INSIDE CHERNOBYL REACTOR 4 CONTROL ROOM | Full Power Plant Tour
Inside Chernobyl Reactor 4 Control Room and walking on top of its twin Reactor 3 filmed in July 2020 #Chernobyl35
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00:00 Intro
01:43 Central Control Room
03:28 Golden Corridor
04:23 Reactor 3 SKALA Monitoring System
06:04 Reactor 3 Control Room
07:20 Reactor 3 Shutdown Video
08:08 Running to Reactor 4
09:18 Reactor 4 Control Room
10:44 Memorial and Water Pumps
12:19 Soviet Elevator to Reactor 3
13:02 Walking on top of Reactor 3
14:51 Exiting the Power Plant
15:13 Great View of the Sarcophagus
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Wow, i almost cried seeing the control room.
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hey did you watch the Chernobyl tv seres i got it yesterday its pretty good so far
@@lucasfeidler6837 oh yeah I watched immediately as soon as it came out! They did an amazing job
Eventually youtube’s algorithim will put you on the front page and this video will get the millions of views it deserves. Amazing stuff!
Thank you so much for your support! 🖤 Let's pray to the youtube gods 🙏🏻
Well, its true...
Recommended to me today so maybe it will
@@dwalker771 did you like it? 👀
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex Some brilliant footage yes! Quite creepy at times thinking about the chaos that must have happened that night. Great video
'can i go up up?' 'if you wish' 'i wish' that bit made me laugh more than it should haha
Haha at first I didn't want to include it because I didn't want to come across like I wasn't taking it seriously... But then I couldn't help myself
Honestly I'm glad you did haha,
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex without context, I don’t think it was in bad taste or not taking in the seriousness of the plant. I probably would’ve said something similar because I want to be polite and I’m nervous
The shutdown footage of reactor nr. 3 really shows those people had passion for their work. A lot of people tend to look down on the operators of Chernobyl (especially of nr 4). Though dont forget the heroism and skillfulness which was present. Actual operators ran straight to their death in an attempt to rescue colleagues and shut down critical valves and systems, which saved many lives.
Everyone Gangsta till Dyatlov emerges from the restroom
Underrated comment bro😂😂😭
I AM DYING XD
Blasted off, dytlov was true thanos
More like Blyatlov...
@@ursuss100 lol
Khodemchuk's story always strikes me. Imagine getting ready for a calm night shift only to find yourself watching and dying in the greatest nuclear catastrophe of all time. No time to say goodbye and nobody will see you again after this, entombed inside a nuclear hell. What a tragedy, rip to all the brave souls which perished from this utter tragedy :(
That really hits hard. All of those people deserve our utmost respect! Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts 🖤
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex Greetings from Greece and thank you for your wonderful video, please keep up the good job :)
Honestly I’d rather be khodemchuk (I hope I spelled that right) because it’s widely speculated that he died quickly in the blast. That would be so much better than the two weeks it took Vasily Ignatenko to basically liquify alive. Radiation poisoning like the stuff the firefighters got is no joke man. I’ve read Ludmilla’s account of the events in the book “Voices from Chernobyl” and the unimaginable pain those men must have gone through is just... So bad, I can’t even describe how I feel thinking about it.
He was in the blast radius, he probably would have felt pain for a second, then died, his death was merciful compared to the others
There's also a great movie out now about the Fukushima disaster called "Fukushima 50". Worth a watch!
Why does this not have more views? This is great footage. I just love watching anything about Chernobyl.
Thanks so much for the kind words Macey! 🖤
Because not that many people have clicked on the video to view it
777 Likes
Some searched it...bro
Because the bits the viewers really wanted to see were blocked because they were considered illegal.
The fact that they were controlling a nuclear reactor with a combined memory of only 8 kilobytes is mind blowing to me
It is! Most likely it could be increased with the tape units you see in the back of the room. But still, incredible
Just think of them launching shuttles to space with almost the same tech.
Both the narrator and the tour guide are really well spoken. Thank you for this great content. It is an education that everyone should have about what happened in Chernobyl
Thank you very much for watching and for sharing thoughts on the video! They really mean a lot to me 🖤
Wow, that shutdown footage is really touching. You can tell that one dude had been working here for years and really cared about this place. Seems like an odd sentiment with regards to Chernobyl but I get it.
