@@kennethwallace4338 what beats me with the oneway system in force in shops now due to covid is that if you go down lets say the isle for pasta you get to the end of the isle put the packet of pasta in you trolley then realise you have already gone past the pasta sauce so you have to walk all the way around the supermaket to get back to the sauce which means you have to spend more time in the store while people que to get in so what i did was while other people was there including one of the staff members i walked backwards making a beep beep beep noise which people were nearly wetting them selves at me doing thing and the staff member said to me sir you cant walk back down the isle you have to back round so i said im not walking though i am reversing and i took great pride in pointing out about how its illegal drive drive the wrong way down a one way street (that is in the highway code booklet ) but it never states that you cant revers back up the one way street so whats what im doing which they couldnt say anything more to me for laughing though i know i was being daft by doing that but hey we all need to have a little extra humour at this uncertain time and yes as it was tesco so every little definitely helped that day
@@shaunparkinson7121 Supermarket workers try to make you follow the rules, but when people come out with idiotic statements, such as your one way street argument, they tend to just let it go as it's not their job to deal with idiots, just to tell you the rules.
Exactly what I was to say: The entire console has been stripped of anything of worth. The control room looks smaller then I’d imagine, looks bigger on the HBO series. But disappointed...everything has been stripped from console.
@@danfenelon there has been a new wall put in behind the consoles if you see images of the other complete control rooms from the identical reactors at the plant they are near identical to the tv series
@@nickm7889 that explains it, thankyou. About all the missing parts? Who looted it? Ukraine officials? Or looters? It’s all contaminated gear. Selling on this gear would potentially expose the buyers to cancer in the future. Just like the vehicle scrap yard. It’s all gone now. All engines from trucks in a video 5 years ago have been taken. Even if you melt down scrap metal, the radiation is still there. Also many videos of the appartments in the town you won’t see any radiators on the wall. They all been stolen and sold as scrap metal. These people that are doing this are killing people. And the stalkers and graffiti vandals that use Pryvat as a playground makes me sick. Many of them making a living from there videos on you tube.
17:32 The button that started it all. “When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is still there. ”
They weren’t even online and after a shift change there must have been communication problems that led to and nobody knows why a worker pushed button 5 and I understand the explosion was 5X Hiroshima
@@enlistintheempire189 I read the explosion was 4-5 times that of Hiroshima releasing 400 times the amount of radiation. I also read it was a test that had started with one shift and another shift took over. Someone pushed a button that released a bunch of faulty graphite rods that caused the coolant to boil and existing steam to create I suppose extreme superheated steam to blow the roof off. Nobody ever explained who or why that button was pushed. I suppose some is true and some not.
@@seahog1911 it wasn’t 5x Hiroshima because then the entire power plant would hav been vapourised. And also it wasn’t a nuclear explosion. It was gas and steam explosion that led to the reactor being open causing the spread of radioactive particles.
The control room isn’t that radioactive in terms of proportion. Even the Elephant’s Foot isn’t as dangerous as it used to be. There are only a couple places in the plant that are still extremely dangerous, and those would be the roof above the reactor, and the area of the explosion.
I wish one day I could go to Pripyat and visit Chernobyl , the history draws me in I feel like going there would give me chills. Definitely wanna visit before I die. Love to all the souls lost to Chernobyl ❤️
Girl I've been planning my trip to go to the Ukraine and do a two day Chernobyl trip next autumn. I'd highly recommend spring or autumn to go when you plan to see it💕💕
I remember seeing somewhere a few years back when I was shopping for some flooring for my kitchen there being this retro looking linoleum called "Chernobyl" which was exactly like the pattern of linoleum flooring found in the hallways of Reactor No. 4. I never made this connection until just now.
The first 12 minutes of walking down corridors was fantastic. I love to fast camera panning of the control panels with the accompanying ear piecing sounds, It gives the viewer the sensation of what radiation sickness must feel like, dizziness and nausea.
Its quite a privilege to see inside the control room of reactor number 4 after 34 years, the 12 minute walk was well worth it. If this had been a Disney attraction, they would have installed a fast moving walkway in order to maximise visitor numbers. Thank god its not, its Chernobyl, it happened and its completely real, I did a private tour of the facility last year, it was fascinating. For those who think its unsafe, you get 4 times more radiation flying from New York to London, now that`s much more dangerous.
I have paused and been staring at the fixture where the scram button was. It's so incomprehensible that such a small thing could act as the trigger on one of the biggest loaded guns the world would ever see.
The bomb was ready to go, just needed that push over the edge. Looking back at it its amazing how they put themselves in a no win situation. We do nothing it explodes, we do this it explodes.
Your AZ5 placement is incorrect. In the other models this is the correct location but in Unit 4 it is closer to the edge of the control panel. It was later moved up to prevent accidental pressing.
Really feels weird that a part of the nuclear plant has lights and it looks clean and lively even if it's so close to the damaged reactor while Pripyat itself is literally scrap.
@@chernobylarchive1206 A object such as a knob would have surface contamination but with proper cleaning could remove surface radioactive material. If I am wrong let me know.
@@chernobylarchive1206 And yet, most of the instruments, knobs and indicators are missing. I doubt that they fell down from the explosion, somebody has removed them - either to use as spare parts for the other control rooms (since the remaining units were operational for a while) or stolen as souvenirs (or to be sold for scrap). Especially when it was forbidden to visit the exclusion zone, people would sneak in (after all, the zone is not guarded like Fort Knox and the perimeter is huge), visit the place, grab some souvenirs and sneak out.
