Well done! Hence his burned appearance, coral shaped spines, that opening scene with the fishing boat... I wish more people could look past the outdated effects and understand how heavy that movie really is.
@@rodneyjones8433 "Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia’s greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain." Yeah in hindsight they should have sold it to Great Britain to offset German designs 😂
PEPCON: I have friends that live there and were there when it happened. Those blasts broke most of the windows in all of the houses, casinos and other buildings in Las Vegas, Henderson and Bolder City. One of the people that died in the blast was a worker that was n a wheel chair. He told the others to run for safety because he knew he could not get out in time. He stayed behind and took care of equipment so that the blasts would not be even worse. He was a hero that no one ever hears about.
I thought one of the guys who died was in a wheel chair, another guy had had polio as a kid (not something you fully recover from). The evac plans and buildings weren't designed with limited mobility persons in mind. One of the workers stopped the fire trucks to warn them that the place was going to blow up and to wait... I think the fire chief was injured when the windshield of his car was blown in by the blast as he was racing to the scene.
@@JosephKeenanisme It was just the one person in a wheelchair died and he volunteered to stay behind and try to control things so the others could get out.
I think honourable mentions should go to the Union Carbide disaster at Bhopal, (1984) almost 4,000 people died and 500,000 affected. Cost - $470 million (cheap compared to the number of deaths) And the Exon Valdez oil spill in Alaska (1989). Cost - $7 billion.
Fun Fact: in the 1988 PEPCON disaster, 2 people were killed with hundreds injured. The person who stayed behind to call the CCFD is a controller by the name of Roy Westerfield. A truly heroic act. Also, if I’m not mistaken, he was handicapped so there simply wasn’t enough time for him to burden others to help him evacuate.
I'm not sure I'd call that a fun fact but yes, that's important. If I remember the story right the other person that died was Bruce Halker, the plant manager.
Fukushima could have been on this list. The reactor designers in the US warned TEPCO to build the generators high above sea level and further from the plant and they put them in the basement below sea level anyway. Without this critical mistake, the meltdowns at Fukushima never would have happened.
Warned? They all but jumped up and down while frothing at the mouth. The original plans as purchased by TEPCO specified that NO part of the Diesel Generators or Emergency Switchgear would be located lower than the 2nd floor and would be inside Containment. TEPCO chose to change the plans to suit their own needs as they saw them. At our local nuke plant, Design Basis assumes a breach of every dam on the Columbia River upstream of the plant...including Grand Coulee and the two huge earthen dams up in Canada. At the site of the plant, the Columbia River is 5 miles away and 400 feet in elevation lower. Engineers can calculate NO conceivable event which would cause flooding at the plant...even losing all of the dams upstream wouldn't do it. Diesels and switchboards are still on the 2nd floor, as designed. (Plant is functionally identical to Fukishima plants.) Worst part of Fukishima is that there were passive systems in place which would have been quite capable of cooling the reactors during a total plant blackout...If the valves were properly aligned as they should have been with the plant online. Even worse, the operators did not know how to visually confirm that the passive systems were engaged and working. Operation is quite simple. Pumps stop, convection begins routing the reactor cooling water through heat exchanges in huge tanks of water. Water in tanks boil, convection returns cooled coolant back to reactor. Since boiling water in a closed tank is a bad idea, the tanks were vented. If you look at the Reactor buildings, you will see two smallish rectangular vents about 3/4 of the way up the side of the buildings. Visual confirmation is as complicated as "YEP! there is a 30-40 foot plume of steam roaring out of those vents on the side of the building!"
Fukushima cost the lives of entire species! YES, it certainly should! The loss of plankton, the source of 70% of Earth's oxygen, due to the massive fallout, will certainly become more costly, as the reactors to this day still have no containment! No sarcophagus! This is why hydrogen power is being considered, we will need the oxygen to breathe!
@@richardmccann4815 Have you considered research and applying real science to a problem before you post on YT? Start with "still have no containment". That statement alone is a bit off, like several meters of reinforced concrete off. Reputable marine biologists cannot seem to find your massive plankton killoff. I can find several references to a decrease in plankton in certain areas, but all are related to natural variations in plankton density. I'd really like to see your list of "entire species" which Fukishima killed. The ONE reference I could find was on a website which also blamed the eruption of Mt. St. Helen's on oil fracking in the Cascade Range.
3-Mile Island. In addition, the valve "sensors" did not actually monitor the valve positions. They simply reported the last command sent to the mechanism, not the real status of the valves themselves. A major design error. Different alarms with the same sound is especially hazardous in hospital ICUs. Sonalert makes a very good product, so hack engineers use them in every device. The problem is exacerbated by the low level of harmonics. The harmonics tell us which direction the sound is coming from.
They also didn't diagnose the problem properly and let water out of the system when it wasn't full, and plant knew that it could be an issue as the PORV valve had failed before but was caught before it became a problem. It was just a complete failure
airplane cockpits as well. The irony at TMI is if the engineers hadn't touched a single button, switch, knob, the reactor would have rescued itself. Though it would have a lot of water to scrub during evaporation clean up, which would have kept it down a while, the damage to the plant would have been very minimal, and the reactor up and running again.
0:29 MV Golden Ray, 8 Sept 2019, ship capsized in Georgia, $800M cost 3:00 Henderson, NV (near Las Vegas) 4 May 1988 chemical fire and explosions $100M damage 5:17 June 24, 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse, 98 dead $1.02B 7:00 1979 Three Mile Island partial meltdown $2B cost 8:47 2003 space shuttle Columbia left wing hit by foam on launch $400M + $2B shuttle 10:38 Beirut. 2013 ammonium nitrate sat, exploded 4 August 2020. $15B damage. 12:42 Ever Given, ship ran aground in Suez Canal 23 March 2021. $550M 14:33 2010 Deep Water Horizon oil well in Gulf of Mexico, exploded. 11 dead. $65B cost to BP. 16:34 Bikini Atoll. Castle Bravo test. 15 Megatons. fallout. radiation sickness. $1B 18:48. 1986 Chernobyl test & meltdown. $235B
Dude, that Henderson explosion was just incredible. There're plenty of Beirut videos about the explosion (none shown here) and you should really add them up, they're worth watching as to understand the magnitude of the damage and human stupidity behind. The explosion is breathtaking and Henderson's look like it's baby sister. A real tragedy.
Funny enough, this video contains so much "bullshit footage", but there is no footage about the explosion in Beirut, only the aftermath. But I would say it's a quality "feature" of this channel, posting "random" footage that often has nothing to do with the topic the narrator is talking about.
5:19 I actually have my own theory on how the Champlain Towers collapsed. The pool deck was slowly sinking, slow enough that the eye couldn't see, probably because of the amount of weight on the pool deck. Once that first column had a "punch through" failure, there was no stopping the pool deck from collapsing. I'm pretty sure I heard someone on another channel that said "The pool deck damaged the main columns for the building when the failure occurred." And then 7 minutes later, half of the building came crashing down.
Not just your own theory but also Miami Herald's theory at 6:38 blamed cracking concrete and rusted rebar (rebar is metal that makes concrete structures stronger and rust makes the metal rebar weak over time as its a very old building) so you and the news probably aren't wrong!
Stored it in containers that were A: open to the air after collecting on the ground with other debris and B: the literal composition of the other additives to make rocket fuel! (Aluminum tote bins and glue from the plastic barrels if I recall correctly)
There were windows in Las Vegas that were shattered from the explosion. The 2 people who died were PEPCON employees (1 who was in a wheelchair if I remember correctly). They got everyone else out and called 911.
My parents and I went to Gulf Shores months after the Deepwater Horizon event occurred. I found bits of gummed up oil balls on the beach, and accidentally stepped on one with my shoe. The smell was oil like, almost like kerosene and old motor oil. And the consistency reminded me of tar/asphalt. It was hard to remove from my shoe, but clean up crews were on the beach every morning making sure those oil balls were cleaned up for the tourists to still enjoy the beach scenery.
Almost 5000 barrels of oil seeps up from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico every day. That means that Horizon was about three years worth of natural seepage. Just to put it in perpective. Horizon was only about 50% larger than the 1979 Pemex oil spill near Yucatan.
I still have a few souvenir Deepwater Horizon Tar Balls for sale if anyone wants any. It comes in a globe with a decal plate with your name engraved on it for a low low cost of $49.99 (Shipping & Handling not included).
