was in danger of falling onto the sarcophagus was in service at the time.

[Densemankat]

When they zoomed in on the gaping hole of the sarcophagus I got a little sick for humanity...

[kadrendo]

GET OUT OF HERE STALKER

[cybermarsactual]

just dump some sand on it.

[noircat]

@skyofcastle These men did great things, but that does not diminish the greatness of the accomplishments of other people.

[skyofcastle]

@noircat i understand you, but i am not sayin other ppl doesn't contribute to the world.

[piloto88ed]

3:08 :Terminator 2 hahaha

[sonic4sale]

I remember seeing it on a tv show where the host wa only allowed in there for a maximum of 2 minutes at a time or something. Those guys on the roof must have been there for a while...

[sonic4sale]

At least if they get thirsty in there, there is plenty of green water O_o

[MrJustsomerandomguy]

-Ah it was another boring day in office i hate this stupid boring desk job....hey where do you work man?

-I work in fucking Chernobyl !!

[yentegirl]

if you put a geiger counter in there it just goes

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!

[libertariandeist]

I think it's sad how quickly (one week) the US government will piss away $600,000,000 in an undeclared war in Libya yet not do much to truly help the world like Chernobyl and Japan after these disasters. One reason they don't: the oil and war corporations in control of the puppet strings wont allow it as they don't stand to profit.

[barkulator]

@libertariandeist I've been noticing a lot of people bring up corporations lately. Do you mean to see that we, as the inhabitants of the earth, can't really do what we want with it (such as live in peace on it, with all that may entail) because the corporations run everything? Just wondering, that sounds like what the argument is.

[aftershockinfinity]

@libertariandeist i do agree with you to some extent, but there's something that just doesn't sit right. how is this the U.S. government's problem? im no expert but i dont think the U.S. had anything at all to do with this disaster. i think the ukraine government along with whoever designed and built the reactor in the first place should foot the bill.

[libertariandeist]

@aftershockinfinity - You're right they don't. My point was not an act of responsibility. My point was for us to act in a helping fellow mankind sort of way. Our government is so quick to spend money on wars. What made our country loved and adored around the world was our humanitarian actions, not overthrowing whoever we want in the middle east. Killing civilians in the name of "overthrowing dictators" creates terrorists. Spending the money on humanitarian issues creates allies.

[skyofcastle]

i do realize they also did alot of incredible things, but in compare with these worker, in my opinion, what they did seem to be more influential to human being. and that's only what i think about it. Maybe i don't have repect on the astronauts and i appreciate your head up but a little bit nice would be better.

[filipo666sk]

@skyofcastle it is okay to think something, but how can you measure such things? i dont think there is a methodology for that. astronauts are exposed to radiation too in outer space. and they risk they life too. i mean you cant really say who is doing more, well but we can agree they are doing more contribution to people than some office rats. :D

[predatortheme]

@filipo666sk

office rats??

think about all the people who work in offices. to make our life better?...... Everyjob has a good and bad side. some jobs are dangerous and some arent. people can decide what they like to do

[metalgearsolidrulez]

@filipo666sk If we did not go to the moon would millions on earth become irradiated and die from side effects? If we didn't fix the accident would millions on earth become irradiated and die from side effects?

Most of the work we do in space now is going to be done by robots and humans will probably not colonize another planet for at least a million years unless we are forced to due to change in environment.

[AlterDimensions]

@filipo666sk

Maintaining the sarcophagus over reactor #4 is far more essential to humanity & this planet than the moon will ever be for millennia to come. Now we have a sarcophagus in Japan. This will not be the last, there are more to come & we will be depending on these sarcophagi for our very existence. Not even research on the moon can save us from our nuclear disasters. So the people maintaining the sarcophagi are literally doing the most important job there has ever been so far 4 humanity.

