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  • Опубліковано 12 гру 2022
  • At the end of the Cold War the Soviet Navy, bereft of funds, abruptly decommissioned 100 nuclear-powered submarines leaving behind a massive nuclear waste disposal problem. This program reviews the progress of the long-term project to properly dispose of the submarine's reactor cores and the major challenges those working on the project are dealing with.
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  • @MrSychnant
    @MrSychnant 11 місяців тому +16

    Does anyone remember when documentaries were just factual programmes without all the speculative doom and gloom every 5 minitues if something went wrong.

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 9 місяців тому

      They are coming for you..
      You will see.
      They are coming for you..
      They have uranium in their pockets.

  • @justlucky8254
    @justlucky8254 Рік тому +65

    9:15 "Welding thru thousands of tons of steel...." I've worked in sub recycling, and although there is some welding involved for things like creating lift points for rigging, for containing the reactor, etc, there's not much welding going on. Lots of torches, plasma cutting, carbon-arc, oxygen lance, etc are used because that's how you cut steel. Seems like so many of these shows confuse welding with cutting.

    • @alexandrevaliquette1941
      @alexandrevaliquette1941 Рік тому +4

      In a nutshell:
      Welding: action of welders doing their things.
      I know...

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому +1

      @@alexandrevaliquette1941 ya. That's not how they used the word though.

    • @alexandrevaliquette1941
      @alexandrevaliquette1941 Рік тому

      @@justlucky8254 I guess we should let them Youtubate their thing to people.

    • @schwags1969
      @schwags1969 Рік тому +1

      Air-arc?
      That is a welding process, so is oxy/acy cutting.

    • @bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24
      @bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 11 місяців тому +2

      These modern day "documentaries" are so dumbed down and cheap even the narration is nonsensical. The producers either don't understand the subject matter at all or just don't care enough to even bother describing things accurately. Theres better documentaries made by part time UA-camrs these days.

  • @karachaffee3343
    @karachaffee3343 Рік тому +32

    I find it interesting that the writers keep referring to the threat of nuclear destruction in the past tense--as if the weapons are no longer the same threat.

    • @skateboardingjesus4006
      @skateboardingjesus4006 Рік тому +2

      Being vaporised by a present day nuke = not so scary.
      Being vaporised by a 1960's nuke = shit your bell-bottoms time.

    • @Iaintwoke
      @Iaintwoke Рік тому +6

      When was it written? Until Putin and North Korean developments most people thought the threat was pretty much over.

    • @robinpage2730
      @robinpage2730 Рік тому +2

      ​@@Iaintwoke the warheads are likely in as derelict a condition as the rest of their gear. Of course, until we know for sure, no one wants to test that hypothesis.

  • @aspopulvera9130
    @aspopulvera9130 Рік тому +8

    Calling any naval vessels or subs "unsinkable" is already doom to the watery grave

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому

      It was definitely interesting that they chose to refer to it as "unsinkable".🤣

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 9 місяців тому

      Cute picture of you aspopulvera9130

  • @crazydoggentleman7930
    @crazydoggentleman7930 Рік тому +16

    17:37 “the graveyard for Red October” thats the second time they have referred to Red October as a real ship. I am 90% sure that The Red October was a fictional ship from a movie.

    • @mikehindson-evans159
      @mikehindson-evans159 Рік тому +8

      It was - used in the Tom Clancy FICTIONAL novel: "The Hunt for Red October".

    • @crazydoggentleman7930
      @crazydoggentleman7930 Рік тому +8

      @@mikehindson-evans159 maybe they are using Red October as a blanket term for the rise and fall of the USSR?
      I remember reading somewhere that Red October was another name for the revolution of Russia in October 1917.

    • @paulk11227
      @paulk11227 Рік тому

      Russians are stubborn drunks. They are slop.

    • @skeetrix5577
      @skeetrix5577 Рік тому +2

      they are using the name as a "placeholder name" to refer to the entire Soviet submarine fleet

    • @skeetrix5577
      @skeetrix5577 Рік тому +2

      @@crazydoggentleman7930 red October refers to the October revolution in Russia in 1917. there were actually two revolutions in Russia in 1917-the first one I believe in February overthrew tzar Nicolas II and established a provisional government that ruled Russia as a republic. it was mostly conservative and continued the war which angered a lot of people. it always struggled for legitimacy and due to it being weak politically, the Communists initiated a second revolution in October lead by Vladimir Lenin which is the one most people are familiar with. they pulled out of the war, started a civil war, assassinated the deposed royal family, and declared the establishment of the Soviet union in 1922 in concert with neighboring countries

  • @ErikssonTord_2
    @ErikssonTord_2 Рік тому +13

    A friend was the UN representative for this site as long as it was active, who came on surprise inspections on a regular basis, and reported to the UN in Geneva and to the US government in Washington, DC.

    • @harryparsons2750
      @harryparsons2750 Рік тому

      The UN should be abolished. F globalism!

