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.
@@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..
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.
Look up windscale nuclear disaster in the UK.. Multiple leaks form the piles, nobody evacuated and a huge government cover up. Surprisingly not many in the UK even are aware of it.. They sure knew how to suppress things back in the day
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.
Only the Soviets would conduct a test that required the operators to shut down the reactor’s most vital operational safety features. These features were never, ever intended to be shut down while the reactor was in normal operation. On top of that, Soviet nuclear industry regulations absolutely required this test to be performed BEFORE the reactor was permitted to become fully operational!
What makes you think it was just 'greed'. What basis have you for that assessment? It was more about pride, than greed. Many of the deaths could've been prevented if the Soviet Union had more immediately acknowledged the disaster, and moved more quickly to evacuate the area. Arrogance and pride lent itself to the poor regard for safety, and proper management of the reactors, than greed. Seriously, I'd like to know how you came to this conclusion.
Whenever the left is in charge every tragedy could be avoided like joe bidens contrived presidentcy that ruined America. The left has a long history of denying facts and reality and truth. Not saying Republicans are saints. But they are grounded to common sence hell of alot more then the 940 gender left lol
@@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
@@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.
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.
@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.
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.
Lol... ask Vietnam veteran if it was any different in America 20y later... And the ones from Iraq These guys have been exposed to the worst nasty chemicals and being told not to worry, it just like diesel fuel...
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".
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..😊
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 wasn't even a requirement, and every other nuclear power plant in Ukraine had written it out of their rules because it was considered pointless and risky.
NO! It was NOT a requirement for certification at ALL... It was an off the wall experiment to see if they could keep the core cool in the case of a total grid power failure, scamming the reactor, and then attempting to use the remaining electrical energy as the turbine spun down, to provide power to the cooling pumps long enough, until the back up generators started up and replaced the dwindling electrical power supply to the cooling pumps. It was like a reenactment of a worst of the worst possible scenario, that probably NEVER would have EVER happened in the first place, and really never needed to be tested.
@davelowets yeah, I think it was israel that bombed a countries nuclear power plant and the power went out. Russian politicians became increasingly paranoid that the US may use this knowledge and began demanding these power outtage tests.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@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.
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.'
@@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
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.
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. ☢️
@@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.
The reactor was faulty. The techs were not allowed to know how everything worked properly because info was withheld by the govt. The safety test was to have been performed before the plant went officially on line but was lied about. Igor Dyatlov had everyone in the control room so scared & cowed they could hardly function. He refused to explain anything, gave them instructions that were unclear & partially redacted. The test was supposed to have been completed on the day shift; the night crew was completely unprepared to perform it. The biggest problem for the Soviet govt. wasn't the explosion, the deaths or the radiation. Their worry was people outside the USSR finding out, especially the US. It was a clusterfuck all around.
The truth is: - Despite the radiation some people never left the area near the plant and still live there. - Wild life took over the region and are healthy. - The area became a turistic site.
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.
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
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!
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.
"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."
My dad was one of the brave humans that was sent to go up on the roof of the roof 😢 he died at 43 i miss him so much his name is andre vladimir rudshik
My old neighbor was from Minsk and he has had thyroid cancer and leukemia as a result of this disaster. His wife (also from Minsk), died of bone cancer
The amount of details missing in this video shows a complete misrepresentation of the disaster. The HBO Drama miniseries "Chernobyl" explains the disaster better than this "documentary". This video doesn't explain what happened at all. The most important explanation of what caused the disaster is missing. The political decisions that led to the disaster, the faulty design of the RBMK reactors. All of that is missing. The description of the control rods that were used and how they worked is straight-up incorrect. The fact that technicians had censored operational manuals is missing. The most important facts are missing. This video is missing so much crucial information, it's borderline misinformation. How can you make a disaster documentary without doing ANY PROPER RESEARCH?!
