Nucla Power Plant Unit #4 Boiler House and Steel Stack - Controlled Demolition, Inc.

[@susanwahl6322]

I love watching the professionals at work.

[@demolitiondavedrillandblast]

The amount of dust and soot that comes out of those places in astounding.

[@_AndromedaGalaxy_]

RIP to the ppl down wind of that.

[@SalteeChick]

A great little town. I was so sad when the power plant closed. It put a lot of people out of work in an already devastated community.

[@taotaoliu2229]

These drone views are awesome!

[@fallon55]

Loved the drone shots - especially the 'before'. The amount of soot/dust in these structures is astonishing.

[@CoasterDave]

beautiful setting for a demolition!

[@AnotherSwissYoutubeUser]

Wow another coaster enthusiast? Hello!

[@foxyfoxington2651]

Perfect time of day.

[@jessebjerk1117]

I can appreciate the fine work you have done. Kind of bitter sweet seeing something that's been in the community my whole life fall in a few short seconds. The end of an era....

[@ChrisB257]

Great fan of these videos and this one shows how the videography just gets better and better. :)

[@gus473]

👍🏼 Excellent drone & video work! Has hit that "next level" of production quality! 😎✌🏼

[@johngullo9420]

CDIs video production has always been top notch. The addition of drone footage takes it to a new level. Bravo!

[@wdwerker]

The title made me curious. From Wikipedia…Nucla is a Statutory Town in Montrose County, Colorado, United States. The population was 711 at the 2010 census. Its name comes from the town's founders intent that it serve as a "nucleus" for the surrounding farms and mines, although it has since come to be associated with the growth of uranium mining in the region.

[@dalekrohse1871]

Our family lived just over the plateau from it in Montrose 40 years ago. Being a retired electric power system engineer, it is a little sad to see the power generation plant turned to dust and rubble.

[@SalteeChick]

The population hasn't changed much, and may have dropped.

[@AnotherSwissYoutubeUser]

I love the work you guys do! I am fascinated every time how masterful you guys bring down every structure. True masters of the industry.

[@bladewiper]

loved the drone views, and the flying in at the beginning. I am sure it is very useful inspecting the structure to be demolished, then surveying the site after.

[@Orkneyboom]

Great job gents. Having worked with you in the past I have a new appreciation of the art of demolition.

[@kriskropd]

That was a very clean performance. Much woah. Many wow.

[@rustythehusky5536]

I always liked your guys demolition can't wait for the next

[@foxyfoxington2651]

Love the drone shots. Great production on this one.

[@johntrauger68]

I worked at a power plant in Pennsylvania with the same type of steel stack. After a year or so of operation we noticed holes in the bag house roof. Upon further investigation, we found the holes to be caused by broken bolts falling from the stack sections. The whole thing had to be lined and welded, all 400 foot of it. Great demo!!

[@yvonnebarnes5227]

Hi John, do you know how tall that building was? Thanks!

[@geoffreylee5199]

Always good!

[@pronoe]

This one is particularly beautiful with the sunset. Love it.

[@francishermans758]

Papa Jack must be proud of his kids.

[@thecommentary21]

So, it looks like the smoke stack heeled into the concrete base to prevent it from kicking out like trees can do if you dont know what you are doing. Was this an accident or did they do this intentionally? I know loggers will say the tree kicks back but whats actually happening is the tree, or smoke stack, wants to turn on its center of gravity/central axis. This is why loggers notch their cuts so the tree heels into the stump preventing it from kicking back.

[@ke6gwf]

These guys have lots of experience dropping towers and stacks, so they know exactly how to shape the cut at the base so that it hinges over perfectly, so I would guess that everything about it is entirely intentional!

[@nicklombardi8976]

Really dig the aerial drone shots.

[@brandonmcfarland5200]

That's A Good Explosion.

[@runswithbeer]

Loving the addition of the drone!

[@jerijames2876]

this is what happened to our power plant last year. worked there for 45 years and it was sad to see it go. we had 3 units and was the biggest coal fired plant in southwest. decommissioned in 2019. retirement is boring. looked like small units.

