Chernobyl: Minute by Minute | Full Film
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- In the heart of the Soviet Union, amidst Cold War isolation and political tension, a routine test gone awry would have irreversible consequences.
The explosion of Reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl Power plant in Ukraine would go down in history as the worst nuclear disaster... ever.
The aftermath was a scene of chaos and destruction as radiation and panic spread rapidly. But what led to this catastrophic event?And how was an attempted cover-up carried out?Find out as we recount those moments...minute by minute.
Cast
Dr Uilleam Blacker
Crew
Angelica Butcher, Brian Aabech, Jordan Hill
Chernobyl: Minute by Minute (Official Trailer)
50,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town.
Yeah champ, we know
@@simonmatthews9413 Why are you being a wise ass
Does that one old lady still live there? Have you heard about her?
Modern Warfare ❤
@@biscottimoxie Nope!
Those men who fought to encase that disaster are heros.
Also called "suckers"....
Yes they are .
*heroes
U have Autism @@etunimisukunimi7747
Absolutely
The first second of this video woke up everyone in my house. Thank you.
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Why?
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Welcome
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If you are interested in Chernobyl I highly recommend reading Adam Higginbotham book Midnight in Chernobyl. He spent 10 years researching the accident. He interviewed staff that were in control room 4 that night and the director of the plant and many many others who were there and the clean up. A fantastic read. I’ve read many books on the accident and Adam’s is far the best.
I read that book recently. Very well written and interesting! I wish there had been more of a climax though. It sort of just dragged on.
@@ScottySundown And what else did you expect ? It's a reconstitution of a timeline, not a hollyweird summer blockbuster that ends with a happy epilogue while the credits are rolling..
@@regish759 I guess just for it to stay as interesting and well-written as the first chapters. The author kind of drags it out in a really boring way
Agree, great book!
I just bought it. Can't wait to read
It is vitally important that you realise that I must tell you immediately that I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about.
My brother was in the Army stationed in Germany when this happened. My sister -in-law told me that there weren't any alerts from Russia, sensors in neighboring counties sensed the radioactivity and went off. Like if you don't tell anyone no one will notice your country is leaking radioactivity. Read a book about the disaster. According to the book it was poorly trained individuals, sloppy construcion practices, just were not worried about anything. "Pieces didn't fit they got hammered into place, LIKE THAT'LL WORK. BREAK TIME." After accident many who were there fighting the fire and such, were deathly ill. Of course the government said it was not radiation related. It was truely a disaster.
In the U.K. we had the sellerfield disaster just as ugly and covered up.
My brother was also in the Army, and stationed in Germany, when it happened. Small world as they say. When he recounted the experience to me, years later, he was, shall we say, not a happy camper about not being alerted.
What is it with everyone thinking it's just the Russians that cut corners and cover up problems
In any case this was Ukraine so blame them
Uninhabitable for only 24,000 years....That will go by in the wink of an eye!!! LMMFAO!!! 👍
That’s true and is very well known and was very well known at the time. A Finnish nuclear station detected the radiation, assumed it was their problem and had a mini panic. They quickly realized, “nope not us.” US satellites quickly confirmed the problem as being at Chernobyl.
We’re lucky to have so many nuclear physicists and engineers in the comment section. 🤣
If I had been there it would not have happened as anyone with simple knowledge knows that black licorice would have neutralized the gallerifious extremes immediately...sheeeesh..😊
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Cheap deflection. There are plenty of quality videos on this subject. Including those made by MIT. Engineering technicalities don't negate the general lessons learned.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi You must be one of those types that watch a RUclips video and then drifts over to another channel on the same subject pretending to be an expect.
@@Bryan-od7nv The experts can be found on RUclips. The problem is AI-generated copycats. What can the so-called experts say that hasn't already been covered?
There is nothing wrong with learning something piecemeal, building your own understanding over time, and then putting up your own two shekels on the subject. Obviously, you cannot do that.
It wasn’t a routine test. It is never been done successfully at that plant, which was a requirement for long-term certification.
shut up nerd
Bingo...too many errors in this video. Not bad, but not accurate
This documentary is a bit all over the place both in terms of timeline and clips. The most comprehensive and authoritative one is "the battle of Chernobyl".
Thanks!
You ever watch the show?
@@thekingofkingsrp show was cool, but the aforementioned video is better imho
The "Zero Hour" Chernobyl episode is very good and scientifically correct as well. Yes, this one is flawed in places.
