Inside Chernobyl’s new €1.5bn structure for exploded nuclear reactor

The new structure built to confine Chernobyl’s damaged reactor number 4 was shown to the media for the first time at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
With a span of 843 feet, the special shelter is the largest moveable land-based structure ever built, and it took nine years to complete.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development funded the new confinement project with €715 million, alongside contributions from the European Union and 45 other countries.
The megastructure seals in radiation from the molten reactor’s core and 200 tons of highly radioactive material.
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[@christiancamilleri5439]

Is Dyatlov still in the toilet?

[@balkanleak249]

I think he is finishing up

[@atharvabendre973]

Probably in the infirmary

[@sandyfung2535]

Probably

[@bertdistefano6850]

You’re delusional. Get to the infirmary.

[@comradedyatlov2010]

Christian Camilleri Yep

[@kzelmer]

Chernobyl series has made a lot of damage to the KZbin comment section on Chernobyl's videos...

[@arnemagnus680]

Not Great Not terrible

[@Spacegoat92]

You're delusional.

[@SenkaBandit]

Take him to the infirmary

[@peaveyst7]

you cant see those comments because they are not there...

[@damnsonwheredyoufindthis.3830]

There are NO comments.

[@007kuntasod]

Chernobyl is just like Disney land The only difference? The 7 foot mouse is actually real.

[@Speechiegirl1]

OperatorHonored lol 😂

[@marielxenovia3062]

You mean 7 feet double headed mouse?

[@kafka5795]

*Stole that joke...*

[@bostedtap8399]

Brilliant, love it.

[@nguyenvuhoanglong3418]

With fiber skin and ceramic teeth eyw!?

[@d1want34]

In a 1000 years from now, archaeologists who found this structure will say, "it was a massive temple for the ancient people"

[@dondobbs9302]

SSHHHiiiii...THAT's what all those giant pyramids are around the world! "Pharo's Curse" indeed.

[@d1want34]

@@dondobbs9302 according to the gatekeepers, every ancient structure was a religious temple

[@irishgamer9151]

@@ryans413 then they will say its cursed you can go in there lol

[@g-man4219]

and they’ll call that “the curse”

[@Damocles16]

Praise be Atom! (It is a temble Indeed: dedicated to the god of human foolness. )

[@TheDoodlez1111]

so much effort only to isolate 3.6 roentgen?

[@ggxelpaz486]

Not bad not good.

[@stekhetproductions3412]

Not great not terrible

[@JorgeRamirez-dl2hj]

Cnn is Fakenews an example, “the elephants foot”

[@Adinda.1407]

Not nice good enough

[@akselstrdal3962]

Marcus Marshall heard it is the same as a chest x-ray

[@hiderunbride8431]

1.5 billion, just an equivalent of one x-ray.

[@TheIndogamer]

It's only 360 thousand

[@Cycluing]

You're delusional. Get him to the infirmary

[@Zoltan_Gyarmathi]

chest x-ray

[@Gabriel.P]

No, it's about 400 chest x-rays

[@mananjoshi1289]

Harold Blando lmao... 😂

[@milos1534]

"Radiation levels inside were estimated at 20 times more than LETHAL dose" Not great, not terrible...

[@derjoghurtmitderecke]

I see the reference to "Chernobylite".

[@MRoh79]

Vnemus 34es and irregular than a Scan or a Environment

[@jaafartahzeeb8438]

derjoghurtmitderecke m

[@miksuko]

@@derjoghurtmitderecke what reference?? He's referencing the HBO show.

[@derjoghurtmitderecke]

@@miksuko Google Chernobylite.

[@MarioCro7]

Hmm,1.5 billion. Not great,not terrible.

[@Smarglenargle]

thats about the price of 1 high tech submarine so its not that crazy either i guess for a national project.

[@callumhardy5098]

MarioCro What do you mean the old one was leaky and had holes in the roof! If it fell in nuclear dust could spread in a dust cloud again!! You can put a price on cleaning something so stupid, if anything it shows how inefficient nuclear power is!

