A Brief History of: The K-19 Reactor Incident (Short Documentary)
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A brief History of the very unlucky K-19 Nuclear Soviet submarine
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Well clearly the lesson here is just make weaker champagne bottles.
I would be amazed if Naval grade champagne bottles don't come with special hairline fractures in the glass now.
@@will5948 At least a few navies the sponsor basically presses a button or cuts a string on a mechanism so bottle is dropped in a way it is basically guarantied to hit a temporary steel plate welded perpendicularly on the hull, which makes it like hitting the bottle squarely with a heavy ax and then smashing into a wall
Maybe Navy sailors need the help of some big strong Marines to help them break the champagne bottles against the sides of their ships.
Apparently Soviet women were more muscular than their male counterparts in the champagne bottle breaking club
Not possible, champagne (or any sparkling wine made by methode champenoise) undergoes secondary fermentation inside the bottle, which has to withstand more than 6 bars of pressure.
Have you considered looking into the soviet lighthouse RTGs? Basically in the 70s there was a UN resolution that made all countries need to mark their coast X number of miles with lighthouses, but because the USSR was huge and largely unpopulated, they had to build autonomous lighthouses. Because these were remote, they couldn't rely on refueling via diesel generators, and because many were in the arctic circle and it was the 70s they couldn't use solar. Their solution was basically the same as the Voyager spacecraft - radioisotope thermoelectric generators. Basically hunks of strontium left to decay, using the heat to power a thermocouple, and thus lighthouses. But, because this is soviet, they totally botched it and covered up. Some RTGs were lost in transit, falling out of helicopters, or into crevasses, and after the fall of the USSR, many were never recovered. One was hit by a jeep, others just plain missing, in one case the strontium core was found sitting in a bus stop a few miles from the original site. Idk, seems like your sort of thing.
superjoeyman1 This makes me feel much better about the RTG the US lost in the Himalayas.
@@mattwilliams3456 Oh yeah that CIA one right?
Good link;
bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/radioactive-waste-and-spent-nuclear-fuel/2005-04-radioisotope-thermoelectric-generators-2
In the 1990s there was a Discovery Channel special about one of these. Some lumberjacks spending the night in the frigid woods found some strange cans emitting heat, and decided to curl up next to the nice warm objects to sleep. Ooooops. Later on they showed up at a hospital with signs of radiation sickness. From their description the authorities guessed what this was and sent a crew up into the woods to secure the devices. There is video of these guys grabbing the cans with long metal tongs and tossing them onto the ice-covered road surface, which immediately sizzles into steam from the heat. A guy with a stopwatch calls "Time!" and the next guy goes up with the tongs and chucks the can into a big lead bucket on the back of the truck. They repeated this until all the cans were in the bucket, then posed for a big smiley-face photo. Nobody knows how many of these things are out there in the wilderness or where exactly.
USSR WAS ALWAYS HIGHLY RESPONSIBLE COMPARED TO THE WESTERN ALWAYS LYING CRIMINAL COUNTRIES who killed billions people around.
Me: I wonder if there's a job that includes all of my worst fears - *nuclear war, claustrophobia, isolation, huge responsibility, faulty hardware, horrible death at any moment, the open sea, B.O, nuclear leaks, being yelled at...*
Navy: Step right over son, have we got an opportunity for you!
You forgot farting in an enclosed tube...
As an ex submariner, i can say there is an uncomfortable amount of truth here.
@@dloman77 And the Soviet Navy was far worse than the US Navy. Soviet Red Army service in general was grueling. After the cold war, it was disclosed that in the then Russian Army the suicide rates were higher than in any other major powers Army. They took hazing to another level, making the first year of service pure hell. Same in the East German Army but a little softer.
It's not a job. It's an adventure!
Lol Same
I had to stop and salute the technicians who gave their lives to repair the reactor despite the fact that they certainly knew that it would mean their horrible and long deaths.
Yup. I'm hoping they got a lot of morphine. That stuff is pretty good.
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i had to stop and think what a bunch of morons. how could they think an abstract idea, like a country, is more important than my life?
@@wesleythomas7125Wesley has entered the chat.
@@grmpEqweersome diseases can prevent it from killing pain, I think radiation to certain areas or in sufficient amount prevents it from being effective unfortunately
It should also be noted that when the first repair to the reactor failed. The head technician went back into the reactor and made another repair, which saved the reactor from meltdown. He became entombed in the reactor because the heat was so intense, the door latches became warped and it couldn't be opened when his crew mates came to get him out. The ultimate sacrifice and a horrible way to die
I remember watching a documentary about this as a kid and that always stuck with me 😢.
