I disagree about the tourism bit at the beginning. I am a nuclear plant engineer and think ever single nuclear worker should be required to visit the site to see the consequences of a breakdown, or lack of, safety culture.
He stated that he agrees with the use of directive tourism to reflect and think critically of the decisions and consequences. Rather than visiting to disrespect and make a disaster an aesthetic. You both share the same view. Requiring people to visit a place as (dangerous) as this might be far fetched. But you’re the engineer!
Yeah cause they have the building covered right now. Go and walk in the building where the reactor blew up. Then let me know how safe it is. It's only safe to a certain extent. It's not like people can live there.
Lots of people in the comments are calling this documentary nonsense or misinformation but if you ask me I think this documentary is an appropriate one for kids in Middle/High School being given a brief introduction to the nuclear disaster. Obviously they didn’t go into extreme detail and talk about some of the raw truths behind this disaster and if they want to look up more of the disaster they can do that on their own time at their own risk. I was a substitute teacher and put this documentary on for the students. Very eerie and interesting to say.
I honestly don't understand what they are complaining about unless maybe they're Chernobyl "scholars" or something. Most of us aren't. Or maybe they want something resembling a video game. People watching free documentaries on YT have a lot of nerve feeling so entitled. They can also stop watching.
The disaster which no one wanted to admit liability for. Pass the blame down the line, to those on the ground. People who fought to still protect their jobs, not knowing the awful truth. Those who escaped and survived only then, for now. Those who stepped in to help (bribed by money), saved a lot of people in the world. Honour and respect, to all who stepped in to help, those who spoke out about the truth and to their families.
Look up the windscale nuclear power disaster in the UK, see what the governments response was? Don't talk about it, cover it up and make no mention of it to those living nearby
My dad is not a well educated man. He has dyslexia- something that didn’t exist in the fifties when he was growing up. He can still just barely read. He may not be book smart- but he knows people. In 86 when Gorbachev admitted that there had been a “problem”, my dad pretty much freaked. If a guy like Gorbachev admitted there’d been a problem, it was a thousand times worse than was reported. Guys like Gorbachev don’t admit failure of any degree. Even if everyone can see it- they pretend it’s not there. If they acknowledge it… it’s beyond bad.
@@jordynsmith6450 I just mean, don't discourage people from contributing to the channel posts. I like his story, even if it was a bit off topic, and I would be the first to admit that I have gone a bit off topic too. It may discourage other people with very interesting stories that have to do with the video. It's easy to make people feel unwanted, especially older generations that are often times a bridge between recent serious events, and our time. His sarcasm was completely uncalled for, and it's not his channel to decided what's needed or not.
It was a time in soviet history that still remained from ww2 mentality, throw the fireman & soldiers at the the disaster without knowledge, protective equipment & direction & leadership. So very sad for these men. The greatest documentary I have watched regarding the cherynobal disaster. I remember it well even though I was very young. My father a physician & surgeon was distressed over this disaster even though he didn't show alot of emotion. Very sad😢 & the soviet would not accept help until it was much too late. ❤❤❤❤ 8:55
I've been watching a few videos of Cheynobol, I feel I know now more than I did in 1986.i feel deeply for all of those that were the firemen, and all the others that saved us all from a bigger disaster. They are hero's not to be forgotten 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I was 25 when this happened and I lived in Pennsylvania. TMI was a fairly recent memory. We listened to the news on the radio all day at work, and we're glued to the TV news. There was a somewhat low-grade sense of Doom shared by everyone. Everyone around my age had grown up living with the Cold war nuclear threat. We had no idea how bad this could become for the world
It was TMI and the movie The China Syndrome that got me interested in nuclear physics and when Chernobyl happened I was glued to the news. As little as it was. The way the Soviet Union handling the information was inexcusable even considering the time. I was 9 when TMI happened and when the movie came out. I never knew the design of the rbmk reactors that was used in Chernobyl, but using graphite in control rods, especially the way they designed it, was sheer insanity.