@coodudeman The guy that played Boris did a great job.
To say this is vague is an understatement . So many details are missing and or not explained at all .
Stop yapping, where's your documentary
i agree... he haven't mentioned AZ-5
@@dd5617the laziest part of this doc was 23:00 to 25:30 might as well just skip it..... Couple cut corners but yes it's a RUclips doc you don't have to watch it but you can if you so choose
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@@dd5617that’s not how this works. People can know about something without producing a documentary about it. But calling this “minute by minute” is laughable. It’s like a bullet point overview you would show to a 7th grade student.
I'm very disappointed in the section that was several minutes long and the woman was speaking Russian. There was no voice over or subtitles/captions in English.
That woman was a dispatcher of the district emergency center.
She just was on call from the first responder then she started translating information t
I know right. Like why put this dialogue in, yes ok she's a dispatcher who cares, because the only reason we know that is you commented. Let's put in commentary vital to the point but not translate it at all. Stupid, why add it then in Russian, for an English produced documentary.
@@maxserov1578 I think you mean transmitting information.
I'll translate it for you, substituting a few words to make it sound more normal to Western ears, I'll explain at the end: "Attention, attention (6 times). Dear citizens, the city council is letting you know that because of the incident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the city of Pripyat, an unfavorable radioactive situation has been developing. Administrative and military personnel are taking all the necessary steps. Nevertheless, in order to ensure everyone's complete safety, especially that of children, it is necessary to proceed with the temporary evacuation of the city's population to other regions of the Kievan area. Therefore, today, on the 27th of April, beginning at 1400 ( x2), buses escorted by police officers and a city representative, will be sent to every inhabited building. We recommend taking your passport and other official documents, first necessities and initial food items. Factory directors have already identified a number of employees that will remain behind in order to ensure normal function of the city. The vacated buildings will be guarded by the police, throughout/during the evacuation period. While temporarily vacating your premises, please don't forget to close the windows, turn off electrical and gas appliances and water pipes. While proceeding with the temporary evacuation, we ask that you remain calm, organized and respectful."
Yes, she uses the word "comrades" twice, which is the well known literal translation, but that word was used, and perceived, the same way "My fellow citizens", or "ladies and gentlemen" would sound here. I translated as "administrative personnel" a number of other words to do with the specifics. I also said "police "when the real word was milice. The milice was the police, no more, no less.
What stands out is the insistence that this is temporary and the government and the police are involved and in control.
It's sad that 38 years later and areas around the Chernobyl Reactor are completely uninhabitale with the radiation levels so high no one will be able to live in that area again for another 20,000 years.
That is Bullshit first class, there are still people living over there for decades right now, most of the nature is normal without radiation, only small places have radiation and are high in levels.
Why is that sad when it's at least 20k years?
That's like ordering your food at a restaurant and sad it wasn't instantly your table when you know it's at least 25 minutes.
that's so not true
Yet animals are living there Just fine. Not true freind.
So sad the amount of misinformation about nuclear power.
The animals in the area are thriving, including some endangered species...no mutations at all ,only humans cañnot repare cell damage from radiation,lots of mammals can,,,bugs are barely affected
Unbelievable that the local emergency personnel were not made aware of the possible dangers. Those brave men died horrible deaths.
Many men's families were fatally contaminated during the time they were sent home to die.
It was the Soviet union, are you really that surprised?
Howso? In murika they don't tell firefighters the foam the use will likely kill them eventually via cancer, thanks to PFAS/PFOS chemicals so this isn't surprising, governments don't care about the people until they are made to in court later.
And they recieve next to NOTHING for after care. Shame on Russia. 🇨🇦
just stopped by to earn my diploma in nuclear science from the comments section
I am now passed with flying colours 🙏 thank you
You are now qualified to operate a Russian nuclear reactor! 😊
welcome comrade.....
E=mc something right?
@@SF-ku2hpTriangle. E=MC Triangle. 😂
Canadian reactors use pressurized water as a coolant and as a moderator and yes we have containment buildings if something goes wrong 💯
0:08 Oi Blyat! Now my neighbour Vadim is awake!
The HBO Max series of Chernobyl was amazing. It broke my heart to know this could've been avoided. So many lives lost for no reason besides greed.