I totally agree with you. Most of those people had been working in Chernobyl for decades at that point, many were directly affected by the accident and god knows how many were forced out of their homes. I think they saw the shutdown as the final nail in the coffin for whatever was left of "normal" in their lives. Since I've been there, I have nothing but simpathy and admiration for the Ukrainian people. Thank you for watching and commenting :)
After they decided to shut down entire plant, people that worked there knew they had nothing good coming their way. They were just "not needed" by their government anymore and early retirements are really low in payment, these people couldn't afford a decent life anymore. On top of that, they were all affected by disaster on some way or level and their tears, well, they do speak a lot, don't they? I personally would never close that facility if people wanted to work there. RBMK reactors proved that they are safe if everything is been done properly. It's just that Europe was too paranoid after accident and demanded all RBMK reactors to be shut down. On top of that, Ukraine was disarmed out of nuclear weapons and look how it worked out for them? Now Krim is taken over by Russia and entire north of Ukraine is taken by pro-Russian terrorists. Ukraine was betrayed by EU and NATO, but, I guess, Ukraine needed to learn the hard way how trustworthy EU and NATO are! U.K. didn't left EU for nothing...
@@adrianshephard224 Yeah NATO sure betrayed Ukraine. Oh wait, that was Russia. Russia invaded them using soldiers out of uniform and stole part of their country. Then Ukraine joined NATO which now has the backing of the other NATO countries and their nuclear arsenals. Not to mention it was Russia that built Chernobyl and refused to make it safe even knowing the dangers it posed. That worked so fucking well for the people of Ukraine. I'm really surprised more countries aren't lining up to join up with Russia and have giant dirty bombs installed in their countries. Concerning "their" nukes. Those belonged to the USSR. Ukraine didn't disarm, Russia just took back their nukes. Let's not mention the inept and/or corrupt morons lost scores of warheads, many of which are probably still unaccounted for. Also, concerning the shutting down of reactors 1-3: A turbine fire in reactor #2 took place causing serious damage. At that point the international community kinda got sick of this poorly maintained nightmare plant and didn't feel like having the possibility that 3 more active reactors could recreate the events of reactor 4. But I guess they're crazy right? After all it was so easy and cheap to mitigate the original explosion. Not like we're still working on it decades later. Sure it sucks that the plant operators lost their job but, I think that's worth it to avoid another nuclear disaster.
@@adrianshephard224 RBMK reactors prove that they are safe if everything is done properly... Wild, have you heard of Chernobyl?
@@tsarfox3462 Last time i checked, Ukraine was part of that Soviet union and they didn't owed a Russians a fucking dime. Those nukes didn't belonged to Russians but to Ukrainians that paid for them. Why give something to someone that doesn't own it in the first place? Those nukes were safe heaven for Ukraine. The second they gave it to Russia, the second Ukraine was vulnerable to Russia's territorial secession's and political instability. Those nukes would have kept those Russians at check. But the worst thing of all is the fact that NATO actually pushed politically Ukraine to get rid of the nukes. They (NATO) guaranteed to Ukraine, it's territorial sovereignty. And guess what, NATO and EU didn't do a JACK SHIT against Russia when they snatched the piece of Krim and rest of Ukraine territory. As for accident in Chernobyl, yes we all know how it happened, and your point is? Shouldn't you be more worried about Fukushima that is leaking over 350 tons of highly radioactive waste in Pacific sea every 24 hours for the last what? 10 years? At least Chernobyl was dealt with in 5 years, and the radiation spreading was stopped, while Fukushima is leaking it's poison 10 years and it's gonna leak for another 10 years at LEAST. Accidents happen all the time? What should we do? We tend to work out problems and implement solutions. RBMK reactors are still in operation in Russia. Perfectly safe. They didn't had idiot operating them. The point is, EU wants Ukraine to be powerless and to buy expensive electric power coming from, oh I dunno, maybe NUCLEAR REACTORS in France? Sure...
This video is criminally underrated, it deserves more views! You did a great job documenting everything!
Thank you so much Jax, I really appreciate your support! 🖤 This is just my first video, hopefully more people will get to see it in the next few weeks! 😁
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex no problem man! I love small channels like these! It's cool to see them grow and change, you keep up the good work and keep doing what your doing!
@@Punkweight8080 That's huge motivation, thanks again!! I'll work on some new videos soon, in the meantime you can catch me on Instagram too! Have a good one 🤘🏻
I can feel the radiation just by watching it,what a terrifying tragedy
It’s sad how the tragedy happened because of 1 mans stubbornness
@@stephencoyne9061 Wasn't really one man's fault tho, that's just the film lol. It was a whole fuck up from the designers who designed the RBMK nuclear reactor, after all the AZ-5 button was meant to stop the reactor not blow it up. Don't forget the Russian government had to fix all RBMK racators all over the Soviet Union (about 8 I believe) so it wasn't a one-off mistake, Can also blame the Russian government who did more to hide the disaster from NATO than to actually try fixing it, and then you have everyone in between who I'm sure you are aware of because of the HBO film.
People from Fukushima: "This is for children. Our explosion was way bigger".
