My Father built those Towers in 1979 to 1982 when he worked for ZURN Industries. He used to bring me inside and we would yell to get the awesome echo. This is a cool video brings back alot of memories. Thanks for making this Vid..
He had a problem breathing as he talked because of the very deadly radiation leaking around that abandoned nuclear power plant.
The no trespassing signs are posted there because there was a major breach in nuclear materials which leaked out and spread over 1,000 miles in all directions.
@SaintlyMic Don't be stupid. Radiation damage, short and high, or over a long period and low doesn't target one or two bodily functions, nor would symptom appear after such a short exposure. You seem to think he breathed in radiation too. Also, even if it was enough to harm his health, it would have been the focus of national and international environmental groups.
Not even addressing how you think radiation spreads from so called leaks.
This plant should have been finished. It would have produced a tremendous amount of power, and was designed to the highest safety standards. One reactor was nearly complete and testing, the other about 75% done. Then the bonds ran out, Bechtel refused to keep building, people protested it, and it was killed.
Even then it could have been finished. But about 7 years ago the wiring, plumbing, everything was gutted. Now it would cost almost as much to finish as building a new plant from scratch.
i was there today...it's a sight to see...very awe inspiring! I think it would be cool if the towers were turned into luxury hotels! What a "tale to tell" there!
If those cooling towers are hollow and open on the inside like that one, where do the pipes connect to produce the steam when they are active? I mean, he was literally standing underneath on the inside of one of the cooling towers but I don't see where the steam pipes would be.
@HolyRoller478 < Those towers actually have nothing to do with generating steam. Those are for cooling the coolant water that keeps the reactor from over heating. The water gets pumped in from a lake, river or even the ocean but cannot be returned to the supply hot or it would damage the natural eco system. The water would get pumped to the top and sprayed, cooling with the air as it falls. From boiling to cool tap water when it hits the ground and goes back to the river out the open bottom.
@HolyRoller478 < It's just steam coming off boiling water as sprays out the top and down the tower. That's just cooling water that runs around the reactor, runs around the turbines and runs around the condensers. The water that's inside the reactor is sealed and never sees the light of day. Think of the tower as giant radiators in your car, the water is the coolant and the cars engine is the reactor...the antifreeze never touches the gas or the fire. It's just for cooling.
@HolyRoller478 < The towers would basically have a series of sprinklers around the top that would spray the water out into rain like drops. The water would be damn near ice cold by the time it hit the ground and return itself to the ground. The steam from the tower is just the steam off the hot water at the top.
@USMC3531tsd I've never fully understood how nuclear power works other than the fact that it's extremely dangerous. Thank you for the insight. I do have one more question: Can radiation actually cause mutation or is that just exaggerated Hollywoodized bullshit?
My family and I were in that exact spot in the tower years ago on a tour. This video does not do the echo justice. Imagine the "Maxwell Smart" cone of silence. Two people can barely have a conversation at that focal point at normal talking voice level because of the constant echoing. It's just bizarre. Also got to tour the adjacent reactor containment building- looked right into the unfueled vessel. Generators are sitting there too, never used.
i recently found some pictures on some website of people who climbed up the tower of an old abandoned plant somewhere in tenessee, the view from up three is almost euphoric.
@jawidmer youtube doesn't allow to post links in comments but i'll send you the link to the pictures on flicker in PM... you can see what your missing!
@CanadianFolkBlues i would not try that at the satsop site. the stairs look way too old. going to the top of the main building between the tanks is pretty damn cool, or so i'm told.
Looks like a scene straight out of Hitman or something....like literally. I played a game that had the cooling towers, and the fence and all. Awesome.
we had a rally against that plant, I lived in Elma too. Neil Young came to the rally and no it was never completed I shot a deer on the hill that used to be there before they cut it off to build the plant biggest fiasco ever whoops!!
Dude you are so full of it, they totaly let me go right under that tower and they didn't even think twice, and it's not abandoned, they let companies pay to use parts of their facilities to make products, and do research.
dude this is extremely cool and all but i wouldnt really worry about gettin in trouble. ive broke into the nuclear plant in heartsville, tn many times never seen any kind of athority it is also abandoned
It is unfortunate it was never finished. Let's burn some more oil, gas, or coal and fuck up the world some more! Environmentalists were apparently very short-sighted in their desire to destroy the nuclear power industry. Guess it backfired in your fuckin' faces, eh? Fools!
@robyboy718 Nuclear power is vastly superior. Your facile comment reveals that you have never bothered looking into the solution(s). There are several in current use. Go do your research for a few hours and then post me back - I'm not going to do your work for you!