[@walter9733]

callum hardy r/woosh

[@callumhardy5098]

@@walter9733 yer i didnt get the joke! Not great Not Terrible

[@callumhardy5098]

@@walter9733 ive seen HBO and the memes about it

[@WisnuAji-Benjamin]

"what's the cost of lies?" 1,5 billion dollars. Not great not terrible

[@jaellanthehat3693]

Not only that, but many lives aswell

[@Borex2]

And many countless lifes

[@lamuswwodzie132]

Actually its 1,5 billion euro, euro is worth more than dollar.

[@Borex2]

@@lamuswwodzie132 Actually no, dollar is more worth Google it if you don't believe me

[@cantthinkofnameyeah7249]

You know how to rewrite a phrase that was in A TV show good job

[@jithinbalachandran2150]

That guy in front of the computer looks like the next dyatlov

[@rrt_xoxo5632]

You're delusional!

[@allthingsaviation12]

Get to the infirmary!

[@jithinbalachandran2150]

😂😂

[@jithinbalachandran2150]

@@allthingsaviation12 😂😂

[@yojelsonrc]

I'm actually wondering what Is that process he is looking

[@galreserve2322]

1.Any Chernobyl video 2.Dyatlov jokes 3.Legasov jokes

[@andulos8452]

4.Scherbina jokes

[@xoniq-vr]

5. “3.5 roentgens” jokes

[@chiraglunagaria4597]

@@xoniq-vr 6. Not Great, Not Terrible

[@Damocles16]

7. Dangerous and disgracefull spread of misinformation while disregarding party officials, kind of joke. (And asking "are you stupid")

[@peaveyst7]

the comment section is mildly contaminated, i have seen worse...

[@trendkill3333]

It’s eerie to think that one of the workers in the part that blew up and collapsed is still entombed beneath the rubble

[@bgrady24]

Any large structure built before modern times has many dead inside. Great Wall of China, even the Hoover Dam

[@pemo2676]

@@jazzycat8917 But we actively know exactly who is in there, their stories and life. This story is more eerie by the radiation and the consequences, the fact you can't even try to excavate and honour those lives.

[@bandolierboy1908]

I think the worker that died in there was right next to the reactor when the first explosion occurred, but if that's not true, his body was probably vaporized by the second explosion

[@pemo2676]

@@bandolierboy1908 The explosion would've been different to an atom bombs vaporisation abilities, but I have no doubt that people next to it were instantly killed and people near by in corridors and the room with all the tanks would be entombed

[@damnsonwheredyoufindthis.3830]

There could be someones skeleton under your house considering how many people have died and been burried over thousands of years.

[@businesshobbit4944]

You can’t see this new structure, because it’s not there!

[@gavinbeacom3251]

What

[@businesshobbit4944]

gavin beacom Chernobyl miniseries reference.

[@rrt_xoxo5632]

You're not delusional! Praying up the way of God Of Nuclear Power- Dyatlov!

[@veteranheavyequipmechanic4990]

Lol you can see it on Google earth

[@businesshobbit4944]

My man, I know you can see it from google. It’s a Chernobyl TV reference, a meme if you will

[@xayvon3788]

*COMRADES* They are delusional take them to the infirmary

[@jmdudley3859]

That new structure is so impressive that it is hard to believe that you could do something like that ! Nice job 👍

[@donaldducktrump5508]

hold my graphite while I piss 3.6 roentgens before breakfast

[@rrt_xoxo5632]

You're delusional! It's about 15,000

[@lekeme1773]

@@rrt_xoxo5632 lying at time like this, such a shame

[@rrt_xoxo5632]

@@lekeme1773 I've been working here for the last 25 years! You're delusional, get him to the infirmary! Everybody is stupid except me!

[@businesshobbit4944]

Pissing 3.6 roentgens? Not great, not terrible.

