As with everything in this series this was amazing, thank you for making these!

Man this is nice! Can you make a video on renewables? You said before that you were kinda tired of doom and gloom videos, and I thought that was a pretty good idea. :D

Amazingly well done story telling and videography.

The only thing I didn't like about the video is that we were not able to see more

The level of engineering of the confinement building is a testament to radiophobia run wild. According to the best available science there have been under 60 deaths related to the accident in the 38 years since the accident, and a possible 150 more from thyroid cancer although those are failing to materialize. The dose to the 6 million inhabitants most affected amounts to the equivalent of one full body CT received over 20 years.

The Sarcophagus immediately reduced the escaping radiation by something like 90%

@@kylehill when you initially began researching the elephants foot all those years ago did you ever imagine you’d end up standing more or less in the same building as it? (albeit a football stadium sized building; with layers)

I noticed them before it is said in the video

@@f.falkwings want a cookie?

@@aydynx I did too. I wanna cookie 🍪

This is so true, I really hope this is one of a series. It would also be awesome if Kyle does a video on Fukushima Daini, they were hit with the same conditions with Daiichi but quick action from the Daini plant operators allowed them to restore power to manage their decay heat and prevent the H2 detonations Daiichi suffered.

@@anydaynow01 If you're brand new to the channel, you should definitely check out the other Expedition Chernobyl and Half-Life Histories video series. Both are incredible and Kyle does an excellent job of acknowledging the very real risks (and history) of nuclear disasters, but also the promise and progress that has been shown over recent decades.

I'm just over here grateful to see another stepmania fan XD

@@drumkommandr9779 I'm an OG DDR fan, but Stepmania and Flash Flash Revolution were also pretty excellent.

There's some really good documentaries on the NSC, it's construction, the vent systems, the cranes and how they work and what attachments they use

Don’t forget those miners

yep, without them most of europe would have been inhabitable for 20,000 years

@@VaCRAYtionnakey bois

@@seprex5695 what?

@@dropsboms6153 he's referring to a scene in the show where it depicts miners who worked on the disaster site choosing to be naked at times because wearing those suits made it basically impossible to work given the harsh conditions that already existed.

When the fusion reactor starts powering the earth, this nuclear fission tech will become obsolete.

Its in ukraine. not russia.

@@Paultimate7 ok?

@@Paultimate7 that’s true… am I missing something?

​@@chrisS19019 that Russia would leave it forgotten, for nature to deal with it on its own. Not the ukraine

I'm Science Deckard Cain

And I will gladly stay a while and listen.

That line gives me chills everytime 🥴😂 it's the way he says it and his calm voice telling us all about that what killed too many people not that long ago. It's super awesome and terrifying at the same time to me 😁

@@kylehill "Stay awhile, and listen... to the sound of the giger counter and my radiation alarm, or perhaps a few reactions I've got going properly supervised in the background!"

@@kylehill thanks for spreading radioactive awareness to the world. Soon we will probably rid of these nuclear facilities for good.

And the filters are a great gauge to exactly how much radiation is leaking into the environment, or would be leaking into the environment. Since they can be studied and particulate matter counted every time they are replaced.

Imagine if a Russian bomb had hit it. It would still do its job and only irradiate a few Russian soldiers, not all of Europe.

Who knew if it worked for quarantine hospitals, it’d work for this…

so like a double walled glass with a vacuum between the walls?

I felt the same way about the hydrogen sulfide monitor we had to wear when I worked on a gas rig.

that is part of there purpose, its meant to strike fear into you so you cant just ignore it as other background noise

@@laner.845 i would be more scared if the h2s monitor went wild. tbh

oooo so scary

20 uSv/hour, literally spending one hour in there would give 1/10 the dose of a Tokyo-New York flight. People really need to get their stuff together when it comes to radiation

I heard someone call the effect "pollywogs" once, but I don't know if that's what the astronauts really call it or not. I was, after all, listening to a science fiction author...

But in that case it's caused by particle radiation, not electromagnetic like gamma-rays, right?

@@leogama3422 isn't it just the cosmic background radiation?

@@_ee75 I think it's mostly Sun's radiation, plus a bit of cosmic (not background) rays. Cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is a specific type of low energy electromagnetic radiation (in the microwave spectrum as the name suggests) which is harmless

Yeah but what if you see that all the time?