Impressed that for the Miami building collapse and the Lebanon incident, real, spectacular, existing footage was not presented. However, I appreciate that footage is not shown twice, one plain and then with commentary, as was the case with previous videos.
Just a clarification of 3 Mile Island. The containment building held following the hydrogen explosion and did its purpose of containing all the radioactive materials. It wasn't like Chernobyl which did NOT have a containment building around the reactor. But yes those gases had to go somewhere and after calculations were made, they were slowly and purposefully released over the following 2 weeks.
The question is how huge the responsibility is of the USA government by allowing the mad scientists and military heads to keep playing with the lives of billions around the globe. They are re$possible even today for so much sickness and fear to nuclear war destruction of our species. Of all this is the corporate class the one behind profiting from this experiments product. Hanging over our heads with them as leadership is discouraging. Defense my behind. This is madness.
What was not mentioned is the corruption and attempts to cover the story, by the authorities. The only reason no deaths have been linked to the incident is because there was a political agenda to defend nuclear power technology and the US reputation.
Just a clarification of 3 Mile Island. There was no hydrogen explosion. The building was ventilated before the hydrogen could reach a concentration level which would detonate.
Got news for ya pumpkin, the sitting President at the time rolled up on that joint only to find out later that there was a MASSIVE cloud of radiation that was BARELY trapped in said dome. The calculations you describe were based on hypotheticals as THIS HAD NEVER HAPPENED before. It took so long to get this damn place online that technology was actually going obsolete ahead of it actually being actuated. They didn't have a clue only an educated guess, and that educated guess did not come from who you would think it would come from. Subsequent radiation that this video mentioned that leaked out into the communities came from this very dome so don't sit there and play that off like oh well we had it all together all along that was almost Chernobyl times five because that would have killed a sitting president, Jimmy Carter
The 1979 report concluded that there was a small hydrogen explosion. It did not contribute meaningfully to the accident. The evidence wasn't 100% certain of the small explosion. The damage was insignificant.
Im Marshallese and back when I was in middle school in Enid, Oklahoma I’d ask my history teachers why they didn’t have the bomb testings on our islands in the history textbooks.
I'm sure you've seen it, but just in case. The Coming War On China, is mostly devoted to the bikini tests and how the people were (and are) treated afterwards. Netflix (maybe elsewhere?)
I was standing in my backyard in Vegas with my father-in-law looking out over the valley we were up in northwest Vegas when the plant blew it was insane two of the hugest blasts I have ever seen .....it was crazy !!!
8:32 the movie 'The China Syndrome' was a brilliant piece of work. Having been a resident of Philadelphia at the time, I remember seeing it right before the meltdown. It was hard not to feel for Jack Lemmon's character as he goes through the process of discovering the flaws in the "Ventana" nuclear plant (a made up location for the film) and how he is continually put off by the suits and not taken seriously. They eventually *do* take him seriously. Saturday Night Live did a hilarious skit about it called 'The Nuclear Family,' with Gilda Radner. The premise was that they had the actors glowing in the dark (for the home audience. Those with tickets for the show in NYC had to watch it that way on the overhead monitors.
Also notice how the COVID crisis was ...- A man of science who warned of an impending disaster that could kill thousands of Americans & is put off by some suits who WON'T take it seriously...? hmmmm .... 🤔
SNL did a second parody of a nuclear disaster featuring a post-event tour by President Carter. In searching for the cause of the accident, Carter noticed the presence of a Pepsi can at one of the control panels, and questioned the tech. As was obvious even for Carter, the drink had been spilled into the control panel and resulted in the malfunction. Carter had known all along, it was the "Pepsi Syndrome."
If your gigantic car carrier vessel is able to be capsized by incorrectly inputting numbers into a stability computer then something is really wrong with your ship...
It started when they had to pump out ballast in order to navigate the shallow waters of the port. Things escalated afterward. Like an airliner, weight distribution is crucial.
@@felipecardoza9967 I was on an old (Launched 1968) US Navy ship, not a modern car carrier. That said, we generally calculated stability for the "worst-case" scenario anticipated. If any part of a trip included a situation which would compromise stability of the vessel, then we sat at the pier until that situation was resolved. Every ship has an optimal Center of Gravity and C.O.G limits which are not to be exceeded. One of the MOST obvious things to check would be laden draft and channel depth. If you cannot re-distribute the load, shift ballast, shift fuel, etc. to achieve an acceptable laden draft AND maintain an appropriate C.O.G. then you are overloaded, regardless of what the nameplate says. In this case, they managed to achieve an unstable condition and STILL run aground, stop, and fall over sideways.
@@Mr.Robert1 I can distinctly remember from my US Navy days spending the last hour or so of every 0400-0800 in port DC Central watch I stood sitting there with draft readings, tank soundings, lading bill, etc. filling out the daily Draft, Lading and Stability Report...with a calculator and pencil. Somebody else would fill out the exact same report independently. If they differed or something appeared off, readings and soundings would be repeated and the calcs done again. Rinse and repeat until everything matched up. Remember, this was in port on a Replenishment Oiler during normal pierside routine. If we were taking on or moving cargo fuel or bulk stores, the new Stability numbers would be calculated beforehand and verified throughout the evolution. I just can't fathom how you screw up the COG calcs enough to capsize a ship. Then again, I'm still trying to figure out how a US Warship can have sailors on sea watch, sailors on bridge watch, and sailors on Radar watch and STILL manage to plow into a container ship the size of an apartment complex and fully lit with floodlights....
Arguably the Soviet N1 rocket program should be on this list. How much did they spend on it, and REBUILDING their launch pad that the second launch destroyed, only to never to reach space with the rocket? Also, the OTHER shuttle disaster - you know, the one that blew up during launch vs. the one that came apart while landing? Launched when it was too cold, which proved to be a BAD mistake.
For the MV Golden Ray, they could have parbuckled it upright like they did for the Costa Concordia and floated it away. But no. They chose the most expensive method that caused untold additional damage to the environment. Absolutely criminal.
The second explosion at Henderson was due to a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) These types of explosions are always quite spectacular.
I remember Deep Water Horizon. I also remember that BP delayed as much as they could on clean up and was insisting that the oil in the Gulf was not there because the environment was cleaning itself. A lot of it was on the Gulf floor so BP was like "Out of sight, out of mind.".
I remember a kid telling me nukes had finally gone off while BMXing, (He meant Chernobyl) and I had to run home as fast as possible. Shit on TV like When the Wind Blows just compounded the whole thing and made it seem possible. I remember Deep Water too was rough but nowhere even close to the shitshow of the early to mid Mid 80's
@@bhedgepig9653 Hey now, if you didn't try that at least once in your life you just weren't living happy! LOL! Been there. Got some stitches once doing it when my dad took his truck to get some groceries one time. But as Deadpool once so beautifuly said: "Stupid. WORTH IT.".
I've been alive for 6 of the ten disasters. The ones I remember most clearly, given I'm from Louisiana, is the Columbia and the Deepwater Horizon. I was in Summer School when Columbia exploded. We heard the noise and went outside to see what was going on but couldn't see anything. For Deepwater Horizon, I was working at the local Raising Canes restaurant when news broke. One of my coworkers had a relative on board the rig, another had worked on rigs before, and one of the managers was from that area. All of them were quite shaken after we got more news of what had happened.
Gods, I remember Columbia! Sort of. Mom and I were mattress shopping and noticed that all the flags were at half-mast. She turned the car radio from Radio Disney (yes, I was a child who loved it) to one of the many news stations. I… was not paying attention until she told me to get her cell phone out and call Dad. I started paying attention when she said, “Turn on the news…. Any channel, they’ll all be reporting this. It’s like Challenger.” I remember just this… dread and grief in her voice. It was eerie to hear it. And I followed the news from then. Both on tv and the papers, piecing together what happened. I was the only one in class who chose that for my ‘Current Events’ report
@@Pissgremlin5964 I say Summer School because it sounded better than Detention. All I know is that we heard something. May have been a sonic boom or something similar but there WAS a noise.
@@launcesmechanist9578 that makes sense. It could have very well been a sonic boom. I have no idea. I just know it didn't explode. I'm not sure if it can still make a sonic boom all broken up like that but I guess it's possible.
@@launcesmechanist9578 i was gonna question the summer school to, thanks for clarifying. I watched it happen live on tv at a curling bonspiel. And they don't have those in the summer lol.