[AlterDimensions]

@filipo666sk

Do you realize the Chernobyl sarcophagus will have to remain for 100,000 years? The people exposed to radiation from nuclear disasters far outnumber how many astronauts have been exposed to radiation. Obviously they have not been "fried" because of it. & most of the men first on the scene having to work on the reactors lived only minutes. They probably made an even greater contribution than those maintaining the sarcophagus. Saved more lives than astronauts could at the moment.

[Danny9193]

Most of the workers who made the concrete tomb died of radiation poisoning, the rest got thyroid cancer... now that it is all cracked and damaged, it will need to be repaired with a brand new arc structure, workers will have to work in 20minute bursts to avoid death.

[ColdFusionGames]

Amazing work those guys do. Must take some real guts to go into that kind of danger.

Accidental arc at 6:42 :P

[145bobby]

If you got close to that nuclear waste..it would probably instantly kill you

[Pwnage195]

the guy had such a heavy accent i couldnt understand some of it but i do understand that it was repaired

[filipo666sk]

@Pwnage195 is english your mother tongue?

[jjovereats]

@filipo666sk English is my mother tongue (though my main ethnicity is Scottish)

[Pwnage195]

@filipo666sk Yes ... yes it is.

[filipo666sk]

@Pwnage195 i am not native speaker, but i understood every single word.

[pafnoocy]

@filipo666sk I'm also non native but the recording sounds quite clear

[TimeShifterzOfficial]

@Pwnage195 wow i understood every word he said and im from NZ

[ginny7676]

Was there just no point in at least covering up? I'm guessing that the rays of radiation surrounding the site are so intense that only major precautions could prevent exposure. Even if I was told it was perfectly safe to walk around with my skin exposed...I still wouldn't. No way. You have to hand it to these guys, just insanely noble work.

[cjune21]

wow

[freaky12ju]

1:25

is that a nnuclear fuel rod

[thegundamguy]

@freaky12ju no but at 1:28 you can see a good few control rods, theyre the only ones that were left inside the reactor which is what caused the accident. you need at least 20 to maintain fission and the controller removed almost all of them, kaboom

[freaky12ju]

@thegundamguy

what du you mean with control rods im from germany sry ;)

but htx for the answer

please write back

[thegundamguy]

@freaky12ju when the nuclear reaction is underway they use nuclear control rods to control the reaction, they basically stop the reactor from overloading and can be taken out and put back in again when they need to. the operator who removed them in chernobyl thought that he could just cool the reactor down with water instead of putting some rods back in which built up enough steam to blow up the reactor. hope this helps :D

[freaky12ju]

@thegundamguy

oh yes thx ;)

why haven't they do that in japan ?

[filipo666sk]

@freaky12ju they did, they put the rods inside even before the earthquake but it takes some time for a nuclear fission proces to come to comple shut down, the lost the generators which pump water to cool the core due to tsunami after quake. now they are pumping in the sea water to cool it down.

[freaky12ju]

@filipo666sk

yes thx ;)

they are idiot

they know the water will evaporate an the pressue wil rise and a super gau is near

fuck nuclear energy all nuclear power plants should shut dowqn

[filipo666sk]

@freaky12ju i dont exactly agree with you on shuting down the plants. explosion happend because of hydrogen has built up in the hall as a byproduct of reactions with water.

[freaky12ju]

@filipo666sk

yes i mean hydrogen but i dont knew the name for the word because i am from germany and 14 ^^

yes hydrogen respont with oxygen and a bick bang ;)

but i mean why did the put in seawater

i will evaporate and more pressure happend

[filipo666sk]

@freaky12ju but they are pumping in seawater, and letting the steam out, it is not like they put in the water and wait, the water circulates. i can send you link a in PM to a BBC site with explanation.

[freaky12ju]

@filipo666sk

oh you're rigth ;)

yes send it plese to me

[thegundamguy]

@freaky12ju in japan the reactors arent failing, its the water lines and coolant pumps that are exploding and allowing contaminated water to leak. all they can do is use sea water and backup pumps to cool the reactors until they can get the proper ones fixed.