@@cinegraphics Fukushima was bigger but because of Japan's modern technology and quick response it wasn't anywhere near as bad, at Chernobyl the Russians did everything possible to hide it instead of fixing it and lied constantly to the rest of the world which is why they recon 50,000 have died from the effects.
@@tomw6947 actually, the coverup is bigger than in Soviet times. Because during the Soviet era all the media was owned by the government. So it was easy to censor them. But global nuclear lobby and Japanese government managed to do the same today. When we have tons of media, plus internet. So, the energy invested in coverup was much bigger. The contamination in Fukushima is huge, a lot has been released into the ocean secretly. But soon they will openly pour millions of tons of radioactive water into the ocean. And the media will say it's not dangerous. Liars. Consequences of radiation are being hidden from the people. For example, the seal on the reactor is very leaky. So, in 2017 there was such a big leak of radioactivity, that it was bigger than Chernobyl explosion. Yes, 6 years after Fukushima main explosion, another leak happened which alone was stronger than Chernobyl explosion. But did you hear about that? Probably not. Instead they made a series about Chernobyl, and a few extra documentaries, just to shift the attention of the population to an old disaster, rather than the new one under our nose. The coverup is of epic proportions.
It must feel surreal to work on what are essentially ruins. Knowing that just few corridors away lies a time capsule from a disaster. A significant chunk of the plant is destroyed and unusable, yet you still rely on it to work.
I know im late but also adding, imagine going to work and having all that radiation right outside.
everybody gangsta until the Geiger counter starts making noises
@Leah Harper yes but there are some places that aren't as radioactive, and maybe not enough to get picked up by the counter lol
@@TripleTwo_ It was edited in
He realized that after the explosion there was no reactor any more!!! Good Man...
One of the very few people who did!
7:56 you can see that this man loved working here and knew what every knob and button did.
Or he just loved cigarettes and a face full of tiddies
@@thejollyrancher6713 your comment deserves much more likes
Why would they send someone that didn't?
@@ManOfPillowDoom why? Well ask them why they sended new engineers there to blow up a reactor
So sad knowing that behind that wall Khodemchuk is still there.
Who?
@@baileyjeantalbot4779 One of the scientists who was working next to the reactor when it exploded, his body is still there till this day because it was too dangerous to even try recover him.
@@eclipsegfxable his body is long gone by now. The radiation would have disitegrated his body.
@@rachelmclaughlin1491 Who knows...Go find out lol
@@rachelmclaughlin1491 Probably the opposite. The intense radiation has probably preserved his body or what remains of it. There have been a few small scale nuclear accidents from people trying to steal medical radiography equipment, where their bodies were discovered without any signs of decay - Anything that could have broken down tissues (bacteria, fungi etc.) wouldn't be able to survive in the tissues.
8KB of memory to monitor a whole nuclear reactor. Seems like it's impossible today.
Well, there's not been made machines that have so little memory since mid 90s, like literally nothing. Even the shittiest phones had more in the early 2000s.
@@TheTripol IoT devices only have like 4kb of memory, so yeah no
Apollo went to the moon with 4Kb of RAM... Its ROM was on a 32Kb hard-drive... Different times!
what consumes much of the memory is graphical stuffs. If you don't have graphical things, you don't need too much memory.
It only does calculations. A regular calculator is good enough.
I really tought I was watching a channel with 200-600k subscribers but when I looked at ur sub count I was dissapointed, you are so underrated! You gained a subscriber.
Nicolas this is incredible feedback, thank you! 🖤 Yes this video and the Pripyat video are my very first! Thank you for subscribing, a new video is coming next Monday!
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex No need to thank me for speaking the truth :) And ill be sure to watch that video too!
I'm From Kyiv, Ukraine, living 142km away from Chernobyl nuclear power plant, was in Chernobyl 3 times and saw everything in my own eyes but watching your video was truly amazing, perfect documentary work, and a great conveyance of the atmosphere of Chernobyl.
Lex! This is the best feedback I could ever receive, from someone that's been there and also LIVES in the country. Thank you so much, I really appreciate it a lot 🖤 I hope I can return to Kiev soon, I really liked it and also had some amazing food! Which is a lot to say for an Italian man 😂
LEX my man, I hope you're doing alright and you're safe. I'm devastated by what's happening.
Bro?Are u okay? I am sending prayers.Please reply if u see this :)
Hey bro,How are you? Are you okay? I hope you and you're family ia well.
@@ankitghosh160 hi, thanks we fine, in Kiev at the moment preparing to defense, i joined military and my family is helping as a volunteer’s. Kiev is pretty safe place for now, we only vulnerable for missile strikes but they will never succeed on the ground in Kiev, I’m 100% sure
-Can we go up, up? -If you wish -I wish.
