People, it was never completed. The only radioactive materials there were the radiography equipment used for welding inspections. There was never any fuel there. BTW, it's Hartsville Nuclear Plant.
Hybrid Wolf.. it happens all the time .. whoever controlls the electricity can be like a cartel as its necessary. so lots of people try to get in on that game then get shut down before its finished yet the construction still generates allot of revinue for others like workers and private construction companies . I once hauled a dismantaled ng turbine out of great falls montana power plant that didnt even have one hour on it and was sold to a third world country.. something like in this video probably cost close to 100 million to build
Wow, an unfinished Nuclear Reactor site!? That's a sad view tbh. All of those materials gone to waste like the hundreds of tons of concrete, rebar and wood. Imagine the house one could've built with all of that!!
to me abandoned places are remnants of man, that nature is taking over is great... it shows that over time all the cement and steel goes back in time to dirt and trees. Thanks for the awesome video!
Years ago my engineering society took a tour of the Midland Michigan Nuclear power plant while it was under construction. I remember looking down into the containment room at the reactor vessel. A man was welding on top of the reactor and he looked like an ant, everything about the plant was bigger than life.The door to the chamber itself was huge, probably 14 foot square, 4 foot thick concrete with a 1" SS liner all on hinges.! Everything about the plant was enormous!
They wouldn't bring nuclear fuel or anything radioactive to a nuclear power plant that was never finished. Usually nuclear fuel is loaded into the reactor after the reactor has been completed and tested to be sure it was safe. As for the piles of junk that are left laying around... I'm pretty sure that's just what it is... junk. Those could have been meant for when the plant was finished and probably forgotten about when construction was halted and the site was abandoned.
Really cool video, crazy to see such a massive structure practically untouched. Also glad to see you left everything as it was (I guess it's just something I find better to do when exploring like this). Where is this plant by the way? It looks absolutely massive compared to others I've seen, and looks like quite a waste to just leave. Why did they pull the plug, who built it and when? So many questions lol, love the video though!
Thanks for posting the vid! I enjoy the architecture of the place. If it were anywhere near where I live, the entire thing would be graffiti, and young people would have paintball matches there! rc
An actual power plant that was in use would never be left in such a state once it was decided to shut it down. When it is completely decommissioned (which takes 20-30 years), chances are there will only be a spent fuel pool left surrounded by a very high and nasty fence with plenty of warning signs to stay out.
I am so glad that ladder did not go all the way up that cooling tower, can you imagine? really interesting explore and a great edit with sound kept as it should be! too many urbex video's are ruined with awful soundtrack choices. this was spot on. location i don't much care for, me being a million miles away across the pond, but it looks like a swim back across the border to me ;-) i wouldn't think there's much of the site left by now! i wish you had more urbex video's as your pretty darn good at them. Thanks for sharing another great adventure & safety is no accident!!
BackyardExploration i personally have never climbed that tower. it has always seemed too windy when ive attempted it. it's never stopped my friends, but that ladder is pretty scary imo. maybe someday i'll return to face my fear.. or i'll just keep climbing other stuff!
If I were a kid I'd be playing there all the time. Surprised not to see any graffiti. I find it interesting that they had radiation suits and hats on site before the place was finished. TFS
After 30 years I still remember this visit like it was yesterday. The plant was never finished, it almost dove the utility company into bankruptcy. The rules and regulations for nuclear power plants put an end to there construction here in the USA..
I cant fathom why this place would be HOT! A reactor is not loaded with rods until the whole plant is finished and many tests are performed to have it certified.
lol, hot doesn't have to mean fuel... hot as in they are patrolling this place heavily.. and sticking them with insane fines/ stealing their photo gear.
Duplicate cable tray rooms with miles and miles of control cables. Everything had back ups even entire rooms! The steam generators were bigger than buses. After 30 years I still remember this visit like it was yesterday. The plant was never finished, it almost dove the utility company into bankruptcy. The rules and regulations for nuclear power plants put an end to there construction here in the USA.. .