If you know or can see that an explosion is imminent, cover or plug your eardrums as well as closing your eyes. Most people forget about their eardrums getting popped.
# 7 is wrong !! I live in the 3 mile island area, and there to this day they hand out Quinine tablets to residents due to residual radiation. I was 10 when it happened and many people were told to leave the area till it was contained. There were practical ghost towns all over the area for weeks. Depending on who does the study cancer cases in the area are still well above normal. To this day it has affected generations . The other reactors were'nt "shut down " completely till just a year ago . But it is still guarded with armed security even today.
Not quinine. It's iodine. Keeping the body flush with regular iodine prevents absorption of iodine-131, which can cause cancer. Contaminants have been monitored and inhabitants were only permitted to return when there was no danger. However, people who worry too much got funding for iodine treatment in a bill. Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days, which means it's all gone in less than a year. Continued treatment is essentially an anti-nuclear power propaganda outreach program. Your tax dollars at work!
Quinine is for treating malaria. You might be thinking of Iodine tablets. Even handing those out in the TMI neighbourhood is totally unnecessary as the half life of Iodine 131 is 8 days. It will have reduced to background levels in a few months.
How in the hell did you cover the Beirut explosion without showing a very easily obtainable clip of it? There's plenty of footage of the blast floating around internetland, In fact its almost harder to find the footage of the aftermath than it is the blast itself! It's almost as if you went out of your way to NOT show it.. Too bad though, because its probably one of the most spectacular explosions ever caught on video!
The British Raj made shitloads of money for the East India Company and Rothschild's Bank. And you lot seemed to get something out of the democracy and rail system the Brits left behind. Get your facts straight.
We know a family friend we knew who had a place in Champlain South Towers, in one of the wings that connected to the non-destroyed sections of the complex. As it would turn out on the night of the incident, she had suddenly gotten up from bed (whether to get water, heard the building begin to creak, whatever). She awoke from bed, and got up to check outside her condo unit. Mere seconds after she did that, the South Towers began collapsing, along with the rest of the mentioned wings, with her bedroom buried/collapsed by the disaster. She was untouched by the disaster because she left her unit in the middle of the night, and was in complete disbelief and shock. Place came down right next to her because she had gotten up from bed. Thank goodness. Thankful she was tugged out of that, even if by some miracle or accident. Unfortunate and tragic for those who were hurt/killed. Ultimately, an unnecessary disaster that could've been avoided had they updated the infrastructure sooner. Cheers. Be safe out there, folks.
Well that would explain why Chernobyl was a major part of bringing down the Soviet Union. It wasn't just a loss of face both internal and abroad, but the sheer ungodly cost of the result. They where already struggling financially, and that would insure a long-term slide for the worst.
I used to work at the port just north of Brunswick, in Savannah, GA. I would tell the crane operator where each container had to be loaded according to their destination and weight. If I loaded just a couple of containers in the wrong place, the ship could be doomed.
I used to do JIT truck loads to automobile assembly plants in North America. One night, my headlights failed and I was unable to continue. I called in, told them what happened. They were able to work around it, but it did slow one of the lines down for a day.
Surprised to see that Barings Bank collapse back in 1995, mostly at the hands of one person, is not on the list. A rogue trader in Singapore cost Barings £827 million ($1.0b) and collapsed the bank. This equates to a roughly £1.75 billion loss in 2022 dollars.
Believe it or not, nuclear power is the cleanest and least deadly power producers... all these people talking about green energy dont want to talk about nuclear. Great video though!
My boss was so proud her college graduate engineers first job was on the deepwater horizon you make it a hundred grand a year right out of college. His contract was up in 6 months any left for good. He saw the danger.
3 Mile Island had a meltdown because the water cooling device confused the workers. When the light was on they thought "Oh no disaster is coming"! But when the light was on meant someone pushed the button to release water to the reactor.
I lived in Vegas at the time of the plant explosion school were put on lockdown and we had to put clothes or cloth under the door to lessen the chance of the gss getting in.
Let us not forget that is was the Russian "Engineers" that conducted these "tests" at the Chernobyl nuclear power station. The Ukrainian Engineers and operators expressed serious concerns but were over-ruled by the Russian "Engineers". When the incident occurred the Russian "Engineers" walked away.
No, the Space Shuttle Columbia didn't "explode in a massive fireball". There wasn't enough oxygen at re-entry altitude to support a fireball. It broke up, piece by piece, upon contact with the atmosphere at 17,000 mph. But I suppose "explode" sounds more exciting.
I wonder what happened to the people responsible for these mistakes, I used to deal with sales and my biggest fear is to mistakenly sell the wrong type of equipments and cost the company a lot of money
*The Companies Were Liable.* But nowadays . . . Corporations enjoy immunity to grand-scale liability, and yet are granted full personal rights to give unlimited political bribery money which is now protected as "free speech."
The bottom end workers were likely fired. A few sacrificial managers. CEO gets a golden parachutte for showing sympathy to the loss, and claiming the company will rebuild stronger than ever.
I tell you what. do you know the causes of the chernobyl desatser? ignorance, greed, selfishness, and blindly following orders. what has happend in chernobyl, does happen everyday in the world, on a smaller scale: ignorance, selfishness, greed, and following orders. chernobyl was only a wake up call that nobody wants to hear. the human race is damned to kill itself. which is the only good thing about that species. humans are a virus on planet earth.
@@therealcoltstonewolfe no you're not. No British person speaks in kilometers unless they're training for the 10k, you mong. And no Brit says, "dumbass" . Liar.
21:23 The Operators DID know about the graphite tips as it actually had a purpose that the plant made use of. The issue was that the control rods couldnt lower into the reactor fast enough, they went deep enough to speed up the reaction so much, that the water started boiling, which pushed the control rods back out. Now virtually stuck in place, it kept speeding up until it blew up. Also there are still a handful of people living in Chernobyl and they are even of old age. But their living conditions are awful.
As in many other major accidents, numerous operating mistakes and design flaws/features interacted to contribute to the Chernobyl melt-down, and it is hard to point to a single cause. The scale of the tragedy was made much worse by the post-disaster management. The unfortunate properties of RMBK control rods when a reactor was starting to run away were known from experience at another plant. But there was not a culture of information sharing, rather the opposite. A major mistake in the course of events was when the reactor manager overrode an instruction in the operating manual relating to how to cycle the reactor back from a reduction in power. He did this to reduce the delay to an experimental test procedure he was instructed to carry out from on high, which had already had some delays due to a series of operating problems. Junior operators objected, but did not know the exact reason for the instruction, or have enough reactor physics to be able to understand that carrying out the experimental test with the reactor in that condition would be disastrous. By the time there was an attempt to scram the reactor - drop in all the control rods to stop it - it was already too far out of control to be stopped with those control rods, or more accurately the speed they could be inserted. The attempt to use them sped up/intensified an accident that was in practice already unstoppable. For a more complete technical explanation, the most detailed addressed to the "well-informed layman", see the book Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey. For the political errors that contributed to the melt-down and subsequent appalling mismanagement of the aftermath, see the book, Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy, winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction writing. It is the town of Pripyat closest to the reactor, and some other nearby small settlements, that were permanently evacuated and remain in a exclusion zone. The city of Chernobyl is about 16km from the plant, and was reopened, but not many people want to live there.
I remember this explosion of beirut, vividly, while I'm away like 40km from ground zero I felt it's the end of the world at that moment of the intensity of the blast, felt like literaly a small nuke where the shock wave fought me to stand on my feet.
I lived in Las Vegas in 1st grade when that chemical factory blew up. We definitely felt the shock wave. The ceiling fixtures came apart, felt like a bomb went off next to our school. Was crazy.
“Lets leave the laboratory window open, these bats really smell, I’m sure they won’t escape” said by a worker in Wuhan’s lab has got to be one of the most expensive mistakes
Being trapped in rubble from a collapsed building, pinned down by some concrete, can't breathe, no toilet, and waiting... waiting... waiting to hear those dog scratches coming towards you... if they come at all. That's what I call a time to put your sanity to the test.
My thoughts exactly as I looked at that rubble. Tons of broken concrete with re-bar sticking out everywhere. Another horror would be mountain climbing and falling into a crevasse, being wedged upside down with a broken arm or leg and you can't be rescued. You will die that way.
