Nuclear beacons in the North of the USSR have become a huge problem

More than a hundred lighthouses have remained on the northern coast of Russia since Soviet times. They could work autonomously for many years, but after the collapse of the USSR they were abandoned. This is used by "metal hunters"
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[Andrew-vjep]

do have a look at SSML (speech synthesis markup language) for assisting with prosody, emphasis, pauses, etc.

[Rokkitohtori]

Thank you for an extremely interesting documentary, once again! 💚

[JBAutomotive]

This good content and video editing was ruined by that dumb computer voice.

[jasonbecraft]

The ultimate power source for your bunker...

[DandyDon]

Andy Mcloone also has a great video 'The Soviet Union's Deadly Abandoned Nuclear Generators'

[Boxfan-wfhz]

They should keep these operational as a fail safe, GPS satellite could be destroyed or fail

[christopherleubner]

A while back somebody scrapped one if these units removing the actual Sr90 power cell from it. Was very bad. ☹😵😵😵

[BrettonFerguson]

This is partly incorrect. While several RTGs were disassembled and scrapped or partially scrapped by scrap metal hunters, the ones at Sakhalin lighthouse were never touched by metal thieves. They weren't discovered lying on the shore in 2017. They were removed by the Russian Government in 2006. Most of the ones metal thieves got into were closer to populated areas in southern Russia, and in countries that broke away from Russia when the USSR collapsed. It probably happened, just at a different lighthouse. Not Sakhalin. There were 2500 RTGs all over the USSR powering hundreds of lighthouses and radio navigation beacons.

[psanf]

Get rid of the voice synthesizer, and provide real narration.

[Christopher_Giustolisi]

damn, that computer voice really ruins it.

[MixGaming]

amazing video, can you make a video about how chernobyl disaster radiation affected serbia?

[leechowning]

Entertainingly, most recent news is that they are beginning to deploy these again... because just as before their infrostructure is not up to maintaining these long range, remote stations.

[elijahlerma]

this is where Pablo maranus is located? Lol

[MISTERLeSkid]

I'm assuming a robotic voice was used for the narration, since pretty-much every important word was mis-pronounced.

[MissFoxification]

RTG's put out very little power, they could power a lightbulb and that's about it but they are reliable. If only idiots didn't tamper with them they are ideal for remote installations like that. The heat also protects them from the severe Russian winters, that's why we use them in space.

[karihamalainen]

Gulf of Finland have had multiple of such beacons.

[andrewgates]

Make a video about the seed and grain irradiators the ussr lost track of.

[vincentrusso]

The channel Plainly Difficult is the one stop shop for nuclear equipment disasters, from industrial scale to abandoned medical equipment RTG's etc.