Been there, done that, even know the history. Yes, it is as awesome as the photos make it out to be. No, it is not radioactive. No, it was never used or even tested (as it isn't complete). As stated above, it was about 1/2 finished when construction was cancelled & they just left it to rot.
@Christ Artell. That's not Satsop. The tower stairs go zig-zag style. And aren't as tall as these appear. I could be wrong. I work at the old NewWood Manufacturing plant next to one of the towers. Unfortunately PDA has us working security or else id say go check it out. As a RentaCop, they don't pay me enough to do this. Lol why? I love exploring places like this. I Want to explore those towers on my day off. How do people get in?
Mr. Artell is almost right. Site cannot be 'hot' as in 'radioactive'. Plant was never online, no radioactive material was ever there despite the hard hats and clothing present in the video. Nothing nuclear would be left there anyway. But you can still be fined for being there and it is dangerous (easy to fall etc.)
J G Schubert Sorry for the confusion. As I have said before, There is no risk of radiation exposure here. I thought the description would imply that. The site was never completed after all.
Looks like it was never finished, after the nine mile incident in ny, public trust in nuclear generators was sevearly hampered, and many construction projects lost funding, some almost near completion. There are three at Washington st hanford site in various phases of completion
Mostly in Northern NJ. I have been to places like the Essex County Jail (which was kind of sketchy) and Overbrook Asylum (which is gone). It has been awhile since I have explored any abandoned places though. If you have any ideas send me a personal message. Maybe we can get a few people together and check something out.
Thanks for this video! Isn't it dangerous to go into those areas bc of the radiation? I know they get rid of most of it but I heard that stuff lingers for awhile.
Wonder if it was meant to be a a BWR or PWR reactor. Looks like you guys were in what would have been fuel handling and the reactor's pressure vessel. I wouldn't mind walking around. I get to walk around a working reactor so it would be neat to compare what this one would have looked like.
Adam .T no, the reactor pressure vessel reveals it was a PWR, if it was a boiling water reactor it would have been skinny at the top, then expanded to a larger diameter at the bottom and have a giant wet well tube below that. This is too skinny to be a BWR
Adam .T Please disregard my comment, i did some research and you are infact right that it was supposed to have 4 BWRs not PWRs the reactor itself looks like a PWR
***** Holy shit there is no way you could do that here.You would probably be investigated for asking. People aren't even allowed on site without permission and a good reason to be there.
***** I'm not sure why anyone would want to see the inside of the plant anyway. it just looks like an industrial building with a lot of pipes and equipment. The fuel pool is kinda cool but i walk past it just about every day so it's not that interesting to me. Mostly your just going to see a lot of big industrial equipment we use for moving stuff around. Unless you come during an outage you couldn't even see us moving fuel rods around. Even then you wouldn't be allowed near anything interesting because the dose would be to high for non employees. Maybe a research reactor would be different but I'm at a workhorse power station. It's not as interesting as people think.
Lol i Work less than.100yards from the Satsop towers. Your allowed to go to the top if you sign a form saying PDA not liable if you fall off. :) Im a security gaurd there. Its always impressive.
Some one below said something about there is a 20-30 yer decommissioning for these plants once they've been used. That is far too high a figure; if the plant is in good repair at shutdown, decommissioning (removal of fuel and all radioactive elements of the plant) shouldn't take more than 2-3 years. The fuel is reloaded every 18 months anyway, and a total reload involving the total removal of all fuel (never done) would take a couple of months. Ft St Vrain nuke in Colorado took 3 years to completely decommission and then rebuild as a gas turbine power plant. Even the melted reactor at TMI, what I'd think is a worst case, was completely disassembled (including the other onsite reactor) and removed - all of it - in 14 years, leaving behind only some radioactive concrete within the reactor containment.
The really scary thing is that there has yet to be developed a successful way of disposing of nuclear waste. I just read an article in LA Times about the mess at Hanford, WA. >>> goo.gl/wzwzwx Then there is the Savannah River site >>> goo.gl/RHJHjT Both are leaking highly radioactive liquid from old tanks. Fukishima is another extremely dangerous situation.