The same way you think this is borderline misinformation, the HBO series likewise borders on misinformation several times. Multiple characters were completly changed. The science was also heavily simplified, including the whole graphite tip and xenon poisoning part in Episode 5. The youtube channel ChernobylGuy has made several videos about the problems with the tv show.
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.
well its combination. it had a large positive void coefficient & its indeed graphite tipped controlrodes which well indeed causing a power surge which led fuel cells fracturing which interms caused a steam explosion
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 💯
I am thankful for those who placed themselves directly in radiation without a second thought. Their deaths were unimaginable, yet they saved possible millions.
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.
The next morning, Workers going in to work in Wylfa nuclear power station in Wales set off the radiation detection alarms. Whatever they picked up between getting into and out of their cars was strong enough to be picked up.
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
The fact that it blowing up was literally like an “impossibility” really goes to show you the level of stupidity we work under while dealing with things we don’t understand. And look what came from that… Just scary to think that even the people working at the top of these projects had no idea what they were dealing with.
This is a very great video. Thank you, .i was in Finland, with the Sami people at the time, and i was 13 years old. I couldnever have children because of it, but if it wasnt for Sverige vigilence, it could have been many more! Thanks!!! Now, they are actively (for money, of course), letting people "tour" Chernobyl and saying that it is perfectly safe! Unbelievable....😢
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
As soon as someone says "it's impossible to imagine such a thing", I'm smacking my head like this 🤦🏿♂️ and going in the opposite direction as fast as possible.
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.
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.
I was lucky enough to visit the Chernobyl plant and Pripyat before the war, it’s hard to comprehend how close the power station is to Kiev probably took less than an hour from Kiev to the exclusion zone where you got through a checkpoint and are given a monitor that you have to wear around your neck and is given back when you leave to test the levels of radiation you might have received. I also had a Geiger counter that would give off that high speed rattle when you passed by a hotspot, had lunch inside the power plant which knowing what happened in 1986 was wierd, then visited the abandoned city which mother nature is slowly taking over
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.😢😢😢
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.
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.
So, chernoby and fukashima have had major melt downs where radiation was detected abroad. Human's have been testing Nuclear Weapons for many decades all over the world, in the atmosphere, in the ground, on water, in the desert, etc etc... It doesn't take a stretch of the imaginaytion to figure out why cancer is so widespread. Anxiety, Depression, Violence, suicide, and drug use have all been steadily rising since the 80s....
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 .
There are about 100-150 people living in the surroundings of Chernobyl. It's said to be safe now. I guess at some point, and not in thousands of years, people will be living in Chernobyl.
The ending note, that the area is unsafe for human habitation for the next 24 THOUSAND years completely overlooks the fact that there are still people living on it today. And I don’t refer to plant or research personnel at the defunct power plant. Tiny farming communities, often the elderly, who came out to surround Pripyat when it was in its swing as a science city and now have nowhere to go.
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.
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
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 .
there where orginally be more people during the test but bcs they had to postpone the test those where no longer at site. but the fact they never properly made a protype to test it says enough
12:30 /// Error. The test was carried out to the end (successfully btw.) AZ-5 was pressed to shut down the reactor as planned. It was after this that the power surge and explosion occurred.
Honestly this was not a very well put together documentary, first 12 mins looping clips before we even got to the power plant, and could you have cranked the music any louder,
The firefighters, miners, scuba divers, and other people involved with the rescue efforts of chernobyl are some of the most heroic people in history. They essentially saved the planet.
I have 63 Very good Chernobyl documentaries, and I really like this one! Also, I highly, highly recommend a beautifully filmed documentary by the great Nikolaus Geyrhalter. It is a 1999 documentary called Pripyat. Such beautiful cinematography and gentle direction, like nothing I've ever seen. He puts you in the place, and then lets it happen. Nothing is forced. It's just beautiful. Every filmmaker should see this.
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.
Very interesting documentary, thank you very much for share. Congratulations. Thank you a lot, for put automatic subititles translation for portuguese, Brazil. Excuse my broken english. A hug from Brazil.