Disassembly and sequestration is really the only viable path forward for any significant radiological accident. The radiation hazard that is Chernobyl NPP isn't going to magically deal with itself, and if we do nothing then we'd be forced to build _considerably_ bigger containment structures over the ruins time and time again. We would inevitably reach a point where materials science will fail and bigger containment structures _can't_ be built. What, then? Do we have to start dismantling the entire nested doll of containment structures? What if the innermost layers have long since collapsed and become an almost _unmanageable_ pile of radioactive rubble? The NSC I think was designed to last longer than it's going to take to fully dismantle the corpse of Chernobyl, so that disassembly and sequestration can be fully completed before we will need to consider building an even newer containment structure.

Keep building bigger containment on top of it, like Paris build on top of more city like 3 or 4 times. But it doesn't work like that.

And create the Chernobyl catocombs? No thanks.

@@MM-xy4th think of the potential for more game ideas

@@smoadia85 that was my first thought too. That sounds amazing, hopefully some indie dev sees these comments. Stalker like games are always decent sellers

Me too. There's something so emblematic of humanity about it. Really shows both the heights and depths we can reach. It's beautiful, ugly, terrifying, inspiring, and despair-inducing all at once.

I'd love to work on something like this. A truly worthy use of your working life, in my view.

My wife and I took a trip and done a chernobyl tour back in 2019 and it was so beautiful humbling and absolutely amazing, after reading the stories of professor lagasav and boring sherbina and General pikalov I hope I spelled those right lol but what they all did and also the coal mines that dug the tunnel for the heat exchanger was just absolutely amazing to me. I do deeply feel sorry for the men and women and children that have passed due to information being kept from them like the firemen the night of the explosion. But just being there my wife and I you can truly feel what happened and it just unreal knowing what happened and being able to be there, when this horrible war is over we hope to visit again. Stay safe and hope you get a chance to go there oneday as well

The whole point. somebody needed to look after the place, its dangerous radiation levels

The main reason im studying Russian is so one day after this war i can go to Chernobyl

Mom: "Not Great. Not Terrible."

@@biswajit07Why terrible? Makes no sense … you simply need to keep an eye on radiation exposure. A joke based upon a lack of knowledge how to work in such environments.

@@GanymedeXDyou’re overthinking it…

A bit like the feeling of a long time ago, standing about a hundred feet away from the old WTC towers, and looking from the ground level and up towards the top. It's uncanny, eerie - it's like your eyes, your brain, your vestibular nerve can't properly process it, it gets gassy and lets rip a little squeeky poof of vertigo.

There is a tropical-themed water park in Germany inside a hangar of almost exactly the same size

The nuclides are all over the ground near the camera due to fallout; it's not a question of distance.

which footages? Share video titles, links will probably autodelete your comment

@@kormannn1 Go look for 1HmLIElmHRI, titled “Chernobyl, Pripyat , RARE FOOTAGE OF 1986-1988 Part 2”. There are a bunch of shots showing them, but the one at about 2:42 is quite striking, showing some bloke in uniform. The big white blob-looking flashes are the film being exposed to gamma ray hits. Another is at around 3:00, with a couple of troops walking down a street and an APC in the background.

@@kormannn1 There's also a documentary showing a lot of previously unreleased footage on HBO. It's called Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes. Some of that footage is in it.

@@Smegheid thanks

What workers? The liquidators, the nuclear power station staff, those working on the new cover … Chernobyl nuclear power station kept running as usual after the accident till the max life of the other reactors was reached … staff had no choice as were ordered to do so.

⁠@@GanymedeXDokay ?

Very well said! Another very understated fact (and I wish they said this in the excellent HBO Chernobyl series) is the other units in the same building were being safely operated at full power all the way until the end of their designed operational lives, or problems besides the reactor caused their decommissioning, many years after the unit 4 accident!

If you watched it all then you saw Bionerd23 videos too.

There indeed is beauty in it … the area is free of humans … asides some catastrophe tourists and explorers … and nature can bloom. No stupid humans interfering with wildlife and a chance … the wolves that developed genes fighting cancerous changes … could be ground breaking …

Reactor 4 was 1 of 4 at the plant. The other three continued to operate for years after the disaster. Last reactor was shut down in the late 90s. People never stopped working there

It still needs power to not blow up, therefore, 9-5 people working there.

...and in an active war zone...