Well these are all mostly recent disasters. The Lebanon explosion was big and caused a lot of damage. But the 1947 Texas City disaster with the French ship the Grandcamp loaded with ammonium nitrate caught fire and exploded. About 12 hours later the another ship, the High Flyer, also loaded with ammonium nitrate exploded. Both ship explosions cause major damage to the large amount of Petrochemical plants in the area that caught fire. This would rank as one of the most expensive disasters in the US. There are also several others that should have made this list, like the first Nuclear Power Plant explosion that happened in the desert of Nevada and the 2008 Georgia sugar plant explosion and fire for example. But one thing all you RUclips amateur video creators need to stop, that is calling Nuclear Power Plants as "Clean Energy". That is totally misleading as they are anything but clean. They produce large amounts of nuclear waste that is highly toxic and can remain radioactive for centuries. No one wants a nuclear waste site or dump in their back yard. So many of these plants must store this waste on the plant site. The problem is, they are running out of room and the waste keeps building. Now add all the other nuclear waste the needs to be disposed of, like from Hospitals and treatment centers that use radioactive chemicals and materials. There are only a few sites that can handle and store this crap, they can't expand and they are running out of room too. At the turn of the last century, 1900, there was a major pollution problem all over the world. Here in the US it was becoming a bug concern and a new invention was seen as the great savior to rid this pollution. The polluter was the horse. In large urban areas like NYC it is estimated that there were 120,000 horses. To get anywhere you had to use a horse, horses poop and urinate and it was becoming a huge health problem. Add to it that horses were looked at as a commodity and not like an expensive pet they are today. When a horse died, it would lay in the street for days or weeks rotting with rats, birds, cats and Dogs eating at the carcass. One has to understand that back then they didn't have heavy moving equipment like today to deal with a dead horse. Imagine what a city like New York smelled like in the summer with all the horse poop, urine and dead rotting horses in the streets. The answer to this problem? Was the new car invention that was just coming out. Now look at what they are sighting as the major polluter in the world. Remember, ain't nothing free. Even solar and wind energy converters produce waste when building. They also take up vast amounts of land to produce 1/10 the power a coal or oil fired plant will produce. Everything has its costs, benefits and problems and in the long run, they are all about the same.
THANK YOU for using the original Pepcon footage, not the "National Geographic" garbage with the added bleep after the "Oh" (as if he was swearing) and the explosion sound made synchronous with the explosion to dumb it down for people.
With the Pepcon explosion me and my boyfriend at the time we’re in a warehouse downtown Las Vegas when the plant exploded. It was like someone had hit the building with a bus, that’s what we at first thought until we went outside. No one was hurt in the warehouse just really shook up.
My quick google suggests some errors with the Henderson explosion info. Damages easily over 300 million at the day. Fire thought to be from a faulty batch dryer. You said fibre glass catching on fire... but it's made of glass...
And the moral of the story here for the officials who confiscated the ships cargo, and then just stored it without proper safety precautions in place, in Beirut and then just left them there to collect dust, got all that was coming to them for taking the goods in the first place. Maybe next time they'll have second thoughts on taking things that DON'T BELONG TO THEM.. As they say what goes around, comes around.. I have no sympathy for them, NONE.
The ship capsizing could have a caused by the same problem all transportation has when visiting the US, the world went metric long ago but for some unknown reason the US is still using imperial measures and every aircraft or sea craft has the problem of having to convert kilos to lbs, litres to gallons and back again, many mistakes are made during this rediculas process, if the US caught up with the world there would not be these problems .
In the mid 60's again in the mid to late 70's we tried but it looks like we'll never get it right. Meanwhile we like to make things for the rest of the world. Retards-Reps.
Castle Bravo was also one of the impetuses for the creation of _Godzilla._
And SpongeBob SquarePants
Well done! Hence his burned appearance, coral shaped spines, that opening scene with the fishing boat... I wish more people could look past the outdated effects and understand how heavy that movie really is.
Gojiro.
Gojira might be the answer. He will defeat them
HOORAY FOR GODZILLA ALSO YES I AM CRAZY ABIUT HIM
*Most expensive mistakes in all history*
My dad: Not turning off the light when you leave the room
Don't touch the thermostat
My Ex should be on this list
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She is number 1 in "Top 10 idiots paying for my lifestlye" video
Accurate af
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@@AdamBassick Real life NPC calling out bots. Now that is new depth in irony.
Pretty sure the treaty of Versailles was the most expensive mistake.
Now, that's the best definition so far. You have my vote.
That’s very accurate
Not allowing some certain someone into art school was a pretty expensive mistake
I don't know, where does the sale of Alaska fall into play. Russia sold it to us for 7.2 Mil...I think it's worth a little bit more than that LOL
@@rodneyjones8433 "Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia’s greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain."
Yeah in hindsight they should have sold it to Great Britain to offset German designs 😂
PEPCON: I have friends that live there and were there when it happened. Those blasts broke most of the windows in all of the houses, casinos and other buildings in Las Vegas, Henderson and Bolder City. One of the people that died in the blast was a worker that was n a wheel chair. He told the others to run for safety because he knew he could not get out in time. He stayed behind and took care of equipment so that the blasts would not be even worse. He was a hero that no one ever hears about.
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Sounds like bullshit
I thought one of the guys who died was in a wheel chair, another guy had had polio as a kid (not something you fully recover from). The evac plans and buildings weren't designed with limited mobility persons in mind.
One of the workers stopped the fire trucks to warn them that the place was going to blow up and to wait... I think the fire chief was injured when the windshield of his car was blown in by the blast as he was racing to the scene.
@@JosephKeenanisme It was just the one person in a wheelchair died and he volunteered to stay behind and try to control things so the others could get out.
I think honourable mentions should go to the Union Carbide disaster at Bhopal, (1984) almost 4,000 people died and 500,000 affected. Cost - $470 million (cheap compared to the number of deaths)
And the Exon Valdez oil spill in Alaska (1989). Cost - $7 billion.
It was cheap mostly because white people didnt suffer. Belive it, it hurt locals 10times harder than overglorified chernobyl.
Honorable mention the at least $200 billion Elon Musk has lost in acquiring twitter. (as of mid January 2023)
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I'm not sure "honorable" would be the right word.
Human lives are always worth $0 each when putting a price on a disaster.
Fun Fact: in the 1988 PEPCON disaster, 2 people were killed with hundreds injured. The person who stayed behind to call the CCFD is a controller by the name of Roy Westerfield. A truly heroic act. Also, if I’m not mistaken, he was handicapped so there simply wasn’t enough time for him to burden others to help him evacuate.
I'm not sure I'd call that a fun fact but yes, that's important. If I remember the story right the other person that died was Bruce Halker, the plant manager.
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That sure sounds like fun!
Absolutely interesting info! Fun fact? Not so much 😅
Lol, I messed up with the “fun” fact, guys. I just wanted to share what I read.
Fukushima could have been on this list. The reactor designers in the US warned TEPCO to build the generators high above sea level and further from the plant and they put them in the basement below sea level anyway. Without this critical mistake, the meltdowns at Fukushima never would have happened.
TEOCO Ignored all suggestions, etc. From many years before the sunami after the horrible earthquake
Warned? They all but jumped up and down while frothing at the mouth. The original plans as purchased by TEPCO specified that NO part of the Diesel Generators or Emergency Switchgear would be located lower than the 2nd floor and would be inside Containment. TEPCO chose to change the plans to suit their own needs as they saw them.
At our local nuke plant, Design Basis assumes a breach of every dam on the Columbia River upstream of the plant...including Grand Coulee and the two huge earthen dams up in Canada. At the site of the plant, the Columbia River is 5 miles away and 400 feet in elevation lower. Engineers can calculate NO conceivable event which would cause flooding at the plant...even losing all of the dams upstream wouldn't do it. Diesels and switchboards are still on the 2nd floor, as designed. (Plant is functionally identical to Fukishima plants.)
Worst part of Fukishima is that there were passive systems in place which would have been quite capable of cooling the reactors during a total plant blackout...If the valves were properly aligned as they should have been with the plant online. Even worse, the operators did not know how to visually confirm that the passive systems were engaged and working.
Operation is quite simple. Pumps stop, convection begins routing the reactor cooling water through heat exchanges in huge tanks of water. Water in tanks boil, convection returns cooled coolant back to reactor. Since boiling water in a closed tank is a bad idea, the tanks were vented. If you look at the Reactor buildings, you will see two smallish rectangular vents about 3/4 of the way up the side of the buildings. Visual confirmation is as complicated as "YEP! there is a 30-40 foot plume of steam roaring out of those vents on the side of the building!"