    • @MostlyPennyCat
      @MostlyPennyCat 11 місяців тому

      "Surprise Inspections on a Regular Basis" 😂
      Not _too_ regular I hope!
      (Yes I understand what he means, it just sounds funny)

  • @top6ear
    @top6ear Рік тому +8

    Good timing for this documentary

    • @gragor11
      @gragor11 Рік тому +2

      Yes, overly dramatic Russia Bashing is always topical. Especially when marching off to a nuclear war.

  • @mariano7699
    @mariano7699 10 місяців тому +1

    "Do not enter in the yellow box,
    unless your exit is cleared" 28:38

  • @briant5685
    @briant5685 Рік тому +4

    this documentary is older than some trolls here,this was back in the late 90's and early 2000's

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому

      What are people trolling about? Are they actually trolling or are they speaking facts that some people dislike? I've read many of the comments and have yet to encounter a troll so I'm curious what led you to make that comment.

  • @131dyana
    @131dyana 11 місяців тому +1

    Well done work by all involved. thank you all.

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 Рік тому +5

    The hype is strong with this one….

  • @josephbrands6303
    @josephbrands6303 Рік тому +10

    they had access to much more titanium than we do. Recycling the subs made from it would be very lucrative. Guess the makers of this documentary never heard of Hanford OR.

    • @The31stcenturyfox
      @The31stcenturyfox Рік тому +5

      Actually contrary to popular belief, most Russian Submarines were steel hulled. Only 12 combat submarines were titanium hulled. The first was the singular example of the Papa class. The next 7 were Alfa class. The last 4 were the Sierra class. Only the Sierra's are still active or at least not retired. Sierra's are a great submarine. Like a Titanium Akula, sadly, with a worse older sonar due to the smaller width.
      Titanium is great for profit. Radioactive Titanium is not. Foundries where I am from avoid hot Russian steel.

    • @chucklaizure1442
      @chucklaizure1442 Рік тому +4

      @@The31stcenturyfox In fact there is a market for what is called ''pre-signature iron/steel. Metal that is from old ships, that sunk before the nukes is being salvaged and used for sensitive medical and probably other sensitive devices. Some divers report entire ship wrecks there one year gone the next.

    • @The31stcenturyfox
      @The31stcenturyfox Рік тому +3

      @Chuck Laizure yup that's why WWII wrecks keep disappearing from the bottom of the pacific.

    • @MrMartin2187
      @MrMartin2187 8 місяців тому

      Hanford is in Washington, not Oregon.

  • @dssm25
    @dssm25 Рік тому +16

    It's just shows how how history repeats itself over and over maybe in different ways but hopefully someday the world's people will learn from there past instead of repeating it great video

    • @yuanbananaspleitz4784
      @yuanbananaspleitz4784 Рік тому

      what country fores you to put that many spaces between words like that?

    • @dssm25
      @dssm25 Рік тому +1

      United States but could be my poor typing skills

  • @shaggyduder
    @shaggyduder Рік тому +88

    Must have been terrifying to have served on a one of their subs, I've been in 2 of them, they were poorly designed, and built. Most were merely numbers, diversions, to hide the subs that were important, the crews were expendable.

    • @gavinkurn
      @gavinkurn Рік тому

      Wow I couldn't imagine what that would be like just thinking about it gives me the Willy's

    • @kerrymarris4260
      @kerrymarris4260 Рік тому +15

      hey, that's what we all are now, according to the 1%club. these days, anyone not worth 10millon or more is not . and that includes you and me.. according to George Carlin.

    • @MitzvosGolem1
      @MitzvosGolem1 Рік тому +11

      No westerner could go on operating Soviet sub.. You former Soviet Navy?

    • @hansj.hobein5762
      @hansj.hobein5762 Рік тому +2

      With permission from Universal Studios for the Movie Red October. LOL

    • @jukkiivi4282
      @jukkiivi4282 Рік тому +2

      It's not impossible to visit one. There was a decomissioned Foxtrot sold to a Finnish businessman. He had it towed it to Finland and marketed it as a tourist attraction. It can't be the only one submarine museum/exhibition. Nuclear submarines are different story, of course.

  • @prometheus160
    @prometheus160 10 місяців тому

    lets pay respect for the brave workers amd their skills for their huge efort. hats off gents

  • @geofftitto
    @geofftitto Рік тому +9

    I may be misjudging this because of western input and the direction of the feed but, as an ex nuclear submarine engineer they seem to be managing it in a very controlled way! The foregoing is known and less supportive but these guys are not amateurs! Please give them some credence, i would work with them tomorrow!

  • @dr.michaelvincent6177
    @dr.michaelvincent6177 Рік тому +51

    At 23-minutes & 38-seconds into this video, we can see an unidentified female secretly administering a sedative from a hypodermic needle into the lower back of the hysterical crew member's wife (who then slumps to the floor) ... the unidentified woman then quickly disappears into the crowd. It seems to be a team effort with others helping. The video then immediately cuts off. The reason for this action was presumably to calm her down and to retain control of the grieving woman.