[@rrt_xoxo5632]

@@businesshobbit4944 You mean 15,000! Everybody knows 15,000=3.6

[@ImotoriumVLOG]

1:47 you can clearly see radiation

[@lurezpe8655]

That white noise is because of the radiation

[@BKnight_]

That recording is crazy. When was it taken? It's literally looking directly above the upper biological shield. If it's an older video, the person who recorded it is probably dead.

[@OllieTattersall]

Gamma particles I believe. Intense stuff.

[@DerJohnny100]

The Reactor looks soo smal in this Building

[@rinse-esnir4010]

The reactor exploded

[@rinse-esnir4010]

@@qrzychupl5617 You are delusional. Take him to the infirmary.

[@dunjasavic3387]

My thoughts exactly

[@TheNefastor]

Russie reactors are like Russian dolls : you put them into a building, then put that building into a bigger building, then continue this process forever or until you run out of planet, whichever comes first.

[@TheNefastor]

@flip inheck sure, let's deflect the blame to someone else, right ? Let's forget the USSR built similar reactors everywhere else. Let's also forget their submarines have two reactors because they can't rely on just one and be sure their boats will make it home. Let's face it : when you say "high tech", Russia is never the country people think about.

[@dagnytaggart2027]

+++++

[@samtheman1422]

Its amazing how small that place looks inside the new structure. When you look at pictures of reactor 4 and the orignal containment building they built around it, it looks hudge but inside this new structure its so small. I hope they can dismantle the original building and get all that old fuel cleaned out.

[@mycroft16]

That's gonna take a while. A while with a number of zeros after it.

[@H_Malik_RL]

So In 100 years are they just gonna slap another one on top?

[@TechCentralOfficial]

😂

[@ethanedwards422]

Theres robotics inside that will be able to pull out radioactive parts. They will be sorted into storage a and disposed of. After 100 years, hopefully it'll be nice and clean. Getting rid of the fuel and materials that's dried up and is lodged in is a different story all together.

[@maximumnoise78]

This will go on for the next 20,000 years im guessing...

[@mygaminghands9875]

Keep going like a Matryoshka doll lmao and cover the earth lol

[@HyenaBlank]

The general idea is to slowly take the old structure apart bit by bit. then the long con of stashing the rubble away safetly for the next 10k+ years.

[@bkarmark2602]

The ChNPP looks so small inside of the nsc structure

[@badmeme486]

Well it is only reactor 4

[@bkarmark2602]

Bad Meme same

[@Lightning_Mike]

Looks like a model in a museum

[@pedroptga1]

That's what she said...

[@krashd]

The NSC structure is tall enough to house the statue of liberty, standing up.

[@3cc619]

They are working for 800 rubels bonus and free vodka.

[@cienciabit]

Look at time 01:48 the dots on the image are subatomic particles hitting the sensor of the camera.

[@steve1978ger]

Yup, that's the remains of the actual core.

[@MrMrRubic]

Structure: *is designed to keep radiation inside* Person: "hey let's go INSIDE!"

[@haliax8149]

Yep, must look funny to people who don't understand nuclear. Or maybe you'll get smart and realize they're not really taking a risk.

[@MrMrRubic]

Do you hear that? It's the sound of the joke flying over your head.

[@Beamin-vt7jm]

Chernobyl was hands down the best mini series I have seen in years.

[@tomeverall1015]

50,000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town.

[@leonardobrambilla9760]

wwwtjecouk cap MacMillan: I’ve never seen something like that...

[@TheOfficialCzex]

There are regular tourist groups if that counts for anything.

[@dtemple586]

Take them out, or let them pass

[@anitagoodsleep5330]

Salute to the people that sacrificed with their lives....👏👏👏👏

[@restedsoul42]

So what happens after 100 years? Or is that someone else’s problem.

[@dwayne8667]

I suppose 100 years is a long time for something to last under the circumstances. You're right though, by then they will have a totally different, more effective way of dealing with it.

