Why These Soviet-Era Reactors Are Being Taken Apart

Step inside the complex world of nuclear decommissioning.

Correction: Slovakia/Czechoslovakia was a satellite state of the Soviet Union, not a full Soviet state.

Additional footage and images courtesy of EBRD, IAEA, JAVYS, Entenergy Corporation, Georgia Power, Ultra Safe Nuclear and U.S. Department of Energy.

Research sources:

Follow Get Construction Talking

Listen to The World's Best Construction Podcast by The B1M

#construction #architecture #energy

Ripping and/or editing this video is illegal and will result in legal action.

© 2024 The B1M Limited

[tulak]

Ehm, Slovakia was never part of the USSR. It was part of the Eastern Bloc, which is by far not the same. Back then, it was Czechoslovakia, which split into Czechia and Slovakia in 1994.

[LordManhattan]

Thank you for the instructions. I shall dismante my nuclear reactor tonight!

[merely-an-user]

"Slowakia was a part of Soviet Union" I'm dead 💀

[copperdraws]

I wish you would stop taking masterworks sponsorships.

[ingo_]

Bohunice 1 & 2 are WWER-440/230, the same type as Greifswald-1 to 4, so not that new, when the Bohunice units shut down, the Greifswald units were already 11 and 13 Years into their dismantlingprocess. Also Slovakia was never part of the sovietunion, Czechoslovakia was only member of the Warsaw Pact.

[briangarrow]

I’m probably one of the few people who watched this video that actually has worked on nuclear power plants. I’ve been fortunate enough to work on the containment vessel at a nuclear power station, the refueling machinery and the sacrificial shield walls of a nuclear reactor. I really believe that nuclear power has a role to play in our energy production matrix. And that opinion isn’t based on my previous work in the field. I’ve worked in multiple coal power stations, biomass and municipal waste stations, natural gas cogeneration plants and hydroelectric energy systems.

[DeadlySIlence]

30 years old? i'd say well over 50 years for most of the reactors.
And since when was slovakia part of the ussr? :o

[donc-m]

Confusing. It happened in 2011-2022 . So it's done. But is it expected to cost 1.3B US? And then you lead into Masterworks.

[GamingGrenade]

Now _this_ is a subject I wasn't expecting to learn about in this week's B1M video

[TobiKellner]

Did you just say that Slovakia was formerly part of the USSR?

[dadok]

Have been waiting for an episode about Slovakia for so long and the absolutely wrong pronunciation of our towns did not disappoint lol. Gotta love that you just gave up on Jaslovské bohunice and just called it just Bohunice, which is a totally different village instead instead :D

[CsendesMark]

2:01 formerly part of the
How do you fact check your stuff?

[LeVoDECoM]

Love the reports, but the ads oh boy pls dont

[-Tme]

The quality of the production and graphics in your videos is incredible!

[rampel]

Bulgaria also shut down it"s VVER-400/WWER. They don't meet some requirements for safety and bioshield. VVER-1000 work fine. However ours were not disassembled. Interesting video

[samueltrusik]

Slovakia is mentioned.

Thousands of Slovaks must watch!

[obongonigga]

Ummm Slovakia was never a part of the USSR and I don't get how Chernobyl nuclear disaster is related to these, unlike RBMK reactors used in Chernobyl, VVER design used here is inherently safer so I have reasons to believe it was shut down due to stupid politics, not actual security concern

[CalimehChelonia]

I once stood directly under a reactor pressure vessel, in the only nuclear power plant that was never put into operation and is now a kind of museum. It is located in Austria.

[buckyV]

Cheers to Fred and the team, y’all truly are the #1 channel for construction

[gecho]

Before SMRs can be fully adopted they have to uh you know ... exist.