No. The way to do that was developed along with nuclear power, and that was to build waste processing plants back when nuclear generators were first proposed. Unfortunately, it's cheaper to mine new uranium than it is to recycle te 95% fuel in the waste. The chemical processing needed was developed in WWII for, among other things, separating plutonium from reactor fuel. LFTR reactors could use all the fuel in a load, not just the top 5%, and burn 95% of the existing waste to boot.
Hill Penfold Savanna River and Hanford, Washington aren't commercial power reactor sites. They are U.S. government sites for creating the materials for atomic weapons. Much of the activity was done quick, driven by national defense concerns. It was self-regulated activity and often activity that had never been done before - different creature from the commercial electrical operations. Fukushima reactors, unlike the ones in the U.S., have no hard containment structure and the new U.S. reactors will have a convectional cooling system that does not rely on pumps. It would be like using THE HINDENBURG as an example of why air travel is unsafe in the jet age.
There are about 4 or 5 abandoned half built Nuclear Power plants that were started and never finished in Ukraine many of them were based on the same design specs as Chernobyl the work grinded to a halt after the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Everything still sits where the workers left it including construction equipment, hand tools and other stuff.
onrr1726 We are a nation of gross waste. I can't imagine just walking off and leaving hand tools and equipment. It's easy to do when you just charge the taxpayers for new equipment for the next project.
Deb Morgan Meyers that's how was in the USSR when they ran out of money they just abandoned everything where it sat. Never mattered as they made so much stuff in mass quantities any ways. There hundreds of abandoned military supply depots in the former USSR that are the same way equipment sits where it was parked or stored abandoned and unguarded and has not moved scents it was put there 20 or 30 years ago.
+onrr1726 Thank your luck they were never built and operated based on Chernobyl specs. Chernobyl, (the one that "nuked" itself and others on the same site), was basically a reactor sitting inside a metal building. No multi-layer stainless steel/reinforced concrete dome, or other resistant capsule.
+1Klooch Chernobyl had a 500 ton concrete lid on the reactor building the force of the blast lifted the lid clear off the building and it fell back into the reactor core where it still sits today. The power plant was built with garbage materials something the Soviet authority's in Moscow were unaware of. The plant manger and several people involved with the design and construction of the plant were due for promotions with in the communist party and saw it fit to cut corners by all means possible to complete Reactor 4 to 6 months to a year early. An extensive investigation by the KGB found this out after reviewing the construction plans and lists of what was used compared to what should have been used. All people involved with the change of products and cutting corners were sent to Siberia on long prison sentence.
There was nothing nuclear or radioactive about this place. It's an unfinished nuclear power plant and it wasn't even close to being operational. It looks like this place was about half done and then abandoned. Those people who were saying this place was radioactive... I'd say no. However, it did look like the reactor vessel was being constructed at 3:43. That or it's a generator.
hey, Thanks man! The audio is something I quickly put together for the edit. I just wanted to create something to set the mood and I think I did an alright job. I'm so stoked someone finally said something about the 'soundtrack", so thank again!
***** yeah, I think you did a great Job. I graduated about over a year and I appreciate other film peoples work. Whether amateur or not, how did you create the music to sound like that? I try to do music for my work too but I want to be more like yours. Is it possible I can buy that song from this video on iTunes? I listen to that type of music all the time. It sounds like a mix of Robert Rich and Steve Roach. It's cool.
Been looking for a place to host a STALKER larp, and this would be perfect. Would you be willing to share the location if we promised to clean up after ourselves?
If you feel like going here please understand you are doing so at your own risk. People have been caught and charged heavy fines. Location is under the watchful eye of security who have nothing better to do.
looks like an old government retrofit/surplus vessel. that's a welder not just a generator! and you should have taken better video of that crane next to the pilot house../really cool!
yeah there were four of them. @ the 2:30 mark through 2:55 were filmed in there. its the structure in the center. I can't believe I didn't include any of the footage from the other reactor building. at that one you can actually climb over into the reactor vessel.
wow it looks like the windings are still in the generator. that's all copper and alot of it. I can't believe they didn't recycle it or the scrappers haven't gotten too it.