@@kevincrosby1760 That is interesting context with a lot of things I didn't previously know, thank you for that.
Fukushima cost the lives of entire species! YES, it certainly should! The loss of plankton, the source of 70% of Earth's oxygen, due to the massive fallout, will certainly become more costly, as the reactors to this day still have no containment! No sarcophagus! This is why hydrogen power is being considered, we will need the oxygen to breathe!
@@richardmccann4815 Have you considered research and applying real science to a problem before you post on YT?
Start with "still have no containment". That statement alone is a bit off, like several meters of reinforced concrete off.
Reputable marine biologists cannot seem to find your massive plankton killoff. I can find several references to a decrease in plankton in certain areas, but all are related to natural variations in plankton density.
I'd really like to see your list of "entire species" which Fukishima killed. The ONE reference I could find was on a website which also blamed the eruption of Mt. St. Helen's on oil fracking in the Cascade Range.
3-Mile Island. In addition, the valve "sensors" did not actually monitor the valve positions. They simply reported the last command sent to the mechanism, not the real status of the valves themselves. A major design error.
Different alarms with the same sound is especially hazardous in hospital ICUs. Sonalert makes a very good product, so hack engineers use them in every device. The problem is exacerbated by the low level of harmonics. The harmonics tell us which direction the sound is coming from.
thank you for pointing that out, Underworld got so much wrong on that explanation. i get for simplification they had to, but still
They also didn't diagnose the problem properly and let water out of the system when it wasn't full, and plant knew that it could be an issue as the PORV valve had failed before but was caught before it became a problem. It was just a complete failure
airplane cockpits as well.
The irony at TMI is if the engineers hadn't touched a single button, switch, knob, the reactor would have rescued itself. Though it would have a lot of water to scrub during evaporation clean up, which would have kept it down a while, the damage to the plant would have been very minimal, and the reactor up and running again.
0:29 MV Golden Ray, 8 Sept 2019, ship capsized in Georgia, $800M cost
3:00 Henderson, NV (near Las Vegas) 4 May 1988 chemical fire and explosions $100M damage
5:17 June 24, 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse, 98 dead $1.02B
7:00 1979 Three Mile Island partial meltdown $2B cost
8:47 2003 space shuttle Columbia left wing hit by foam on launch $400M + $2B shuttle
10:38 Beirut. 2013 ammonium nitrate sat, exploded 4 August 2020. $15B damage.
12:42 Ever Given, ship ran aground in Suez Canal 23 March 2021. $550M
14:33 2010 Deep Water Horizon oil well in Gulf of Mexico, exploded. 11 dead. $65B cost to BP.
16:34 Bikini Atoll. Castle Bravo test. 15 Megatons. fallout. radiation sickness. $1B
18:48. 1986 Chernobyl test & meltdown. $235B
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Thanks, narrator sounds like a clown.
Thanks dawg. The world need people to do this stuff that the channel doesn’t
You forgot about my ex.....most costly mistake of my entire lifetime
No doubt brother, worst mistake of my life
Hahahaha boy ain't that no shit.
Dude, that Henderson explosion was just incredible. There're plenty of Beirut videos about the explosion (none shown here) and you should really add them up, they're worth watching as to understand the magnitude of the damage and human stupidity behind. The explosion is breathtaking and Henderson's look like it's baby sister. A real tragedy.
Funny enough, this video contains so much "bullshit footage", but there is no footage about the explosion in Beirut, only the aftermath. But I would say it's a quality "feature" of this channel, posting "random" footage that often has nothing to do with the topic the narrator is talking about.
That is about the same level of explosion that one could expect from a small tactical nuke of only a few hundred tons of yield.
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I wanna know what a marshmallow factory was doing next to a place they made rocket fuel haha
@@oblivion8819 Marshmallows are used in the making of rocket fuel. Everyone knows that. xD
5:19 I actually have my own theory on how the Champlain Towers collapsed. The pool deck was slowly sinking, slow enough that the eye couldn't see, probably because of the amount of weight on the pool deck. Once that first column had a "punch through" failure, there was no stopping the pool deck from collapsing. I'm pretty sure I heard someone on another channel that said "The pool deck damaged the main columns for the building when the failure occurred." And then 7 minutes later, half of the building came crashing down.
Not just your own theory but also Miami Herald's theory at 6:38 blamed cracking concrete and rusted rebar (rebar is metal that makes concrete structures stronger and rust makes the metal rebar weak over time as its a very old building) so you and the news probably aren't wrong!
Part of what made that pepcon explosion worse was that since the shuttle disaster they were not using as much rocket fuel so it was being stored there
No one told the plant to reduce production so they kept producing the same amount as before Challenger and as you said just stored it.
Stored it in containers that were A: open to the air after collecting on the ground with other debris and B: the literal composition of the other additives to make rocket fuel! (Aluminum tote bins and glue from the plastic barrels if I recall correctly)
There were windows in Las Vegas that were shattered from the explosion. The 2 people who died were PEPCON employees (1 who was in a wheelchair if I remember correctly). They got everyone else out and called 911.
@@chinchilla6547 Plus, they had a gas line going under the plant. You can see the jet of its fire near the end of that video segment.
Doesn't even show the Beirut explosion
BEGGERS CANT BE CHOOSERS MAN
My parents and I went to Gulf Shores months after the Deepwater Horizon event occurred. I found bits of gummed up oil balls on the beach, and accidentally stepped on one with my shoe. The smell was oil like, almost like kerosene and old motor oil. And the consistency reminded me of tar/asphalt. It was hard to remove from my shoe, but clean up crews were on the beach every morning making sure those oil balls were cleaned up for the tourists to still enjoy the beach scenery.
Almost 5000 barrels of oil seeps up from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico every day. That means that Horizon was about three years worth of natural seepage.
Just to put it in perpective.
Horizon was only about 50% larger than the 1979 Pemex oil spill near Yucatan.
I still have a few souvenir Deepwater Horizon Tar Balls for sale if anyone wants any. It comes in a globe with a decal plate with your name engraved on it for a low low cost of $49.99 (Shipping & Handling not included).
If I ever break something expensive at work, I'm sending this video to my boss
I just had working at restaurants flashbacks. DROPPIN' PLATES, I'M DROPPIN' PLATES!
Impressed that for the Miami building collapse and the Lebanon incident, real, spectacular, existing footage was not presented.
However, I appreciate that footage is not shown twice, one plain and then with commentary, as was the case with previous videos.
We could not show that footage. It is FAR too graphic for RUclips and would have definitely caused this video to be demonetized and/or age restricted
I'm surprised that the Exxon Valdez wasn't in this list. That was a bigass deal back in the day.
Just a clarification of 3 Mile Island. The containment building held following the hydrogen explosion and did its purpose of containing all the radioactive materials. It wasn't like Chernobyl which did NOT have a containment building around the reactor. But yes those gases had to go somewhere and after calculations were made, they were slowly and purposefully released over the following 2 weeks.
The question is how huge the responsibility is of the USA government by allowing the mad scientists and military heads to keep playing with the lives of billions around the globe. They are re$possible even today for so much sickness and fear to nuclear war destruction of our species. Of all this is the corporate class the one behind profiting from this experiments product. Hanging over our heads with them as leadership is discouraging. Defense my behind. This is madness.
What was not mentioned is the corruption and attempts to cover the story, by the authorities. The only reason no deaths have been linked to the incident is because there was a political agenda to defend nuclear power technology and the US reputation.
Just a clarification of 3 Mile Island. There was no hydrogen explosion. The building was ventilated before the hydrogen could reach a concentration level which would detonate.
Got news for ya pumpkin, the sitting President at the time rolled up on that joint only to find out later that there was a MASSIVE cloud of radiation that was BARELY trapped in said dome. The calculations you describe were based on hypotheticals as THIS HAD NEVER HAPPENED before. It took so long to get this damn place online that technology was actually going obsolete ahead of it actually being actuated. They didn't have a clue only an educated guess, and that educated guess did not come from who you would think it would come from. Subsequent radiation that this video mentioned that leaked out into the communities came from this very dome so don't sit there and play that off like oh well we had it all together all along that was almost Chernobyl times five because that would have killed a sitting president, Jimmy Carter
The 1979 report concluded that there was a small hydrogen explosion. It did not contribute meaningfully to the accident. The evidence wasn't 100% certain of the small explosion. The damage was insignificant.