@@MakeItWithCalvin ...Are you sure that was an actual documentary, and not the movie "K-19: The Widowmaker?"
@@jpheitman1 Great movie BTW
One correction, reactors do not generate nuclear explosions because the fuel is not properly enriched for weapons use nor contained in a way that allows rapid explosive nuclear fission like a bomb. There's a reason the Nazis had a reactor but were nowhere near a bomb, they are two completely different systems that need different fuel and containment to work in their respective niches. The worst you'll get with a reactor meltdown is a steam or hydrogen explosion that spreads fissile material everywhere like a dirty bomb, but the explosion is not driven by atomic fission like a bomb and will be relatively tiny. That's why even the molten core of Chernobyl (which was a reactor that produced enriched uranium at the same time as power) did not produce a nuclear explosion, it just slowly burned out and cooled off, it never had enough enriched uranium to facilitate explosive fission, it was critical and self-sustaining that's why it stayed molten but it never had enough fission happening at once to explode just give off a ton of heat.
I am so tired of people equating reactor meltdowns with nuclear bombs, they are not the same, stop scaring people.
Thanks... It's important we push back against the nuclear fearmongering
Well hes also not really wrong cause if the reactor suffered a catastrophic failure and "exploded" there would be a theoretical chance it set off the SLBMs. But he still is kinda wrong lmao
Good movie like
@@MrDustyGaming What Spakes said
Plainly Difficult ?
Plainly Difficult, should rename to Plainly Understandable. No fancy graphics, no unneeded information or ominous music, straight to the point. Love it.
Or Plainly Wrong, since it's purpose is to promulgate lies.
@@hermitoldguy6312 elaborate
@Doomguy Wait.
@@hermitoldguy6312 what?
@@hermitoldguy6312 been a day of waiting
The captain looks like he could be played by Harrison Ford. You know, in his hayday.
zendell37
Idk if you know this, but there was LITERALLY a movie based off this accident starring Harrison Ford. I’m not kidding, it’s called “K-19: The Widowmaker” or something similar.
@@theclockworksolution8521 woosh?
Derek Henschel
It might be but I honestly couldn’t tell if they were being sarcastic. I’ll accept a woosh if that’s the case tho
Can’t tell if this is meant as a joke or just a random post. Took me a minute to remember the K-19 movie Harrison Ford was in.
@C O I read your book, Ryan. Your conclusions were all wrong. Halsey acted shtupidly.
If the reactor is operational (and I'm not even talking about being critical), I'm not stepping into the reactor compartment. What those guys did on that sub is absolutely insane, a certain death sentence and they knew it.
I guess it was seen as "do it and you'll die, don't do it and you and and all of your buddies will die".
Yep yep, but the engineers also were thinking 'If we don't do this, everybody DIES NOW. If we do this and succeed, yes we ourselves will be condemned to die later, but our buddies will have a fightin' chance to LIVE!! While WE at least will have a chance to have our sweethearts at our sides when we're on our deathbeds! LET'S DO THIS!!'
@@Patriot1776 except, according to this video, those engineers died alone once they got back to Russia and their loved ones were not even informed until after the burial.
@@exec2968
Yes. I still personally admire their bravery. For that matter, any mariner taking ship in a USSR/Russian sub is damned brave.
@@grmpEqweer pretty brave in the tanks too, even tho Hollywood has glamorized their armor, former ussr tank man tell of different stories
*BLOOP*
*sizzle*
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"Eh, that should be fine. Nobody swims here."
underrated comment
good one.. lol ;)
Harrison Ford said he didn't like the name of the movie about it called "The Widowmaker," but...it really was.
To be fair, there was a Soviet submarine known as The Widowmaker already, and it wasn't K-19. It was an earlier diesel sub that had an experimental oxygen system for extended underwater use and which had many fire incidents and deaths aboard. K-19 was never called such as far as I'm aware.
@@dewolf49 Yep
In fact, K-19 was actually dubbed "Hiroshima" because of this incident.
dewolf49 what’s the sub called?
K 19: Hiroshima would be a very confusing title for most audiences, so I understand why they changed that
Verify range to target, one ping only, pleashe.