[@sandyfung2535]

Prob. And this time they were right but took 130 plus years later... plant director Bryukhanov reports no more than 3.6 roentgen. I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest X-ray. Haha

[@ManuelRF]

Basically

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

Then we'll build another hanger that goes on top of that, then another, then another until we have a russian nesting doll of chernobyl... Hey, I have a great idea for the gift store...

[@cymbala6208]

As I've heard they have installed cranes and remotely controlled machines to remove the waste for storage in containers. But I think they have not started yet (maybe radiation levels still too high?)

[@hypercomms2001]

01:53 what appears to be noise in the black areas of the image are actually due to effects of gamma radiation on the camera image sensor... either a CCD, or three Vidicon tubes...

[@gdshockedgd2351]

Or it could be dark but probably the radiation

[@kennooo535]

Was the project supervised by dyatlov or was he in the toilet again

[@magmajctaz1405]

Wow. Wish there were more shots. It's difficult to get a sense of the enormity of the new containment structure. A building, within a building, within a building.

[@andrewnelson3603]

There is a good documentary on it from PBS on Netflix.

[@AverageJoe8686]

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/building-chernobyls-megatomb/

[@Jackobee231]

You didn't see graphite didn't you? Because it wasn't there!

[@LuizFernando-mh5vl]

because they cleaned

[@yannicg]

@@LuizFernando-mh5vl r/woosh

[@LuizFernando-mh5vl]

@@yannicg ooh child...

[@yannicg]

@@LuizFernando-mh5vl no u

[@LuizFernando-mh5vl]

@@yannicg sure

[@BrianD146]

Thank you so much for this optimistic piece about nuclear power. I just wanted to add more about the positive effects. In the worst case scenarios of a massive earthquake and tidal wave with Fukushima no one died of radiation poisoning. But rather from the overreaction of the government not allowing people to return to their homes. A lot of people could have returned to their homes with very few mitigating factors. With Chernobyl, the RBMK reactors primary design was to create plutonium for nuclear weapons. Electricity was just a byproduct. The accident occurred because of the reckless ambitions of the lead engineer on duty. The deaths were created by the Soviet government not being upfront about the disaster. Just hundreds of feet away was reactor number three and then reactor number two and one. They kept running for about another 15 years. In both these scenarios today there is tourism including people that are walking right up to the reactor for a limited amount of time. Everyone knows that the news sells fear and anger. The news is part of the problem with keeping this truly green energy source from being deployed. There are forces that want to make nuclear power so expensive it can never be bilt. Principle among them are oil companies. The deaths and expense of global warming with its extreme weather is obvious and plays out everyday. I'm excited about generation 4 reactors. They're about six different designs and they have about six different characteristics. Some of the best characteristics are -They're considered walk away safe. -They burn more nuclear waste than they create. -The waste is considered hazardous for far less time. -They're non-proliferation so they can't be used for nuclear weapons. - The designs are small and can be as common as a hospital. They take up the footprint of about a Walmart. A truly local power grid to accompany wind and solar. This is truly the future that's going to power our electric cars and trucks. Some of the byproducts of nuclear power is creating hydrogen. This could power our airplanes, trains and ships. I look forward to clean skies without smog or inversion layers. I would much rather live next door to a nuclear power plant then a power plant admitting CO2 gas in other poisons and toxins.

[@lucyburbidge1068]

Anyone else just get the chills when they watch documentaries about Chernobyl it’s really scary to me but also fascinating at the same time

[@Soundtracks161]

It's only a 3.6 roentgen. I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest X-ray

[@AhmedOkby]

Nuclear material:how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man

[@carlblaskowitz7817]

"He tells me that we will need... *ALL* the liquid nitrogen in the Soviet Union.." Don't forget the scale of the original problem they had to overcome, calling it the Battle is quite fitting.

[@centralintelligenceagency9003]

And they were wrong, sending the miners town into Hell for nothing. The china syndrome isn't real.