This was not a nuclear explosion. This was the mother of all steam explosions that just happened to use nuclear material to generate heat. Think of a pressure cooker left on high for way too long and no way to vent
Yeah when people hear "nuclear power plant explosion" they think some sort of explosive material stupidly placed in the plant was detonated. The truth is much less dramatic yet subsequently much more astonishing.
Except that you don't radiation falling from a pressure cooker, that will remain for thousands of years.
@James-xt5cc No, you do not get radiation from a pressure cooker. You are correct. However, it still wasn't a nuclear explosion. This was steam having nowhere to go. The conversion of liquid to gas requires space for that gas to go. Unfortunately, in this case, there was nowhere else for that gas to go so it breached containment. Once that happened, oxygen then mixed with the fissioning materials and well.... we know what happened next
A supercritical mass of fissile material that has a runaway reaction until it blows itself apart and becomes subcritical. That describes this reactor and a nuclear bomb. The only question is efficiency which in Chernobyl is miniscule... But the first nuclear weapons (though much larger) still themselves used only a few percent of the fissile material.
This video leaves out some important facts about the physics of nuclear fission but the most important issue that should be mentioned is that these reactors did not have a very strong containment building covering them. Every responsible country around the world requires their reactors to be housed inside a containment building capable of containing the steam explosion like what happened there.
Why didn’t the Soviet Union put containment buildings around their reactors?
Because it’s cheaper!
@@overthetop-yv6ji The Fukushima reactors were not made in the USA. Where did you hear that? There are no containment buildings that existed in 1986 that could have contained the Chernobyl blast...no matter where they were made.
@@crocodile1313 they were a Westinghouse design. They were engineered in the US.
You mean like when they went POP at fukashemia?
@@crocodile1313 And if it had been a safer, western reactor design, the whole chain of events that caused the incident would have been impossible.
"What would happen if we turn off all of the safety systems and cooling?"
"The reactor melts down and the plant is destroyed."
"Hmmm, let's confirm it."
A safety test leading to the worst nuclear disaster in history has to be the most Russian thing ever.
Fukushima is far worse then Cernobil ...
Chernobyl is in Ukraine
@@dejuppIt was governed by the soviet union at that time
@@dejupplearn history
Most soviet thing ever
I had exposure to the radiation from Chernobyl when the US wanted to make a show of force in Germany. We were out marching in the rain consisting of the fallout from Chernobyl on May 1st 1986. The result is that I have a nodule on my thyroid as well as lesions on my head, neck and shoulders. The biopsy revealed that it is consistent with exposure to radiation. This happened in Regan’s peacetime Army. I’m being treated for it now. There are probably more people suffering from this same exposure. I was literally singing, “I’m a Radioactive” at the time. ☢️
I hope you can stay well for as long as possible
@@AgadorSpartacus100 The lesions and nodules seem to be slow growing and I had the first one removed. I have two more outside and three inside yet to be removed.
@@JungleJargon I wish you the very best for your treatment and full recovery
@@AgadorSpartacus100 Thanks!
The rods did not jam, the tips were made of graphite which accelerates reactions... At the very first fractions of a second the rods were inserted, it increased the power exponentially and uncontrollably. With the lack of coolants, all the remaining water became steam and hydrogen from the reaction of graphite with super heated steam, which lead to the chamber exploding.
Possibly dumb question, but if that's the case, why hadn't it happened before?
@@Foul_Quince Because it only happens when the core is poisoned with extreme circumstances. By the way... It did happen before, but was covered up apparently. It's also just not comparable to Chernobyl which went beyond all safety regulations and pushed the core.
Correct on both counts. The graphite tips caused an initial increase of radiation AND the rods jamming before they descended also allowed radiation to increase.
A Worst Case Scenerio all the way around.
So what are you suppose to use instead of graphite tips?
Oops
I was 16 when this happened. I remember every night all the news could talk about was how hard headed the soviets were for not telling the world the truth.
- Only 3 Roëgten per hour?
- No, 15K Roëgten per second...comrade
Not great, not terrible.
The woes of the proletariat
* Röntgen
The design of the control rods was such that when partially inserted into the core, the graphite tips actually accelerated the reaction. The reactor jumped to 11 times it's design output. The conversion of water to steam and the breakdown of the zirconium rod sleeves added hydrogen to the core which exploded.
The thing that really made It bad was that high-level apparatchiks knew about the graphite in the rods years before as a design flaw and sat on it. If I remember correctly, I think they had an incident in a different RBMK near St. Petersburg (Leningrad) that keyed them in, but no meltdown, so they figured it was a 'fluke.'