    • @Utubin
      @Utubin Рік тому +2

      Great catch. Your correct.👍🇺🇸

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому +7

      Good catch. I'm not sure if you knew this or not, but you can create a timestamp that people can click on to take them directly to the time in the video that you mentioned. Just type the hour, minute, second with a colon between each number. For your example, 23:38.

    • @buffalobill069
      @buffalobill069 Рік тому +1

      They said on another video I've seen that it was a lads mother.

    • @jobinglobin
      @jobinglobin Рік тому +1

      Dang - that’s crazy.

    • @bellenvideo5629
      @bellenvideo5629 Рік тому

      I trust people like you quickly 🙏

  • @mustagezaadrian9736
    @mustagezaadrian9736 Рік тому +1

    there at the sayda nuclear cemetery are now 128 submarine nuclear reactors from the "Red october"

  • @whiteboyplays6940
    @whiteboyplays6940 Рік тому +6

    As a welder and factory worker. I would love to work on stuff like this

    • @oldtimer2192
      @oldtimer2192 Рік тому +2

      Like kids with three arms???

    • @whiteboyplays6940
      @whiteboyplays6940 Рік тому +2

      @Old Timer no like disassemble the submarines in the video bro, I like doing shit the that, witch is why I do factory work

    • @bigredinfinity3126
      @bigredinfinity3126 10 місяців тому

      @@whiteboyplays6940 Could you use a water jet to cut the steel like the do with plate steel .I only have worked on sailboats .But it would negate the fire risk

  • @lorriecarrel9962
    @lorriecarrel9962 Рік тому +2

    The kirsk story is sad,all those lives lost..rip fellow humans

  • @aggromando7323
    @aggromando7323 Рік тому +2

    Norman Polmars books are excellent. I think I’ve read all of them. H.I. Sutton is good for sub related stuff as well.

  • @mahidipatel
    @mahidipatel 9 місяців тому

    I can't believe how you filming it's great to see visually very great work Done you ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @tameredanslederriere
    @tameredanslederriere Рік тому +1

    yea pretty sure the future generation will thank us for this!!!

  • @longbar2344
    @longbar2344 Рік тому +4

    was the angry mother/wife given a shot of something?

  • @priv8joker
    @priv8joker Рік тому +21

    I was able to locate the barge in google earth with the 7 reactors as the arrive on Sayda. the map date is June 2010 showing 33 compartments on the dock and 7 on the barge here: latitude 69.248926° Longitude 33.235811° set the history date to 6/2010

    • @acb9896
      @acb9896 Рік тому +2

      Cool story, bro. ..does your therapist take cash?

    • @priv8joker
      @priv8joker Рік тому +10

      @@acb9896 Hehe mapping and research is part of my job actually, hopefully i won't need a therapist!

    • @dsm9785
      @dsm9785 Рік тому +1

      I looked it up today, I see over 100 on the concrete dock. I counted 116, but some are in different areas on the dock., not sure why

    • @priv8joker
      @priv8joker Рік тому +2

      @@dsm9785 it must be the current map, try using google earth pro’s history feature to go back to june 2010

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому +3

      @@acb9896 was there a point to your comment? Or are you really that bored?

  • @KennyMcCormick99
    @KennyMcCormick99 Рік тому +2

    LOVE DOCS ON SUBS!!!

  • @supremebeme
    @supremebeme Рік тому

    super interesting video

  • @jasonmasr
    @jasonmasr Рік тому

    Volume is noticeably low (compared to other channel vids and commercials) but great video!

  • @johndavis2938
    @johndavis2938 Рік тому +3

    I get the feeling some corners have been cut 😬

  • @davidm2645
    @davidm2645 Рік тому +24

    At 32:30 very interesting to see the lady Russian crane operator wearing a flowered top. I am sure she is quite adept at her job, just looks like she is dressed up for it.

    • @buckadillafilms
      @buckadillafilms Рік тому +5

      Maybe she caught wind that they were filming, but I like to think she just always dresses up for work

    • @forreststrong797
      @forreststrong797 Рік тому +6

      One thing I've always admired about Russia or the soviets is how they don't seem to discriminate against women doing certain things. They also don't make a huge stink about a man being better it's just obvious in some roles and theres some roles even military roles women are better. I could be completely wrong but they dont seem to have the annoying feminist nonsense because it seems like women are included if they can perform.

    • @marshall9485
      @marshall9485 Рік тому

      She probably gets paid peanuts and thats likely one of the few items in her wardrobe, doesnt have anything else to wear on that particular day

    • @lorriecarrel9962
      @lorriecarrel9962 Рік тому +1

      Yeah I thought that was cool

    • @bongopro4401
      @bongopro4401 Рік тому

      @@forreststrong797 I saw a doc abt this black professional woman that lives in Russia and she talked abt how great she felt in a country where racism for her and many more black ppl was not an issue

  • @ericgiebel498
    @ericgiebel498 Рік тому +4

    The Kursk disaster is still truly sad

    • @Iaintwoke
      @Iaintwoke Рік тому +4

      Isn't it? Especially considering those people survived the sinking but still died there in the dark. Poor bastards.