It would make a great film set for a star wars or bond movie, plus star wars 7 was filmed in the rebel x-wing base seen at green ham common (where the nuclear weapons where stored in the cold war) in my country england :D
First of all, this is an amazing location by its style, size and the fact to #$%#$% vandals destroyed/tagged it. I would love to know where it is tho (in private).
exactly what I said... This is NOT Satsop!! I know people who have been given legit access to Satsop in the past, but I'm not sure how they went about getting it.. If I was nearby I'd be sure check it out, but I'm stuck on the east coast myself.
this site was never home to any radioactive materials. I'm not to concerned. Actually I'm more worried about falling to my death every time I visit this location.
At 3:10 you can see they are in a place called the wet well, where they would have been inside primary reactor containment had the reactor been finished. The reactor base is the round concrete on the right and the primary reactor containment wall is the one on the right. Had the plant been finished, that area would have been highly contaminated ;)
Sure. I'll fire off a message with my e-mail. I spent a couple hours of Google-Fu last night and I may have figured out where this is, and the similar site, but I'll leave that to e-mail.
People, it was never completed. The only radioactive materials there were the radiography equipment used for welding inspections. There was never any fuel there. BTW, it's Hartsville Nuclear Plant.
Why was it never finished and shut down
Karen Rhodes no this is marble hills I live near it
Hybrid Wolf.. it happens all the time .. whoever controlls the electricity can be like a cartel as its necessary. so lots of people try to get in on that game then get shut down before its finished yet the construction still generates allot of revinue for others like workers and private construction companies . I once hauled a dismantaled ng turbine out of great falls montana power plant that didnt even have one hour on it and was sold to a third world country.. something like in this video probably cost close to 100 million to build
Wow, an unfinished Nuclear Reactor site!? That's a sad view tbh. All of those materials gone to waste like the hundreds of tons of concrete, rebar and wood. Imagine the house one could've built with all of that!!
7:17 your shots give an awesome sense of scale to the cooling tower
to me abandoned places are remnants of man, that nature is taking over is great... it shows that over time all the cement and steel goes back in time to dirt and trees. Thanks for the awesome video!
Stunning. The stills are gorgeous, but the video with people gives a sense of perspective and life among the ruins.
Well done,you guys got some great footage! Thanks for posting this!!
Years ago my engineering society took a tour of the Midland Michigan Nuclear power plant while it was under construction. I remember looking down into the containment room at the reactor vessel. A man was welding on top of the reactor and he looked like an ant, everything about the plant was bigger than life.The door to the chamber itself was huge, probably 14 foot square, 4 foot thick concrete with a 1" SS liner all on hinges.! Everything about the plant was enormous!
They wouldn't bring nuclear fuel or anything radioactive to a nuclear power plant that was never finished. Usually nuclear fuel is loaded into the reactor after the reactor has been completed and tested to be sure it was safe. As for the piles of junk that are left laying around... I'm pretty sure that's just what it is... junk. Those could have been meant for when the plant was finished and probably forgotten about when construction was halted and the site was abandoned.
Really cool video, crazy to see such a massive structure practically untouched. Also glad to see you left everything as it was (I guess it's just something I find better to do when exploring like this).
Where is this plant by the way? It looks absolutely massive compared to others I've seen, and looks like quite a waste to just leave. Why did they pull the plug, who built it and when? So many questions lol, love the video though!
Interesting stuff!
Thanks for posting this,
David
Thanks for the video!Hartsville NPP certainly looks massive, and would be a great place to tour!Later, Matt
i wish we could have tours.
Thanks for posting the vid!
I enjoy the architecture of the place.
If it were anywhere near where I live, the entire thing would be graffiti, and young people would have paintball matches there!
rc
If that abomination was anywhere near where I live, I'd move away immediately.