I was living in Pennsylvania when we had the Three Mile Island incident. My mom was in Virginia scared to death for my brother and I because we lived with Dad and Pennsylvania after their divorce. I lived there for 2 years before I moved back south because it was just too darn cold. I remember thinking that situation was bad and yet when the Chernobyl meltdown occurred in 1986, I was a senior in high school. There's Chernobyl incident couldn't have even been remotely compared to what happened at 3 Mile Island. For decades they've had people who've been born healthy and many others who've been born with birth defects and cancer.
But Chernobyl affected other parts of Europe and Belarus cos of the radioactive dust cloud! Cos of the lack of action and knowledge of the Soviet union, many things were affected, sheep were culled in britain for years because of the effects of Chernobyl, and that's just Britain, americans cant compare that to 3 mile island, you only ever endangered yourselves!! More to point your government knew it and didnt give 2 shits what that may have done to its citizens, that sounds just like Soviet union!!! And america still lives that way!! Chernobyl happened because the Soviet government kept secrets on nuclear safety away from its operators in favour of productivity, even people in the nuclear industry did not know about the design flaw, or previous incidents at ignalina... the American government nd nuclear programme knew everything!! And still it happened, and it still covered it up and because its effects would only affect america, nobody would ever know!!! People would die mysteriously and they could deny everything... the Soviet union being so close to rest of Europe never would have been able to keep Chernobyl secret for long, it was readings from other countries that exposed an accident and they had to come clean. America will lie forever. The Soviet system lives on in its rival
No you can't. She had no idea how bad it really was. I'm not blaming her but don't try to make her into a hero. It's a phone call talking about a fire on the roof at worst. I guess your Russian which is why I take this film as probably wholly inaccurate. Even the music is ripped off some other composer. This is not worth watching.
Yes, you're right, Chernobyl is an interesting (and very tragic) subject. It's terrible to think that everything in and around the nuclear plant - water, buildings, air, etc was so radioactive. This really never comes across in these programmes, except where there are flashes on the developed film. In this docu you see some of these film clips.
A lesson that we are yet to learn. How many incidents have ever occurred around the world that were given some sort of warning that were only ignored due to a higher power? They've all been genocides.
@@JK-xt7ro Right, because 3 mile island and Fukushima never happened. Don't mix subjects that have no bearing on the matter, just to feed your silly political biases.
@@Goreuncle Dont start pointing fingers at something else just because you're wrong. The Chernobyl disaster would have killed Europe if someone didnt have the balls to stand up against the communist lies. We were very lucky.
Visiting Pripiat is not disaster tourism but is historical/environmental tourism. It is a city which was abandoned, as if everyone just vanished. You are able to both look back in time to the moment in time, as well as see how nature can reclaim what is hers.
If you look at time stamp 40:12 at all the vertical lines that look like light shining up on the film, that is radiation that was picked up by the film, that was coming off the pieces of core and graphite on the roof. This is why they use film badges to measure how much radiation a worker is exposed to when in radioactive areas. The film developer simply didnt cut out the area of the exposure for the purpose of showing how much radiation there was, and you can see the notches where the exposed negative is turned by a gear inside the camera itself. I thought that was interesting how you can actually see the radiation on that roof on the exposed film. The cameraman Vladimir Shevchenko that took those photos died roughly a year after taking those pictures, his wife said the nurse told her his lungs had liquified.
There’s another bloke who took some of the first pictures of the exposed reactor core from a helicopter a day or two after the explosion. Or not long after. He lived for quite a while afterwards. I’m not sure of his name. I remember seeing a documentary about Chernobyl and he was talking about it.
Technically that is why they use film badges when people go into areas where there is radiation, the photographic film capures the rays. You can even expose the badge to sunlight and get the same results, but I'm not sure if its the exact same kind of photographic film.
The Soviet Union were worried about what it would look like abroad and that’s why they didn’t say anything for 3 weeks. Well that looked an awful lot worse!! Not telling their own people about the seriousness of the situation wasn’t just negligent but criminal in my opinion. Glasnost and perestroika were just words and didn’t mean anything because the old ways of the Soviet Union were still happening. This disaster and the way it was handled by the authorities was a huge reason why the 1991 uprising took place.
Seeing history like this reminds me of seeing Mt Saint Helens or the titanic, haunting, empty, deadly and dangerous. Very sad for those who lost their lives.