Seeing the view of Reactor #3's lid from above really makes you appreciate the view that Perevozchenko must have had. Standing in the reactor hall, watching fuel rod and control rod caps that each weigh hundreds of kilos just bouncing up and down like a child's toy. It's fascinating, really, seeing all of this. Knowing how the operators unknowingly pushed this reactor further and further to the brink, only to have the one switch they thought was their saving grace to act as a detonator.
in a way, it would be terrifying to see them moving up and down like that.
It was just the fuel caps.
"Beautifully" picked words... from the HBO series episode 5.
@@pirimalac yeah it pretty much gave out everything that happened that night in a nutshell
The way the walls and electrical equipment on the way to-, and around Reactor 4 deteriorates so heavily is so...deeply disturbing and haunting to see.
bro nobody showed tht much inside the reactors man. This is lit bro. Should ve more views.
Thanks a lot Pritam!
Amazing tour. The old soviet architecture and designs give me a feeling I can't really describe.
Oh wow thanks Thomas the tank engine!
look up bald and bankrupt
Its like almost a nostalgic feeling, it feels like youre intruding, like you shouldnt REALLY be there. For me, its also an abandoned house vibe.p
There's just this certain sense of fear and awe that this old Soviet stuff brings along with it. Like visiting vast, cyclopean ancient ruins or something but with this twist of strange, massive, ominous machinery that somehow still contains a sense of hulking vitality
@@MelancoliaI Video games and movies probably has helped establish this feeling >_
Gotta say, been binging information on Chernobyl, and all such things related, I loved how well you did this and through all the legal and safe channels to show us, thank you for uploading
Thank you for saying this 🖤 I'm happy you liked the video!
when you realise that the total storage in the plant is less than the phone you have in your pocket
Less than an NES game
When I first saw your footage of the Reactor 4 Control Room, my heart skipped a beat. The very fact that that room is where it all started, and the whole incident generated so much energy it created a new element (Corium) just blows my mind. The whole world was in danger from just a power plant. It almost seems other-worldly. Edit: I originally left this comment before I watched the rest of the video. Just seen the Reactor 3 room. 2000 tons is nearly 2,000,000 kg. IT BLEW IT RIGHT OFF INTO THE AIR! Anything to do with radioactivity and lots of energy like that blows my mind. This is one of the videos that remind me of how complex this world and science is. Anyway stay safe :)
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts! It really makes me happy when my little video has such an effect on someone!
"Corium" is not an element. Is just the name of the molten, mixed and solidified parts of the core.
@@vihai Ah ok that makes sense.
@@thomashumphreycreativecorium was also created a few times before Chernobyl, such as in Three Mile Island incident. But Chernobyl was the first time ever that corium escaped the reactor core
Press Az-5 for respect
A3-5*
@@mog_3825 same thing
@@mog_3825 why is it A3-5?
@@avostorm8111 because it literally says A3-5 on the switch
@@mog_3825 I litterally get that but why is that shortened or used for scramm? Plus, if it is pronounced A - Zed why put 3? Not trying to sound like a jackass.
Should make a horror movie about the guy who's body they never found. Rest in peace dude.
There is at least 4 if I remember correctly.
If he was in the room with the explosion, good chance he just melted and is part of the elephants foot
@@jediknight1294 According to the video only one person was never found and he was buried under debris.
@@Clenched.Cheeks there were 2 I believe. One co toolroom staff annother Inside the pump room. Inside the facility anyway, there are references to a couple of the security staff never being found in some reports. The problem is there's a whole list of oddball stuff that went on in Chernobyl and reliance on Soviet records which... have always been a somewhat vague thing.
The safety system of this reactor was already Stone Age back then, as was the measuring equipment. In a German nuclear power plant, nobody could have switched off the safety device ... at the slightest attempt, the emergency nuclear power plant would have been switched off
So many things were done the wrong way, plus the staff didn't know about some design flaws in the reactor thanks to the good old way of doing things the soviets had. It's really scary
@@elkirko5526 это не халатность а испытание
@@lIIIIIIIl-96969 Test of what
1986 was the End of many Things .It is the beginning of the the End of the UDSSR!
@@loganc339 иронично что одной из причины взрыва были испытание нацеленное на улучшение безопасности, вроде бы суть заключалась в том, что бы проверить смогут ли турбины вращаясь по инерции смогут питать насосы охлаждения до тех пор пока не будут включены дизельные генераторы. Но из-за халатности и нежелания срывать эксперимент произошло то что произошло, хотя сам по себе эксперимент безопасен.
Shame on KZhead, recommend me this masterpiece after 2 years 🤷
I can’t imagine how it is working there till today. Front halt of the building Still clean and alive with people, and the back side an absolute ruin
i hope that all those workers who spoke in this video and who work for chernobyl are fine at the moment it‘s a warzone now…
I tried to reach out. If I have any update I'll post them here!