[@stormtrooper9404]

Central Intelligence Agency They did’nt feared china syndrome you mongol! Water table is high at ChNPP and adjent Kiev reservoir supplies 20 milion+ people with drinking water.So better safe than sorry.And anyway there was no way to know how far the fuel will reach at the time of building the concrete slab.Not until 1989 when they menaged to find the fuel and access its location and state.

[@carlblaskowitz7817]

@@stormtrooper9404 The fuel was finally located by a group of physicists named the complex expedition. The crawled over every inch of the plant looking for fuel. The finally found most of it after taking almost a year to drill into a reinforced wall. Many of the scientists died an early death.

[@stormtrooper9404]

Carl Blaskowitz Thanks for added info! I have faded memory of an old russian documentary about it. R.I.P. liquidators

[@F17A]

3:04 i really thought Kim was playing minecraft

[@manikroychowdhury9435]

0:12 Looking like a movie set.

[@Demicron]

Its like a Bandaid over a lump of cancer.

[@carlblaskowitz7817]

Not true. The NSC is what will make future releases far less likely. In its previous state, if the lid fell into the vessel it would cause a massive radioactive dust storm that would introduce an entirely new generation of young Europeans to the name "Chernobyl " It was so bad that simply dropping a tool off your belt into the wrong area could be hazardous. They also had to install the sarcophagus onto already damaged foundations... radiation eats everything given enough time and we are fortunate to not have had a collapse before this was covered. Now it can be dismantled remotely in air conditioned safety and contained even if the roof falls into the pit. This is the beginning of the end of Chernobyl... one day there will be only museums, monuments and visitors.

[@folbykleetwood7462]

@@carlblaskowitz7817 I very much approve of that last line. It makes me sad that I'll never get to see Chernobyl in its prime (for lack of better words), but y'know world health

[@danrericha346]

The radiation is still dangerous inside but, not nearly as bad as it was. You have footage of people walking right up to the corium in the basement. Underneath the sarcophagus you would get some spots at roughly 400 mS/h in 2007.

[@badatpseudoscience]

That is some incredible engineering!

[@krashd]

Mammoet. The Dutch are phenomenal engineers.

[@llbb6595]

@@krashd 2 french company bouygue/vinci build thar structure the dutch one took care of the lift of the New safe containment.

[@mwycho3431]

Someone explain to me please - if it’s so deadly and radioactive that they had to build a structure, why are people just chilling next to the reactor ? Am I missing something ?

[@manuthemlg6489]

Because the real dangerous radioactive stuff is inside the nuclear plant under reactor 4. The raditation has lowered since exploding and its behind the chernobyl nuclear building and the old shelter so inside the new shelter isnt that radioactive and the ppl work there only a while and get banned.

[@bensemusx]

Staying in the new structure is exposing them to very low doses of radiation. They do wear masks to prevent breathing in any radioactive dust as our skin can shield us from some radiation but if it gets inside it does much more damage. If they were to go inside the old building they would be exposed to higher doses which is why protective gear is worn. There are many places inside the old structure that still have lethal levels of radiation.

[@jarskil8862]

Problem is not the gamma radiation thats coming from the reactor. Gamma emitters are too heavy to be carried by wind. And Air is good enough radiation shield for static emitter. Problem is alpha and beta emitters, those can be carried around by wind (radioactive dust) The shield structure is for keeping that radioactive dust inside. Atleast this is how I understood it.

[@AL_O0]

Why build a solar array? Just fire up reactor 3 again

[@AL_O0]

ThatAussieGirl, it was supposed to be a joke, But even then they attempted to fix some of the flaws to prevent further disasters, still not safe by modern, but also not terrible, there are other RBMK-1000 still in operation to this day

[@yannicg]

@@AL_O0 where exactly?

[@AL_O0]

Einfach Yannic en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK

[@yannicg]

@@AL_O0 ok, thx.

[@JimmyVaught]

Very cool! I remember watching a documentary on this a couple years back

[@pietjan2650]

just build a pyramid on top of it.