I was in Everett. When Mount St Helens erupted. I remember going to a friend of my stepfather's house somewhere near their post eruption and they had ashes they collected. I'm not sure why not looking back I was only four?
True, but that was intended, not accidental. And that one guy is supposed to represent a whole nation(or even larger group of people), wich he kinda does, in a sense. I like the way the story is told here, because it´s different from other videos about this disaster, it has a perspective, and you must be skeptical to see, understand and digest this, and that' s what you just did. ;)
This event can still bring tears, and great sadness, I'm from the USA, I was 18 when this took place, I'm so sorry for what happened to those who experienced it first hand.
@@coimbralawpeople died. Innocent people doing a job got killed. And thousands other got sick and eventually died trying to save others. When 9/11 happened a lot of countries cried with us and even played the American National Anthem a few weeks after the hit. The queens guards even played it the day off. I'm comparing these 2 events as they both resulted in death with both still bringing cancer to surviors. But one hits america hard, the other hits Ukraine/Russia hard. Maybe, you only care about yourself aka you are a narcissistic person. But many people felt for those families who got affected. Because this could of happened to anyone
I had just turned 5 when this happened. Year later my mom showed me children being born with birth defects cuz of the radiation from Chernobyl. It stayed with me always and when I could, I looked it up. It was terrifying when I learned what had happened.
To be fair, I don’t think they had any idea the danger they faced. It’s well documented that those firefighters had no idea they were being painted with lethal doses of radiation until they began vomiting. Brave yes, ignorant of the truth
The many helicopter pilots and crew were called from an active war to fight this disaster. A larger group of boys and young men in these crews died here, on their own soil than died in their overseas war.
Here in the uk we still have quite high irradiated areas in Wales and in the South east where I live, I remember us being told by the news readers to stay indoors due to acid rain caused by the radioactive fall out over East Sussex. I was 10 at the time and we lived in Hastings, I remember strange coloured dots on my mums car after it had rained, I remember family and friends and neighbours saying that they had a very slight metallic taste in their mouths for days
We have it high up in the Carpathians as well, they served as a shield when the cloud came down on us on May 1st. It's everywhere in Europe except Spain I think
Same in Italy, we weren't allowed to play out amd we couldn't have fresh milk and fruit/vegetables. At the end of the 90s exams on soil found still levs of radiation at 30cm deep.
Its crazy to think that they were not only dying slowly while fighting an unstoppable fire, but these places they tried to protect would in fact be inhospitable for decades to come... So many brave people doomed from the start 🤨
to matter worse. those poor firefighters were sent there, unknowing the danger of radiation, died a very slow and horrible deaths. They did not deserved that.
heres the thing; if they didn't do what they did, it would've gotten much worse and it would've been a bigger catastrophe for the rest of the world. RIP to all of those brave men who didn't know what they were rushing into, but did it anyways to protect their loved ones and their country.
Some people go to graveyards to because they're thrill seeking, or listening for ghostly voices, or stealing flowers they're too cheap to buy. Other people go to graveyards because they want to pay their respects to the people buried there, or to leave a memorial token to reassure the family of the deceased that someone still cares, or to look for groups of deaths that occurred around the same time to research disease outbreaks, or to study the art of memorial architecture. It might be unfair to make assumptions in the absence of conversation. I can think of any number of reasons that someone might want to visit Chernobyl and Pripyat that have nothing to do with ghoulish adventurism.
@@martinc.720 Being dramatic(appealing) has nothing to do with understanding it or not. I didn't say you had to remember it to understand anything, I said it might have a different impact when you have your own memories of that time.
Imagine being the guys sent to look directly into the fissioning core from a mezzanine only a few stories above it. Like looking into the abyss. Beautiful, but the second you go through that passageway, you've signed your own death certificate, an unfathomable sickness and breakdown of the body
Were they actually even able to get that close? That fire would have been so hot and the radiation so damn intense I can't imagine being anywhere near it!