@@benoitbvg2888 not anymore for quite some time, it's another one (Zaporizka in Energodar)

@@Iamthestig42069 Close. It was late 2000 when Reactor 3 was finally shutdown and decomissioned.

I want to meet that man I really want to know his story

By that time they might call it "the first of many mistakes". Grim thoughts

I like the idea that KZfaq is still kicking after 20k years

I think it would done way sooner. Radioactive dust would be stored somewhere safe and it would so less much radioactive that it currently now. 20 000 for returning to background level of radiation I guess that we actually don't know what radiation level would be here in 20 000 years and obviously we not sure if humans would be here for so long. Our whole civilization is 10 000 and our modern world is only couple hundreds of years.

Maybe that far in, they'd have developed a ground version for the radiation shields we're developing for spacecraft

problem is, plutonium 239 have half live 30 000years,....

Afterward lethal Dose?

@@taras9436 Any radiation has the chance to cause cancer, but the limit I gave comes from federal guidelines for safety. They're very conservative limits and it's very unlikely to get cancer from this dosage

@@hannibal8637 thank you sir

@@taras9436 4 Sv/h is considered a lethal dose.

@@gamemechanic8950but not 4MS/h… easy to mix up

It was obvious how massive it will be as the building was massive … and the new one needed to fit the entire massive previous sarcophagus.

"touch nothing, sit nowhere and don't drop anything", That's contamination and radiation control 101, even for the companies who service the medical radiation field.

@@anydaynow01: That sounds like the mantra of a, let's call them a priestly sect of the far, _far_ future, dedicated to safeguarding "cursed" sites. This whole scenario goes right to the heart of the problem with radioisotopic decay and warning future generations of the dangers, while keeping in mind that languages shift and change over the centuries and millennia.

@@anydaynow01 I'd imagine that the radiation poisoning you get from picking up radioactive dust and subsequently inhaling it would be attributed to the spirits of the damned cursing you for breaking the rules.

My jaw dropped when I saw the Russians dug trenches in the Red Forest.

@@bbeen40 yeah they are not well!

​@@bbeen40 most of those russians are probably dead from radiation poisoning, those poor bastards

Most scientists will talk their face off to anyone who will listen about their work. This is also the type of position where they’re going to want to hire the type of person who has a documented history or being open and transparent given how dangerous hiding a fault could be. I’m not surprised he is the type to answer questions openly so much as I’m surprised he’s allowed to say that much at all.

Yesss. 💯

Working on that

@@kylehill 😮 the elation I had reading that! 🎉

I think the internet and youtube specifically killed the market for content like this on those cable channels like Discovery/TLC/History. In the 90s that was where science and history junkies got our fix.

@@kylehill hey, I know this is random. But I had a random science theory that I can't get out of my head ever since I came up with it. I know this isn't the appropriate video to comment on but this is the only way I thought of sending this message to you so that you actually might see it. And I don't really have the knowledge of math it takes to test or see if this theory is a legit thing or if nobody else has come up with it. And you were the first person I thought of when I thought of who might have enough reach to take this information and do anything potentially useful with it, if it has any use to it at all. Is there any way to get in contact with you somehow to share my idea? If not, I'll try my best to summarize it here. Basically, it's a theory about light/gravity wave propagation and spiral galaxy formation. In essence, it comes down to this. Imagine light tavelling around galaxies as if individual light particles/waves were track runners on a racetrack. If all track runners were to run the same speed, their relative positions to each other would still diverge in a spiral-like pattern because they run in different lanes that results in each runner having to run a separate distance relative to one another. This is why track runners have to start at different positions so that the inner runners don't have an innate advantage. What if Galaxies spiral because light and gravity, despite traveling/interacting at the same speed locally (the speed of light) at all reference frames, warps space itself because of the difference in the distances that it has to travel in each galactic "lane". Wouldn't the galaxies spiraling simply just be a consequence of the difference in spatial geometry similarly to how track runners diverge from each other on a race track despite running at the same speeds but in different lanes? I came up with this idea based on a thought experiment thinking about how cars travel different distances in a roundabout despite traveling at the same speed due the the inherent geometry of the paths they're driving on. So I thought to myself "what if the same were true of light traveling through space? What if that's how gravity also influences galaxy formation? My idea itself is a little more complex than the analogy I'm using to explain it. I just can't think of a proper way to explain it without actually knowing complex math. Originally, I was thinking how light curves around stars and I was imagining light traveling around the curvature of spacetime kind of like how cars curve along different lanes in a roundabout. Light traveling closer to an area of high gravity still travels at the same "speed" but has to travel a greater distance due to the increased curvature of space relative to an observer farther away, where light would still travel at the same speed but less distance due to flatter spacetime curvature. I was thinking of how this might be relevant to galaxy spiral formation. I don't know if somebody else came up with that idea. Somebody probably did. But I can't sleep until I at least make an attempt to get this thought out somewhere. And it bothers me that I don't understand complex math enough to even test if my theory has any merit. If you manage to see this message, that would be awesome! And I'd appreciate any insight you have in the matter. If not, and somebody else sees this, can somebody help me get this message to Kyle somehow? Or somebody who has the brain and the math skills to test if this is a legit theory. Even if it's already a known theory. It would be cool if somebody let me know it was a real thing. And that I was able to intuitively come to this conclusion on my own.