But remember, South Park showed BP's incredibly genuine apology.
Im Marshallese and back when I was in middle school in Enid, Oklahoma I’d ask my history teachers why they didn’t have the bomb testings on our islands in the history textbooks.
I'm sure you've seen it, but just in case. The Coming War On China, is mostly devoted to the bikini tests and how the people were (and are) treated afterwards. Netflix (maybe elsewhere?)
Off topic but Shout out from Enid 😃
Okay? What did they say to you
@@zackprice8688 They said, our lives matter, theirs don't.
@@youtubrone1411 didn’t ask you did I?
I was standing in my backyard in Vegas with my father-in-law looking out over the valley we were up in northwest Vegas when the plant blew it was insane two of the hugest blasts I have ever seen .....it was crazy !!!
8:32 the movie 'The China Syndrome' was a brilliant piece of work. Having been a resident of Philadelphia at the time, I remember seeing it right before the meltdown. It was hard not to feel for Jack Lemmon's character as he goes through the process of discovering the flaws in the "Ventana" nuclear plant (a made up location for the film) and how he is continually put off by the suits and not taken seriously. They eventually *do* take him seriously.
Saturday Night Live did a hilarious skit about it called 'The Nuclear Family,' with Gilda Radner. The premise was that they had the actors glowing in the dark (for the home audience. Those with tickets for the show in NYC had to watch it that way on the overhead monitors.
*Radner
@@Mrshoujo thank you. That was a typo which I've now corrected. And thanks also for not being a troll or grammar Nazi! You're a rare breed sir!
Also notice how the COVID crisis was ...- A man of science who warned of an impending disaster that could kill thousands of Americans & is put off by some suits who WON'T take it seriously...? hmmmm .... 🤔
SNL did a second parody of a nuclear disaster featuring a post-event tour by President Carter. In searching for the cause of the accident, Carter noticed the presence of a Pepsi can at one of the control panels, and questioned the tech. As was obvious even for Carter, the drink had been spilled into the control panel and resulted in the malfunction. Carter had known all along, it was the "Pepsi Syndrome."
@@arinerm1331 yup --- I saw that .... 😁
If your gigantic car carrier vessel is able to be capsized by incorrectly inputting numbers into a stability computer then something is really wrong with your ship...
Something's wrong with your crew
It started when they had to pump out ballast in order to navigate the shallow waters of the port. Things escalated afterward. Like an airliner, weight distribution is crucial.
@@felipecardoza9967 I was on an old (Launched 1968) US Navy ship, not a modern car carrier. That said, we generally calculated stability for the "worst-case" scenario anticipated. If any part of a trip included a situation which would compromise stability of the vessel, then we sat at the pier until that situation was resolved. Every ship has an optimal Center of Gravity and C.O.G limits which are not to be exceeded.
One of the MOST obvious things to check would be laden draft and channel depth. If you cannot re-distribute the load, shift ballast, shift fuel, etc. to achieve an acceptable laden draft AND maintain an appropriate C.O.G. then you are overloaded, regardless of what the nameplate says. In this case, they managed to achieve an unstable condition and STILL run aground, stop, and fall over sideways.
@@Mr.Robert1 I can distinctly remember from my US Navy days spending the last hour or so of every 0400-0800 in port DC Central watch I stood sitting there with draft readings, tank soundings, lading bill, etc. filling out the daily Draft, Lading and Stability Report...with a calculator and pencil.
Somebody else would fill out the exact same report independently. If they differed or something appeared off, readings and soundings would be repeated and the calcs done again. Rinse and repeat until everything matched up.
Remember, this was in port on a Replenishment Oiler during normal pierside routine. If we were taking on or moving cargo fuel or bulk stores, the new Stability numbers would be calculated beforehand and verified throughout the evolution.
I just can't fathom how you screw up the COG calcs enough to capsize a ship. Then again, I'm still trying to figure out how a US Warship can have sailors on sea watch, sailors on bridge watch, and sailors on Radar watch and STILL manage to plow into a container ship the size of an apartment complex and fully lit with floodlights....
Arguably the Soviet N1 rocket program should be on this list.
How much did they spend on it, and REBUILDING their launch pad that the second launch destroyed, only to never to reach space with the rocket?
Also, the OTHER shuttle disaster - you know, the one that blew up during launch vs. the one that came apart while landing?
Launched when it was too cold, which proved to be a BAD mistake.
Luckily, PepCon was able to recoop some of their losses following the disaster by selling toasted marshmallows...
For the MV Golden Ray, they could have parbuckled it upright like they did for the Costa Concordia and floated it away. But no. They chose the most expensive method that caused untold additional damage to the environment. Absolutely criminal.
The second explosion at Henderson was due to a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) These types of explosions are always quite spectacular.
Pretty much giant grenades.
Seeing propane tanks experience a BLEVE is crazy enough.
I remember Deep Water Horizon. I also remember that BP delayed as much as they could on clean up and was insisting that the oil in the Gulf was not there because the environment was cleaning itself. A lot of it was on the Gulf floor so BP was like "Out of sight, out of mind.".
I remember a kid telling me nukes had finally gone off while BMXing, (He meant Chernobyl) and I had to run home as fast as possible. Shit on TV like When the Wind Blows just compounded the whole thing and made it seem possible. I remember Deep Water too was rough but nowhere even close to the shitshow of the early to mid Mid 80's
used to also skate the Ice Cream truck Back to the Future style so it wasnt all bad
@@bhedgepig9653 Hey now, if you didn't try that at least once in your life you just weren't living happy! LOL! Been there. Got some stitches once doing it when my dad took his truck to get some groceries one time. But as Deadpool once so beautifuly said: "Stupid. WORTH IT.".
So I Order a Take away, and the driver crashes on the way to deliver it. Is this My Fault???
@@wigglemd you ordered it fren. The take away wasnt going to crash sitting back in the kitchen.
I've been alive for 6 of the ten disasters. The ones I remember most clearly, given I'm from Louisiana, is the Columbia and the Deepwater Horizon. I was in Summer School when Columbia exploded. We heard the noise and went outside to see what was going on but couldn't see anything.
For Deepwater Horizon, I was working at the local Raising Canes restaurant when news broke. One of my coworkers had a relative on board the rig, another had worked on rigs before, and one of the managers was from that area. All of them were quite shaken after we got more news of what had happened.
Gods, I remember Columbia!
Sort of.
Mom and I were mattress shopping and noticed that all the flags were at half-mast. She turned the car radio from Radio Disney (yes, I was a child who loved it) to one of the many news stations. I… was not paying attention until she told me to get her cell phone out and call Dad. I started paying attention when she said, “Turn on the news…. Any channel, they’ll all be reporting this. It’s like Challenger.” I remember just this… dread and grief in her voice. It was eerie to hear it.
And I followed the news from then. Both on tv and the papers, piecing together what happened.
I was the only one in class who chose that for my ‘Current Events’ report
Summer school? The Columbia disaster happened Feb 1st. And it didn't explode. It broke up on reentry.
@@Pissgremlin5964 I say Summer School because it sounded better than Detention. All I know is that we heard something. May have been a sonic boom or something similar but there WAS a noise.
@@launcesmechanist9578 that makes sense. It could have very well been a sonic boom. I have no idea. I just know it didn't explode. I'm not sure if it can still make a sonic boom all broken up like that but I guess it's possible.
@@launcesmechanist9578 i was gonna question the summer school to, thanks for clarifying. I watched it happen live on tv at a curling bonspiel. And they don't have those in the summer lol.
If you know or can see that an explosion is imminent, cover or plug your eardrums as well as closing your eyes. Most people forget about their eardrums getting popped.
# 7 is wrong !! I live in the 3 mile island area, and there to this day they hand out Quinine tablets to residents due to residual radiation. I was 10 when it happened and many people were told to leave the area till it was contained. There were practical ghost towns all over the area for weeks. Depending on who does the study cancer cases in the area are still well above normal. To this day it has affected generations . The other reactors were'nt "shut down " completely till just a year ago . But it is still guarded with armed security even today.
Quinine is for viruses like malaria, I think you mean potassium iodine tablets.
Not quinine. It's iodine. Keeping the body flush with regular iodine prevents absorption of iodine-131, which can cause cancer.
Contaminants have been monitored and inhabitants were only permitted to return when there was no danger. However, people who worry too much got funding for iodine treatment in a bill.
Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days, which means it's all gone in less than a year. Continued treatment is essentially an anti-nuclear power propaganda outreach program.
Your tax dollars at work!
Quinine is for treating malaria. You might be thinking of Iodine tablets. Even handing those out in the TMI neighbourhood is totally unnecessary as the half life of Iodine 131 is 8 days. It will have reduced to background levels in a few months.
Watching the atomic bomb go off makes you think how could humans test such a powerful weapon on the only planet we have.
How in the hell did you cover the Beirut explosion without showing a very easily obtainable clip of it? There's plenty of footage of the blast floating around internetland, In fact its almost harder to find the footage of the aftermath than it is the blast itself! It's almost as if you went out of your way to NOT show it.. Too bad though, because its probably one of the most spectacular explosions ever caught on video!
Sure thing “Wyatt”
Letting Britishers into India was the biggest Mistake ever, costing Trillions of Dollars to India
The British Raj made shitloads of money for the East India Company and Rothschild's Bank. And you lot seemed to get something out of the democracy and rail system the Brits left behind. Get your facts straight.
As for the amazon ship, I think Jeff can personally afford the delay and loss of income
And they had a marshmallow factory close to a chemical factory in Nevada??? 🤮
.... But... The impulse buys that I don't need....
Underworld : Nuclear power is human's greatest achievements.
Albert Einstein : Nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water.
i’d panic so bad especially today if i was responsible for a mistake this big
Accidents happen, mistakes are made. Part of life. Whats important is that you learn from em, and take on that responsibility. That's what counts.
Chernobyl = $235B
Bernard Arnault's Net Worth : NOPE I CAN'T AFFORD THAT
We know a family friend we knew who had a place in Champlain South Towers, in one of the wings that connected to the non-destroyed sections of the complex. As it would turn out on the night of the incident, she had suddenly gotten up from bed (whether to get water, heard the building begin to creak, whatever). She awoke from bed, and got up to check outside her condo unit.
Mere seconds after she did that, the South Towers began collapsing, along with the rest of the mentioned wings, with her bedroom buried/collapsed by the disaster.
She was untouched by the disaster because she left her unit in the middle of the night, and was in complete disbelief and shock.
Place came down right next to her because she had gotten up from bed. Thank goodness.
Thankful she was tugged out of that, even if by some miracle or accident. Unfortunate and tragic for those who were hurt/killed.
Ultimately, an unnecessary disaster that could've been avoided had they updated the infrastructure sooner.
Cheers. Be safe out there, folks.
Well that would explain why Chernobyl was a major part of bringing down the Soviet Union. It wasn't just a loss of face both internal and abroad, but the sheer ungodly cost of the result. They where already struggling financially, and that would insure a long-term slide for the worst.
20,000 years. Unfathomable amount of time
Curiosity?.., by those same unquestioned estimates, Hiroshima and immediate surroundings should have been to this day, uninhabitable?
@@blogengeezer4507 a nuclear reactor is way more radioative than a nuclear bomb. That's why hiroshima is ''better''
While Three Mile Island wasnt as bad as others it wasn't "normal" either. A lot was covered up during that whole event.
Why no explosion footage from Beirut? That one was awesome.
I used to work at the port just north of Brunswick, in Savannah, GA. I would tell the crane operator where each container had to be loaded according to their destination and weight. If I loaded just a couple of containers in the wrong place, the ship could be doomed.
Yeah just as important as where each vehicle was secured to the decks in this case.
Sounds like you may have loaded a couple containers in the wrong place 😅🤣
so how many did u put in the wrong place? all of them?
So it was ur fault thrown it capsized ur saying lol 🤣🤣🤣
I used to do JIT truck loads to automobile assembly plants in North America. One night, my headlights failed and I was unable to continue. I called in, told them what happened. They were able to work around it, but it did slow one of the lines down for a day.
Surprised to see that Barings Bank collapse back in 1995, mostly at the hands of one person, is not on the list. A rogue trader in Singapore cost Barings £827 million ($1.0b) and collapsed the bank. This equates to a roughly £1.75 billion loss in 2022 dollars.
that wasnt a mistake. deliberate axtion
For the beirut explosion why didn't you show footage of the explosion? There's plenty out there.
My thoughts exactly! It is well documented...
The internet is definitely the most expensive mistake ever
easily...
Believe it or not, nuclear power is the cleanest and least deadly power producers... all these people talking about green energy dont want to talk about nuclear.
Great video though!
Shhh...Quit ruining all of the hard work that has been spent on propaganda and mis-information.
My boss was so proud her college graduate engineers first job was on the deepwater horizon you make it a hundred grand a year right out of college. His contract was up in 6 months any left for good. He saw the danger.
I remember watching the challenger explosion on live tv in school.
Pretty sure that Netflix documentary about three mile island references some people getting cancer caused by radiation
Its crazy how that Pepcon was fully wiped off the map by a single small fire that was let growing
3 Mile Island had a meltdown because the water cooling device confused the workers. When the light was on they thought "Oh no disaster is coming"! But when the light was on meant someone pushed the button to release water to the reactor.
You forgot undercooking bats in Wuhan China, by far #1, at this point now over $15T
When you say “undercooking bats,” I assume you mean American NIH funded gain of function research that escaped the lab in Wuhan China.
I would also bet 98% of medical professionals don’t know how to put a nasal cannula on a patient correctly.
Didn't even actually show the Beirut explosion. That was the explosion with thousands of angles. Could've picked one
I lived in Vegas at the time of the plant explosion school were put on lockdown and we had to put clothes or cloth under the door to lessen the chance of the gss getting in.
Let us not forget that is was the Russian "Engineers" that conducted these "tests" at the Chernobyl nuclear power station.
The Ukrainian Engineers and operators expressed serious concerns but were over-ruled by the Russian "Engineers".
When the incident occurred the Russian "Engineers" walked away.
No, the Space Shuttle Columbia didn't "explode in a massive fireball". There wasn't enough oxygen at re-entry altitude to support a fireball. It broke up, piece by piece, upon contact with the atmosphere at 17,000 mph. But I suppose "explode" sounds more exciting.
The Great Warner Bros. Cartoon Purge would fit this perfectly.
I wonder what happened to the people responsible for these mistakes, I used to deal with sales and my biggest fear is to mistakenly sell the wrong type of equipments and cost the company a lot of money
Youd lose your job, the boss would get a raise.
*The Companies Were Liable.* But nowadays . . .
Corporations enjoy immunity to grand-scale liability, and yet are granted full personal
rights to give unlimited political bribery money which is now protected as "free speech."
The bottom end workers were likely fired. A few sacrificial managers. CEO gets a golden parachutte for showing sympathy to the loss, and claiming the company will rebuild stronger than ever.
I tell you what. do you know the causes of the chernobyl desatser? ignorance, greed, selfishness, and blindly following orders. what has happend in chernobyl, does happen everyday in the world, on a smaller scale: ignorance, selfishness, greed, and following orders. chernobyl was only a wake up call that nobody wants to hear. the human race is damned to kill itself. which is the only good thing about that species. humans are a virus on planet earth.
@@keep_walking_on_grass *Corporate Rule.*
But it looks more like we'll kill everything else first.
Those damn Marshmallows. They're always causing trouble .
The cameraman filmimg the explosion at the chemical plant was roughly three and a half kilometers away. I would call that a safe distance.
2 miles. Proper English please.
Kilometers is proper English.
@@therealcoltstonewolfe wrong, yank.
@@tooshlong .. wrong dumbass. I'm from the UK.
@@therealcoltstonewolfe no you're not. No British person speaks in kilometers unless they're training for the 10k, you mong. And no Brit says, "dumbass" . Liar.
Last words spoken on the bridge of Ever Given:
"I bet you can't make a u-tur in the Suez!"
"Hold my bear!"
21:23 The Operators DID know about the graphite tips as it actually had a purpose that the plant made use of. The issue was that the control rods couldnt lower into the reactor fast enough, they went deep enough to speed up the reaction so much, that the water started boiling, which pushed the control rods back out. Now virtually stuck in place, it kept speeding up until it blew up.
Also there are still a handful of people living in Chernobyl and they are even of old age. But their living conditions are awful.
As in many other major accidents, numerous operating mistakes and design flaws/features interacted to contribute to the Chernobyl melt-down, and it is hard to point to a single cause. The scale of the tragedy was made much worse by the post-disaster management.