Nuclear power generation is, by several orders of magnitude, the most safest when compared to generating electrical power by other means as these statistics, measured in deaths per terawatt hours (TW/h), show: 1. Brown coal: 32.72 2. Coal: 24.62 3. Oil: 18.43 4. Biomass: 4.63 5. Gas: 2.82 6. Hydro: 1.4 7. Solar: 0.44 8. Wind: 0.15 9. Nuclear: 0.07 A typical 500 megawatt coal power plant produces 3.5 billion kW/h per year. To produce this amount of electrical energy, the plant burns about 1.5 million tons of coal. In fact, coal-burning power plants emit more radiation than a (properly functioning) nuclear power plant. Nuclear fission produces roughly 1 million times more energy per unit weight than fossil fuel burning. Nuclear energy is safe and, unlike renewable energy sources, it's reliable.
You didn't learn anything from the chernobyl disaster. If a similar event happened in the US it could wipe out most of our agricultural capacity. If chernobyl was a coal burning plant it would still be operational and pripyat wouldn't be abandoned. Another example...Fukushima another nuclear disaster caused by a natural disaster. You say nuclear is safe?? I beg to differ.
@@garrettkessler1895 you didnt learn anything from the disaster either: design anything badly and it will be a problem. reactors in the us cannot physically blow up like this one did. physically impossible even if youre trying to blow it up. it cannot ever possibly happen here unless we build an rbmk from 50 years ago and then do tests with the emergency systems disabled on purpose... nuclear is insanely safe mainly because of this accident and the few others that have been far less problematic. so tell us again what the problem is here...............
The parallels seem pretty clear between the heroic deeds enacted in the aftermath of this awful event, and the splendid Ukrainian character manifest in current events today. Respect and Godspeed, folks.
I remember watching a documentary about this a few years ago and they said that if the reactor had detonated it would've been a 30 megaton blast and all of eastern Europe would've been uninhabitable for 10000 years. Could you imagine had that been the case?
Talk about rocking it to the core...prayers to those in the fallout.. And thanks from California USA. Never really understood how deep the cultural roots ran in the people there...but working with people from Ukraine and knowing them , I am deeply aware of their courage and strength...and good humor, tho it might be a little dark for some. I get it...and I'm gonna spell it American like..Sposiba..I know I butchered it, but Thanks...PEACE
Hey great job I can tell you poured your heart out into this video. Those 198 people are massive haters. Thank you 🙏🏻 for creating this it made my entire existence
Yes all these documentaries bring their own profound emotions of sadness,fear,desperation and chaos scrambling in the unknown to attempt to contain the unknown ,then feel the effects 1st hand whilst witnessing death around you also then not knowing those treating you will also die and others who where close to that person and so on..
i wonder why People were sent there to dealt with the fire without protection which caused their life . The higher authorities shouldn't have allowed them to go to that dangerous situations as they should have known the cause. Heartfelt condolences to those who sacrifice their life protecting others. The heroism they showed will never be forgotten. 🙏
There's several parts to it. As others noted, it had to be taken care of, the fires continuing to burn put out far more radioactive ash than once they were put out. The biggest issue, though, was at the start, no one involved was even aware of the radiation. the initial force of fire fighters had no idea, and even the plant's staff were under the impression that it was just a regular fire and the reactor was still intact. No one in the building at the time knew it was possible for the reactor to explode. The USSR hid the reports from a decade earlier that showed that a RKMB could explode under the very circumstances caused by the test they were doing.
The authorities were totally clueless… an example, they believed that older people would be affected much more by the radiation affects on the thyroid, and so people over 45 were encouraged to take iodine tablets. In fact kids’ thyroids soaked up the radiation like water to sponge. Hence huge numbers of kids with cancer at the time. Older people’s thyroids are not like sponges, more like tough old rubber and their thyroid glands were much less affected by the radiation. Ignorance was very dangerous… with tragic consequences.
because communist societies are more about protecting the ruling class than the people they claim to support and protect. it happens time and time again
Excellent commentary and perspective in this video. It's too bad so many commenters are complaining about it but they're not listening with both ears. The cultural context was, and remains relevant today. Especially what stood out for me was the commentary on this spirit of self-sacrifice. It is romanticized by western cultures, but its roots are in long term oppression. The people were so beat down into submission by one controlling regime after another that they internalized it and began to own it. This is a self defense and mass self-sacrifice is a sad after effect. Thank you for the video.
Apparently Gorbachev attributed eventual break up of the Soviet Union to this event. It has definatly effected the Ukrainian attitude towards rule from Moscow.