But what a great place for paintball !!! r c
An actual power plant that was in use would never be left in such a state once it was decided to shut it down. When it is completely decommissioned (which takes 20-30 years), chances are there will only be a spent fuel pool left surrounded by a very high and nasty fence with plenty of warning signs to stay out.
I am so glad that ladder did not go all the way up that cooling tower, can you imagine? really interesting explore and a great edit with sound kept as it should be! too many urbex video's are ruined with awful soundtrack choices. this was spot on. location i don't much care for, me being a million miles away across the pond, but it looks like a swim back across the border to me ;-) i wouldn't think there's much of the site left by now!
i wish you had more urbex video's as your pretty darn good at them. Thanks for sharing another great adventure & safety is no accident!!
The thing is, it DID go all the way up the cooling tower. And they climbed it! I was too scared to do that when I went, although I was alone as well.
BackyardExploration i personally have never climbed that tower. it has always seemed too windy when ive attempted it. it's never stopped my friends, but that ladder is pretty scary imo. maybe someday i'll return to face my fear.. or i'll just keep climbing other stuff!
Damn, I would love to check this out !!!!! Here in NJ my friends and I have explored abandoned places for years but never anything on this scale !!!!
If I were a kid I'd be playing there all the time. Surprised not to see any graffiti. I find it interesting that they had radiation suits and hats on site before the place was finished. TFS
After 30 years I still remember this visit like it was yesterday. The plant was never finished, it almost dove the utility company into bankruptcy. The rules and regulations for nuclear power plants put an end to there construction here in the USA..
Ugh, climbing on rusty metal ladders up a cooling tower, Just gives me the chills!
The place is WNP-3 and WNP-5, "Satsop Nuclear Power Plant", near Elma, Washington.
I cant fathom why this place would be HOT!
A reactor is not loaded with rods until the whole plant is finished and many tests are performed to have it certified.
lol, hot doesn't have to mean fuel... hot as in they are patrolling this place heavily.. and sticking them with insane fines/ stealing their photo gear.
My bad. I cant even imagine why they squander the tax money patrolling a white elephant
Lucien Alacard Because…. it is very possible that it is used for something else…..
bravo!
+Josef Venport Because the private owners (not taxpayers) are liable for what happens on their property.
wow, that wood cracking and echoing was epic!
Duplicate cable tray rooms with miles and miles of control cables. Everything had back ups even entire rooms! The steam generators were bigger than buses. After 30 years I still remember this visit like it was yesterday. The plant was never finished, it almost dove the utility company into bankruptcy. The rules and regulations for nuclear power plants put an end to there construction here in the USA..
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Been there, done that, even know the history. Yes, it is as awesome as the photos make it out to be. No, it is not radioactive. No, it was never used or even tested (as it isn't complete). As stated above, it was about 1/2 finished when construction was cancelled & they just left it to rot.
@Christ Artell. That's not Satsop. The tower stairs go zig-zag style. And aren't as tall as these appear. I could be wrong. I work at the old NewWood Manufacturing plant next to one of the towers. Unfortunately PDA has us working security or else id say go check it out. As a RentaCop, they don't pay me enough to do this. Lol why? I love exploring places like this. I Want to explore those towers on my day off. How do people get in?
Mr. Artell is almost right. Site cannot be 'hot' as in 'radioactive'. Plant was never online, no radioactive material was ever there despite the hard hats and clothing present in the video. Nothing nuclear would be left there anyway. But you can still be fined for being there and it is dangerous (easy to fall etc.)
hot as in being guarded I think he means
J G Schubert
Sorry for the confusion. As I have said before, There is no risk of radiation exposure here. I thought the description would imply that. The site was never completed after all.
Looks like it was never finished, after the nine mile incident in ny, public trust in nuclear generators was sevearly hampered, and many construction projects lost funding, some almost near completion. There are three at Washington st hanford site in various phases of completion
Mostly in Northern NJ. I have been to places like the Essex County Jail (which was kind of sketchy) and Overbrook Asylum (which is gone). It has been awhile since I have explored any abandoned places though. If you have any ideas send me a personal message. Maybe we can get a few people together and check something out.