[utexas4runner]

where is the music at the beginning from? sounds familiar...

[filipo666sk]

@utexas4runner pink floyd - time - the dark side of the moon

[medolin1976]

6:44 he almost weld him self ;)

[soap1294mctavish]

I think that the worst mistake of all of this, was the bad use of resources, I mean, The unexperienced personel, the bad structure and mantainance of the shelter, and I think, the rebuilding of the shelter, doesn't must be a joke, because we're talking about life, embironment, and the protection of our planet against the radiation and the contamination of this place in the world...

[edctgbujm123]

Disgusting what this plant did to the Chernobyl babies, to hell with a sarcophagus I saw we just cover it in 30 feet of concrete.

[sepdet13]

@edctgbujm123 They covered it with tons of concrete, lead, plus the outer sarcophagus is fairly thick as well. They did the best they could. But nearly everyone who worked on the original sarcophagus died, even though most of them were only there for a matter of minutes. It's really hard to build anything when you're being hit with radiation so hard it's making you sick and you can only stay 20-40 seconds, then a new shift has to start. They tried to use robots, but the robots shorted out.

[filipo666sk]

@sepdet13 on what source do you base your comment that almost everybody who worked on sarcophagus died? there was nearly 500 000 people who worked in and around chernobyl plant after disaster many are dead and disabled - but it is a lie to say that everybody died. do your research, you can start at wikipedia and use linked sources at the end of the page. look for word "LIQUIDATOR (CHERNOBYL)"

[MadGnomeStudios]

@edctgbujm123 Without that sacophagus the earth would be silent.

[bloodsuckern]

these men are nice :3

[Kyle96o]

just a question, wont the people working here die from the radiation?

[RussianLawyer]

@Kyle96o i guess most of them died

[1Rockyboxer1]

@Kyle96o nope, their given a amount of time being near the reactor, maybe 20mins a day

[antonell82]

No one can ever get money out of this tragedy that is still and will keep eating us slowly day by day.. This is a worldwide problem and everyone should be trying to find a solution to it. Soviets didnt keep the standards already applied in those days by other countries and I regretfully have to say that the densely populated europe had to suffer the worse of the fallout, not those responsible..

[hod05]

since there is no known way to neutralize the radiation this is now a challenge each generation is going to have to face as the repairs of our predecessors fail and new solutions have to be made in effect each generation is handing down this problem to the next i have little faith for my generations efforts when the time comes

[sarastar60]

Brave souls who work to make this planet a safe place. These are the true modern soldiers, and should be awarded medals. So many of us just go about our lives without any clue as to what is happening there.

[filipo666sk]

@sarastar60 so true

[medolin1976]

@sarastar60 so true!

[mpwelk]

narrator sound kinda like my mac talking

[pierrerichard26]

WELL THIS TYPE OF REACTOR ARE NO MORE IN USE !

[filipo666sk]

@pierrerichard26 i am pretty sure they are, and the other reactors in chernobyl were running many years after disaster, please do your research before posting inacurate or false claims. many people are confused and have wrong information - please educate yourself, dont post emotional comments of no factual value. thanks

[KiraMercer]

What are they looking for in there ? i know if they just destroy it the Rad Would go Everywhere but cant you just Completey Shield the place off

[SheFahdschi]

1:28 Is this in the reactorcore? I saw pictures about it and it looks not different.

[Tanita8a]

Excelent documentary.

[Reader12345678910]

and its still killing

[boobmasteris]

one day it will collapse and all europe will be endangered again but this time much more radiation will be released, it is impossible to make chernobyl safe

[weldon0m]

russians....like children playing with loaded guns...