The RBMK´s of today still have those graphite tips. But those tips are no tips. The graphite is a main part of those control rods.
10 hours buildup of xenon, due to the test delay, also greatly contributed.
The secret graphite tips scandal was criminally negligent.
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@@overthetop-yv6ji False. Equally accountable was the lack of technical training for the xenon issue vs an RBMK & the ignored recommendation to shutdown/restart. RIP
Did anybody stop to think the answer might be "No, we DONT have enough residual power to keep it cool"
There was no free thinking in the Soviet Union.
24,000 years is crazy
The most terrifying imaginable. Something so deadly and it’s invisible. Radiation!!
My understanding is that Xenon buildup within the core from running at low power so long caused the power to drop off un expectedly. To try and get the steaming rate back up, they removed almost all of the control Rods. Xenon burned off enough, reaction increased exponentially, created more heat. More heat increased reaction rate further yet. Took off so fast they went to hit the stop switch that drops all of the rods into the core to stop the reaction. Rods were graphite tipped, which slowed down neutrons further, which increased the reaction AGAIN before the boron control rods could have any effect. Steam pressure built up so much it blew the lid off the reactor, allowing oxygen into the reactor, mixing oxygen with hydrogen within the reactor, which led to a 2nd explosion and fire which spread nuclear smoke a dust internationally.
Finally, someone in this comments section who has a firm grasp on what happened. Too bad this "documentary" couldn't explain it better....
@ultimaIXultima I learned all of this from the HBO documentary "Chernobyl" so if I was wrong in any of it, their fault lol. That documentary I thought, though compressed, gave enough information to understand the basics. If anyone watches and of the 4 episodes, episode 5 is the explanation and court scene
@@CK-dt6nx Yup, I thought it was pretty good. The courtroom scene at the end puts it all into perspective. The show definitely has its issues, but as far as being factually accurate on the science it did a good job.
The lid blowing off also voided the water in the core by creating an instant steam room, and there were rods that were fixed to the lid, so when the lid blew off, the rods ejected with it - which sped up the super-criticality. Training issues, design flaw, lack of understanding of what was actually happening in the core - they were doomed the moment they disabled the safety controls.
@@CK-dt6nxthat doc was incredible and accurate
Thank you so much for posting and sharing this video.
It’s such a great production.
All of the 100,000+ people who work in nuclear energy are gracing us with their presence in the comments section for their annual general meeting.
There's only 2400 comments
@@offtomars1 Suspect poster is suffering from an overdoze.
@@spikespa5208 you're right, I must have looked at likes...I'm a mental midget
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That test was "not great not terrible"
I did everything right
But not just here you won't work at Kursk or Ignalina or Leningrad or Nonoveronish, you won't work anywhere, ever again and I'll see to it, you know I will see to it!
Raise the power 💯
@@therandomytchannel4318 I would like for you to record your command
@@marianovalencia9134 **slams clipboard 📋 to the floor**
Raise the power 😁
I forgot how like the USSR looked like the 1950's in the 1980s.
This video prioritized drama over accuracy, to a shocking degree.
Yup, looks like the channel is shite
Control rods didn’t jam but actually caused a power surge
Recently, it has come to light that ‘the routine test’ was not that routine. On paper it looks like every RMBK reactor had to past this test, but the politics surrounding the completion and certification of reactor number four remains highly complex. This bureaucratic hurdle was in fact unique to Chernobyl reactor number four. No other nuclear facility had ever been forced to complete this test before, and as a result the parameters of the test were never clear.
Not only was the shut down cooling test highly dangerous in relation to secret flaws within the reactor’s design, the advocacy of the test had no basis consistent with stranded operating procedure or any emergency scenario likely to occur. There was no rational justification for green lighting the test after the test delay. There was no rational justification for removing more than the minimum permitted number of control rods in the core while the reactor was in operation. Powering down the reactor in the way proscribed by the test, is not an effective test of the cooling system, during the 40 second hiatus it would take for emergency generators to kick in following a reactor scram and loss of main power. As far as I aware, no RMBK reactor of the period was ever able to pass this test.
This film skips over a lot of details leading up to the disaster, both in terms of the people involved, and the technical events leading to the explosion. This is just as well, as the details are still the subject of much debate as of Sept 2024. More information is becoming available all the time.