As someone born and raised in a communist country, the beaten down attitude is straight to the point. You have to remember that communism was enforced by violence in the post-war years so you didn't really have a choice but to eventually submit. There was this "get used to hardship and enjoy the small things" attitude. After Chernobyl, people kinda knew it was dangerous (even without public acknowledgment) and when cancers grew in the 1990's, we knew it was mostly from that but it was like what the hell can we do about it?? You accept that you are screwed
I agree. the robots they were trying to use broke down under these radiation levels. The had no other choice at that point than to improvise of how to clean up this mess using "biorobots"
I was still in Grade school when Chernobyl explosion happened. I wasn't aware of just how dangerous is was, and I didn't know how worse it could have been.
This isn't necessarily about this video, just Chernobyl "real events" and stories.It's sad that it came down to cold war political strategy. Misinformation and materials being released, even to this day are the biggest contributors to making Chernobyl, Pripyat and effects of exposure in and near Belarus taboo. The fact that documentaries seem to always have conflicting recounts of the events is disheartening.
That poem is f'ing amazing..."Faces bloom, not erased by dread. Blessed is each moment we’re alive. On these worldwide fields of death." Chernobyl Poems By Lina Kostenko Translated from Ukrainian by Uilleam Blacker. Made this whole documentary worthwhile.
There were freaking Gamma Rays lighting up the might sky after the explosion. Firefighters just rolled up like it was one of thise spot lights outside a night club. Crazy!!!
The poor guys who fought to quell the fire and the clean up the area are the true heroes and probably not told what they were letting themselves in for had they known, who knows what or how it would have ended. Even today the soviets dont fully inform their people of events.
12:30 There was no power surge during the safety test. The AZ-5 was pressed at the end of the test according to plan and at that time the situation was relatively stable. AZ-5 was not only used in emergencies but it was also used as the way to shut the reactor down. It was not until after the AZ-5 was pressed that there was a power-surge.
Yep, that's what Dyatlov wrote too. They simply wanted to shut the reactor down after finishing the test, it was trivial situation, not as dramatic as it was depicted in tv shows
I did some work for one of these guys they're calling the "liquidators" in the country Abkhazia. I was just helping out changing some electrical wiring. I asked the homeowner what her husband does. She said he was an electrical engineer but he's a retired alcoholic now since the 1980s. But she wasn't old... I said why did he retire so young? She said he was on the roof of Chernobyl. They were all promised retirement and a flat in Moscow for that. They didn't get their flat until Putin came to office. I was at their place in Moscow also. The one they got for the Chernobyl work. It was big and nice. 4 bedrooms on a 15th floor with a balcony.
Seeing this terrible accident, it seems that the human being has not learned anything even today, man himself is bent on ending this world and himself, perhaps this is the destiny of humans
it was the fault of the soviet union. Nuclear power is still the best way to produce energy until we have fusion. If we continue using coal and other bad energy sources we will have a ending yes. That's why we need more nuclear. Wind and solar is also a good alternative but we need a base power source and that is nuclear.
@@fnnpc746 don't forget gas we have a couple decades of a reserves in the coal plants can be retrofitted to use it. I agree though we need to get to fusion all the countries need to put the effort into it but for right now there's no way we can get rid of everything and not use nuclear at least for industrial means manufacturing etc
The radiation statement is nonsense. The total blast of any bomb is heat radiation, and the nuclear bombs on Japan were different from the firebombing only in that one bomb sufficed to destroy a city, although both cities recovered. UNSCEAR has calculated the number of actual casualties, at rather less that 100. By the way, three weeks before this infamous meltdown, the IFR EBR-2 reactor in Idaho was deliberately tested by halting its coolant pumps, just as happened at Chernobyl, and as that Experimental Breeder Reactor was calculated to do its neutrons went faster, fewer were captured fewer fissions meant fewer neutrons, and the reactor shut itself down and cooled its fission products by simple convection.
for me, the saddest images are the abandoned rides- bumper cars, swings, ferris wheel etc. I am not sure if any kids got to ride them yet. Extremely heartbreaking!😢
The rooftop of the reactors buildings, by regulation, must have been fireproof and reinforced. But...hey we don’t have time to get this type of materials so let’s build it with the usual materials used to build schools, apartments and everything that don’t have to contain a nuclear reactor.