Those men who fought to encase that disaster are heros.
Also called "suckers"....
Yes they are .
*heroes
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Absolutely
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
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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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?
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@@biscottimoxie Nope!
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.
Look up windscale nuclear disaster in the UK..
Multiple leaks form the piles, nobody evacuated and a huge government cover up.
Surprisingly not many in the UK even are aware of it..
They sure knew how to suppress things back in the day
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.
Only the Soviets would conduct a test that required the operators to shut down the reactor’s most vital operational safety features. These features were never, ever intended to be shut down while the reactor was in normal operation.
On top of that, Soviet nuclear industry regulations absolutely required this test to be performed BEFORE the reactor was permitted to become fully operational!
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.
The difference between the tv show of my nuclear station is the actions of how things were portrayed nothing else
What makes you think it was just 'greed'. What basis have you for that assessment? It was more about pride, than greed. Many of the deaths could've been prevented if the Soviet Union had more immediately acknowledged the disaster, and moved more quickly to evacuate the area. Arrogance and pride lent itself to the poor regard for safety, and proper management of the reactors, than greed. Seriously, I'd like to know how you came to this conclusion.
Yes, it's a great mini series, indeed.
i watch it for 4 times maybe 5 next month 😊
Whenever the left is in charge every tragedy could be avoided like joe bidens contrived presidentcy that ruined America. The left has a long history of denying facts and reality and truth. Not saying Republicans are saints. But they are grounded to common sence hell of alot more then the 940 gender left lol
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.
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.
Tsar Bomba was mostly a steam explosion, too.
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. 🇨🇦
Lol... ask Vietnam veteran if it was any different in America 20y later...
And the ones from Iraq
These guys have been exposed to the worst nasty chemicals and being told not to worry, it just like diesel fuel...
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.
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.
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.
The most terrifying imaginable. Something so deadly and it’s invisible. Radiation!!
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 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
It wasn't even a requirement, and every other nuclear power plant in Ukraine had written it out of their rules because it was considered pointless and risky.
NO! It was NOT a requirement for certification at ALL...
It was an off the wall experiment to see if they could keep the core cool in the case of a total grid power failure, scamming the reactor, and then attempting to use the remaining electrical energy as the turbine spun down, to provide power to the cooling pumps long enough, until the back up generators started up and replaced the dwindling electrical power supply to the cooling pumps.
It was like a reenactment of a worst of the worst possible scenario, that probably NEVER would have EVER happened in the first place, and really never needed to be tested.
@davelowets yeah, I think it was israel that bombed a countries nuclear power plant and the power went out.
Russian politicians became increasingly paranoid that the US may use this knowledge and began demanding these power outtage tests.
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?
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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!
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.
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
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
It is vitally important that you realise that I must tell you immediately that I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about.
Thank you so much for posting and sharing this video.
It’s such a great production.
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!
yup, in 1975 they discovered this flaw when the leningrad nuclear powerplant experienced a meld down
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!
I hope your treatment works
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
My Estonian father-in-law suprisingly survived this disaster and is still alive today but obviously has medical issues.
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.
The reactor was faulty. The techs were not allowed to know how everything worked properly because info was withheld by the govt. The safety test was to have been performed before the plant went officially on line but was lied about. Igor Dyatlov had everyone in the control room so scared & cowed they could hardly function. He refused to explain anything, gave them instructions that were unclear & partially redacted. The test was supposed to have been completed on the day shift; the night crew was completely unprepared to perform it. The biggest problem for the Soviet govt. wasn't the explosion, the deaths or the radiation. Their worry was people outside the USSR finding out, especially the US. It was a clusterfuck all around.
“I’m not giving her all she’s got captain”
The truth is:
- Despite the radiation some people never left the area near the plant and still live there.
- Wild life took over the region and are healthy.
- The area became a turistic site.