"Recycling a design is only a good idea if the thing you're copying is good" lol
2 dodgy conventional designs mashed together in a rush with a bunch of untested new reactor technology built with extreme economic restrictions. What a death trap.
The reactor was known by NATO as "Hens", which was an abbreviation of Hotel, Echo, & November. Which were the three classes of sub that used the reactor design and thus had the same reactor sound signature. Hotel was the ballistic missile sub, echo was a very noisy cruise missile sub, and November was an attack sub.
I greatly appreciate this man not making fun of the dead, his videos are both entertaining, educational, and respectful and I love them so much :>
Kind of hard to create the “New Soviet Man” when you’re constantly destroying your prototypes.
Hard to create a "new Soviet man" when you take everything away from the people and leave them desperate for even a scrap to eat.
Hard to create the "New Soviet Man" without exposing him to extreme amount of radiation till he becomes Dr. Manhattan.
I worked on 3 different kinds of US Navy submarine reactor plants (S5W, S6G (both DIG-2 core and D2W core) and S7G (MARF). The idea of improper operation leading to a control rod being bent *without also causing severe damage to multiple fuel rods* leaves me utterly flabbergasted. For fuck sake Russians, it's like with Chernobyl, the sheer incompetence in design principles AND construction quality AND operator actions, monitoring, nd maintenance are so astounding that one would think you were actively TRYING to create major reactor accidents.
When politics is substituted for science, shit gets out of control.
how was balstion spa?
@@brianaugustine9121 Very cold. Actually the entire area was really nice when I was training up there (late 2000-mid 2001). I was shocked at how cold the winter storms could get, I spent the previous winter in Chicago and that was nothing compared to upstate NY. Schenectady was a gorgeous looking town, and the hotels were all really great around there because of racing season, but cheap as dirt during winter, especially for someone getting a military discount on top of winter rates.
@@22steve5150 im guessing you’re a RO?
@@brianaugustine9121 Mechanic. ERF, ERLL, ERUL, SRW, and ERS qualified.
Really appreciated the old school zebra bars before the advert! Somehow diminished the usual ARGH I get when ads cut in
My great uncle has been a cru member on this submarine..I heard about what happened but when I watched the film I couldn't stop crying what he has got through ..he has come back from army a broken man at age 20 with mental illness which ruined the rest of his life😪. I am so proud of him..he was a hero.😥
prove it
@@Markos581973prove that you’re not a cunt. Fuck off.
Thanks for the comments. I know an atomic reactor won't explode in the same way as a nuclear bomb, however the melt down would have had the potential of damaging the nuclear weapons onboard as well as the melting core could create a steam explosion when exposed to the sea. What I should have said is Potentially create an environmental incident greater than Nagasaki and Hiroshima put together because of the type of reactor used onboard the submarine.
There, thank god, have been no know accidental nuclear explosions so far in all the incidents involving bombs. They have been burnt, dropped and some even single point detonated but no mushroom clouds yet. Lets keep it that way! Good video.
Meh! Anything 20% enriched or higher is "highly enriched" and constitutes weapons grade and given the very unlikely but physically possible conditions there is sufficient quantity to go pop. Little boy only used 60kg of 20% enriched uranium. This thing had tons.
Sub reactors are not like power stations!
Pin this comment so it's not lost in the replies, helps prevent multiple people correcting you when you've already done so.
3 mile island
"I know an atomic bomb won't explode in the same way as a nuclear bomb"
Then WHY did you say it could!?!?
Damn. I thought it was decommissioned right after that reactor failure. I can only think about feelings off sailors that heard that their next post is at k19, even at it's early days.
It was a russian sub in the 60s
Nope, the Russians never threw anything out. They still have a lot of WWII vintage weapons in the red army storehouses.
Rushed production and shoddy workmanship are the last things you want to hear before *nuclear reactor*
Welcome to Russia.
Moskva has entered...oh, never mind, it's sinking.
Respect to the professionalism and discipline of the sub captain and engineers
Yes. They may have been our enemies at the time, but there have been some very brave Soviet sailors.
Yes but those brave men were sent to their deaths by a rotten corrupt Soviet regime they should have mutinied and taken over the boat and defected to the Americans..instead they were murdered by the Captain...fuck that guy
@@boomerhgt Better dying than being a traitor.
@@puntoni Rather be a traitor to my country and have a chance at survival than a traitor to myself and die a young and excruciating death. Traitor is a subjective term.
Crew were buried in Kuzminskoe cemetery in Moscow.