1. sick Carpenter Brut pfp 2. It truly is something else. I find it so amazing, and these people are very impressive and brave.

@@clueless6775 Had the pleasure of seeing them live last month. Wild show. Sick Femto pfp. I see that you, too, are a fan of big sword guy.

@@MuchKoku Thanks! haha I saw them in Pontiac. I was actually against the rails in the front center. Franck threw me a thumbs up and a smile and the Adrien threw me devil horns twice. Amazing fucking show.

@@clueless6775 Hell, yeah. I saw them at the Fillmore in Silver Spring; left of center, row back from the rail. Heavy moshing going on. They started playing Maniac and it nearly blew the roof off the place. Somebody actually posted a video of it on KZfaq.

A lot of international money, workforce and know how was provided … the sarcophagus was at the brink of collapse … still is … the consequences a disaster for the region and the world … back in 1986 it cost European Countries millions as we all dealt with consequences … especially farmers as food was contaminated in Europe and tons were binned.

I saw the cranes and remembered and old Atari Computer game from the 80s. "Uncle Henry's Nuclear Waste Dump".

american cranes!

​@@ddmn3648 Ukraine ingenuity and ingeneering!!! Only Ukraininans is capable of such an amazing job!!! Ukraine is keeping the world safe!!! Etermal glory to Zelensky!!!! Slava Ukraine!!!! Heroyam slava!!!!!!!

@@user-zv4jf8ag8p LOL😂🤣

Whatever career you ended up with I think was a better choice. In nukes there's mountains of paperwork and it takes forever to get the smallest things done. Makes you feel like you never accomplish anything

What are you doing now?

Well he was definitely in there longer than 10 sec

What nonsense … what ‘KZfaqrs’ entered the strictly controlled areas inside the building? Maybe those that filmed inside the White House 😂 There have been several teams that were granted access to unit 4 to do research.

@GanymedeXD The Daily Mail news KZfaq channel did it 4 years ago. Bionerd23 did it 7 years ago. Carl Willis also did it 7 years ago. Do some research next time so you don't sound like a stupid American.

@@GanymedeXD The Daily Mail news KZfaq channel did it 4 years ago. Bionerd23 did it 7 years ago. Carl Willis also did it 7 years ago. Maybe do yourself a favour and do some research next time.

If you find this interesting, look up the videos by bionerd23 who actually has quite a lot of footage of chernobyl and the area, including a tour inside the control room of reactor number 4 where it all happened

What's more, researchers have actually entered the reactor core itself. Check out "Inside Chernobyl Reactor - Expedition to sub-reactor/reactor rooms after explosion [1988]". It's a trip to behold. Then there's Alexandr Kupnyi's channel, he posted a vid to provide schematics and additional explanations about that expedition. I hoped Kyle would be showing at least the elephant's foot to us, and instead he just shows the outside of sarcophagus and describes it as "almost no one has been allowed inside the New Safe Confinement to document what I’m about to show you" smh

this shouldnt be something amazing, theres no reason people cant enter and film here, employees work there daily, they used to work inside the sarcophagus now just being outside of it is considered dangerous.. they just keep amping up whats considered "safe" i thiink at this point its gone too far, theyre too cautious... 30 years ago people were touching graphite bare handed... now you can even look at the control room thatd take months or years of exposure to even have a very minimal chance of health risks with used to be on the top of my places i wanted to visit but since the NSC its lost all interest too me, everything that used to be interesting or exciting is now too dangerous.. i dont get the obsession with 0 risk, 0 illness, 0 death... theyre all part of life people have free will to choose theyre own

The weirdest part about the war was when they mentioned the the chernobyl area and I'm like 'hey, I recognize that pump station, I got ambushed there!'