[@chilling_at_pontiff]

The limestone would probably hold up better than the aluminum containment center

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

Then we can truly have pyramid power

[@szolar23]

hold my beer!:))

[@scoobydoo3248]

Limestone...not great, not terrible

[@pdsng69]

0:43 The reason this cost over €1.5 billion because they bought the $1000 stand😂

[@MrJinxmaster1]

Can't wait for them to build a giant angular shell over this in a hundred years, then another smooth one in 1000 years

[@toainsully]

Now, we wait for the Stalkers.

[@timetochronicle]

Who'll run it - Duty or Freedom?

[@pan4909]

Crazy how I know what the reactor looks like and it will never be seen again from the first attempt and now this in place

[@emptysoul6743]

Me in 6 years: wow! It's Chernobyl! It takes here plant with sarcofagus! Pripat'! I need to come there. Me when I came to plant. Wat... Where is plant... Only confiment.. (looking around) WTF it's just a field.

[@werewolfpubggaming2252]

chernobyl:builds another nuclear reactor me: i don’t like where this is going

[@drjmja1984]

Chernobyl miniseries is a masterpiece

[@Mcfc2Rich]

So when can I move back to my home? My camcorders been on record for 49 years and I've been seriously worried about my electric bill.

[@gennadygorski9791]

Totally Awesome!! Lets hope now they can safely start the disassembly and cleanup of the reactor.

[@wommyu]

There is no reactor

[@gennadygorski9791]

@@wommyu Then what do you call all of that junk inside the sarcophagus..? Chopped liver?

[@krashd]

Chopped liver? He's delusional, take him to the infirmary!

[@adder3597]

Some hell of an engineering feat to get the New Safe Confinement built and in place, it really is an admirable bit of work by those involved...

[@trajan231]

Especially as the crews (as I understand it) could only work 5 days on and then had to take 15 days off.

[@adder3597]

@@trajan231 Probably around that just owing to keeping their doses down, yes.

[@rocketman63]

It is a marvel of structural engineering! Sad that it exists only because of Chernobyl 4's catastrophic explosion, which in turn only occurred due to a chain reaction of errers and human hubris.

[@rocketman63]

My word, I wrote "errers". One in itself!🥴

[@ImplantedMemories]

2:22 classic slav squat 😂

[@Teqnyq]

*100 years later* ..... This is what the inside of Chernobyl's new-new confinement structure looks like.

[@chasm671]

Nah, I'm sure we'll have had a nuclear war by then, or at least an even more catastrophic accident.

[@Teqnyq]

@@chasm671 In that case we'll need a planetary sarcophagus

[@SiXiam]

No way this one lasts 100 years. I give it 40-50 max.

[@Teqnyq]

@@SiXiam I can't believe 4 years have gone by 😱

[@agentpiggles6685]

So you’re telling me at the stop where Europe almost ended 30 years ago is now inhabitable? Wtf

[@Konstaliusev]

Yes

[@nozyspy4967]

1:50 Those sparkles look like radiation hitting the camera...

[@user-gs9bi9cq4h]

Pretty sure it is.

[@jarskil8862]

Theres tutorial on youtube how to create background raditation detector. You just need cold metal plate, some alcohol, sponges and vaccuum.

[@danfletcher3255]

The original confinement (the sarcophagus) looked more like the building itself...just not painted But the "New safe confinement" looks like they turned that part of chernobyl into a plane hangar

[@Glitcher2000]

"In 2018, a solar energy plant was also set up right next to reactor 4." Shouldn't they have built a nuclear power plant instead?

[@Skyhawk1998]

Just fire up Reactor Three, it's sitting right there.

[@dzban02]

@@Skyhawk1998 or just fix reactor four lol it's easy

[@넝담크]

Fukushima radiation leaks are much more serious than Chernobyl. Japan is holding an Olympic baseball game and supplying Fukushima food.

[@Thelonelyreign]

The deference is that Chernobyl was handled. Solved as best it could have. Fukushima was essentially pushed under the rug and forgot about. It costed the soviet union more than 300 million rubles. Japan doesn't wanna spend half that.