My grandfather and his relatives were buried in the same cemetery and after visiting my relatives grave I always came to K-19 crew to salute them for their heroic service.
There are always fresh flowers.
Over the monument (google K-19 monument) there is a writing from Eastern Orthodox Christianity bible "There is no greater love than if someone lays down his life (dies) for his friends"
I am Pacifist. And believe in no religion. But heroism of very VERY young crew always makes me cry and this quote from bible touch my heart too. This young men stoped a nuclear disaster paid with their life. They saved lives of their colleagues and friends. Who knows how much contamination and how much more lives would be affected if they would not made this sacrifice.
I was super lucky to be an extra in K-19 The Widowmaker, what a fascinating experience that was, just chillin with Liam Neeson on a sub chit-chatting :)
how hard was it to play as the submarine?
_...the phrase 'and then it got worse' became a national motto for Russia and Soviet union_
-Drachinifel
9:20 I hope that USS Destroyer was genuine about helping because no one should suffer a slow and painful death from radioactivity.
In general, I wish people being a good Samaritan was a more frequent thing.
Oh, they would have.
But U.S. command definitely wanted the K-19, too.
@@grmpEqweerYep, both can be true.
If the Soviet Captain scuttled the boat, the destroyer Captain still would have helped. Code of the sea to help shipwrecked sailors. Same as emergency aircraft being auto cleared to land anywhere.
"a man ... breaking champagne across the ship's stern." *shows a man breaking it on the bow*
Yes, it was the bow...perhaps the script said "stem" (as in "from stem to stern"), and this was misread as "stern".
I wondered about that as ship's are usually christened at the bow.
My father was a radar operator with Navy ASW patrol squadron 56 witch flew P2-7 Neptune patrol planes out of NAS Keflavic Iceland from 1960-64, they tracked that hot mess.
Soviet subs with K, and 1 and 9 were unlucky. K-19, K-129, K-219... all three had nuclear problems, the last two sinking. K-129 was lost with all hands. It was the one the CIA partially recovered with the Glomar Explorer.
Can I ask sources for the explosion bigger than Hiroshima? It sounds quite unreal that 20% uranium 235 could produce a high yield nuclear explosion specially when there is no devices to increase the chain reaction. The reactor core could have melted and maybe caused gas explosion but not an nuclear explosion. Of course I am not an expert in matter so I would be really interested to see the source where they state possibility of this kind of explosion.
Yes, you are right... There is no way that it would explode in such a fashion...
Little boy used 60kg of 20% enriched uranium, this thing had over a ton, it could have gone pop.
Y understanding of physics would suggest that Being underwater would make the explosion more powerful wouldn’t it so while on land it may not be comparable while submerged such an explosion would’ve been far more destructive
@@thomasthornton2002 a land based reactor can explode due steam pressure but only using 3-5% enriched uranium, the explosion won't be a nuclear event, it'll just spread radioactive material around however a submarine's reactor needs to be small, around 50 ton instead of 5000 ton and so uses highly enriched weapons grade uranium similar to the early weapons except probably 20x the quantity, a lot of people in the comments have seen various Chernobyl debunked videos and think all reactors are the same.... They are not.
The explosion would have most likely been caused by a two stage detention. The first stage would be the reactor overpressuring and bursting the hull, well the second would be the sudden rush of sea water hitting the now burning reactor core and being instantly vaporized. If you've seen HBOs Chernobyl then think to when they had to clear out the water coolant tanks before the reactor core reached them.
Just a point about K19's missiles. They weren't "behind the 'sail'". They extended through the hull into the fin and were raised up on a pad before launch, unlike later subs that shot them clear of the sub before the motors ignited.
Very interesting! I didn't know that.
7:44 Stand back, everyone, he's been taking lessons from Baldrick.
Your content continues to be top-notch and wonderful from the perspective of the grandchild of a submariner of the nautilus. The insight your channel provides about the past of humanity's nuclear exploits, their failure mechanisms, and the highlighting of how they could have been avoided is truly irreplaceable.
I always look forward to watching your videos
Thank you I hope you enjoy the video!
K-19... aka, the Mobile Chernobyl. So, one of the things I really liked about the movie (don't get me started about Harrison Ford's "accent") was the color of the water in the reactor during the repair. The radioactive elements in the water cause a beautiful blue glow, which was perfectly created by the movie's crew.
Fun fact: Diatlov served in the K-19 when the accident happened. He received quite a high dose of radiation and the investigation proved that he was responsible for the accident, however he was not punished.