[ROFLMAORYSST]

what happend is a chopper had to deliver clay and the roter hit a crane, and the chopper went down in the reactor

[Lewis647]

i would really hate to have to work on this project i cant think of anything worse

[USAF96]

This is the bigest show that atoms, arent toys

[stuartfisher2]

russians are dumbass,s in nuclear power

[mrjustin5]

People all around the world Idolize and WORSHIP People in Football, Baseball, Soccer, and stupid sports... they call them "Heroes"... those people are not heroes. These people in this documentary are. They are the ones risking their lives and definitely shortening their lives for the benefit of countless people to come over the next few thousand years. Why aren't these guys given MILLIONS of dollars a year?! or put on primetime TV?!

[federalfsx]

@Binkeh9 Then why are you telling me that the union doesn't exist? i know it doesn't..

But hey, i do not wanna argument with you, cheers.

[TommyBloxxer]

@federalfsx

If you dont want an argument than why do you even open your whore mouth and show us your ignorance? just shut the fuck up. you ignorant selfish cock.

[federalfsx]

@Binkeh9 Omfg, this happened in Ukraine in 1986, and Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union in 1986.

[federalfsx]

@Binkeh9 Soviet Union, not Ukraine, visit Pripyat, you're visiting the soviet union.

[noodle360]

Russia used this reactor to create weapons grade material.

[littlezrexer]

pink floyd ftw

[mastaODI56]

4 the last time chernobyl is in ukraine not russia

[federalfsx]

@mastaODI56 For the last time, it was in the SOVIET UNION. You'll see if you go there.

[neocromater]

@mastaODI56 Yup but did u happened to know that the Ukraine used to belong to the USSR? so at that time yes it was Russia.

[mastaODI56]

@neocromater the soviet union is a UNION of countries and ukraine was in it, just because russia invented the soviet union doesnt mean that chernobyl (a place in ukraine) happend there,again ukraine is a country that excepted being part of the soviet union,its like saying that if in the falklands they had like a war the war even happend in britain because thefalklands are a british colony

[SpamZoid]

awesome music, 5:01

[fabartist7]

i herd that there was a new guy in charge and he told them to do a test and shut it down and some of the workers didnt know what they were doing

[cypher81311]

Shouldn't the Russians be paying for all this instead of the international comunity?

[Vosseke79]

well, they should, but cant...

I'd rather have the whole EU contributing to the works, then that it is not done and we'll have a second (even larger) disaster in the near future.

[TommyBloxxer]

wait, so the russians need to pay for the faults that ukrain made?

you're probally just another american cappi that blames russia for everything that goes wrong.

[lyokocarthage]

i thought it was because an employee tide a shut off valve or release vale or something along those lines back so it wouldn't keep opening

[broc212]

nah

[superscottorama]

LOL!!! check it out, right at 6:45 when he says "safety" the worker shorts his welding helmet out on an I-beam next to him

[HeyMarkedOne8]

@superscottorama lol that is not a point!!!taht can't help them much, they are sent to work right above reactor INSIDE Sarcophagus!!!If you can look at the reactor that means you are in trouble!Something must stay between you and that shit!(Only God can help you!!!) I wish these workers best luck in that project and life!

[guitardavid79]

@superscottorama It wasn't actually his helmet. When he was lifting his helmet back the welding rod arced off the beam behind him.

[pallokallo]

lol scene from terminator 2 where the nuke explodes

[KingAntonin2]

I think the mankind is not ready for nuclear technology.We should wait till the technology is good enough too handle the nuclear energy!

[LordEthan2]

weve gotta be thrown into the deep end to develop the technology to hammer out the issues with it to get it so it IS good enough to handle the energy

[CoonBabble]

the Russians were characteristically cheap, and used sub standard reactors. had they used reactors like the US or France this incident would not have happened.

[filipo666sk]

that is not really the reason why the chernobyl accident happend, the reason was they were making an experiment with the reactor, and they turned off automatic emergency shut down procedure, the staff was inexperienced. iit was caused by authorities, and staff itself.

[finthallon]

@filipo666sk Don't forget that no one in the world thought that a nuclear reactor could explode, every scientist said it was impossible, and no one had any training of emergency situations like that, and no one knew what to do since anything like that had never happened before.