@@ee-mv3es got no answer unfortunately 🙁
Thank you so much for documenting all of this and showing us just the way it is! Take care.
Thank you Pratyush for watching and for your kind comment! Much appreciated
Those old electronic devices are 1000x more fascinating than the current ones!!
Watching this certainly was a chilling experience, that's for sure. It's hard to imagine that it's 35 years ago this April 2021.
It gives me creeps but it's a super cool experience to visit Chernobyl 😱
You can come next time 😎
Ur not alone
You can go and in Ukraine its soo cheap as i know
Zeig Wurstfach 😍
I have been studying chernobyl for years. This is the first video or picture I have ever seen of the process computer. This was a really slow machine that played a critical roll in the accident.
Hey, thanks for sharing this and for watching my video! Are you talking about the reactor 3 monitoring system at 4:23?
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex Yes... I assume that is the system called skala? There is so very little written about this computer. Thanks for your video. I would love to follow in your foot steps and visit the plant. So very fascinating.
@@dfestus that's exactly the skala system! It was surreal to see it in person, we are not used to computers being the size of a room! If you're passionate about it, I really recommend going, it's a unique experience
@@dfestus actually u are correct there is NO Footage of the skaka
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex fun fact looking at the latest printouts before the explosion would tell you that there was going to be an explosion
I’ve been looking for a Chernobyl tour video like this for ages. Finally find it. Absolutely breathe taking footage. Well done mate, I just subscribed, wish you success for your channel ✌🏻
Thank you so much Brad, I'm really happy this is what you were looking for!
Oh god , this is literally so sad. We should be thankful for the liquidators of what they've done! :(
this should start getting the views it deserves soon, it was on the front page for me
Front page?? Holy s✖️✖️t! Thanks for letting me know!
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex Front page here also. Amazing work men!
I'm surprised nobody is talking about the voice whispering "hey" at 12:30 It sounds a little bit spooky.
Its amazing reactor 3 didn't get damaged with such a proximity to reactor 4.
Awesome video. That operator crying at the shutdown of Reactor 3 got to me. He probably worked there for years, and I can totally understand his sentiment. Thanks for sharing!
Imagine all those years that no one was allowed to enter the #4 corridors. On camera they probably saw some creepy shit, imagine watching something deteriorate over decades on cameras (yes I know security cameras weren’t a thing back then but just imagine if they were)
and yet there must be a couple of decayed dead bodies somewhere under the inaccessible reactor 4 rubble still waiting to be found.
An extremely well produced video! Good job and keep up the amazing work!
Thank you Domagoj, that's very kind! I'll do my best, in the meantime feel free to check out my Pripyat video 🖤
That control room was eerie, yet beautiful. Great video and haunting music.
This is insane, just mind blowing that you can go there
Thanks for watching and for your comment 🖤 it really is a mind blowing experience, I already wanna go back!
12:40 Literally the scariest part in this video. :0
Thank you for making this video, fascinating, and sad knowing the horrible consequences that came from this situation. You deserve more views, and an award for you effort, and work.
Thank you for your comment, that's very kind! I'm very passionate about this topic and happy so many people are enjoying this little video I made
Its a great footage, i cant skip anything about chernobyl. This footage deserves million views.
Thanks a lot Mansoor! New video is coming this Sunday, see you then!
Looking down on the lid of Reactor 3, you must have felt like Valery Ivanovich Perevozchenko as he looked down on the lid of Reactor 4 and saw the tops of the control rods jumping up and down just before the lid blew
This is awesome. To the point and respectful, good work! Cheers from Finland!
Thank you for watching and for this very kind comment! 🖤 🇫🇮
Amazing documentary! Completely new material, and it is obvious that you care a lot. Thank you for sharing it with us :)
Thank you for the video mate! No drama , no acting. You let us feel to our bones as if we were there with you. I will watch all your videos and donate. Great job! Thanks again.
Everytime I see the huge number 3 Reactor Hall, and the lid of the RBMK reactor itself, it gets my heart thumping. Those fuel channel caps alone weigh in at 400 kilograms each: the force of an explosion needed to lift that entire lid up into the air is pretty unimaginable. It truly was an epic explosion that trashed unit 4. Without much doubt, this was the worst man-made peace time disaster in history: and they desperately tried to cover it up until every other country asked the USSR: "Hey?! Why are the radiation levels so ridiculously high???". Even then, the downplaying and lying continued. Incredible video, thanks.
I second everthing you said Matthew! And thanks for watching!