Thanks for this video! Isn't it dangerous to go into those areas bc of the radiation? I know they get rid of most of it but I heard that stuff lingers for awhile.
This site is a State Prison now.
Yup. If you go here you're probably asking for it.
Wonder if it was meant to be a a BWR or PWR reactor. Looks like you guys were in what would have been fuel handling and the reactor's pressure vessel. I wouldn't mind walking around. I get to walk around a working reactor so it would be neat to compare what this one would have looked like.
It was going to have two GE BWR reactors.
Adam .T no, the reactor pressure vessel reveals it was a PWR, if it was a boiling water reactor it would have been skinny at the top, then expanded to a larger diameter at the bottom and have a giant wet well tube below that. This is too skinny to be a BWR
Adam .T Please disregard my comment, i did some research and you are infact right that it was supposed to have 4 BWRs not PWRs the reactor itself looks like a PWR
*****
Holy shit there is no way you could do that here.You would probably be investigated for asking. People aren't even allowed on site without permission and a good reason to be there.
*****
I'm not sure why anyone would want to see the inside of the plant anyway. it just looks like an industrial building with a lot of pipes and equipment.
The fuel pool is kinda cool but i walk past it just about every day so it's not that interesting to me. Mostly your just going to see a lot of big industrial equipment we use for moving stuff around. Unless you come during an outage you couldn't even see us moving fuel rods around. Even then you wouldn't be allowed near anything interesting because the dose would be to high for non employees.
Maybe a research reactor would be different but I'm at a workhorse power station. It's not as interesting as people think.
Lol i Work less than.100yards from the Satsop towers. Your allowed to go to the top if you sign a form saying PDA not liable if you fall off. :) Im a security gaurd there. Its always impressive.
The still shots up the tower are very good.
Di you guys ever find the room where the reactor vessel itself was going to go?
kinda looks like the one in Washington state near Aberdeen, it's a business park now can drive right up to the cooling towers
Some one below said something about there is a 20-30 yer decommissioning for these plants once they've been used. That is far too high a figure; if the plant is in good repair at shutdown, decommissioning (removal of fuel and all radioactive elements of the plant) shouldn't take more than 2-3 years. The fuel is reloaded every 18 months anyway, and a total reload involving the total removal of all fuel (never done) would take a couple of months. Ft St Vrain nuke in Colorado took 3 years to completely decommission and then rebuild as a gas turbine power plant. Even the melted reactor at TMI, what I'd think is a worst case, was completely disassembled (including the other onsite reactor) and removed - all of it - in 14 years, leaving behind only some radioactive concrete within the reactor containment.
The really scary thing is that there has yet to be developed a successful way of disposing of nuclear waste. I just read an article in LA Times about the mess at Hanford, WA. >>> goo.gl/wzwzwx Then there is the Savannah River site >>> goo.gl/RHJHjT Both are leaking highly radioactive liquid from old tanks. Fukishima is another extremely dangerous situation.
No. The way to do that was developed along with nuclear power, and that was to build waste processing plants back when nuclear generators were first proposed. Unfortunately, it's cheaper to mine new uranium than it is to recycle te 95% fuel in the waste. The chemical processing needed was developed in WWII for, among other things, separating plutonium from reactor fuel. LFTR reactors could use all the fuel in a load, not just the top 5%, and burn 95% of the existing waste to boot.
Hill Penfold Savanna River and Hanford, Washington aren't commercial power reactor sites. They are U.S. government sites for creating the materials for atomic weapons. Much of the activity was done quick, driven by national defense concerns. It was self-regulated activity and often activity that had never been done before - different creature from the commercial electrical operations.
Fukushima reactors, unlike the ones in the U.S., have no hard containment structure and the new U.S. reactors will have a convectional cooling system that does not rely on pumps. It would be like using THE HINDENBURG as an example of why air travel is unsafe in the jet age.