Depleted (i.e. fission products removed) Uranium is used as bullet proof shielding on tanks such as the M1 Abrams.
It is also used as building penetrators on missiles and other such things.
As for the highly radioactive transuranic fission products - these are usually vitrified using borosilicate glass (e.g. Pyrex). There isn't that much highly radioactive waste produced, most radioactive waste is low level (like gloves or aprons)
My wife grew up there in Elma. I was just there a few weeks ago, and her, my self and her sister took a shor drive up tp the plant. What she has told me is the people of the City kept voting against building of the plant till they just stoped building it. But good video dud! I on;y was just able to just go up to the fence. lol But yes, they are HUGE!
i saw one of these when i was passing through knoxvill TN on the way to maryland. fisrt time i ever saw a nuclear powerplant. i mostly saw the towers. here in san antonio we have a coal powerplant on the edge of a lake
lol you're crazy for doing that. that's something i would do. lmfao. but yo that's cool that you got in there. I wanna go to the nuclear power plants in NJ and check out the ones that work.
@evilonejjg your a fuckin idiot dude.. do your research, i've i lived here all my life. it was never was finished, they stopped in the early 80's cause of fundings.
@evilonejjg Shit dude, the place is empty! Does that looked finished to you? Just because there are blinking lights on the top doesn't mean it's working.
Well, sir, you are awesome. Urban Exploring is always awesome,a nd when mixed with anything nuclear power related, you certainly get my attention.
If only you had the chance to zoom around for what equipment may have been installed for cooling purposes: probably not much, but it does look like some of the structural supports were in place.
@kurisux Yeah.. Stuff like this is fun, although there is a degree of risk. A friend was telling me there was an abandoned military base not too far from this place. I should follow up and try to figure out to get there. You might like a show called Cities of the Underworld if you haven't heard of it. A new season should be coming up pretty soon. It features exploration of underground structures; pretty incredible stuff.
pretty sketchy man. As for the tanks, maybe it's some kind of front used as a decoy for manufacturing secret weapons or something (?) doubtful i guess. As far as it not being completed, what a waste of money and resources!!
did they have other buildings built like the generating rooms decon rooms the empty fuel storage pool ect and if so can you go in there since there isnt any nuclear matter there i dont think it would be that gaurded
Yes, there are other incomplete buildings. I took some pictures of them. Believe it or not, I think tanks are being built in one of them. You didn't hear that from me though.
Wasn't this Wa-Mu, the big municipal bond fund that went belly-up, leaving thousands of people with worthless securities.
dwetick 3 weeks ago
2:14 the sound of ultimate joy
geoper2 1 month ago
My Father built those Towers in 1979 to 1982 when he worked for ZURN Industries. He used to bring me inside and we would yell to get the awesome echo. This is a cool video brings back alot of memories. Thanks for making this Vid..
donimus2007 1 month ago
why are the cooling towers shaped like that?
JoanJettforever 1 month ago
@JoanJettforever Creates a draft to condense steam. Water is sprayed down thru towers, draft cools the water, condenses steam.
waffleone3 1 month ago
Did anyone see those men in black ops uniforms crouching in the background?
As soon as he yelled you can see them trying to hide below the bushes right outside the fences.
This guy has not been seen or heard from since he shot this video.
SaintlyMic 1 month ago
What's with the big air intake in the middle of sentences?
clearlogicify 2 months ago
@clearlogicify
He had a problem breathing as he talked because of the very deadly radiation leaking around that abandoned nuclear power plant.
The no trespassing signs are posted there because there was a major breach in nuclear materials which leaked out and spread over 1,000 miles in all directions.
SaintlyMic 1 month ago
@SaintlyMic Don't be stupid. Radiation damage, short and high, or over a long period and low doesn't target one or two bodily functions, nor would symptom appear after such a short exposure. You seem to think he breathed in radiation too. Also, even if it was enough to harm his health, it would have been the focus of national and international environmental groups.
Not even addressing how you think radiation spreads from so called leaks.
clearlogicify 1 month ago
"these things are humongous and they go way up" Could you be less technical please.
clearlogicify 2 months ago
This plant should have been finished. It would have produced a tremendous amount of power, and was designed to the highest safety standards. One reactor was nearly complete and testing, the other about 75% done. Then the bonds ran out, Bechtel refused to keep building, people protested it, and it was killed.