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
- Only 3 Roëgten per hour?
- No, 15K Roëgten per second...comrade
Not great, not terrible.
The woes of the proletariat
* Röntgen
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!
+remember the Radioactive Fire kept burning 10days!!!
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.
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.
@offtomars1 Suspect poster is suffering from an overdoze.
🤣😂🤣😂
"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."
24,000 years is crazy
My dad was one of the brave humans that was sent to go up on the roof of the roof 😢 he died at 43 i miss him so much his name is andre vladimir rudshik
My old neighbor was from Minsk and he has had thyroid cancer and leukemia as a result of this disaster. His wife (also from Minsk), died of bone cancer
The amount of details missing in this video shows a complete misrepresentation of the disaster. The HBO Drama miniseries "Chernobyl" explains the disaster better than this "documentary". This video doesn't explain what happened at all. The most important explanation of what caused the disaster is missing. The political decisions that led to the disaster, the faulty design of the RBMK reactors. All of that is missing. The description of the control rods that were used and how they worked is straight-up incorrect. The fact that technicians had censored operational manuals is missing. The most important facts are missing. This video is missing so much crucial information, it's borderline misinformation. How can you make a disaster documentary without doing ANY PROPER RESEARCH?!
Where’s ur documentary id like to watch it?
You should do a documentary on it, we can all pick it apart for you.
The same way you think this is borderline misinformation, the HBO series likewise borders on misinformation several times. Multiple characters were completly changed. The science was also heavily simplified, including the whole graphite tip and xenon poisoning part in Episode 5. The youtube channel ChernobylGuy has made several videos about the problems with the tv show.
A blowhard in charge of the control room deviated from procedure during a test on the reactor and this is what happened.
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.
Homer would’ve sorted it
I just smoked a big bowl and am absolutely loving this post. ❤
Control rods didn’t jam but actually caused a power surge
well its combination. it had a large positive void coefficient & its indeed graphite tipped controlrodes which well indeed causing a power surge which led fuel cells fracturing which interms caused a steam explosion
Absolutely NO documentary or film about Chernobyl can be made without that recording of the phone conversation!
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. 😊
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 am thankful for those who placed themselves directly in radiation without a second thought. Their deaths were unimaginable, yet they saved possible millions.
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.
It's Russias fault it blew up quit projecting Russia onto Ukraine!
Russians are completely incompetent and useless
4:33 best waxed floors I’ve ever seen in my life
The next morning, Workers going in to work in Wylfa nuclear power station in Wales set off the radiation detection alarms. Whatever they picked up between getting into and out of their cars was strong enough to be picked up.
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
This video prioritized drama over accuracy, to a shocking degree.
Yup, looks like the channel is shite
The fact that it blowing up was literally like an “impossibility” really goes to show you the level of stupidity we work under while dealing with things we don’t understand. And look what came from that… Just scary to think that even the people working at the top of these projects had no idea what they were dealing with.
This is a very great video.
Thank you,
.i was in Finland, with the Sami people at the time, and i was 13 years old. I couldnever have children because of it, but if it wasnt for Sverige vigilence, it could have been many more!
Thanks!!!
Now, they are actively (for money, of course), letting people "tour" Chernobyl and saying that it is perfectly safe! Unbelievable....😢
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
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
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.
23:00 thank you so much for the English translation of the broadcast.
I’m a nuclear technician from Black Mesa and I can tell you this doc is accurate
Not about the explosion tho, there were 2 explosions not just 1 as said in the video.
This is very accurate
There were multiple important factors that they left out in this documentary, they were wrong about a lot of things.
As soon as someone says "it's impossible to imagine such a thing", I'm smacking my head like this 🤦🏿♂️ and going in the opposite direction as fast as possible.
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.
You can always count on night shift to screw things up
I forgot how like the USSR looked like the 1950's in the 1980s.