Get out of here stalker!

Anomaly gang reporting in, currently on my very first GAMMA ironman run. I love the taste of radiation in the morning, tastes like metal.

Those radiation artefacts are pretty well known from impressive videos shot in 1986 during the first 3 days following the disaster. We know those artefacts from the videos taken from a helicopter taken from above the destroyed reactor back in 1986 … it even caused the cameras to malfunction … and the videos from Pripyat showing the decontamination of the streets before evacuation.

Medical facilities use pressures greater than 1atm. This keeps dust and microbes out and is the premise behind a cleanroom. Pressure below 1atm like that in the chernobyl containment structure is used to keep air inside and is used in virology labs. They are inversed.

I am a radiation worker, and we actually use a baby monitor to keep watch over a small component in a high radiation area. It is funny to see which brands perform better, but usually the color goes first, then the white spots become really obvious, then the fps gets horrible. If you plan to keep your precious newborn in a high radiation area, the HelloBaby monitor will be the most bang for your buck!

@@llallogen7380 I'll keep it in mind!

Why camera failure … we know the radiation interferences … most impressive from the 1986 videos right after the accident … when the one from above the reactor on day 1 1986 was taken it led to complete camera malfunction,

Out of control danger zone? What nonsense … nobody spun such nonsense … the media did report about it, but not in a sensational way … games and movies are fiction if you should not be aware … in the exclusion zone nature is flourishing, Pripyat is decaying … animals love the human free zone … adapt to their environment … wolves developed cancer resisting genes … that could be a sensation for cancer research … then there was the plant with the sarcophagus … that was indeed a massive danger zone … hence the new one was needed as it was about to collapse. Prior to this the region was deemed safe enough to operate the nuclear power station’s remaining reactors. Till they were finally put out of service.

I'd recommend looking up Alexander Kupny on youtube, he has footage from him going INSIDE of the sarcophagus

@@smirnoff3841 Thank you! Will do

@alybloodshade: The entire world seems now to be at the tipping-point precipice of a much-delayed choice between altruism and selfishness, between sociopathy & fascism and cooperation & compassion, between oblivion and continued existence. People like you and Kyle Hill (and hopefully myself) give me the barest frisson of hope for the future, that we can make the right choice, but there's just so much evidence to the contrary that it's getting hard to see any reason to go on beyond just continuing on for its own sake.

@@sdfkjgh Right? I do have one argument that could tip the scales in our favor, however everyone has already argued against said point because apparently it does us more good not to let natural selection take the idiots out. In my opinion, if you can't use common sense, which most of the selfish people I know can't, and you do something stupid then it should be on you, not someone else. If you get severely hurt doing something you're not supposed to with an item, you should be the one in trouble, not the company. We tell these people that it's ok to be selfish and ignore the rules because someone else will take the fall and people don't seem to realize that taking common sense out of things is ruining us.

@@alybloodshade: As Berkeley Breathed once said, via his character Steve Dallas, "Accountability is un-American!"

This moving thing was built with international help. IMO there are nothing usefull there, unless you want to play with radiation, like radiate rats.

@@vadnegru Actually, we don't know yet if nuclear waste, or the elephants foot, has a use yet. We haven't done enough research into such things yet as it is dangerous but this, Chernobyl, as it stands now is perfect to find out. They are keeping it as safe as possible and have made it the perfect lab to figure these things out while safely and carefully cleaning it up as well. Scientists all over the world are missing an opportunity to go and further the field of nuclear power even further because we produce so much waste from it, but we don't yet have a use. We store it in tanks of water and bury it into tombs, but we don't really have a use. This is our chance for everyone to work together to find what the possible uses are, that is part of cleaning it up and dealing with it. We can't just throw it into water and tombs or barrels and storage places for the rest of known time, that's just a time bomb waiting to happen. If we don't figure out what to do with it while we have such a good chance to study it and do what we need to then we could very well end up running out of places to put it.