Even then it could have been finished. But about 7 years ago the wiring, plumbing, everything was gutted. Now it would cost almost as much to finish as building a new plant from scratch.
zenmachinefilms 3 months ago
Playing some acoustic in there would be awesome.
lazydayhohum 4 months ago
Auyyynd Uh!
boner2008 5 months ago
Nuclear Power Plants scare the hell out of me :( I have an odd phobia of large machinery, tesla coils, foreign/arbitrary-looking contraptions...
zeioIIDX 5 months ago
This so could be another "Wunderland."
nightatnight 6 months ago
i was there today...it's a sight to see...very awe inspiring! I think it would be cool if the towers were turned into luxury hotels! What a "tale to tell" there!
m324pro 7 months ago
Nucleur security at its finest.
chibikawaiichris 8 months ago 2
You should have brought a sign
Sprollucy 9 months ago
quit saying, "and da."
hommie600 9 months ago
I think the money ran out.
jawidmer 10 months ago
Why was it never finished .
bedtimegirl654654 10 months ago
Are you nuts? jaj!! just kiddin...there is no way I get in there, How tall is the tower? that thing scares me....
magnus378 10 months ago
Haha..
"I'm trying to be a little bit discreet [...]"
two mins later.. "YEAAA" :D lolz
Maaav05 10 months ago 2
A billion Blessings of Peace, Love and Light for all of those in Japan battling the NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE. Thank God this SATSOP reactor was never built.
We will demand NO NUKES and NO FLUKES for all of the generations to come.
OnenessNow 10 months ago
are you mutated
janice81684 10 months ago
Exposure to radiation can cause birth defects if a woman is exposed during pregnancy. The Total Recall mutations are just silly movie stuffs.
USMC3531tsd 11 months ago
za dużo pierdolenia, za mało działania
hrodnaw 11 months ago
YEAAAAAAAAA!!
LOLproductions2009 11 months ago
and ahhhhhhh.......and ahhhhhhhhhh..........crazy ahhhhhhhhh
crazycanadian15 11 months ago
site picture mate
kemp260186 11 months ago
If those cooling towers are hollow and open on the inside like that one, where do the pipes connect to produce the steam when they are active? I mean, he was literally standing underneath on the inside of one of the cooling towers but I don't see where the steam pipes would be.
HolyRoller478 11 months ago
@HolyRoller478 < Those towers actually have nothing to do with generating steam. Those are for cooling the coolant water that keeps the reactor from over heating. The water gets pumped in from a lake, river or even the ocean but cannot be returned to the supply hot or it would damage the natural eco system. The water would get pumped to the top and sprayed, cooling with the air as it falls. From boiling to cool tap water when it hits the ground and goes back to the river out the open bottom.
USMC3531tsd 11 months ago
@USMC3531tsd Okay, so where does the steam from the towers come from?
HolyRoller478 11 months ago
@HolyRoller478 < It's just steam coming off boiling water as sprays out the top and down the tower. That's just cooling water that runs around the reactor, runs around the turbines and runs around the condensers. The water that's inside the reactor is sealed and never sees the light of day. Think of the tower as giant radiators in your car, the water is the coolant and the cars engine is the reactor...the antifreeze never touches the gas or the fire. It's just for cooling.
USMC3531tsd 11 months ago
@HolyRoller478 < The towers would basically have a series of sprinklers around the top that would spray the water out into rain like drops. The water would be damn near ice cold by the time it hit the ground and return itself to the ground. The steam from the tower is just the steam off the hot water at the top.
USMC3531tsd 11 months ago
@USMC3531tsd I've never fully understood how nuclear power works other than the fact that it's extremely dangerous. Thank you for the insight. I do have one more question: Can radiation actually cause mutation or is that just exaggerated Hollywoodized bullshit?
HolyRoller478 11 months ago
Climb it.
timmieturner 11 months ago
Wow that's cool!
John76222 11 months ago
Awesome vid mate, well done!
FBIRoyLindell 11 months ago
My family and I were in that exact spot in the tower years ago on a tour. This video does not do the echo justice. Imagine the "Maxwell Smart" cone of silence. Two people can barely have a conversation at that focal point at normal talking voice level because of the constant echoing. It's just bizarre. Also got to tour the adjacent reactor containment building- looked right into the unfueled vessel. Generators are sitting there too, never used.
dieselclam 11 months ago
the echo was earporn... reeeaaaallly awesome
BADtimmay 1 year ago
i recently found some pictures on some website of people who climbed up the tower of an old abandoned plant somewhere in tenessee, the view from up three is almost euphoric.
CanadianFolkBlues 1 year ago
@CanadianFolkBlues I'd love to climb to the top. I think I'd need a cherry picker or something to reach the start of the ladders.
jawidmer 1 year ago
@jawidmer youtube doesn't allow to post links in comments but i'll send you the link to the pictures on flicker in PM... you can see what your missing!