    • @lawrenceleverton7426
      @lawrenceleverton7426 11 місяців тому

      Sad I agree, but why didn't they use the submarine pod capable of holding 100 peeps. Or Escape from the aft hatch a few at a time. 300 feet is semi survivable. Yes the cold water will eventually take its toll, yet no one escaped. God Bless Submariners.

  • @yanchouser7364
    @yanchouser7364 Рік тому +7

    It does make you wonder about the rest of those countries that have such submarines, what are they doing? A very good Video Guys.

  • @highonahill
    @highonahill Рік тому +15

    In the USA, we do this to our old subs as well.... But our fine sailors stay attached to the ship, and the ship is manned 24/7 until all hazardous liquids and the fuel cells are removed. Only then do our navel shipyards cut the aft and forward ends of the ship into scrap. The defueled reactor section is then sealed on both ends with 2" thick steel (maybe, only saw it happening from the top of the dry dock, but it's thick stuff.) The reactor compartments are then loaded onto barges and moved into an open trench that you can see for yourself on google maps at the handford site. Beyond that, I don't know what we do with them. But they are safe, just big cylinders of steel that are just lightly radioactive, but not leaking contamination(all water is gone anyway) and I would bet they do surveys just to check like they do in this video. Source, I walked past the cutting drydock on my way to work and watched 3 subs get slowly cut up day by day(very cool to see when it is a class of sub you know the layout of) and was on a team that drained, defueled, and decomissioned 2 subs which are probably cut up or being cut up right now. Cheers. I support nuclear power. Stop closing down powerplants before their end of design life because you have do all this same crap regardless of the age of the reactor. Enjoy your blackouts Cali folks.

    • @geomodelrailroader
      @geomodelrailroader Рік тому +3

      Yup Bremerton I've been there I seen the rusty hulks of subs being cut up. Bremerton is where subs go to die.

    • @andysaunders3708
      @andysaunders3708 Рік тому

      Yeah man, but steel and salt water are not a durable mix.
      Doesn't matter to me - i'll be dead by then, and I have no kids.
      Saldy, other people do.

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому +4

      @@geomodelrailroader did you work there? I used to be a machinist there. Shop 31, building 431. I was lucky to never be loaned out to the cut-ups like some other shops were when things were slow. I did mainly prop shafts and heavy tool so things were always busy other than being loaned out to the prop shop once for a few months. It was interesting to watch the progress of the subs being cut in a drydock on one side of my shop, and then looking into the drydock on the other side where the opposite was happening and we were doing D5 conversions or making the Ohio slightly "more better".😁👍

    • @farzad6908
      @farzad6908 Рік тому +1

      No blackouts here in Cali…take a sip of Fukushima water and calm down

    • @highonahill
      @highonahill Рік тому +5

      @@farzad6908 Get me a nice glass of water and watch me drink it. The fact you think the water is the dangerous part shows everyone here how little you know about American designed pressurized water reactors.

  • @lesliedeana5142
    @lesliedeana5142 Рік тому +2

    How about just using the power plants for just that... power up houses and businesses with the extracted power plants??

    • @Iaintwoke
      @Iaintwoke Рік тому

      I think they have gone past their service life. I certainly wouldn't trust in them.

    • @lesliedeana5142
      @lesliedeana5142 Рік тому

      @@Iaintwoke Well, the fuel is obviously still effective, considering the half-life of the rad materials.

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому

      @@lesliedeana5142 not really. I'm no expert but there's a reason that we refuel our subs and carriers from time to time.

  • @michaelcolgan3182
    @michaelcolgan3182 Рік тому +1

    Best part is they build new weapons and we pay to clean the shit up lol.

  • @YouTubeSaysThereCantBeTwoRyans

    9:16 the narrator said "welding through thousands of tons of steel" they aren't welding, they are cutting through. The complete opposite of what the narrator said.

  • @chiefdonutmaker7368
    @chiefdonutmaker7368 Рік тому

    I love it

  • @certaindeed
    @certaindeed Рік тому +3

    almost as dramatic and over blown as AX Men or Ice Road Truckers.

  • @thisoldboat7393
    @thisoldboat7393 Рік тому +93

    Yeah the Germans and the Russians working together what could possibly go wrong?

    • @JamesSmith-fz7qk
      @JamesSmith-fz7qk Рік тому +7

      Haha

    • @gragor11
      @gragor11 Рік тому +1

      Neo-Cons like Victoria Nuland and her husband Robert Kagan made everything wrong

    • @BridgesDontFly
      @BridgesDontFly Рік тому +5

      3 out 4 Poles 😳

    • @chad6849
      @chad6849 Рік тому +9

      For this mission, hopefully nothing.

    • @scottyV1000
      @scottyV1000 Рік тому +14

      If it wasn’t for the Germans those subs would still be rusting away in the harbor.