I think you're right, I remember reading about it. It also just makes sense, I can't think of any other moving structures that big

There is no need to pick up the debris and burry it somewhere else; instead, I'd say the #4 building itself should be the temporary cemetry of the radioactive waste. So everything as it is now should stay in its place. The reason is that there are no permanent or long-term solutions to burry the waste in Ukraine. It is technologically very difficult and expensive. All those radioactive waste and spent fuel storage facilities are temporary - ranging from 50 to 200 years. But afterwards it's awaiting another, permanent solution. You can take any nuclear power plant in the world as an example. So, what's the point of pickung up the debris from where it is now and transporting it elsewhere to temporary storage? That would only unnecessary expose people, robots, vehicles, equipment and nature itself to radiation, as well as even more increase radioactive waste and area it's spread on, increasing risks of other possible incidents/accidents related to dismantling, transporting and storing contaminated material. The #4 and its surroundings are and will stay contaminated forever.

It will take 20,000 years for the area to actually be safe to visit.

Need little Kingspan/Kalzip project

@@hid3naxWhat nonsense … you do not seem to understand why it was build … the sarcophagus was at the brink of collapse … it still is … they either have to make it safe or have to start the task of removing it … leaving as is is no option at all … if it collapses inside the new one that would also be a disaster, but at least immediate consequences for Ukraine and the world are reduced.

Good point. At least I wasn't handling ANYTHING. Didn't touch any surface at any time.

@@kylehill good to hear, at my plant there's a possibility you might have had to poop in a bucket... (100% serious.) Internal Alpha uptake is no joke.

This. Most of our contamination control areas are very clean, but all it takes is one contaminated touch to ruin your day/career. Also this seems like a good spot for this, 20 microsieverts/h is a lot lower than I expected and I chuckled at the alarm, but I understand that they have to protect the public.

@@gill998 Out of curiosity - what amount did you expect/what would be a more concerning amount? Thanks!

@@Lilee177 any amount is not ideal, but a couple hundred times that is "normal" to be in for some workers. What matters way more is exposure time and the accumulated dose. 200x that for 2.5 hrs puts you at the maximum yearly dose here. At his dose, you could spend 10 hours every week for a year.

The most impressive videos were those shot from a helicopter the day after the explosion. None very showed the true scale of destruction better than that one. A true battlefield …

She had some informative videos but I think she met a guy and probably got married

@@kevinthomas895 She was amazing, I loved the video where she was finding small fragments of the highly radioactive core a long way from the reactor. She had a cool curious way about looking at radiation. For her it was like playing with toys.

@@leokimvideo I didn't know whether to be scared out of my wits, or utterly impressed, when she found that actual fragment of nuclear fuel, just by using a pair of portable geiger counter ... ... with her bare hands ... Granted, it was barely bigger than a pencil tip, but still ... I have had had handled an alpha source, with rubber gloves (because the darn thing was physically difficult to get into the fixture holding it ... and sweaty palms didn't help ...), but that was on a whole other level ...

@leokimvideo Do you know the KZfaq channel name?

@@kevinthomas895 she now works for Zelensky as minister of atomic affairs

That is some extremely low levels of radiation.. being from the U.S. and working in the nuclear industry, I am accustomed to millirem instead of microsieverts, but converting shows that 20 microsieverts/hour is equivalent to 2 mrem/hour. I have personally worked on things that are 5000 millirem/hour, or 50,000 microsieverts. That's certainly not normal, and is high by my typical work standards, but it isn't uncommon for myself and others to spend multiple hours in fields of 200-300 microsieverts/hour.

@@Voxphyle interesting. I was wondering how high those levels were as they casually walked through. Doubt those masks are doing anything at all. Thanks for explaining the radiation levels.

@@scottturnick7883 the masks are meant to impede the inhalation of harmful particles that are in the air as you walk and disturb the environment.

@@scottturnick7883 Covid

@@scottturnick7883 They are anti-dust, some radioactive dust is still in the air and inhaling it would be dangerous, because they will create radioactive source inside of you.

Many people work in such hard and dangerous jobs … they should not be forgotten!

Not surprising … the reactor building was massive … that was covered by an even more massive sarcophagus … to cover that again required a gigantic megastructure.

PPE would probably have made a setup like that impossible to operate safely unfortunately

@@Benzona arent there drones that can film almost 360 degree? they could try to fly one or two in that space between old and new coffin. and then give the footage to someone who knows how to put the footage together and make an vr world out of it.