CanadianFolkBlues 1 year ago
@CanadianFolkBlues
ive been to that one its in heartsville tn. its pretty sweet.
jesseboyd1 1 year ago
@CanadianFolkBlues i would not try that at the satsop site. the stairs look way too old. going to the top of the main building between the tanks is pretty damn cool, or so i'm told.
MrBubonicChronic 11 months ago
@CanadianFolkBlues do you think you could send me a link to that page?
Thunderbolt505T 7 months ago
@CanadianFolkBlues I've seen it, I live about thirty minutes away. I think I might go check it out now, seeing this.
mattman937 3 months ago
Looks like a scene straight out of Hitman or something....like literally. I played a game that had the cooling towers, and the fence and all. Awesome.
R3MUS2007 1 year ago
Why wouldn't they let people go see it?
GIRLIKESTACOS 1 year ago
@GIRLIKESTACOS I imagine it's a liability because of the things you could hurt yourself on.
jawidmer 1 year ago
we had a rally against that plant, I lived in Elma too. Neil Young came to the rally and no it was never completed I shot a deer on the hill that used to be there before they cut it off to build the plant biggest fiasco ever whoops!!
Mrchrispno1 1 year ago
we had a rally against that plant, I lived in Elma too. Neil Young came to the rally and no it was never completed
Mrchrispno1 1 year ago
quick, break through some doors and start taking pics on the inside lol.. we won't tell anybody ; )
cool vid though
TylertheGeek28 1 year ago
Dude you are so full of it, they totaly let me go right under that tower and they didn't even think twice, and it's not abandoned, they let companies pay to use parts of their facilities to make products, and do research.
protogenius 1 year ago
hi people! its me
bibbyandal 1 year ago
dude this is extremely cool and all but i wouldnt really worry about gettin in trouble. ive broke into the nuclear plant in heartsville, tn many times never seen any kind of athority it is also abandoned
jesseboyd1 1 year ago
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why cant new zealand have cool shit like this :( ......
fmpanic000 1 year ago
wht cant new zealand have cool shit like this :( ......
fmpanic000 1 year ago
why dont some plants have theese towers?
flatbranch1 1 year ago
Aaaand-uh
HubertHoratio 1 year ago
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sublimefreak2244 1 year ago
I like the echo too
davidsquall351 1 year ago 2
It is unfortunate it was never finished. Let's burn some more oil, gas, or coal and fuck up the world some more! Environmentalists were apparently very short-sighted in their desire to destroy the nuclear power industry. Guess it backfired in your fuckin' faces, eh? Fools!
beeroosterm 1 year ago
@beeroosterm nuclear is just as bad. tell me what we could do with the depleted uranium AFTER it has been used?
robyboy718 1 year ago
@robyboy718 Nuclear power is vastly superior. Your facile comment reveals that you have never bothered looking into the solution(s). There are several in current use. Go do your research for a few hours and then post me back - I'm not going to do your work for you!
beeroosterm 1 year ago
@robyboy718
Depleted (i.e. fission products removed) Uranium is used as bullet proof shielding on tanks such as the M1 Abrams.
It is also used as building penetrators on missiles and other such things.
As for the highly radioactive transuranic fission products - these are usually vitrified using borosilicate glass (e.g. Pyrex). There isn't that much highly radioactive waste produced, most radioactive waste is low level (like gloves or aprons)
backindauk 1 year ago
How did the tower work?
joeu5431 1 year ago
u look like american taliban
JVL8701 1 year ago
My wife grew up there in Elma. I was just there a few weeks ago, and her, my self and her sister took a shor drive up tp the plant. What she has told me is the people of the City kept voting against building of the plant till they just stoped building it. But good video dud! I on;y was just able to just go up to the fence. lol But yes, they are HUGE!
2621ss 1 year ago
i saw one of these when i was passing through knoxvill TN on the way to maryland. fisrt time i ever saw a nuclear powerplant. i mostly saw the towers. here in san antonio we have a coal powerplant on the edge of a lake
bradmann85 1 year ago
lol you're crazy for doing that. that's something i would do. lmfao. but yo that's cool that you got in there. I wanna go to the nuclear power plants in NJ and check out the ones that work.
njguitarnewbjk 1 year ago
my uncel and my grandpa helped build that
devildoggysmom 1 year ago
Every energy plant has cooling towers. Why should this be a nuclear plant? I don't see any radiation warning marks...
stefaan10111992 1 year ago
@stefaan10111992 That type of tower structure is specific to nuclear plants.