I was lucky enough to visit the Chernobyl plant and Pripyat before the war, it’s hard to comprehend how close the power station is to Kiev probably took less than an hour from Kiev to the exclusion zone where you got through a checkpoint and are given a monitor that you have to wear around your neck and is given back when you leave to test the levels of radiation you might have received. I also had a Geiger counter that would give off that high speed rattle when you passed by a hotspot, had lunch inside the power plant which knowing what happened in 1986 was wierd, then visited the abandoned city which mother nature is slowly taking over
Usually “grid operators” ask for output in electrical not thermal. Never heard of them caring about how much gas I burn.
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.😢😢😢
So what were the test results?
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🤭 I feel bad for laughing!
"Not great, not terrible"
Great documentary. Thank you for sharing
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.
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.
So, chernoby and fukashima have had major melt downs where radiation was detected abroad. Human's have been testing Nuclear Weapons for many decades all over the world, in the atmosphere, in the ground, on water, in the desert, etc etc... It doesn't take a stretch of the imaginaytion to figure out why cancer is so widespread. Anxiety, Depression, Violence, suicide, and drug use have all been steadily rising since the 80s....
EXACTLY!
It wasn't a "routine" test. Some reactors of same design had declined to perform the same procedure.
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)
There are about 100-150 people living in the surroundings of Chernobyl. It's said to be safe now. I guess at some point, and not in thousands of years, people will be living in Chernobyl.
The ending note, that the area is unsafe for human habitation for the next 24 THOUSAND years completely overlooks the fact that there are still people living on it today. And I don’t refer to plant or research personnel at the defunct power plant. Tiny farming communities, often the elderly, who came out to surround Pripyat when it was in its swing as a science city and now have nowhere to go.
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".
Why do we see at 4:20 a panel with an analog display unit labeled in German "Regelventilstellung"? (I am a doctor, not an engineer. ;-)
Because the footage is all over the place...
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.
yup. i heard some say that chernobyl infact well could have been the beginning of the collapse of the soviet union
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
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...
I scrolled down the comments section，now i know how a nuclear power plants work, i don't need this video.
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 .
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).
Didn’t the big bosses think that dangerous test should be done with more senior plant employees and at least 1or2 actual nuclear physicists???
there where orginally be more people during the test but bcs they had to postpone the test those where no longer at site. but the fact they never properly made a protype to test it says enough
Its very disturbing how they just sent fire fighters and others into the radiation areas without protection. Its sickening
The obvious take from this documentary is not to do any safety tests .
Amen.
12:30 /// Error. The test was carried out to the end (successfully btw.) AZ-5 was pressed to shut down the reactor as planned. It was after this that the power surge and explosion occurred.
Honestly this was not a very well put together documentary, first 12 mins looping clips before we even got to the power plant, and could you have cranked the music any louder,
if a dream is a wish your heart makes, why do my dreams always involve Chernobyl?
7:30 Probably means 10% of electricity, which is not at all the same thing. Increasing sense of suction.
I guess "thermal megawatts" sounds more impressive.
Does anyone know why the Rods jammed when reinserted?
Were the tubes already so Hot they expanded and/or collapsed?
The firefighters, miners, scuba divers, and other people involved with the rescue efforts of chernobyl are some of the most heroic people in history. They essentially saved the planet.
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!
I have 63 Very good Chernobyl documentaries, and I really like this one! Also, I highly, highly recommend a beautifully filmed documentary by the great Nikolaus Geyrhalter. It is a 1999 documentary called Pripyat. Such beautiful cinematography and gentle direction, like nothing I've ever seen. He puts you in the place, and then lets it happen. Nothing is forced. It's just beautiful. Every filmmaker should see this.
It reminds me of the Titanic disaster, in that everything that could go wrong did.
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.
I’m 3 minutes in and he’s already getting information wrong
Very interesting documentary, thank you very much for share. Congratulations. Thank you a lot, for put automatic subititles translation for portuguese, Brazil. Excuse my broken english. A hug from Brazil.