@@Amelie12 I mean maybe? Good luck safely remote controlling a drone through all the concrete and lead etc though

@@Benzona We run drones through containments all the time these days, and even fly through pipe systems and dive into the reactor vessels for inspections. Then we bag the drones and save them for the next round of refueling inspections. The videos are uploaded to the company share drive for inspection by engineers. Nuclear power management and regulation has come a long way since the '70s and '80s it's approaching what you would see in a near future science fiction movie.

I was thinking the same thing! And there are 360° cameras that are super compact

It’s insane … the reactor building is massive … the sarcophagus was … and all this is housed in a new sarcophagous.

Nothing compared to the video effects the day following the duster … especially the helicopter flying right above the reactor.

Was to be expected … the reactor building was massive … the old sarcophagus was massive … building a cover for a massive building can only result in a gigantic megastructure …

@@GanymedeXDstop talking

And its bad enough that the russians overtook it now, with very little regard to caution.

Corruption? … the original disaster was caused mainly by stupidity … driving that test that night … combined with poor design and no safety features compared to western reactor buildings …

@@nardalis4832They do not at all care for safety … little regard to caution comes not even close to how they act … of the soldiers ordered to dig in in and around the red forest 200 died in Belarus from radiation sickness and 20k suffer from radiation poisoning … how reckless they are can be seen how carelessly they provoke a further catastrophe in Ukraine.

The entire world (specially Europe) knows about Chernobyl a long time ago, only brain dead people got in touch with this reality because of a tv show.

Thank you for supporting us youtubers!!

Why shouldn’t they? Each worker can constantly monitor the radiation dose and those that were exposed to too much radiation than deemed safe usually cannot go back in.

Not great, not terrible.

3.6 out of what? 5? 10?… 10,000?

@@Painted_Owl 15,000

@@ChairmanMeow1 I understood that reference.

@@Painted_Owl Out of 3.7. The scale begins at 1.4. You haven't heard of @Sparky scale? It's pretty standard.

Well, it must be as the reactor building was massive … to cover all this …insane …

There are plenty of those videos … like those taken above the reactor right after the accident from a helicopter … or the ones from Pripyat before evacuation. Compared to those the 2009 elephant foot videos hardly had any.

Link?

@@gaganb "Inside Chernobyl Reactor - Expedition to sub-reactor/reactor rooms after explosion [1988]". Then there's Alexandr Kupnyi's channel, he posted a vid to provide schematics and additional explanations about that expedition.

Why crazy … it was an expedition … and having an eye on exposition you can manage it safely.

Why shouldn’t it be clean? What should be there? Around the old sarcophagus there was the building site of the old one … that was cleared after completion.

The reactor was massive … the old sarcophagus was … the new one is even more gigantic … and seeing the reactor fully covered is a masterpiece!

I didn't know about the air pressure, feel a little safer. Not much, just a little. If Russia doesn't screw up the NSC...

This makes no sense … it is ‘beyond you’ … what? It is a ticking time bomb. If it is not done many can die … it poses a massive risk to water supply for an insanely large area … there is a lot of agriculture as well … it’s about their survival … it’s not about the world for them … the world or countries that would be affected are heavily involved and invested millions … the old sarcophagus is at risk of collapsing … that again would send a radioactive dust cloud towards Europe … the impact would be enormous again … back in 1986 we in the heart of Europe had to stay indoors, our camping trip got cancelled, tons of veggies got destroyed … home grown veggies and fruit was not to be used, collecting mushrooms was forbidden, farmers were in deep deep trouble as even when cleared people still avoided Fred local food and veggies, sand of playgrounds was replaced … countries do not want to face that again … hence they were also driving forces …

It’s the same building … so not surprising …

Can’t even dust? That’s quite obvious that dust is a major risk! Dust poses one of the highest risks … that’s what brought the contamination to Pripyat … back in 1986 1800 km away we were not allowed to camp … had to keep windows closed … we’re not allowed to use any home grown veggies or collect mushrooms … tons of vegetables were destroyed … because of dust being carried around the world. The whole accident was discovered by radioactive dust having been carried over to Sweden who raised it … after double checking own facilities and western neighbours ones they asked the Soviet Union if there is anything they have to tell us.