Not the only time a man named dyatlov would be responsible for a nuclear incident
@@jmfowler9062 fun fact: it was the same guy
Someone please tell me he was the one hiker who turned back from Dyatlov Pass too! XD
@@Sn4k3f1st no shit. Wow.
Love your videos. My family and I get together just to watch your content. Keep it up!!
#plainly... I love how you put those pauses in some of your sentences., your twerkin the English language like a boss bruh.... Props to you my friend!
I love it that your using the 1812 overture more and more often. In my opinion it’s one of the best masterpieces of Tschaikovsky even tho he would disagree. I love the story the “song” tells
My grandpa who’s 92 years old adores Tschaikovsky. He’s shown me a great deal of his work and it is beautiful. He’s up there with some of the greats like Beethoven and Mozart but many don’t know his name. However, I’ve been hearing his name more often lately which seems to me that he’s starting to get more attention which is great. The genius of classical composers blows my mind. One has to be a musician and attempt songwriting to fully appreciate the overwhelming complexity and beauty of their compositions. But it’s not their complexity that makes it great, it’s the arrangement. Complexity doesn’t really mean shit if your music isn’t compelling.
To some of the comments about it can't blow up like a nuclear bomb, this is correct but there could have been a significant steam explosion when the melted fuel came into contact with the ocean. It's a thermal explosion. A steam explosion is what destroyed the #4 reactor at Chernobyl on April 26th 1986. There was still a threat of the core completely melting through the concrete foundation and causing a thermal steam explosion when it contacted ground water. This was also a concern for the three mile island accident in March of 1979.
Lots of radioactive steam produced but not much of an explosion in either of those cases had they come true. In either case the steam wasn't going to be trapped and pressurize a large volume with steam prior to an energetic release so the actual "explosion" angle was malarkey. For the record, I don't have a doctorate or masters in nuclear physics or anything but I worked on submarine reactors for over a decade.
I appreciate the way you use Cyrillic correctly, instead of that annoying trope of spelling English words using Cyrillic letters that look like Roman characters, e.g. the backwards-R Cyrillic character (ya) for the letter R, or Cyrillic C character (S) for the Roman C. I find myself reading these things as if they're Russian, but they come out as gibberish. So thanks for writing "peaktop" (reactor) instead of the "Cyringlish" version, which would be pronounced "yaeastoya".
- "Comrade commander, we have problem with PEAKTOP"
- "Capitalist spy pig!"
Comrade Dyatlov wants to know your location
The toilette
@@Dabocado Just DON'T FLUSH!
The handle is connected directly to the AZ3 switch!
Luckily like RBMk reactors, the soviet VM-A reactor doesn’t explode.
Dyatlov would of been in heaven on this sub. He could focus on his main concern of keeping fresh water flowing through the reactor.
Now I want to see a supercut of Dyatlov's lines inserted into K-19 the 2002 movie. Lol
Chernobyl prequel: The aquatic menace
We are looking for the nuclear wessels.
Submarines are harrowing, not only Soviet ones. The sailors who rigged the cooling system were propably not drive by patriotism or ideological communism but camaraderie and feeling of responsibility for their comrades. EdeC is very high in submariners. They had to do this else everyone would die. You had to volunteer for the submarine service, at least in the US. Those were the best of the best
"I have a cunning plan." Soviet Baldrick strikes again.
Great video, as usual! I look forward to your videos always. Keep up the good work. 👍
K-19s reactor compartment was dumped in only 80 meter deep water. and to date there are at least 4 discarded sumbarine nuclear reactor compartments lying on the bottom of the Kara sea.
Anyone feel like a spot of wreck diving?
@@neuralmute yeah sure just let me get my radiation proof diving suit and allow me some time to get my affairs in order. lolz
I love the Black Adder line, 👍
I heard the movie was so impressive that they based a real submarine incident off of it
Nah, you're thinking about the HBO series so good they were inspired to blow up a Ukranian power plant...
@@neuralmute or was it that song by Toto that was so popular that they named an entire continent after it?
@@matthewlee8667 You've got a good point there...
They made horses from old town road into a real thing
There's even a movie about this. One of the best submarine dramas, IMO.
i love your videos so much, i really hope your channel gets the recognition it deserves soon 👍 you make very high quality content
Thank you!
I read somewhere that the captain was shocked about the radiation poisoning and see his crew goes dead slowly that he made a choice that, when he dies, joins the crew than on his family grave.