[@alimaabalgansuren289]

No chernobyl much more radiation

[@0Bennyman]

Looking forward to Season 2!

[@ra_alf9467]

Yes officer, this guy right here

[@shanty6953]

No mention of the yet to be finished crane that’ll demolish the reactor so it can be disposed of more easily. There’s a Netflix movie of this for those who haven’t seen it yet

[@krashd]

The crane was finished when the NSC was finished, it is part of the NSC, what would be the point of keeping workers safe by building the NSC away from the sarcophagus if workers then had to stand above the sarcophagus to build the crane?

[@principalityofbelka6310]

There's Graphite on the ground

[@kroneexe]

You didn't see graphite. YOU DIDN'T, BECAUSE IT'S NOT THERE!

[@principalityofbelka6310]

@@kroneexe I apologize *vomits*

[@BarkaDog]

@@principalityofbelka6310 you are delusional

[@melissawickersham9912]

Barka Dog Take him to the infirmary!

[@straightupoldies1991]

Will send you to clear it with a hole in your boot and pay you below minimum wage

[@reconnaissance7372]

The reason I'm here is because I saw modern satellite images of the sarcophagus and was highly impressed. Is is inconceivably massive and 1.5bn sounds about right. I'm just hoping it lasts because steal obviously oxidizes and I'm wondering what kind of maintenance ongoing monitoring it will need.

[@ls1pr3dator9]

Does any one notice that they took down the famous cooling tower

[@pastos6355]

They didn’t

[@OpelMantaB1977]

@@pastos6355 they did. There are some footage around YT with it disambled in a unit(bionerd think has some footage)

[@genkiadrian]

“Radiation levels inside were estimated at 20 times more than the lethal dose.” This sentence makes no sense. Radiation levels are measured in Sievert per Hour (or mSv/h or uSv/h) because radiation levels are a *rate*. A dose is the amount of radiation accumulated over a period of time, i.e. one has to integrate the rate of Sv/h over the time so that the resulting number has the unit Sievert. Whether a radiolevel is lethal depends *both* on the rate *and* the exposure time. Rate and dose are to each other like Watts and Kilowatthours. Thus, the sentence at 1:52 cannot stand as-is and should be corrected. If you want to make a proper statement, you have to provide the exposure time. For example, staying inside the building for one hour would expose a person to 20 times the lethal dose.

[@UNoBugMe1]

Hhmmm, let me get that little piece of dandruff off you....Priceless. The best part of the whole video for sure.

[@shouldawent2elliot]

I've always wondered what it looked like inside of the confinement

[@patrickb8596]

damn people don’t know Chernobyl is in Ukraine, which pisses me off

[@Сашадуб-ц3у]

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[@michaelnakonecznyj6770]

Pewdiepie the 2nd This SO TYPICAL of Western awareness, all the know is RUSSIA,POLAND, THE UKRAINE! Which “THE” UKRAINE IS COMPLETELY INCORRECT! JUST SIMPLY UKRAINE! LISTEN UP WESTERNERS! IT IS NO LONGER CHERNOBYL, BUT CHORNOBYL! AND KYIV, NOT KIEV, AND WESTERNERS TRY TO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES, THE UK and USA AREN’’T THE CENTRE OF ALL MANKIND!

[@tranceman9670]

Agreed

[@harpreetbhullar2433]

This structure looks not great not terrible I'll rate it 3.6 out of 15000

[@dominiksz3883]

I feel like I took my lethal dose of radiation for a lifetime just from this video. Not great, not terrible

[@xzy7196]

2:03 I like how xrays are just going.

[@AbhishekSingh-zp3zv]

It's equivalent to a chest x-ray

[@casacara]

This feels almost like a fantasy story. The heroes cannot defeat the monster, only seal it away for long enough that the next generation can renew the seal.

[@Skrychi]

Glad I got to see it pre-cover-up.

