inside Chernobyl's sarcophagus - the turbine hall & ventilation stack (chimney)

so, where's Chernobyl's old iconic chimney now, after they've dismantled it?
well, we shall find it... in the mighty hall of turbogenerators.

[speedysandisk]

When your dosimeter puts out a solid tone, you know it's time to go home 😅

[jackhartford]

Damn it’s like you wish you could turn down that high-pitched beeping noise in the background, but then you realize, that’s the sound of their radiation sensors, going off the whole time.

[ImotoriumVLOG]

Covered dosimeter with plastic bag, and touch everything with bare hand.

[m.b.amusic]

“Cough”

Light laughing “God bless you”

“It’s dusty”

[keithgray]

I respect you for documenting this, it is needed and historically important and I appreciate the risks you take to do it!

[Diehardstlcardinalsfan]

It’s just 3.6 don’t worry it’s just a chest x Ray

[HappyBirthday]

Tell me comrade ... how does an RBMK reactor explode?

[oetteo]

it's not inside the sarcophagus... it's the part not damaged by the explosion

[malcolmjw]

I'd wear a filtration mask going into ANY ex-Soviet power plant. The reason being, you just have no idea what you're be walking into. About 25 years ago I was shown around a (gas-fired thermal) power plant in St Petersburg to find absolutely everything coated in a snow of asbestos. Their method of removing the heavy asbestos cladding around all the turbines and steam pipes was to drag it off in chunks and pile it into wooden carts. The place was a death trap without being a place of nuclear disaster.
The situation has not improved much. Asbestos in Russia is simply ignored as a problem. The scale of lung cancer this causes and will continue to cause may be judged from the situation in the UK, where even now 2, 500 people die of mesothelioma every year (decades after legislation largely stopped its use).
Russian health and safety = oxymoron.

[peterjohnson]

Ah, you are so lucky to bask in Atom's holy glow

[Vinnay]

Corona: I'm a very deadly virus
Radiation: Cyka please. Hold my graphite.

[owenborg]

this guy trying to sound smarter "if we rotate to our east"

[ReaverLordTonus]

I'm sorry but if I heard the detectors screaming like that I'm running as fast AF the other direction.

[BadIdeas]

You couldn't pay me enough to walk in there, even with every piece of protective equipment. This dude is just in here with a helmet like nothing is wrong

[nulpointr]

If Sheldon was a Chernobyl tour guide.

[ImperialDiecast]

i actually prefer the old geiger counters that made the scary ticking noises than these modern ones that make harmless beeps.

[draco]

Today I learned, stay away from stains in the Chernobyl sarcophagus

[Rasectos]

People shouldn't be too worried about the possible radiation. It's no more than a chest x-ray.

[King-KJ]

*Watch’s HBOs Chernobyl*

YouTube Algorithm: “Hold my uranium”

[ryanhopf]

I don't know what is creepier, being there when it's dead silent, or being there with your Geiger counter blazing