  • @davehales2249
    @davehales2249 8 місяців тому

    Putting a couple of a hundred years into a solution,that needs a couple of a thousand years solution doesn't sound like a solution

  • @justlucky8254
    @justlucky8254 Рік тому +5

    14:23 I mean, its a good idea but not really "ingenious". It's basically common sense and that's why that method is used when scrapping subs and their reactors everywhere. We do it right here in Bremerton, WA constantly while recycling subs in the drydocks. Then they are placed on barges and are taken out the Straits of Juan de Fuca to the Pacific, down the coast of WA, then up the Columbia River and to their final resting place.👍

  • @InActionReaction
    @InActionReaction Рік тому +8

    Frankly every man and women working on this project deserve a Nobel peace prize if not a custom UN prize of special significance.
    True heroism at work.

    • @gamingclipz7309
      @gamingclipz7309 11 місяців тому

      They have to be from nato and Russia is clearly not

  • @will891410
    @will891410 Рік тому +4

    24:49 it is possible to se a body on the middle down section, behind of the metal structure.

    • @Elixir_Sullivan
      @Elixir_Sullivan Рік тому +3

      There is no body

    • @will891410
      @will891410 Рік тому +1

      @@Elixir_Sullivan Not exactly at 24 49, take a look at the center, when the camera goes down.

    • @DR_SOLO
      @DR_SOLO Рік тому +2

      @24:51 you mean?
      Google pareidolia. I believe you've had a case of pareidolia. It looks like some pipes valves and just metal wreckage overlapping in depth offering the brain that opportunity to try to rationalize what is seeing.

    • @Elixir_Sullivan
      @Elixir_Sullivan Рік тому +2

      @@will891410 I see something but I can't confirm it as being a body

    • @will891410
      @will891410 Рік тому +5

      @@Elixir_Sullivan Pause it at 24:52, down to the center, there is a face.

  • @ristube3319
    @ristube3319 Рік тому +1

    My grandfather was chief of nuclear design for submarines in Groton CT (submarine capital of the world)

    • @lawrenceleverton7426
      @lawrenceleverton7426 11 місяців тому

      I refurbished the Blue Submarine sign on I 95 in Groton. Yeah it was in a shambles. rust all over around it edges. The sign is still there. Maybe they made another who knows.

  • @PhilipJanikowski
    @PhilipJanikowski Рік тому +1

    Dont use REVERSED shots to cover your lack of footage, so easy to spot.

  • @tianyi05
    @tianyi05 Рік тому +2

    Murmansk isn't the northern most city in the world, its 125 further south than Tromso and 275 miles further south than Hammerfest. Wonder what else in wrong in this video?

  • @5cloudwalker
    @5cloudwalker Рік тому +7

    Think of all the money that could’ve been used in improving humanity instead of making and disposing of submarines

    • @casualriley
      @casualriley Рік тому

      Think of all the knowledge that was gained for humanity that can be applied to future endeavors like space.
      Human advancement isn't a zero sum game.

  • @justlucky8254
    @justlucky8254 Рік тому +7

    23:35 or so. The woman who's distraught suddenly calms down. That happens after being injected with whatever was in that syringe. "With very dubious methods...." indeed.

  • @emmanuelno3133
    @emmanuelno3133 11 місяців тому

    Russia still uses the Victor class sub, they have built more and newer kind of nuclear subs. The indian navy also uses them

  • @johndoyle4723
    @johndoyle4723 Рік тому +34

    Thank you, an excellent, and chilling documentary. If only the vast resources of US and the then USSR could have been used to make the world a better place instead of this cold war.
    Well done the workers who have spent their entire working life tidying up the remnants of the nuclear fleet, hope they were not exposed.

    • @LongHaulTrucker4Life
      @LongHaulTrucker4Life Рік тому +3

      No money in peace

    • @cv990a4
      @cv990a4 Рік тому +3

      @@LongHaulTrucker4Life Lots of money in peace, if you know how to take advantage of it. The US and Europe had a large "peace dividend" - allowing a lot of money to be spent on other things.
      Putin, who has the training you'd expect of a former KGB middle manager, has no idea, perhaps less interest, in growing his country peacefully. Russia, with its resources, with its technological and pedagogical heritage, should easily be 2 to 3 times as wealthy as it is, perhaps even more. But KGB training taught Putin how to suppress his own people, and how to undermine other countries, but he knows almost nothing about economics or development. His ruling clique is made up of siloviki - security people. They're the same as him, plus or minus.
      People have understood the issue in the video for 30+ years. The US in 1991 very much desired the USSR to stay together for just this reason - to avoid nuclear proliferation.
      I knew someone who, in the early-mid 1990s, worked for one of the US weapons labs. He was involved in work that involved the US military, scientists, etc, all concerned with ensuring Soviet weapons didn't fall into bad hands. The nightmare scenario was a corrupt former Soviet general or similar selling this stuff to bad guys.
      Russia has plenty of money. It can afford to do this work - it doesn't want to, at least not by itself, because it's expensive. It doesn't do anything for Russia's greater glory, it doesn't make Russia look good - in fact, it just emphasizes the fact that Russia, to a significant degree, sits within the wreckage of a bygone empire.

