 Good morning guys! We're back at the power plant and it got great news. We are going inside today. Not on the outside, no dislike. Viewing from the perimeter around the fence. We're going inside and possibly up. Just the thought of it scares a crap out of me. As you guys know, I've mentioned before I'm not a huge fan of heights. I do want the picture so I might just have to tell my brain to tell my legs to climb up there. Makes me nervous just thinking about it. This is Nate. Nate is nice enough to take us on a tour and tell us some info. Glad we're not going way up there. So thank you in advance for not taking me up there. Oh my god! Subscribe to my YouTube channel! This is the craziest thing I've ever seen before. This is amazing. This is nuts! Explanation of what this place is, it's a cooling tower and what Nate said is basically it's like a giant rainmaker, like a giant radiator, just to cool all the steam to turn it back into water and recapture it. And that's basically the purpose of this open-air structure. You can make like a song in here. This is crazy. It's a rave in here. This is so nuts. Everybody start laughing. I can spend forever in here! Oh my gosh, this is the most insane thing ever! See that riser there? That's where that warm water is pumped up through 12 foot diameter tunnels that come from the condenser pits. That warm water pumps up through these channels and out through the white piping and it sprays down. And that heated water is rising and evaporating. Steam rises evaporating and dropping down into droplets, hitting the black packing material. It's about four foot thick and it percolates through there and rains down into the pond. That pond water goes back and just recirculates warm water to cold water all day long. That's crazy. But yeah, that's how the water actually gets in here. This is like scary because of how far I'm going to drop it. It's standing right here. So it's scary. That water gets pumped up here? Yeah, exactly. There's three 7000 horsepower pumps. They're about 500,000 gallons a minute at peak output. That's crazy. Someone dropped a couple quarters right there. This is so crazy. The audio, the acoustics as you can tell is totally insane in here. It sounds like there's four of me. Alright, so this is the bottom part where the steam turns into water which then flows through this mesh area. And then if this thing was under operation, this would be just like one giant rain cloud right here the entire time. And that's just to repurpose the water basically and send it back over where we're about to go and use it again. So now we're going to head into the reactor. It's a five feet thick concrete wall. As you can see, this never got finished. So it's just rebar and hanging out of this concrete here. This is like stuff straight out of Homer Simpson, you know what I mean? Like Mr. Burns, you know, jumping in the reactor. Whoa! This looks just like the movies. So let's say the reactor is separated from the reactor is a litter building by a three foot thick reinforced concrete wall. It's about a four foot space gap annulus and a two inch thick steel containment vessel. That's what separates the outside world from the actual reactor core or the reactor building itself. Okay. Holy crap. And we're going to go upstairs to the operating deck. Oh, cool. Wow. This is quite impressive and very foreign to me. Again, I'm still mindful of the fact that humans like me... This is a PWR, which is a pressurized water reactor. The pressurizer kept the system at about 2100 psi, I believe. And this was all in here. It was all scrapped in the early 2000s. And this is what we have remaining. The turbine room, like we said before, or not. I'm not sure if I'm going to cut that out or not. But basically the water went through the turbines over there and then got pumped over to the previous parts and got heated from the reactor. And this is what's left over. A lot of the stuff has been scrapped and there's basically just kind of the components of the structure itself. Up here. And I think they do rent out this area for different occasions, events, movies, commercials, music videos, things like that. But really cool. If you guys do want to come down and check it out, there are public tours. This is not one of them. This is a kind of private tour that we just sort of lucked out on. So come by, check it out, but make sure you don't jump the fence. Because it arrested like 25 people this year. You have a certain glow to you right now. Yeah. I don't know how much longer I got to live. Are you guys feeling the radiation? Dude, doing this, Fukushima, Chernobyl. It's just all over. Like I said before, this was a power plant that never was finished. So to everybody who saw the tweet and things like that, we're safe. Didn't have to do any crazy suits or anything. Thank you for the tour. And if anybody wants to come and do a tour, there's a number right there. Guys, we are now over at Vance Creek, blah, blah, blah. It's unsafe and dangerous. Stay off of it apparently. And it's a little weird because we're in like the national forest. There's a sign over here that says private property. So if anybody knows how it works, feel free to comment below. This is the Vance Creek Bridge. They definitely don't want people going on top of it now. The last time I saw a video, you could walk out and there was railroad ties missing. You just had to be careful. But it looks like they came down here and stripped out the first like 50 feet. They added this barbed wire. And as you guys know, I'm not a big fan of heights. So there's no way that I'm going to be going up there. Holy, it's even slippery right here. This is how somebody fashioned a little way to get up there. Someone literally cut the barbed wire and put these things here. Yeah, that's pretty sketchy. Now we can go up. Look at these razor blades. We got the guys climbing up through the barbed wire and everything. How's it looking over there? Sketchy. Sketchy, he says. No kidding. The reason these places are becoming obsolete is because of social media. They're becoming too popular and they just get blown up. And more people come. Someone gets injured. And then something like this happens where they just strip the whole thing so nobody can go there anymore. For some reason, I'm not as scared as other bridges. Probably because I just got out of the vehicle. But we're going to jump on the roof and do a quick Instagram mission for the boys. We're on average Thursday at Bannon Nuclear Power Plant and we're sitting on top of the bus on top of a bridge with some epic drone shots over here. This is pushing my comfort zone. It just feels weird even though I know I'm not going to fall. It just, I don't know, makes me feel very uncomfortable. Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. You'll never have these sacred stones. Oh, this is you crazy mother. 80 feet above the ground, above the water. And it goes for I think like 685 feet long. And although it's not as pretty as the Vance Creek bridge with all the railroad ties and the lines like that, I mean it is a bridge and it's not destroyed and you can even drive on it. Josh is uploading his video for tomorrow. Cody's back there editing. We're about to spoon. And we parked the vehicle. Dan, the adventure bus has been parked for the day in a not very exciting rest stop. Rest, wah, wah, wah. Just to show you guys, we got some neighbors up here. See, the closer you get to the big cities, especially in the Pacific Northwest, the more full-time vehicle dwellers you run into, like urban vehicle dwellers. So this parking lot is packed. Tons of RVs, permanent RVs. Not like we're taking a road trip RV, if you know what I'm saying. Anyways, that's it for today. Thanks for watching. Make sure to subscribe. 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