@@kandii88 The plastic covers? maybe, though I guess somebody sweeps the floor there since they are not on the ground. But the various knobs and devices? I really doubt it. Since the remaining reactors were still in use for years after the accident in reactor 4, I guess some of the devices were used as spare parts and the power plant employees probably stole some things too (never been there, I assume it is easier for an employee to "liberate" some small item from the control room of reactor 4 then for someone to sneak in from outside),
The long journey down corridors to the "zone" of danger reminds me of the long rail ride to the dangerous "Zone" in Tarkovsky film, STALKER. Even the sounds parallel that amazing piece of film.
It is eerie and dramatic and the erratic filming makes it seem surreptitious. I'm so drawn to this reactor and the disaster and I'm not sure why. Bless the first responders who ran it to the maelstrom not knowing what they were going to face.
I've always wondered why there's so many pieces missing...like switches, lights, and control panels. Were they used for parts for the other control reactor control rooms, scavenged by visitors as souvenirs, or something else?
Crazy how pristine the building is until you get past reactor 3, then it looks like a creepy decaying structure. Goes to show how neglected it was after the explosion
I saw other people being there in their clothes with white coat. You have to take their clothes if you go only to block 4? In my country if you want to visit nuclear powerplant you have to change even underwear, is it same while visiting block 4 in ChNPP?
Theres already lots of videos on the control room. I hate the music of all of them! And nobody ever asks about all the missing parts of the control panels! Theres probably pictures out there of an electrical maintenance man with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth taking shit out of this control room to keep the other 3 reactors running!!
You should do tours to block 4 of cnpp to nuclear engineers/theoretical physics/particle physics people. I've read the papers on the disaster when I was starting high school but it was from games/series/youtube videos that I could *barely* get a scope of what really happened. This tours shows in flesh what could go wrong in a npp.
There is heavy security in the powerplant, i highly doubt people could actually sneak in into the reactor 4 building. Of course a lot of stuff was stolen from the abandoned houses in Pripyat, but certainly not from the control room
They had to do something I mean it's bad enough that this happened but look at the way it was handled afterwards, If they would've admitted that the reactor blew up they could have prevented some of the radiation damage to the people
Часть приборов забрали для расследования причин аварии, а другую часть использовали на других блоках чаэс. Ну может еще кто нибудь на сувенир утащил пару тумблеров
I live less than 5km from the Mátra Coal Powerplant(formerly the Gagarin Coal Powerplant) in Hungary. Meanwhile I was mostly with the maintance guys working in the cooling towers and Turbine hall 4 I had quite a few opportunities to look around the place iwth the maintenance group's shift leader. We went to the control room tied to Turbine hall 4, looks more modern, obviously, but the whole vibe of the area is pretty much the same as here. Corridors are almost perfectly the same. From the top of Turbine hall 4(I think it was the north or north-eastern end) I could look around, standard, crude looking Soviet style structures and metal beams everywhere.
Don't understand English much do you, or do you always make responses that have absolutely nothing to do with the said statement? It's pretty obvious what happens when these facilities go south. 2011 wasn't that long ago, and Chernobyl will still kill you 34 years later. Do yourself a favor and don't respond you just make yourself sound stupid.
Coal is much better. Not only it kills 1000 time more people per year than what Chernobyl has killed. Coal plants also release a lot more radioactive particles into air.
В каком смысле 'легко'? Радиоактивной пыли там нет, фон, я думаю, есть и относительно высок, но не опасен в ходе такого недлительного посещения. Но так от него и нет защиты, так что нормально одеты :)
@@niko.fedorov , сейчас фон там почти нормальный, там же не однократную дезактивацию проводили, даже в конце 86-го - начале 87-го было всего то 0.5 - 2.0 Р/ч
@@TSAR2010 that's what radiation does. Eats through things. Damages electronics, concrete, human meat etc. The white specks on the view is the damage happening
excellent vid ... but, what was wrong with the camera in the control room his lighting was really off - unfortunately. Plus,the dial at 14:38 would it have been for the MW being produced?
Just think...all of those concrete walls...someone had to be in there not only to pour it, but to make sure it set correctly, and most likely just DAYS after the initial explosions.
Саша,ты молодец!В памяти должно быть место для тех,кто не прятался за мамину юбку и папины связи.Я сам был в 1986 призван на спец.военные сборы химиком и знаю,что это такое.9 операций- последствия.А для власти,ничего не произошло и никто не пострадал.И пусть они скажут родным у кого уже больше 20 лет как не стало их"Ликвидатора".
@@met4l_storm569 возможно, но для туристов оставили бы все как есть в пульте. А то нет, не хватает денег, нужно оставить по минимум, да ещё и стену впритык
@@TheMishaPro Стенка впритык так как коридор должен быть большим - и оборудование там фонило я думаю нормально после инцидента, там на одной из панелей щита есть горячая точка которая светит так что мама не горюй, её видно в видео - отмечена знаком радиоактивности. А одной из главных причин вырезания всей начинки есть скорее всего надобность в расследовании аварии, так же как и с трупом человека собственно говоря. Врядли эти детали повезли в Курчатовский институт, так как они уже представляли опасность, я думаю что разобрали, выяснили все что нужно и отправили на дезактивацию и последующее захоронение.
@@met4l_storm569 Нелепое оправдание, если честно. Стрелки в приборах сняли и механизмы, а циферблаты оставили. Да если бы фонило, то все дезактивировали, включая корпуса. Или они не фонят по Вашему? Просто все сп*дили, нет тут другого объяснения.