TheAndroidUser 1 year ago
this happened most likely,ad up until recently it takes years to go through the red tape to build and run a power-plant in the USA...
soo...most likely this plant was partially built,then was declined the license while partially of it was built....
captinseperoth 1 year ago
are there any leftover chemcals?
pawningcity 1 year ago
@pawningcity the tower hasn't been used, it's 75% built
IluysionEnterprise 1 year ago
ur full of shit that plant was in use i lived there in the early 90' and it eas in use then i am from elma washington i lived there until i was 19
evilonejjg 1 year ago
@evilonejjg That shit was never finished and was never operational, you should Google it.
jawidmer 1 year ago 2
@evilonejjg your a fuckin idiot dude.. do your research, i've i lived here all my life. it was never was finished, they stopped in the early 80's cause of fundings.
donnie4460 1 year ago
@evilonejjg Shit dude, the place is empty! Does that looked finished to you? Just because there are blinking lights on the top doesn't mean it's working.
fetymann 1 year ago
@evilonejjg Dude calm the fuck down asshole!
KraftLand 1 year ago
@evilonejjg - You musta been living there with yer head up yer butt. Plant was never finished. Anyone who REALLY lived there knows that.
kennyg921 1 year ago
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kennyg921 1 year ago
you got some balls dude
TheProfessionalloser 1 year ago 13
@TheProfessionalloser I don't think they ever got that far.
jawidmer 1 year ago
a cooling tower in action is pretty cool
DragGT88 1 year ago
Well, sir, you are awesome. Urban Exploring is always awesome,a nd when mixed with anything nuclear power related, you certainly get my attention.
If only you had the chance to zoom around for what equipment may have been installed for cooling purposes: probably not much, but it does look like some of the structural supports were in place.
nice job bro.
kurisux 1 year ago 3
@kurisux Yeah.. Stuff like this is fun, although there is a degree of risk. A friend was telling me there was an abandoned military base not too far from this place. I should follow up and try to figure out to get there. You might like a show called Cities of the Underworld if you haven't heard of it. A new season should be coming up pretty soon. It features exploration of underground structures; pretty incredible stuff.
jawidmer 1 year ago 2
Wonderful, it's in the state I live in.....
ModelbuildingTANKS 1 year ago
pretty sketchy man. As for the tanks, maybe it's some kind of front used as a decoy for manufacturing secret weapons or something (?) doubtful i guess. As far as it not being completed, what a waste of money and resources!!
BigAgitator 1 year ago
omg i thing i seeing a ghost your daeth!
9yersoldkidishere1 1 year ago
Wow I've never seen a cooling tower in person before...gigantic.....
XradioactiveXzoneX 2 years ago
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i wouldnt go in there because radiation hazards
noahkeebler 2 years ago
he said that it was never complete, therefore it never had any contact whatsoever with radioactive material
LJOESOBE 2 years ago 17
@noahkeebler
Thats just a cooling tower its not radioactive..
1ownjoo2 2 years ago 28
@noahkeebler
do you really think they would leave any radioactive materials in there? especially an unfinished one?
TheEnviroFriend 2 years ago
@noahkeebler cooling towers are not hazardous
yordy617 1 year ago
That is insane!!! I like the echoes that happen inside the cooling tower!!
moonwalker5058 2 years ago 3
This guy is gay...and ugh ;) lol jk
ronerpeeman 2 years ago
"HEY GUYS CHECK IT OUT IM UNDERNEATH!" *tower collapses* would be funny
21ricky666 2 years ago
he talks like gay! lol jk, good video
marg0330 2 years ago
did they have other buildings built like the generating rooms decon rooms the empty fuel storage pool ect and if so can you go in there since there isnt any nuclear matter there i dont think it would be that gaurded
Michaelprotectsme 2 years ago
Yes, there are other incomplete buildings. I took some pictures of them. Believe it or not, I think tanks are being built in one of them. You didn't hear that from me though.
jawidmer 2 years ago
brown minneapolis tank northwest is in the old reactor building. it's like working in a giant cave.
MrBubonicChronic 2 years ago
should've climbed that.
bouncewiggle 2 years ago
yeah awesome...i would have gone to the to, probably an amazing view, if the stairs arent 30 years old and completely rusted, so i guess no reactor
ap327145 2 years ago
yes they are fuckin huge man, saw them close up for the first time in my life last week. they dont seem that big from afar.
MrBubonicChronic 3 years ago
hard to believe but stacks are about 3 time taller then cooling towers
coalandnuclear 2 years ago