But the film also does something interesting that no other broad telling of the story has done before: it blurs the distinction between those who died as direct result of the initial explosion and fighting the fire, and those who died later as a result of radiation exposure. This is a very good thing.
The Russians still refuse to count anyone who died later, as an official victim of Chernobyl As far as the French Government is concerned, the radiation from the explosion never passed the borders of France, yet it passed over every nation surrounding it.
The film also contains archival images and footage that I have not seen before. And I’ve tried very hard to see everything. I suspect that the production was unable to obtain the rights to use many of the clips that are often used, so it found alternatives. Of particular interest are the English translation of the famous emergency phone call on the night of the disaster. There is another available, but its not often used. Extra footage and photos of the evacuation of Pripyat, an extended version of the announcement made during the the evacuation. Interviews with survivors. News reports from Sweden and the UK. US satellite image of the Chernobyl plant. New footage of liquidators removing graphite from the roof of the turbine hall and elsewhere near the ruins of reactor four. Footage of the infamous Mayday parade in Kiev.
I saw a video last year of people who risk their lives still going back to feed the pets like dogs and cats so they don’t starve to death . That was 2023 and I assume there are people still doing it .
I was there and no shxt as you said is there...
I am still alive and 1000s more.
How can you say so shxt???
Pripyat is mostly safe now for short visits (at least when it comes to radiation levels)
My Estonian father-in-law suprisingly survived this disaster and is still alive today but obviously has medical issues.
The control rods didn’t “jam”. Was this made for Russian propaganda, since they still have 3 RBMK reactors operating?
The flaw was that the control rods were tipped in graphite which accelerated the fission process for a split second, which caused the power levels to surge to extreme and explosive heights. It wasn’t a fluke accident, it was a poorly designed system that caused the explosion.
The only thing "jammed" in Russia quite frequently were the various radio bands around the world!
Feels like this is an AI-produced documentary. Atleast the voiceover is AI. At one point it says ”1971” (not nineteen seventy one, but one thousand sevenhundred and one”).
Such a shame.
Definitely AI.
minute by minute! The video is only 43 mins and 23 seconds
Ever heard the expression "figure of speech" before ?
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@@-danRYou managed to outwit RUclips/Google. It proposes to "translate this comment to English".
The 2 superpowers were dealt blows of reality in the same year.
We (the US) had the Challenger disaster earlier in the year (late January).
The cover-up by the USSR in the immediate days after this nuclear disaster is epic in the way Russia still has the same mindset today! The other countries adjacent to this part of USSR that were not alerted or told the truth for months were unable to take proper precautions to protect their citizens which is beyond words!
Homer would’ve sorted it
Nuclear power isnt a complicated concept. Its a dangerous one if things go wrong but most people have an idea of nuclear power. It doesnt mean they think their physicists.
It is absolutely mind blowing to think that there is so much power and so much potential danger if abused or mishandled in somthing that came from the ground. Setting metal objects next to each other can be so deadly or can power city's for years and years! I know there is much more to it than just setting objects next to another , but that's just crazy to think that we made somthing from nothing like a nuclear reactor. Amazing really
At the heart of Soviet Union? Chernobyl? Really? It's like calling Duluth, Minnesota the heart of the United States
that's a good comeback = rol true 👍🏼🤣🤣👍🏼 ur cool
Amazingly well done video. Exceptional work. Subscribed and will recommend. 😊
The obvious take from this documentary is not to do any safety tests .
Amen.
Oh my god I do remember
Show this in schools as a lesson 😮😮
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In my school, we had radiation as a lesson once, and our teacher showed us a documentary.... No one cared, except for me😢
I thought the HBO Series was excellent. There aren’t many more painful ways to go than radiation poisoning. It’s shameful how Ukraine is not taking care of those affected. Reminds me of how the USA is failing 911 first responders and their families.
Didn’t the big bosses think that dangerous test should be done with more senior plant employees and at least 1or2 actual nuclear physicists???
The neglect of your own people is horrifying. This video is amazing but scary as hell.
This is the USSR we’re talking about here. Politicians live in palaces and their people live in squalor. I don’t think they gave a shit about the little guys.
@@jessicapabstconrad I agree and its terrible. These people were treated like test rats but worse. I feel so bad for anyone who tried to help save lives in this nightmare.
Sadly, no amount of experts or knowledge can withstand the effects of stupidity and disregard for simple safety rules.