[@Shoorit]

Radiation is amazing.. invisible(mostly) and 30years on and this thing is still spewing out just as much radiation from the core. It’s a shame such a feat if engineering(the shelter) is for something so disastrous.

[@bensemusx]

Not just as much. You can go and stand in front of the Elephant's Foot now and not die in minuets.

[@Shoorit]

@@bensemusx the core are will still kill you quickly... the elephants foot isn't as dangerous no more and I'm sure you could approach it but it was just melted concrete and core shielding but the u235 from the fuel rods won't be safe for 1000s of years..

[@sydtopia]

In 100 years do they put another shetler on top?

[@Skyhawk1998]

By then the old sarcophagus should be gone and most of the dangerous materials removed or decayed away.

[@Blakelikesfood]

$1,500,000,000.00 You'd think they could acutely clean up the mess opposed to a structure that fixes nothing...if not on fire right now.

[@Skyhawk1998]

This structure heads off a lot of potential problems down the road. That old sarcophagus was built in a huge hurry in a hostile environment, so it was living on borrowed time. Now there is a safe place to work on deconstructing it and decontaminating the wrecked power plant inside. If it collapses now, it'll be a huge mess, bit the fallout will be contained.

[@B1G_Dave]

All of this for a few ruptured water pipes

[@yannicg]

Actually no, the whole chain of problems that lead to the disaster started way earlier.

[@kimjongun5676]

@@yannicg so, its because my pen fell into the reactor?

[@yannicg]

@@kimjongun5676 no, lol. The main reason is that the whole experient they were doing was bad organized and controlled

[@citizenph1L]

1.5 billion ? 🤔 Should have been more expensive. Like 3.6 billion. Not great, but not terrible.

[@PhreshBboy]

next up on Modern Marvels

[@HailAnts]

Is the solar power plant there to power systems, or just as an ironic joke? 🤣

[@Oakleaf700]

Hope to goodness this keeps us safe.. {Europe}

[@straightupoldies1991]

Maybe thats why the uk wanna leave the EU

[@eastindiaV]

So... won't the gamma rays eventually irradiate the sarcophagus? It's like heat transfer. If there is heat on one side of metal, eventually the other side will become hot... radiation works similarly.

[@MrMoriarty100]

Meanwhile let's get started with molten salt reactors which can burn nuclear waste as fuel. Chernobyl would be an ideal site for a fleet of these.

[@theduck3876]

Come to think about it that's pretty cool

[@GhilliedMarauderGameplay]

1:47 this white noise is radiation hitting the camera sensor... chilling

[@brennancattermole3898]

A building...inside a building...inside a building...buildseption

[@SR71ABCD]

Rumours say that the Helicopter that flew into the cable and crashed still remains ontop of the roof somewhere.

[@shivprasanna9999]

So many ghosts found a new home.🤗🤗

[@mrwilfredmyers7566]

Stability is what you all need. And it all takes time.

[@driedsock449]

1:23 The problem 2:39 The solution Why USSR didn't use this natural energy?!

[@furrball]

for the same reason many are still using nuclear today: they need to breed weapon-grade uranium.

[@JohnSmith-qz6xb]

In all fairness look at any nuclear incidents all can be summarized to incompetent leadership

[@DavichiG]

John Smith yeah ! Nuclear energy is great for the human race, but humans are just too incompetent for this technology.

[@user-gs9bi9cq4h]

Solar energy was dogshit at the time, you'd need tens of thousands of solar cells to match one single reactor. Also, this was the cold war, uranium had, well, other purposes.

[@PantsuMann]

Why was this so expensive? It basically looks like a steel greenhouse. Wouldnt it be cheaper to constuct a huge mold and pour lead mixed concrete and cover it all?

[@calebperkins1476]

Ah yes the madness continues with more and more ways to try to fix it

[@bucobuggato8342]

Well, at least if no one can access the center of the zone there will be no more emissions

[@waltz4780]

Dyatlov Targaryen first of his name Destroyer of the Kiev

[@Thebighanzi808]

It looks like a museum when they first walk in