There are about 4 or 5 abandoned half built Nuclear Power plants that were started and never finished in Ukraine many of them were based on the same design specs as Chernobyl the work grinded to a halt after the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Everything still sits where the workers left it including construction equipment, hand tools and other stuff.
i didnt know that, thanks!
onrr1726 We are a nation of gross waste. I can't imagine just walking off and leaving hand tools and equipment. It's easy to do when you just charge the taxpayers for new equipment for the next project.
Deb Morgan Meyers that's how was in the USSR when they ran out of money they just abandoned everything where it sat. Never mattered as they made so much stuff in mass quantities any ways. There hundreds of abandoned military supply depots in the former USSR that are the same way equipment sits where it was parked or stored abandoned and unguarded and has not moved scents it was put there 20 or 30 years ago.
+onrr1726 Thank your luck they were never built and operated based on Chernobyl specs. Chernobyl, (the one that "nuked" itself and others on the same site), was basically a reactor sitting inside a metal building. No multi-layer stainless steel/reinforced concrete dome, or other resistant capsule.
+1Klooch Chernobyl had a 500 ton concrete lid on the reactor building the force of the blast lifted the lid clear off the building and it fell back into the reactor core where it still sits today. The power plant was built with garbage materials something the Soviet authority's in Moscow were unaware of. The plant manger and several people involved with the design and construction of the plant were due for promotions with in the communist party and saw it fit to cut corners by all means possible to complete Reactor 4 to 6 months to a year early. An extensive investigation by the KGB found this out after reviewing the construction plans and lists of what was used compared to what should have been used. All people involved with the change of products and cutting corners were sent to Siberia on long prison sentence.
where at in NJ? I am now located in nyc. I'm always up for exploring with people.
Such a Sweet place !
What happened to this place ? A war ?
By the way, put some good background noise to improve the experience...
There was nothing nuclear or radioactive about this place. It's an unfinished nuclear power plant and it wasn't even close to being operational. It looks like this place was about half done and then abandoned. Those people who were saying this place was radioactive... I'd say no. However, it did look like the reactor vessel was being constructed at 3:43. That or it's a generator.
yeah, you'd need a harness, an industrial-type. there are ladders on the outside...
True, there are a few unfinished reactors in WA state
Hey, you did a good job filming this. Very nice, dark, eerie and pretty amazing.
What is the music btw? It is beautiful.
hey, Thanks man! The audio is something I quickly put together for the edit. I just wanted to create something to set the mood and I think I did an alright job. I'm so stoked someone finally said something about the 'soundtrack", so thank again!
***** yeah, I think you did a great Job. I graduated about over a year and I appreciate other film peoples work. Whether amateur or not, how did you create the music to sound like that? I try to do music for my work too but I want to be more like yours.
Is it possible I can buy that song from this video on iTunes? I listen to that type of music all the time. It sounds like a mix of Robert Rich and Steve Roach. It's cool.
Joshua Powers I'll check the old harddrive to see if i still have a copy of the track. I'll let you know!
Was the place ever in use or was it build and never used?
They show a bunch of stuff that is not concrete and steel @ 6:24. Are you sure none of this stuff can be contaminated?
Been looking for a place to host a STALKER larp, and this would be perfect. Would you be willing to share the location if we promised to clean up after ourselves?
what music is used in the background in the beginning
This is in Washington just outside the town of Elma towards Aberdeen right?
different location.
I'll be honest. Probably one of the scariest things I've seen. Nuclear and Abandoned aren't exactly two words you want to here nor that go together...
can somebody please tell me the name of this plant and where it is located?
This looks like WPPSS Plants 3 and 5 at Satsop, Washington. They were never finished. WPPSS defaulted on the bonds.
Ok i have to ask where is this at and is it still abandoned
Am I correct in assuming this is the former Hartsville N P
Site in Hartsville, TN. ?
>.> Fucking epic....also do you guys bring any protection (guns,Knifes) just in case something pops out?
7:48 is just epic . Imagine skydiving from the top.