Where does the number 400 Kg come from? They were only around 50 Kg. Also, there was a large, delayed response in the USSR as well, the Government Commission didn't even know that radiation levels were so high until a General from the Chemical Troops (Pikalov, I believe) sounded the alarm. And still, the USSR scientists from NIKIET and Kurchatov tried to cover their own tracks by blaming the operators, a good chunk of those lies and mistruths spread by the government are still believed in the west today, meanwhile on the Russian internet, it's even worse. The whole disaster is a mess, and it can take months for one to wrap their own heads over the incident.
I was just 10 years old when the incident at reactor 4 happened. Luckily I was living in Southern California with my family when it happened. But I'll never forget hearing about that incident since then.
Amazing footage indeed! The atmosphere there even on film is truly something else. The video of the reactor 3 shutdown really shows the pride these people had for their work.
Astonishing. Thank you for doing this!
Goosebumps, a great video, well documented, and the factual explanations, great.
The power is coming from the Elephants foot
fun fact elephants foot is the remains of the fuel from unit 4!
@@battlecatz8319 as well as molten concrete and steel
@@YeOldeGeezer hm never heard that before but now i know
@@battlecatz8319 there’s a video all about the elephants foot. In fact it is the thumbnail to the video
@@YeOldeGeezer nice
10:10 -> The original position of the AZ-5 button at the time of the accident was not on the top-left where Yulia pointed, but 60cm below on the down-left side of the panel. After the disaster control panels of Units 1-3 were modified. The location of the button moved towards the top of the panel and button itself changed from push to switch.
Amazing! I was shook when I saw you walking on the lid of reactor 3! This video definitely deserves more views!
Thank you Parth, I'm happy you liked it!
It's literally like traveling back in time. It's so surreal. But fascinating. Thank you so much for making this video!
Thank you for watching! It always makes me happy to know people are enjoying this little thing
glad this is getting popular, well deserved
Imagining somewhere down the line after many years, when the radiations levels would have returned to normal inside the reactor no.4 and someone like you would be visiting the reactor 4 as if opening a mummy from pyramids, and people watching the vlog on another platform like KZhead. Brings me chills man ! Excellent Video , the background music and much more things were fantastic.
Thank you so much Aditya, I'm very happy you enjoyed the video! If I ever gain access to that part of the building it would be mind blowing. I'd have to buy a better camera for sure!
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex Radiation have several effects on recording equipment. Even good cameras would have distorced photos/videos inside the Unit 4. But obviously if somehow someone gain acess to the reactor area the radiation levels won't be that high, so cameras would work without critical issues.
Reactor 4 won't be accessible at all for a long long time, probably won't be after we and the generation after us die off from old age. Hell, might have to build a new containment building because trying to remove said reactor and debris as well as all the sand and lead thrown on top of the reactor will take years to get rid of.
@@wazzdawgprob even 10th gen will not be able to look at it
Brother, I don't usually comment but this is incredible. New sub. I like how you took some time to reflect on the lives lived and died there. Bravo!
Thank you so much Nirvan! Yes this is a subject I'm very passionate about, I hope I came off as respectful as possible!
This video needs more views! And you got yourself a new subscriber.
So fascinating! It’s un-fathomable to understand all the engineering that went into designing and building this reactor, including all the parts and materials that went into the final product. It’s just so unreal.
Yeah I always find myself thinking about the complexity of the structures I visit! Engineering marvels
Crazy footage, I loved watching this video, as a person that watched the series and did a small research on Chernobyl's influence on nature, this is fascinating!
Thank you Ron! Nature around Chernobyl is an amazing subject, that place became one of the biggest natural reservations in the world
Well still, the series is highly inaccurate and not a good source of information on the incident.
Thanks for putting this up. Amazing stuff to see. Legend
Thank you for your comment!
A moment of silence to all firefighters who tought it was just a normal fire
Whats crazy is how young most of the victims were. In their mid to early 20's
Yes, the average age in Pripyat was sooo low, and during the night shift at the plant they'd have the younger, less experienced guys. Can't imagine how those young men must have felt.
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex No jokes here, but if I was an engineer there and the reactor couldn't be stopped, I'd just run as far as I could to prevent me from dying, and probably die from radiation.
@@ThatAviationGamer I can imagine at least somebody thought about just running away! But when the explosion happened then they still didn't know how bad the situation really was, plus they were fed lies by government official, and the city was closed. Yes they also had a strong sense of community, putting a common goal before their own individual health, and for this we can only admire them.
@@ThatAviationGamer If everyone felt that way, we would have had hundreds of thousands of deaths instead of thousands, because all the cleanup workers would have ran away instead of risking their own lives to save others. In any case, potentially risking your life to contain and repair the situation is part of the job expectations of a nuclear plant worker, sort of like a ship's crew being responsible for saving passengers first. If you aren't prepared to make that sacrifice, then don't get into that line of work. These people considered the control room to be their post, and they didn't just abandon it and run at the first sign of trouble, and I respect them for it.