[T0NGPOW]

@filipo666sk your actually both right there were design flaws in Chernobyl unlike other nuclear reactors that directly caused the disaster thats a fact, alongside the human element that caused the disaster

[Morsam1995]

@filipo666sk There was also something wrong with the graphite sticks or something but cant remember exactly.

[thegundamguy]

@filipo666sk true, the reactor needed a certain amount of control rods to remain safe and maintainable. the operator removed almost all rods and tried to balance the heat with an overflow of coolant, all this did was build steam and cause an explosion

[Abrockar]

@CoonBabble

Just like Three Mile Island, right?

[stefaan10111992]

@CoonBabble France has the worst reactors in the world...

[Reader12345678910]

@CoonBabble

and its still killing

[TheCaptainLulz]

@CoonBabble its easy to say that now, but remember that this was the USSR, not the ukraine and belorus of today. They had an invincible beurocracy at the time.

[Oster910]

@CoonBabble then why did the thing in Pa happened, its more about whos on top of the game of finding the problem faster

[elamentri]

Pink Floyd - Nice

[weemadatif2k7]

i would go there.

[riveraluciano]

me too

[ItaLlThesame]

we should all go

[riveraluciano]

agreed,who has a personal jet?

[Stadtaffe92]

i have ^^

[riveraluciano]

i command you to take me there!!!!!!! lmao

[LatinGamerps3]

Its very interesting looking at Chernobyl from google earth... Im going to get pro for my Birthday in June! :)... It's strange though, it's a ghost town.... "

60 000 people used to live here, now it's a gost town" quote by Capt McMillan Call of Duty 4. Good video.

[filipo666sk]

dude way more people were displaced and affected, waaaaay more than those 60 thousand

[LatinGamerps3]

I know but in cod4, call of duty 4. (a video game for xbox 360, ps3 and PC)

Their is a quote from there.... It's cool!

nice video.

[filipo666sk]

i know, i ve read your comment before i replied :D

[pyro13guy]

@LatinGamerps3 Call of Duty is one of the shittiest game series ever.

[sumosami]

Cod 4 is fictional

[filipo666sk]

oh really? what a news to us...

[HeyMarkedOne8]

@filipo666sk I think that people wanted to make Chernobyl disaster after seeing that COD4 is best-seller and good game!XD

[USAF96]

OMG!! is it!!

i thought soap and macmillan weere now living githe uk,

ooooh, and remeber CNN 2 years ago, when the nukes were arriving to the US

lol

[coolcod10]

It was actually PRICE and Macmillan not soap! If u listen carefully Price mentions when he went to Chernobyl!

[whathefuhman]

@sumosami Jesus why does everyone think that CoD 4 is the maker of Chernobyl or Pripyat? Just a proof of uneducation and how silly researchers some people are.

[sumosami]

@whathefuhman indeed.. human memory is poor

[IggyHazard]

Where were you, stalker, in the Zone that changed?

[DuoLawrence]

This truly sad when the Russians do not want or will not take care and/or take responible for the blunder that they created in 1986 at Chernobyl.

[MorylowyManiek]

I've got a question. Will these people, who were working there, die from radiation?The whole chernobyl accident is a burdon for all the people on Earth.

[filipo666sk]

let me explain it a little bit, radiation isn't as strong as at the time of the accident, people who work there don't work there whole year they get to take turns or something, they are medically examined and stuff, but you know it will always leave some damage to your body, they might have health problems later. you should google it.

[MorylowyManiek]

thank you for your explanation:)

[78458987]

when are they finished with the structure?

(sorry my bad english)

[TeamCrusade]

I don't care how much you pay me, I'll never work there.

[sublimeskunk37]

Great video. Hopefully they do something soon.

[filipo666sk]

currently they are building the basis for the sliding structure. but i thing it is draging on for a long time. it is sad.