I don't feel like it's talk enough to for that
If you feel like going here please understand you are doing so at your own risk. People have been caught and charged heavy fines. Location is under the watchful eye of security who have nothing better to do.
Security doesn't seem to mind these guys
Wasatch Freebord Crew Dude those guys made that comment lol. He was smoking a joint and they say marijuana causes brain damage.
that is crazy. looks like a westinghouse design just based off of the tower.
+InYuco Katan HAHA i was going to say it looks like one of TVA's. I have worked at Watts Bar for 2 years getting that up and going.
looks like an old government retrofit/surplus vessel.
that's a welder not just a generator!
and you should have taken better video of that crane next to the pilot house../really cool!
Where is this place?
where is this
Whats the name of the abandoned powerplant?
Whats the name of the nuclear power plant?
BRILLIANT!
What was the plant's name?
Government Spiders I think
yeah there were four of them. @ the 2:30 mark through 2:55 were filmed in there. its the structure in the center. I can't believe I didn't include any of the footage from the other reactor building. at that one you can actually climb over into the reactor vessel.
wow it looks like the windings are still in the generator. that's all copper and alot of it. I can't believe they didn't recycle it or the scrappers haven't gotten too it.
+ThatGUY1027 the coil was gone a few months after this video was made.
where is this?
Is the one that was recently tore down un indiana
you mean the lack of a roof and tons of exposed rebar didn't tell you that? :P
Amazing site. I'm jealous!
What was finished look like nice heavy construction
music where did you find it nice sound
Where was this taken at
+Rw Wayne Satsop Washington.
Oh, I didn't realize it was never finished. I thought it was used and abandoned.
Wow those trees growing in the cooling tower. Is this place being demolished or was it never completely built?
edit: didn't read description
It would make a great film set for a star wars or bond movie, plus star wars 7 was filmed in the rebel x-wing base seen at green ham common
(where the nuclear weapons where stored in the cold war) in my country england :D
exactly. and if there was I probably wouldn't go..
Was Xmen filmed here?
First of all, this is an amazing location by its style, size and the fact to #$%#$% vandals destroyed/tagged it. I would love to know where it is tho (in private).
lovely place!
es una central nuclear en proceso de construccion se ve rapidisimo nunca a tocado combustible nuclear es inucua
yeah, many 5 gallon buckets @ 6:11, construction most definetly
exactly what I said... This is NOT Satsop!!
I know people who have been given legit access to Satsop in the past, but I'm not sure how they went about getting it.. If I was nearby I'd be sure check it out, but I'm stuck on the east coast myself.
where is this??
Brittany Robertson Hartsville TN
its crazy there are many of these in the united states. there are atleast ten or twenty as far as I remember.
Why would you guys set foot in a place like that xD
It was abandoned for a reason...
nope. Satsop is amazing though.
much thanks :)
aperature labs???
Never any nuclear material on site to cause any contamination....
Awesome
I know where this is and it was never finished because of budget cuts there was never any fuel rods there
this site was never home to any radioactive materials.
I'm not to concerned. Actually I'm more worried about falling to my death every time I visit this location.
Pretty sure this is the one thats In my neck of the woods.
Is this the one that blew up in California back in the 50s 40
nope. this site was never completed. its mostly just a giant shell.
Wow cool what state is it in you don't mind me asking
At 3:10 you can see they are in a place called the wet well, where they would have been inside primary reactor containment had the reactor been finished. The reactor base is the round concrete on the right and the primary reactor containment wall is the one on the right. Had the plant been finished, that area would have been highly contaminated ;)
As soon as someone says "chemtrails," you know anything else they're gonna say is utter nonsense.
I want one of those yellow helms
I dont know why this page is called Government Spiders...
But it's cool anyways.
Sure. I'll fire off a message with my e-mail. I spent a couple hours of Google-Fu last night and I may have figured out where this is, and the similar site, but I'll leave that to e-mail.
that is sad really it could have made thousands of jobs and it wasnt completed what a waste of billions of dollars
they ran out of money