Not true. First responders put out the fire on the roof. Two workers died, pumping out 750 gallons of diesel fuel from the burning reactor hall, and preventing a secondary fire and explosion. The third in command reactor engineer did an accurate survey of the damage and lost his life. First responders started getting sick as they were coming off the roof. They knew they were exposed to a nuclear fire and they tried putting water on the reactor only after the roof fire was put out
They were supposed to be testing the turbine generators which were designed to wind up as the reactor shut down.
The reactor test was designed to only drop to 700 MW. The reactor was allowed to drop to below 200 MW, thus creating a Xenon well. Which then caused a reactor runaway. The reactor went Super Critical.
The Cherenkov Radiation was visible to anyone. Beautiful, but beyond deadly.
Read Midnight in Chernoble by Adam Higginbotham.
The first second of this video made me look around the whole house
Came directly to the comments to point out the vast inaccuracies in this video. I'm glad I'm not alone. This kind of misinformation should be removed to prevent profiting off ai generated crap content.
Gonna be the new thing.
Only watched scattered portions of this. A lot of incorrect information. Been looking into this disaster for almost 20 years… High production value, but incorrect information.
Lol didn't expect to find you here! Love your content man!
@@noelvliegenthart7858 Haha yep, one of my many interests!
Explain.
It's nice that you included the full evacuation message but some translated subtitles might be nice considering many of your viewers don't speak Russian....
Ive seen many documentaries about Chernobyl, but this is the first one I've seen that tells about the number of lives lost.
So very sad.
If I remember correctly didn't the Soviet Union collapse shortly after the Chernobyl accident.
He melt down.
Yes
5 years later in 1991 I believe
Yes, Lithuania was the first one that broke free from all this bullshit. After that all other countrys started to push back against ussr. The Chernobyl and all the lies and propaganda was the final stroke. People started to don't believe anything.
I just looked at exactly where it is on map. Didnt realize how central it is. Always thought of it as way north and isolated area. I was so wrong...
What blows my mind is that the other 3 reactors remained operational,the last one,unit 3 not being shut down until 2000.Makes me wonder about the radiation exposure for the employees,and why anyone would even want to work there after the accident.
"Vodka good....nuclear fire baaaaaaad!" Quote from Soviet Nuclear Energy Safety Handbook. Only quote. One page, one sentence.
Usually “grid operators” ask for output in electrical not thermal. Never heard of them caring about how much gas I burn.
For everyone panicking the west doesn't use graphite based reactor designs.
Minute by minute? This is hours by hours
This video does not talk about the miners that had to make a tunnel under to release the water and avoid even a greater disaster that would have been even more dangerous than the first explosion
...no, turning AZ-5 was not what turned off the emergency cooling system. Also, AZ-5 was a red push button, not a switch, before the retrofits. That's already one failure in the first 5 minutes.
I am thankful for those who placed themselves directly in radiation without a second thought. Their deaths were unimaginable, yet they saved possible millions.
Gives me chills just thinking about it. Hopefully nothing like this happens again.
Omg!! Don’t say that! That’s so scary to think about 😩.
It did! Fukushima in Japan
It's crazy to see people so close to radioactive material with no protective gear. But then think about this, you call in firefighters and whatever their national guard is etc, however many responders, do you really think they had radiation protective suits built and ready to go for tens to maybe hundreds of thousands of people? I mean even in the nuclear power plant itself, I bet not literally every single employee there has a radiation suit, only the people closest to it right. The scale of the cleanup and the amount of protective resources to help those people were outnumbered from the start.
the most insane thing to me is that this was caused....or maybe mightve been preventable....because there was no pressure relief?.?.?.? Its so messed up, if the steam pressure couldve been bled off by something akin to a relief valve on a hot water tank then the rods wouldve descended and slowed the reaction to a manageable level ...
Well done guys! A documentary filled with rich information and context! Thanks for producing this!
It's not rich information. There is so much crucial information missing, it's borderline misinformation. Fells like no proper research was done here
Its very disturbing how they just sent fire fighters and others into the radiation areas without protection. Its sickening
I have a tear in my eye . Its amazing how something so small can cause so mush damage. I was 16 when it happened. Now Im 54
And clearly a gifted mathematician
@@justinwalker5742 Thank you my friend
My father was in the UK in 1986 when chenobyl blew up. He was in the US army at the time. He had to go thru decontamination procedures to come home.
Exposure to gamma radiation can cause acute myeloid leukemia!