    • @rustyb6892
      @rustyb6892 10 місяців тому +1

      These chicken-little-syndrome-causing over-the-top alarmists will be the end of us because someday we will really need to hear the alarm and we'll ignore it. That is the "chilling" part.

    • @dafalzonAUS
      @dafalzonAUS 9 місяців тому +1

      So chilling I needed a winter coat

  • @jadewilson-gi3rc
    @jadewilson-gi3rc Рік тому

    This is why they are called the widow makers 😮

  • @darrenquarterman2611
    @darrenquarterman2611 Рік тому +1

    Humans can't stand near container for long but doing double shifts

  • @marleyslim30589
    @marleyslim30589 Рік тому +6

    👍🏾 nicely educational video

  • @sabrekai8706
    @sabrekai8706 Рік тому +5

    So with the war with Ukraine, has this all come to a screeching halt? IS anyone watching over the mess?

    • @Deilwynna
      @Deilwynna Рік тому

      judging by satellite imagery on google maps, it should be done and the site they are placed on is almost completely filled with those big submarine sections along with what looks like some big hydrogen bombs by the outer fencing in the south-west of the site. could also be that google edited out all the ones left in the waters around the fjord

  • @LuxAudio389
    @LuxAudio389 Рік тому

    The inevitable will happen: checks will bounce, supplies will fall short, corners cut, war with neighbors, workers will get 🤢, and then . 💀💐

  • @ihsansalh3622
    @ihsansalh3622 Рік тому +9

    The world these days needs transparency in relations as much as so-called politics, which has become something of a classic .

    • @KennyMcCormick99
      @KennyMcCormick99 Рік тому +2

      Agree, but the world also needs A LOT OF THINGS!!

  • @caljaysoc
    @caljaysoc Рік тому +1

    You think they have a Reagan sound-a-like on purpose?

  • @johntaylor1947
    @johntaylor1947 Рік тому

    It is a common theme with Rusha poor Maintenace and cutting corners.

  • @nuclearbum9858
    @nuclearbum9858 Рік тому +2

    im already afraid of deep water and ships i got the shakes just watching this people that can ride in subs are built different i couldnt enter these things even if they set on dry land

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому +1

      Personally, I'm not even a fan of being in them while they're in drydock. Not my first choice of profession, for sure.

  • @avinash7003
    @avinash7003 Рік тому +6

    The hunt of red October finally ends... Cold War gaint submarine

  • @chucklaizure1442
    @chucklaizure1442 Рік тому +3

    Hmmm, this was obviously filmed a while ago. I'm sure that German Engineer is no longer on site in light of the war in Ukraine. Makes me wonder how much progress is being made there now, when Russia is throwing all it's resources toward the war.

    • @C4AJ
      @C4AJ Рік тому

      That is true

  • @allensmith6430
    @allensmith6430 Рік тому

    Maybe I missed it but not referenced is all the heavy water was removed, filtered and returned to the ocean.

    • @georgegonzalez2476
      @georgegonzalez2476 Рік тому

      I doubt if there was any heavy water used in the Kursk reactors.

  • @kimollivier
    @kimollivier Рік тому +2

    So what about the Allies' submarines? Are they being decomissioned properly? Where are they? There are terrible problems in Hanford from the WW II bomb factories still. Might make a gripping sequel. The US has lost submarines too.

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому

      We chop them up the same way in Bremerton, WA for example. Then barge the reactors down the coast and up the Columbia River.

  • @adarsharao8957
    @adarsharao8957 Рік тому +1

    Thanks to those subs for saving India in 1971. 🙏

  • @EcoCentrist
    @EcoCentrist Рік тому +7

    Epic documentary

  • @tracyhardin4542
    @tracyhardin4542 Рік тому

    dead left neutron,thats a hell of a name

  • @beretman27
    @beretman27 Рік тому

    Is this kind of work still occurring now that there's huge tension between Germany and Russia?

  • @F4Insight-uq6nt
    @F4Insight-uq6nt 10 місяців тому

    New Clear Power = The Movement of Water.

  • @iancassie9840
    @iancassie9840 6 місяців тому +1

    where are the unwanted US NUCLEAR SUBS

  • @1745pacman
    @1745pacman 10 місяців тому

    There are over 100 reactors at that site now..via satellite photos

  • @jerrywilliamson8121
    @jerrywilliamson8121 8 місяців тому

    cant the reactor unit be taken to a land based small to medium power plants built to use the reactors?

    • @dennisp.2147
      @dennisp.2147 8 місяців тому

      No, they've reached the end of their design life. They would need to be completely disassembled rebuilt and refueled.

  • @blem7122
    @blem7122 Рік тому

    We are closer now then we were back then

  • @dailyStoic641
    @dailyStoic641 Рік тому +1

    Can I buy one

  • @paulgray2387
    @paulgray2387 Рік тому +1

    I wonder what the half life of these things are? Surely they should be, at the very least covered?