[@SLO-Ride]

Wow! I am so used to CDI gently dropping structures, or methodically cutting bit by bit into a building until it falls. But this one, was just BANG BANG BANG CRASH! The violence of the blasts was surprising!

[@themaconeau]

Loving the production value here. And the demo work - perfect. Love it. 😎

[@rrknl5187]

Another one very well done!

[@Doodlesthegreat]

Almost thought I was watching a Technomine video for a sec. >_< Nice work.

[@Tuglife912]

Master Blasters!! CDI!! 🇺🇸💥

[@craigw.miller9820]

No one does explosive demolition better that CDI.

[@TeemarkConvair]

gets more and more entertaining,, now a drone shot WHILE it drops

[@hendrikjbboss9973]

Excellent job CDI !!!

[@richardtitko4980]

Brilliant video!

[@espeescotty]

I keep waiting for the drone to be hovering just a few feet above the stack looking straight down when the stack starts to fall away. I saw a bit of a shockwave at the top of this stack at ignition, but I'm sure hovering just on the edge of the rim would work.

[@TheUntamedMoose]

Drone! Way to up the production quality lol keep up the good booms

[@benharris8582]

The drone footage is fantastic. Is there a practical purposes of filming it from so many angles, or do y'all do that just because it looks friggin awesome?

[@drummond63]

Always intrigued in how this is done.

[@luciusvorenus9445]

Outstanding video and shot!

[@Backroad_Junkie]

Amazing. I'd still like to see a drone shot of a building going down from directly above it...

[@kemro5461]

Really Really good !

[@agentham]

Can anyone shed light as to why there were sprinklers going off the whole time? An anti-fire precaution?

[@sugershakify]

It's just me but the sprinklers and the ensuing dust cloud they were meant to suppress has my laughing...

[@EditGuy6610]

"And that...is how we do that!"

[@olbricky6824]

These guys have turned explosive demolition into an artform. I would not be surprised if someone began to do some high speed photography on these jobs. Im sure there would be lots of great shots to take mid explosion??

[@fredhellsire115]

Godzilla is like, here, hold my beer lol

[@jalphabet5]

What's the purpose of the two streams of water that look like lawn sprinklers? They're visible in all of these videos.

[@abpsd73]

My guess would be wetting the area for dust control.

[@albing1397]

Some day they will wish they had that power station.

[@susanwahl6322]

I was watching some implosion failures and I was thinking, CDI could have done that better.

[@_mortiam]

1:40 Interesting to see the dust/smoke slowly turning from black into white.

[@yvonnebarnes5227]

Does anyone know how tall that building was?

[@dtiydr]

That water has the same effect like an ant is pissing on a forest fire.

[@scoop4363]

29JUL2021 - Love the videos. Always checking in for new ones and high marks for improved camera coverage. But let's get real, those lawn sprinklers ain't gonna do nothing for that dust cloud. That has got to be some requirement you have to meet because they are the very definition of "ineffective."

[@ke6gwf]

They increase the humidity in the air, helping the dust to settle faster, and probably reducing the danger of a dust explosion. It also sticks the dust that settles in the area so that when crews return it's not kicking up for them to breathe.

[@DCR52]

I'm surprised the coal dust didn't explode

[@RobCCTV]

That chimney stack had no intention of falling to bits when it hit the ground.

[@Troublemaker1022-r9c]

What a cool job............ You get to make a bunch of bangs and a mess. Then someone else cleans it up.

[@lidsman2221]

Clean up on aisle 3, please.

[@gailmrutland6508]

*Looks like another 70 or 80 snow blowers were needed LOL!!!*

[@ke6gwf]

First thought: Awesome! Another CDI video! Second thought: What part of the country pronounces "Nuclear power plant" as "Nucla"?!?

[@erikbusker4366]

Nucla is the name of the town... named so because it was the nucleus of the area back on the day. SW Colorado

[@aaronballeck3153]

Here's a thought. The towns name is Nucla. 🤦‍♂️💩🤮👎

[@joeschlotthauer840]

There should be a water tanker drop...

[@PrinceWesterburg]

View: Restored

[@georgesmith8113]

👍👍👍👊😎

[@leenielmaestre3854]

I saw it at gogle earth😂😂😂

[@jk-mm5to]

Who needs power anyway?