The unfortunate properties of RMBK control rods when a reactor was starting to run away were known from experience at another plant. But there was not a culture of information sharing, rather the opposite. A major mistake in the course of events was when the reactor manager overrode an instruction in the operating manual relating to how to cycle the reactor back from a reduction in power. He did this to reduce the delay to an experimental test procedure he was instructed to carry out from on high, which had already had some delays due to a series of operating problems. Junior operators objected, but did not know the exact reason for the instruction, or have enough reactor physics to be able to understand that carrying out the experimental test with the reactor in that condition would be disastrous. By the time there was an attempt to scram the reactor - drop in all the control rods to stop it - it was already too far out of control to be stopped with those control rods, or more accurately the speed they could be inserted. The attempt to use them sped up/intensified an accident that was in practice already unstoppable.
For a more complete technical explanation, the most detailed addressed to the "well-informed layman", see the book Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey. For the political errors that contributed to the melt-down and subsequent appalling mismanagement of the aftermath, see the book, Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy, winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction writing.
It is the town of Pripyat closest to the reactor, and some other nearby small settlements, that were permanently evacuated and remain in a exclusion zone. The city of Chernobyl is about 16km from the plant, and was reopened, but not many people want to live there.
Something you missed about the Pepcon explosion: the blasts blew a gas main that ran under the facility.
Imagine explaining to the government that you accidentally turned both keys to launch a nuke at a nearby city
And no mention about the huge environmental impact
They did though
I remember this explosion of beirut, vividly, while I'm away like 40km from ground zero I felt it's the end of the world at that moment of the intensity of the blast, felt like literaly a small nuke where the shock wave fought me to stand on my feet.
I lived in Las Vegas in 1st grade when that chemical factory blew up. We definitely felt the shock wave. The ceiling fixtures came apart, felt like a bomb went off next to our school. Was crazy.
There's SOO MUCH info missed here but overall this video is good
the fact that some individual people nowadays own around as much money, as the Chernobyl incident has cost in total is equally frightening :I
The costliest mistake in history is allowing a handful of families own all the banks in the world.
its crazy of how little things can make BIG mistakes
it's always the little things.
good or bad.
who said it was a mistake
Smart people make these, dumb people only get to watch...
@@rananyasharahla5887 bedcause they were, none of these had outcomes that anyone would deem deliberate
All it takes is a spark to make a wildfire.
AND a marshmellow factory..man i bet those oompaloompa's were PISSED
“Lets leave the laboratory window open, these bats really smell, I’m sure they won’t escape” said by a worker in Wuhan’s lab has got to be one of the most expensive mistakes
Basically we destroy everything we can get our hands on.
So, do you think you can speak for everyone? Now, there's an ego...
@@buckhorncortez I really shouldn't have to speak when you can see for yourself.
@@buckhorncortez calm down Pablo, humans are destructive as hell.. you even are.
Being trapped in rubble from a collapsed building, pinned down by some concrete, can't breathe, no toilet, and waiting... waiting... waiting to hear those dog scratches coming towards you... if they come at all. That's what I call a time to put your sanity to the test.
My thoughts exactly as I looked at that rubble. Tons of broken concrete with re-bar sticking out everywhere. Another horror would be mountain climbing and falling into a crevasse, being wedged upside down with a broken arm or leg and you can't be rescued. You will die that way.
Since when did we start identifying objects as people 💀
Wdym
I'd say the guy who let Hitler go in WW1 made a pretty expensive mistake.
Well these are all mostly recent disasters. The Lebanon explosion was big and caused a lot of damage. But the 1947 Texas City disaster with the French ship the Grandcamp loaded with ammonium nitrate caught fire and exploded. About 12 hours later the another ship, the High Flyer, also loaded with ammonium nitrate exploded. Both ship explosions cause major damage to the large amount of Petrochemical plants in the area that caught fire. This would rank as one of the most expensive disasters in the US. There are also several others that should have made this list, like the first Nuclear Power Plant explosion that happened in the desert of Nevada and the 2008 Georgia sugar plant explosion and fire for example.
But one thing all you RUclips amateur video creators need to stop, that is calling Nuclear Power Plants as "Clean Energy". That is totally misleading as they are anything but clean. They produce large amounts of nuclear waste that is highly toxic and can remain radioactive for centuries. No one wants a nuclear waste site or dump in their back yard. So many of these plants must store this waste on the plant site. The problem is, they are running out of room and the waste keeps building. Now add all the other nuclear waste the needs to be disposed of, like from Hospitals and treatment centers that use radioactive chemicals and materials. There are only a few sites that can handle and store this crap, they can't expand and they are running out of room too.
At the turn of the last century, 1900, there was a major pollution problem all over the world. Here in the US it was becoming a bug concern and a new invention was seen as the great savior to rid this pollution. The polluter was the horse. In large urban areas like NYC it is estimated that there were 120,000 horses. To get anywhere you had to use a horse, horses poop and urinate and it was becoming a huge health problem. Add to it that horses were looked at as a commodity and not like an expensive pet they are today. When a horse died, it would lay in the street for days or weeks rotting with rats, birds, cats and Dogs eating at the carcass. One has to understand that back then they didn't have heavy moving equipment like today to deal with a dead horse. Imagine what a city like New York smelled like in the summer with all the horse poop, urine and dead rotting horses in the streets. The answer to this problem? Was the new car invention that was just coming out. Now look at what they are sighting as the major polluter in the world.
Remember, ain't nothing free. Even solar and wind energy converters produce waste when building. They also take up vast amounts of land to produce 1/10 the power a coal or oil fired plant will produce. Everything has its costs, benefits and problems and in the long run, they are all about the same.
THANK YOU for using the original Pepcon footage, not the "National Geographic" garbage with the added bleep after the "Oh" (as if he was swearing) and the explosion sound made synchronous with the explosion to dumb it down for people.
cameraman didnt really need to be that far back. He has the perk
12:46 - "The Suez Canal literally makes the world go 'round."
No, it literally does not.
Came here to post this....
Whilst not literally, it does figuratively if your only God is materialism. Which if you are a decadent westerner, is true.
With the Pepcon explosion me and my boyfriend at the time we’re in a warehouse downtown Las Vegas when the plant exploded. It was like someone had hit the building with a bus, that’s what we at first thought until we went outside. No one was hurt in the warehouse just really shook up.
Napoleon invading Russia. Hitler invading Russia. Anyone invading Afghanistan. "Expensive" when you mean money is trivial.
My quick google suggests some errors with the Henderson explosion info. Damages easily over 300 million at the day. Fire thought to be from a faulty batch dryer. You said fibre glass catching on fire... but it's made of glass...
Also fibreglass doesn’t catch on fire very easy
The glass fibers aren't normally combustible but the polyester resin burns like a champ
I was stationed at Nellis AFB when Pepcon exploded. Base housing rattled, windows shook, and several things toppled in the house.
Also, The Evergiven Cargo ship crash appeared on the news too.
How the heck did the Fukushima nuclear disaster not make this list?
I’m confident the dinosaurs got the worst environmental disaster, not the United States.
So he roughly 3 km away (or two miles), took about 10 seconds for sound to hit, and it travels about 1 km per 3 seconds :D
2 rounds fired from a .380 in 1914 has to be the most expensive. They altered the landscape and history that we live in today.
And the moral of the story here for the officials who confiscated the ships cargo, and then just stored it without proper safety precautions in place, in Beirut and then just left them there to collect dust, got all that was coming to them for taking the goods in the first place.
Maybe next time they'll have second thoughts on taking things that DON'T BELONG TO THEM..
As they say what goes around, comes around.. I have no sympathy for them, NONE.
The people who confiscated the ship suffgered very little in comparison the the effect on Lebanese people.
Over a toll for the Suez Canal? With that kind of cargo? How fu****g petty..
Fukushima is the costliest disaster. And still not contained.
The ship capsizing could have a caused by the same problem all transportation has when visiting the US, the world went metric long ago but for some unknown reason the US is still using imperial measures and every aircraft or sea craft has the problem of having to convert kilos to lbs, litres to gallons and back again, many mistakes are made during this rediculas process, if the US caught up with the world there would not be these problems .
In the mid 60's again in the mid to late 70's we tried but it looks like we'll never get it right. Meanwhile we like to make things for the rest of the world. Retards-Reps.
Bikini atoll is actually the inspiration of Spongebob. Everything living is a result of the radiation.