@@DWilton the owner director of the power plant ordered it, because the construction was behind schedule. He wanted to make career through the power plant, and being promoted to a higher level of employment after showing off all the perfectly working plant to the local Party representatives, he was a member of the Party himself and was up for a promotion a week before the accident.
We all knowthat the reactor should have had a containment building... But I wonder if there would have been some leakage with such a powerful explosion.
Damn there is an old man in my neighborhood that spends his time in local pubs his name is Chernobyl , we really thought it was his real name until adults told us it’s only a nickname he got because he was always farting and sometimes his fart was so nasty that you couldn’t stay inside the pub and everybody wanted to evacuate the place… I just found out Chernobyl was an actual place in Russia people evacuated from, so it makes sens
I'm sorry it's 2021 & nothing has changed at all with the governments when it comes to covering up issues, they will always do it until something goes drastically wrong & by then it's too late & other countries have to go in & try to fix up their problems which they caused in the first place! 🙄
The immediate death's I would say within the first 6 months to a year has to be in the hundreds of thousands. They brought in 600K liquidators who worked with no protection or very little protection. So I would say a decent amount of those workers died within the first year
Who is he to judge? My grandpa was a liquidator, and he suffered a lot, and there was no time or choice, not from the government or people. It is easy to say that the government sent unqualified people there, but who was qualified to deal with something like that at a time of happening? If the government doid/t do what it did, and if it would be looking for professional cleaners, most of Europe would be dead and inhabitant now..
True, no one was prepared for something like this but the fact that the government refused specialized help from the outside makes them responsible because any help would've made things easier.
And these people did help but I blame the government for not giving out information to any country, we in Romania had to deal with it by ourselves, no one understood what was happening.
All of this can be summed down to the practices of the USSR, hiding problems, cutting costs, killing for disappointing the party and the stubbornness of man
Yeah………the Holocaust never happened? 6+ million + soldiers + civilians? How about when Nazi Germany attacked Russia? 15 - 40 million (some estimates) civilian casualties, alone?
Think about this, that explosion was so huge and so explosive, that graphite could have been flung for miles and miles. You could be walking around out in the open and then BAM you’re on your way to becoming a ghoul..
Meanwhile in Latvia (30km) from Lithuanian border I finished kindergarten and spent the entire summer following the incident running outside from dusk till dawn! No problem with my immune system though... No extra cancers in my family or people around
Terrible disaster. I was in the Finnish Defence Forces on the eastern border those days. It is still told Sweden regocnized the accident first. I can tell the finnish military devices knew before the swedes something must have been happened in the USSR, though it is still classified for some reason. I don't know am I allowed to tell much about the situation, but I was one of those deployed to even shoot the civilians if they tried to become over the border en masse and didn't stop when ordered to.
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I disagree about the tourism bit at the beginning. I am a nuclear plant engineer and think ever single nuclear worker should be required to visit the site to see the consequences of a breakdown, or lack of, safety culture.
@@TSandz You have more of a chance of dying of radiation than you do from the pandemic.
He stated that he agrees with the use of directive tourism to reflect and think critically of the decisions and consequences. Rather than visiting to disrespect and make a disaster an aesthetic. You both share the same view. Requiring people to visit a place as (dangerous) as this might be far fetched. But you’re the engineer!
@@TSandz Such an UNEDUCATED thing to say. Wake up, you've been conned.
@Bob Bob It worked on far too many sheep. These easily brainwashed people in 2021 are what scares me.
You're a nuclear plant engineer? What does that mean? Are you building reactors or concrete walls?
Its totally safe, The amount of times ive been to chernobyl with out effects of radiation, i can count on all of my 12 fingers.
Yeah cause they have the building covered right now. Go and walk in the building where the reactor blew up. Then let me know how safe it is. It's only safe to a certain extent. It's not like people can live there.