  • @sitatoenga
    @sitatoenga 11 місяців тому

    How is the "other" nuclear powers handle there reactors??

  • @sausages6135
    @sausages6135 Рік тому

    Excellent doc

  • @cidshroom
    @cidshroom Рік тому +9

    The second they say "dirty bomb" I roll my eyes, and question the validity of any of this info

    • @TheCabledawg1
      @TheCabledawg1 Рік тому +6

      Well you go in there, you scrape up some loose nuclear stuff off the floor, put it in a box, and light the fuse.....Wile E. Coyote style.

    • @JamesSmith-fz7qk
      @JamesSmith-fz7qk Рік тому

      Why? That waste is perfect to mix in with some tnt and detonate in the middle of a city if you’re a terrorist…

    • @PorkyHontas
      @PorkyHontas Рік тому

      I know, because there's no such thing as nuclear waste or some crazy terrorist organization that would love to get their hands on it to make a primitive radioactive bomb. Now I roll my eyes at you.

    • @JamesSmith-fz7qk
      @JamesSmith-fz7qk Рік тому

      @@PorkyHontas Dumbest most naive comment ever.... grow up.

    • @PorkyHontas
      @PorkyHontas Рік тому

      @@JamesSmith-fz7qk I know, because you're an idiot if you think nuclear waste and the possibility of a dirty bomb being created due to the proliferation of it is such an eye rolling joke.

  • @StevenCampbell1955
    @StevenCampbell1955 Рік тому +1

    23.53 is that a syringe the secret service is about to jab into the grieving mother?

  • @lifeafterdisability8180
    @lifeafterdisability8180 10 місяців тому

    Shits insane we have things like this in the world.. even crazier these mad men are running the show on both sides!!!

  • @fromfilmtocode
    @fromfilmtocode Рік тому +1

    23:50
    😐

  • @richcollins513
    @richcollins513 Рік тому +1

    Be sure to get your daily dose of Fear of Nuclear War lol

  • @GHOOGLEMALE
    @GHOOGLEMALE Рік тому +1

    Putin - "Quick patch 'em up for christ's sake"

  • @matthewfoster6620
    @matthewfoster6620 Рік тому

    Too many ads ruined this video

  • @godslayer1415
    @godslayer1415 Рік тому +1

    all those fiberglass rocket mockups in parades.. Soviets only mattered because we made them matter.

  • @Assertiveman
    @Assertiveman Рік тому

    I miss d news :(

  • @NeroKoso
    @NeroKoso 10 місяців тому

    41:30 isnt that same amount what you get when you are on a plane..

  • @woolfy101
    @woolfy101 Рік тому +12

    We’ve got a Russian sub parked in Rochester on the Medway (Kent UK). Sat rotting for ages but I think it’s being restored now. Bit further down in the estuary there’s a couple of sunk German ones too but they are proper rotten.

    • @ronblack7870
      @ronblack7870 Рік тому +2

      that one is not nuclear

    • @mikeconklin5616
      @mikeconklin5616 Рік тому

      Do you know what it is called? Thanks

    • @scotexscarrier8461
      @scotexscarrier8461 Рік тому

      @@mikeconklin5616 its U-475 Black Widow, they used this sub for the movie black sea with Jude law

  • @ZionistZooTube
    @ZionistZooTube Рік тому +3

    @09:13 JEES IF your gonna make a video about cutting up steel at least get it right... the dude say { selding though large steel } mean while they are burning thought steel...who hires these people?

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому +2

      Yep. They are so advanced that they cut with welders. Maybe they bond metal together with carbon-arcs and stuff also. 🤣 (on a side note, I read a comment from somebody a while back who was trying to be sarcastic and madea joke about using dynamite to weld metals together. It was ironic because I use to work in a place where we used explosion bonded materials. We literally had plates of dissimilar metals, titanium and stainless steel for example, that were bonded together by using explosives. It's neat to have material that is say 4" thick and one side is 2" of titanium and the other is 2" of aluminum, and they are so well "welded" together that they are hermetically sealed. We used the material to make ultra high vacuum chambers and other cool stuff for NASA, CERN, SPACE X, Los Alamos National Labs, etc. It's one of the coolest materials I've ever machined or fabbed.)

  • @bobsmith-wg9fz
    @bobsmith-wg9fz Рік тому +1

    LOL the 6:30 mark on Russia not decommissioning nuke subs right away "their lack of ability to handle it" ...well russia seems to have the ability to pay for billions in super yachts and 10 million dollar watches?

  • @nickestes1839
    @nickestes1839 Рік тому +1

    The fact that Russia acts like they are self-sufficient and get no help from the west really irks me. We always have to bail them out in the interest of security.

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому

      Yep. When left to their own devices, without expertise and financial aid from other countries, their process of recycling these old boats is a different story entirely.

  • @avail1.
    @avail1. Рік тому

    All the powers, are partners. Deceiving the masses by lies, and fear.