Thank you for your time and effort making this video, thank you to the good lady showing you around, THANK YOU to the Firemen of Pripyat. 11:07 that memorial is CHILLING.
Thank you very much for saying this Daniel. And yes, the memorial was a really touching part of the trip, which was so eye opening as a whole
thank you, amazing footage. i visited Pripjat and Chernobyl in 2019 aswell in private tour with friends(will share your vid to them aswell), but getting into control rooms is next level.
Glad you made it to Pripyat! What part of the year did you go in? I also have a video inside Pripyat here on the channel. I don't think it was possible to get into the control room until late 2019 or early 2020, you gotta go back! 😁
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex i went in the beginning of August, it was 34C sunny weather outside. if im correct , there was control room tour option also for like 250 eur extra back then but it was more difficult to arrange and most of my friends would not dare to go inside anyway. i think foggy dark autumn in Pripjat would probably give much different vibe, next time il try oct/november😀
@@lauriL90 I agree 100%, we went in late July (only possible date due to lockdowns etc), but I really wanna go back in October!
What an amazing video, thank you so so much! ☀️
8:10 you can tell things get serious when she switches from a normal surgical mask to an actual respirator. She isn't afraid of one of the most contagious virus in human history but afraid of radioactive dust.
Yep, at that point she told all of us to switch from surgical masks to the respirator provided by the facility!
One is way more dangerous than the other, I think you can guess which is which (oh and did you know, that according to a guy who worked a lot with radiation, plutonium tastes sweet)
@@theicelandicnationalist2.023 indeed i knew it tasted sweet
Probably because being contagious has nothing to do with being deadly. The common cold is "one of the most contagious viruses" too. But if you are young and in reasonably good health, you have almost 100% chance of surviving Coronavirus. Whereas a person who works in a damn nuclear exclusion zone _will_ get a damaging or deadly dose of radiation if they fail to protect themselves properly. A virus does not have a cumulative effect, either you get it or you dont. Radiation accumulates every time you are exposed to it. In any case, where do you get that she is "not afraid" of coronovirus? She is wearing a surgical mask to protect herself, which is what the government tells us to do to be safe. Because she doesnt wear a full respirator around all day, it means she laughs at coronavirus? Have you _ever_ seen someone wear a respirator all day to avoid Covid? It is not feasible or realistic. All she is doing is following government safety procedures in both cases, and you insult her by suggesting she neglects or minimizes Covid safety. She did everything she is supposed to do.
@@justforever96 I don't think Random Channel was making light about it, just you took issue with his comment, just honestly let it be, we do the best one can and in a couple years
They still wear the white hats!!!
Thank you so much for bringing this to us.
Such a good video to watch, very well edited and put together with the right amount of video to audio ratio. I was never old enough to be able to see this on the news, however my dad actually watched this happened on the news. around the same time this happened. I always wonder what this place would be look like if this disaster never happened!
🔥🔥🔥amazing documentation⚠️
Thank you so much! It's my first ever video, so I'm very happy you liked it. Next monday I'll publish another one exploring Pripyat! See you then :)
this is insane footage that not too many people can obtain. i was honestly shocked it didn't have more views. especially with access to Reactor 4.
Thank you Josh! Well if you consider this is the first video I ever made and I opened a brand new KZhead channel just to post it... It's not bad 😁
Absolutely astounding video! Thank you so much for making this. Super interesting to watch
Thank you Kalle, I really appreciate your support!
That was incredible. Thank you so very much
This is insanely incredible documentary so faaaar. I appreciate your work☺👍👍👍by the way the answers u gave to many of ur commenters tells the kind of person u r. U did a wonderful job.
Thank you so much Aishwarya! I'm really happy you liked this video. It's a subject I'm really passionate about, and I love talking to the people who support it with their comments :)
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex nearly 99 nuclear accidents happened so far. 443 nuclear reactors are there worldwide. But Chernobyl is the most horrific tragedy. U said in one of ur comments that electronic devices absorb more radiation. Well that's a new thing to learn for me. And one more thing I wish to share with u, is corona virus🦠😷 is a genetically engineered virus in Wuhan. It's a form of bioterrorism / biowar which can cause mass extinction. There r many interesting things to be shared. Hope u upload more wonderful works. Good Luck🤞🤞
Thats really amazing, thanks for that!
Thank you for watching!
Wow, insane coverage man. Thanks for sharing. Subbed.
Thank you Sam, that's much appreciated!