You blew all your credebility for this video when you said a nuclear reactor could explode like a nuclear bomb. What else is wrong or made up!?
um there where 3 nuclear warheads on board at the time
NoSTs 123 nuclear weapons have numerous different safety features so that they don’t accidentally go off. The sub crashing or the reactor melting down wouldn’t cause the weapons to go off.
@@NoSTs123 Uh, why is it so difficult for people like you to understand the limits of your knowledge and/or intelligence?!? It's likely just the Dunning-Kruger effect, but that doesn't make it any more tolerable.
_Please,_ help in the fight against scientific illiteracy and ignorance by confining your comments to those things which you _actually comprehend._
@@kukuc96 yes you are right i looked it up
@@NoSTs123 look up "eureka North Carolina b52 incident" a simple plane crash nearly triggered a full scale detonation with a simple low voltage switch preventing it.
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture as an opening song. Interesting choice given the occurrence lol.
What is the official term for when you develop an incredibly powerful offensive weapon but only inflict damage to your own people?
Karma
a FUBAR
Russian to Conclusions 🌠 😵 🔫
Autoplay hit me with this while I was cleaning and I was wondering „why radioactive dogs?!“
🤣
So basically Russia has no luck with nuclear anything. Recent sub fire. Recent missile explosion.
ALMOST A MILLION!!! congratulations my man
Thank you!!
Who else is here after watching K-19 The Widowmaker?
Notification Squad!
Excited to watch this vid!
I hope you enjoy it!
'To add to the radioactive cherry to the pretty environmentally killing cake' that's a hell of a line
Another great video on something I hadn't heard of before, well done!
I remember there is a submarine movie (Hollywood style) that has a very similar story. I have forgotten the name, only recognized it becuase of how you described how they fixed the reactor.
Bit late I know, but could the film be K-19 The Widowmaker with Harrison Ford?
why do you sound so much like Curious Droid?
I was wondering that maybe he's my long estranged father?
Because it is him, just bit pitched up. :3
I cant unhear it now
K19 The Widowmaker, one of the best movie i ever saw. also the best submarine movie ever............
Run silent, Run Deep, Crimson Tide, Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, Above Us The Waves and The Enemy Below all say “Am I a joke to you?”
@@kjamison5951 Hunt for Red October is nothing but a stupid US propaganda, as well as Crimson Tide.
Das Boot is count the best submarine movie ever made and i like it also as well but i found K-19 is a heart touching movie based on a true incident of the first Soviet ballistic missile submarine, also it made me teary atlast.
Enemy Below is ok but i wont consider this one with K-19 or Das Boot ever.
another one submarine movie i will consider a good one ever made is Sinking of the Laconia, a TV movie released in the year 2011 based on a true event of WW2.
Wonder who’s provided russian expletives to embed into the video. They rock! :)
What kind of things do they say?
Thanks for that . I was just watching the movie k19 the widow maker and i just couldnt get past Harrison Ford trying to sound Russian , so i learned everything i needed to know from your 12 Doc. I just could not keep watching the movie know i dont have to , thanks again pal😊
Another movie I need to re-watch.
It was a good movie, crew showed great bravery. Scary stuff, imagine being stuck in a tube under water that's trying to kill you.
3.6 Roentgen. Not great, not terrible.
Well, now I know how a nuclear submarine works. Or doesn't, rather.
If I wanted to create a superweapon that would destroy democracy at its roots, I think I would call it "the Internet". Democracy requires that a substantial majority of people will make rational decisions for the public good. Free Speech is justified on the basis that open discussion will lead to better solutions. "The Internet" would prove that these prerequisite properties do not describe actual human behavior.
christosvoskresye , or vote in the ISLAMOCRATS.
Family: Why are you scared of going into a submarine?
Me: Claustrophobia
Inner me: Plainly difficult’s nuclear videos
Yes, and when false information is promulgated to give false perceptions, it's called propaganda.
"Plainly Difficult" likes that he successfully deceived you.
6:35 absolute unit
Great job as always. That was one unlucky boat.
*inb4 HBO makes a miniseries on this*
You realize there was already a movie?
@@mckerob yes.
Glad there's more nuclear stuff videos
God, I love how I’m learning new Russian swears from watching your videos.
Have you heard of the Lucens Reactor disaster?