Leukemia can lead to people losing their immunity, making them vulnerable to infections, which can be deadly!
I came here after watching Chernobyl, Bittish mini-series and I can safely say that I learned 10 times more from miniseries than from this crppay 'documentary'. I really recommend miniseries though!
This caused the fall of the soviet union the USSR, stated bt head of the communist party at that time. These poor men were of the soviet thinking that throw men at the clean up regardless of their outcome, which meant heros of the soviet union , give your life for the motherland. Some of these poor individuals received some compensation from the state and sent to the hospital six. There were flaws from the beginning and this spread throughout Europe. I feel so bad for those fire fighters with no protection cleaning up this radioactive mess which they weren't even aware of. Of course the soviet union would not ask for foreign aid. As a result so many people could have been saved if they would have accepted medical help as well as control of the radioactive deaths This was so very sad because so many lives could have been saved if the soviet union would have accepted help. They had no idea of how to cleanup this mess. Such a loss of live that could have been prevented if only the soviet union hadnt been so stubborn they refused aid from countries around the world willing to help. They also endangered people in many surrounding countries. This was such a tragic mess but accepted as heroism by the soviet union. The culture at the time. 28:36
Good story I still remember that day in 1986 when I was living in St.petersburg Florida when the radiation cloud was circling the Globe !! Kind of exiting times NOT knowing the Danger we were exposed 2 !! Thanks 2 GOD I am still alive !! Thank u JESUS !! R.I.P. people !! 😢😢
There were radiation clouds around the world?
24,000 years. WOW!
250,000 years, it takes 10 halflives before its almost all gone, and the residual elements and their isotopes are still being formed till the end!
And still we build nuclear power plants. There have been hundreds of accidents causing leakage, but we only ever hear about Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island
It reminds me of the Titanic disaster, in that everything that could go wrong did.
The government of Ukraine was not paying the pensions to the survivors, but they had money to buy luxury cars and villas in California and Florida.
How many people lost there lives because of this disaster???
90k and climbing
I'm been in Chernobyl from 1987 to 1992 we searched every paper and document this Nuclear Power Plant open early without any safety protocols with poor materials standards during construction first accident happen 1983 .
7:21 "producing 1000 thermal megawatts of electrical power"
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The "thermal" explicitly excludes the electrical... thermal is always higher due to losses in the system... they will never be the same. For example, with a reactor capable of 1000MW(th) you might get 600MW(e) down the transmission wires to the customers.
"Safety concerns were sidelined in favor of production." Typical Soviet low value of human life.
I’m 3 minutes in and he’s already getting information wrong
THE GUY FELL ASLEEP ON THE JOB!!! 😢 FACTS!!!
Radiation scares the shit out of me. Invisible killer
What made it worse was the gaslighting of the people about the after effects. Even going as far as coining the psychological condition of Radiophobia.😢😢😢
Ironically, that tragedy happened because of a safety test.
10:20 thats not actually what happened... the power levels didnt "drop unexpectedly fast for no reason" it was a combination of laziness/negligence AND a touch of random bad luck because they werent monitering it closely enough because who cares right? I mean its only 50 tons of radioactive metal lol....but seriously they really werent watching attentively cuz its a slow process and boring but also UNEXPECTEDLY there was more draw on the power grid that night than usual so it dropped even faster than expected and they had no choice but to continue with the "exercise", afterwards a combination of bad luck and poor managment caused a "STEAM EXPLOSION" sooo many people confuse this, there was no 'so called nuclear explosion', it was a massive and abrupt build up of steam under EXTREME pressure that the building surround the reactor could not withstand and so when the pressure "popped" the top of the dome the concrete and metal, including the radioactive rods", were expelled by FORCE, not like a bomb with flame an all like most people 😂think😂 but more like a fart u held in too long and unfortunatly the pressure sent other things flying too
They leave out some details. The problem was due to the design. I think it may have been xenon poisioning. Basically the problem the pushed it over the edge was due to a coating on the tips of the control rods which increases the reaction. So when power spiked and they inserted all the control rods the tips increased the spike which was too much.
That was really freaking good!
This whole documentary left me asking one question: ‘What is the cost of lies?’ Some will get this most will not 😅
No, we all have watched the miniseries, trust me.
The control rods did not jam. They were defective, and the tips caused chemical acceleration of the core temperature
I guess "thermal megawatts" sounds more impressive.