  • @shadetreetrades.jackofall2188
    @shadetreetrades.jackofall2188 Рік тому +4

    I love how you can see the Russian nurse “consoling” the outraged mother at the Kursk disaster press gather. Then the needle that injects her on her left shoulder. All of a sudden three uniformed man lower her to ground. That’s the world of uniform bliss and socialism. You outspeek and they put you down. Watch from 23:45 min and you’ll see. I saw this in another documentary explaining what happened to her. Crazy.

    • @andysaunders3708
      @andysaunders3708 Рік тому

      YEP. That'd be you.

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому

      @@andysaunders3708 what would be them? What were you trying to say?

    • @andysaunders3708
      @andysaunders3708 Рік тому

      @@justlucky8254 Sorry, but I sincerely don't understand your question.

    • @justlucky8254
      @justlucky8254 Рік тому

      @@andysaunders3708 unless comments have been deleted, Shadetree made the original comment. Your reply to that comment was: "YEP. That'd be you." I'm curious about what you meant. What "would be him"?

  • @AndreenMotorsports
    @AndreenMotorsports Рік тому

    And here we are today.....on the brink of nuclear war....again.

  • @cvetomircvetkov5670
    @cvetomircvetkov5670 Рік тому +3

    How does and where does the US decomission their sub nuclear reactors? In russia at least they have plenty of space in remote areas.

    • @BridgesDontFly
      @BridgesDontFly Рік тому

      New Mexico.

    • @swordevil742
      @swordevil742 Рік тому +1

      Same leaving only the reactor compartment sealed then stored on land at the Hanford site in Washington. This Doc like most over dramatizes this operation. This is safe and well engineered and nowhere near as scary as this narrator makes it out to be.

    • @cvetomircvetkov5670
      @cvetomircvetkov5670 Рік тому

      Because there are always some documentaries for the Russians it looks like they are doing it wrong again :)
      I know that the previous generation nuclear reactors were with molten metal and this makes them more difficult to decomission

    • @dirtyd2316
      @dirtyd2316 Рік тому

      I know one of the places we store nuclear waste is in New Mexico,”if I remember it right” and it’s stored underground in what use to be a huge salt mine at one time.

    • @salmifarouk844
      @salmifarouk844 Рік тому

  • @TheAussieRepairGuy
    @TheAussieRepairGuy 9 місяців тому

    sad thing, we may have come full circle again...

  • @dirtyd2316
    @dirtyd2316 Рік тому +4

    You would think that with the number of nuclear reactor meltdowns the Russians have had in the past,that they would’ve figured out what was causing it and how to fix it,so they didn’t have anymore accidents.

    • @simongills2051
      @simongills2051 Рік тому

      You are kidding? They dont give a monkeys. That is Russia for you.
      Chernobyl when it was NEW,( Reactor 1, there were 4, the 4th being the one that blew up) had an ex soviet submariner assigned on the staff who could not believe they were using a scaled up Submarine Reactor. He was horrified and asked how on earth could it be used in a civilian location, ie it was unwise to have have it anywhere on land.
      On the sea it didnt matter. You could just let it sink and forget about it.Thats Russian attitude.
      Still is.
      America and NATO paid for these Red subs to be dealt with properly.

    • @amandaflemming6205
      @amandaflemming6205 10 місяців тому +1

      @@simongills2051 The Soviet Union, not Russia.
      Stalin wasn't Russian. Chernobyl is in Ukraine. Facts.

  • @NNokia-jz6jb
    @NNokia-jz6jb Рік тому +7

    Reactor weighs 1.6 million kilograms..
    or half of that roughly.. (US presenter)

    • @Esoliken
      @Esoliken Рік тому +1

      Where did you hear that roughly half part? There is a phrase said "Sixteen Hundred tons" not even kilograms. But that portion was talking about the whole sealed second from earlier.

    • @geofftitto
      @geofftitto Рік тому +1

      @@Esoliken A submarine displacement of say 2000 to 2500 tonnes - where does a reactor weight of 16000 tonnes of nuclear reactor come from? I'm just chatting the Nokia phone dude is what I saw.

    • @Esoliken
      @Esoliken Рік тому +1

      @@geofftitto displacement doesn't mean the actual weight. And I checked the transcript to find the numbers, and Nokia wasn't paying attention.
      Nokia replied, deleted the reply, and then changed their initial comment. OMEGALUL

    • @dazza1289
      @dazza1289 Рік тому +1

      He said 1600 Tonne unit with the 3 compartments. NOT 16000 TONNES.

    • @slippy11ful
      @slippy11ful Рік тому

      @@geofftitto 1600 not 16000 tons

  • @gregbolitho9775
    @gregbolitho9775 Рік тому +1

    RIP Kursk sailors

  • @arturojimenez2477
    @arturojimenez2477 Рік тому

    Cleaning Old Submarine Retired Núcleo Nuke OK 650 Reactor

  • @Fishingadventureuk
    @Fishingadventureuk Рік тому

    This my kosoka