Good job man I really appreciate this documentary ❤️
Wow - thank you for a totally immersive and illuminating experience. Incredible footage and great production. Thank you from Sydney, Aust - Dave (new sub)
Hey Dave! Thank you so much for saying this, it really means a lot to me! I'm glad you enjoyed my video! I have relatives over there in Australia, I'll have to go visit them some day when your borders open up again! Take care
Such a wonderful video with such a great tour. This deserves millions of views. Btw can u please mention the music used? The music are too calming in nature.
Hi Srijit, thank you so much for watching and for your kind comment! You can find this and more great music on Fesliyan Studios website
Wow! Thanks for this. I have never seen anything from Chernobyl like this from this perspective. I watch a lot of "stalker" footage from Pripyat but this is the best footage I have seen from the reactors. Definitely gained and new subscriber here!
Thank you so much! Im aware of Kerosan but don't know them personally. They're crazy! 😆
Thank you. I just finished reading Midnight at Chernobyl. This gave me an understanding of the plant layout I was reading about.
A truly amazing video, and one which sends a constant chill at the same time. I was in Pripyat and Chernobyl in 2010, but I didn’t get anywhere near the inside of the plant building; we were just shown that memorial mark. Really an interesting, yet so eerie video.
Thank you very much Joachim! How was your experience there? I would have loved to go so early on, when there still wasn't so much casual tourism
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex Well, now I see your video, I am quite envious that I did not get the chance to go inside the plant, but I am sure it was due to radiation precautions then in 2010. I was on holiday in Kiev, and I could not let the chance to visit Pripyat/Chernobyl pass me by, so I booked with an agency which made daytrips from the capital. I found myself on a mini-bus with a group of Danish people (I am Norwegian), though I was too busy taking it all in to do much interacting with anyone. I’ve always been totally fascinated by anything regarding the Soviet Union since I was barely in my teens, so to actually be going to the site of the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster was very daunting. We were allowed to walk individually, though only inside designated buildings in Pripyat, so I got to see one of the schools, a factory, a hospital (where those firemens’ uniforms were stored in the basement), the Polessya hotel, the swimming pool and of course the area with the ferris wheel. I had wanted to go inside an appartment building, but we weren’t allowed. For safety reasons, the guide informed us. One hell of a trip. I am sure you felt similar when you visited!
@@BangAverage10 what an amazing experience!! You must have been on one of the very early tours, I don't think they were allowed before 2010, and you did absolutely the right thing booking it even with random people! I totally get how you felt, I've always been fascinated by Chernobyl and Pripyat, so finally being there in person was soooo unbelievable! Back then it sure wasn't possible to visit unit 4 of the power plant, they only allowed it in late 2019. And I think only scientists or research teams were allowed inside at all back then. But if you get the chance, I really recommend doing it now!
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex It appears they started as early as 2002 with the tours. I just know it was definitely prior to 2010, as I'd seen KZhead footage of people venturing there already. I guess it is a much bigger industry nowadays even compared to when I was there, although I do seem to remember reading that there were parts of Pripyat which had been cordoned off to the public, and so the amount of buildings you may actually enter has been reduced. I could remember wrong, mind. It certainly seems we had similar motives in going :) I am not sure I'll ever go back, probably not, but your video certainly woke up a big curiousity in me regarding entering the building of the reactors. You were so close to 'ground zero', so to speak. I am amazed they let anyone that near. The levels of radiation were not too high? How long were you allowed to stay on top of the reactor 3 core?
@@BangAverage10 Yeah I remember those very early videos of people dressed in full protective suits going inside the plant! Back then they would visit reactor 2 instead of number 3 like I did. We were mere meters away from reactor 4, in fact we were only allowed around 5 minutes or less in control room 4, and if I remember correctly around the same amount time, maybe a little longer, on top of reactor 3. Levels are definitely higher than normal, but as you know if you stay there for a few minutes it's not dangerous.
That was a for real once in a lifetime experience. RIP all those killed involved in this disaster and thoughts to those many many who suffer today from it.
Very well documented and put together. Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
What a fascinating video! Thank you for sharing!
Seeing the controlroom feels so eerie yet amazing! Also i love your accent
Thank you for the kind words! 🖤 Haha where do you think my accent is from?
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex oof i'm reaply bad at recognizing accents, but my best guess is slavic ^^'
@@shikkithefirst5393 Oh wow that's a first! 😆 I'm Italian actually, but yeah I don't have the stereotypical MAMA MIA accent
@@ForgottenWondersUrbex ahahaha like i said i'm bad at accents, i just know that i love it when people have one 😂 If it makes you feel better mt accent has often been discribed as "distincly european"
@@shikkithefirst5393 haha no sweat! Where are you from?
Excellent video. So many lives were lost and destroyed when this happened. So many brave men sacrificed their own lives to save the world from further damage. I was 5 when this happened, and I'll never forget it. God bless those courageous men, and their loved ones.
wow, thanks for sharing your visit!