No I haven’t I’ll look into it thanks for the suggestion
So they ended up building a weapon system that over the years killed friendlies only. Splendid investment...
At least TWO TIMES you mention the possibility of the reactor exploding like a nuclear bomb. This is not possible, has never happened, and feeds a popular misconception about how both nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs work to all of our detriment. This part of the video actually made your audience dumber. This is such an important issue that this video just got my first dislike/thumb down in 10 years of using RUclips.
He also said that it could explode with the power of Little Boy and Fatman put together. I want to call bullshit on that.
@Ieuan Hunt See the Thunderfoot video busting the HBO Chernobyl fiction, and his latest on a "huge submarine radiation leak".
Chernobyl. ruclips.net/video/BfJ1fhmPPmM/видео.html ruclips.net/video/SsdLDFtbdrA/видео.html
Sub leak ruclips.net/video/MkAbV885ymY/видео.html
There is the theory that the Chernobyl reactor actually went supercritical for a moment, but only a fizzle.
Titanium Rain Yes, and it may have, but supercriticality will just lead to the material breaking itself apart and melting rather than exploding. To make an explosion requires extremely precise conditions that just can not happen by accident.
You forgot to mention the craziest part: Vasily Arkhipov was aboard K-19 when the accident happened. A year later he would be the one man who prevented the firing of a nuclear torpedo during the Cuban Missile crisis. If he had been killed aboard K-19 we probably wouldn't be here!
I had to launch an SLBM just this morning.
😂😂
Vasily Arkhipov was on the k-19 when the disaster took place.
you should talk about the Korean sokcho submarine incident
The whole history of North Korean infiltration into the south would make a good episode.
Very good summary of Hiroshima, The Widowmaker.
The only thing you missed was that the initial accident happened near Jan Mayen Island, a NATO listening post. The Captain didn't go there for the same reason he didn't take the offer from the US destroyer. And he threw most of the small arms overboard because he didn't know if the crew would make the choice of death by radiation over life and defection he did.
Just checking how many thunderfoot followers are here to talk about a nuclear reactor "exploding"
08:57 "[...] and ordered most of the ship's small arms to be thrown aboard [...]"
If a ship has small arms, they cannot be thrown aboard because they are already aboard.
Wait, so the sub didn't sink...
Ugh, unsubbed.
😉😂
as terrible a order as ordering that emergency repair was he probably saved the crew and area around him from much worse.
That ship killed more Russians than we could have…keep makin’ em’ just like that one.
70MW - thermal? Electrical? Shaft power?
K 19 sounds like canine team if you say it fast.
All these adds for purple beds. Sure motion isolation might be good for sleep. But it's terrible for hanky panky.
3:01 somebody has been skipping Thunderfoot videos
'...floating atomic bomb...'
The movie about this incident - K19 The Widowmaker is Epic.😊
Not all heros reside in war, props to all those men who made that sub safe again.
Please do a video about the less well known K-431 accident, I find hardly anything on RUclips about it.
In 1985, while refueling, the reactor lid and rods were removed too far causing an explosion killing 10 and irradiating dozens.
Say what you will about the Soviet Regime. But it seems like every time Soviet soldiers & sailors were asked to undertake something horribly dangerous for the sake of humanity, they answered the call. Godspeed you magnificent bastards.
Can you imagine having to insert the rods manually? Temperature is rising, alarms going off, and if you fuck up, we all die a horrendous, painful, and slow death.
Those guys were heroes, at least they made them so in the movie.
On the K-219, a Project 667 Navaga (NATO "Yankee"-class), all control of the reactors was lost, and the control rods wouldn't lower. Eventually, twenty-year-old enlisted seaman Sergei Preminin lowered the remaining control rods (the Chief Engineer had managed to lower 4), but because of a fire in the compartment the pressure had increased and the hatch wouldn't open (it opened inwards into the compartment), and he died of asphyxia in the reactor compartment. He didn't fuck it up, and he died a slow death.
Jeez,hearing on how such of a bad omen the sub,I thought you were gonna tell me that it blew up a harbour or something but was quite surprised it was simply decommissioned.....
Oh & the 10 dead workers before the sub's launch,the 21 crew dying from the subsequent radiation & the rest of the crew suffering from various health issues but all in all,not too nad, not too good of an incident either
If I'd been ordered to repair that reactor cooling system, I'd have done it only under the condition that they give me a gun to shoot myself with. Dying of ACS on a claustrophobic sub with no medical facilities must be one of the worst ways to go.