@@froey198033 u know humans have 10 fingers right
@@realepic-brawlstars276 He was joking
@@cetaphil9763 the jeff guy didnt get the joke
Hope your are a biologist
Lots of people in the comments are calling this documentary nonsense or misinformation but if you ask me I think this documentary is an appropriate one for kids in Middle/High School being given a brief introduction to the nuclear disaster. Obviously they didn’t go into extreme detail and talk about some of the raw truths behind this disaster and if they want to look up more of the disaster they can do that on their own time at their own risk. I was a substitute teacher and put this documentary on for the students. Very eerie and interesting to say.
I honestly don't understand what they are complaining about unless maybe they're Chernobyl "scholars" or something. Most of us aren't. Or maybe they want something resembling a video game. People watching free documentaries on YT have a lot of nerve feeling so entitled. They can also stop watching.
The disaster which no one wanted to admit liability for. Pass the blame down the line, to those on the ground.
People who fought to still protect their jobs, not knowing the awful truth. Those who escaped and survived only then, for now.
Those who stepped in to help (bribed by money), saved a lot of people in the world.
Honour and respect, to all who stepped in to help, those who spoke out about the truth and to their families.
(bribed by money), do you think their psyment made their contributiuon less valuable?
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Russians for sure. Pure communism bureocracy
Look up the windscale nuclear power disaster in the UK, see what the governments response was?
Don't talk about it, cover it up and make no mention of it to those living nearby
There had also been leaks prior to the fire, but any reporting was heavily censored by the goverment
I remember when this was all over the news. Its so heartbreaking. May those poor people all rest in peace,
Never allow chefs to operate a nuclear power plant.
I thought it was a hipster microbrewery.
Or Communists
@@jasont9907 nailed it.
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A lot of women and children died from this. Do you think this comment is appropriate for them. Sad
My dad is not a well educated man. He has dyslexia- something that didn’t exist in the fifties when he was growing up. He can still just barely read. He may not be book smart- but he knows people.
In 86 when Gorbachev admitted that there had been a “problem”, my dad pretty much freaked. If a guy like Gorbachev admitted there’d been a problem, it was a thousand times worse than was reported. Guys like Gorbachev don’t admit failure of any degree. Even if everyone can see it- they pretend it’s not there. If they acknowledge it… it’s beyond bad.
We didn't need the story about your dad
@@thedarkangel456789 No needed your sarcasm either.
@gayprepperz6862 for real?? Lmao.. it's not sarcasm. It's 100% seriousness and facts
@@jordynsmith6450 I just mean, don't discourage people from contributing to the channel posts. I like his story, even if it was a bit off topic, and I would be the first to admit that I have gone a bit off topic too. It may discourage other people with very interesting stories that have to do with the video. It's easy to make people feel unwanted, especially older generations that are often times a bridge between recent serious events, and our time. His sarcasm was completely uncalled for, and it's not his channel to decided what's needed or not.
@@gayprepperz6862 that's their problem.
what those first few fireman went thru was HORRIFIC absolutely nightmarish
They didn't stand a chance from the second they showed up, so horrific, so wrong.
It was a time in soviet history that still remained from ww2 mentality, throw the fireman & soldiers at the the disaster without knowledge, protective equipment & direction & leadership. So very sad for these men. The greatest documentary I have watched regarding the cherynobal disaster. I remember it well even though I was very young. My father a physician & surgeon was distressed over this disaster even though he didn't show alot of emotion. Very sad😢 & the soviet would not accept help until it was much too late. ❤❤❤❤ 8:55
I've been watching a few videos of Cheynobol, I feel I know now more than I did in 1986.i feel deeply for all of those that were the firemen, and all the others that saved us all from a bigger disaster. They are hero's not to be forgotten
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
There was a Nuclear plant disaster in Chernobyl also....
Finger blast me
Heroes!!
absolutely agree!
@@nicolasrose3064 What’s the point of this comment?
I was 25 when this happened and I lived in Pennsylvania. TMI was a fairly recent memory. We listened to the news on the radio all day at work, and we're glued to the TV news. There was a somewhat low-grade sense of Doom shared by everyone. Everyone around my age had grown up living with the Cold war nuclear threat. We had no idea how bad this could become for the world
I was 8.
It was TMI and the movie The China Syndrome that got me interested in nuclear physics and when Chernobyl happened I was glued to the news. As little as it was. The way the Soviet Union handling the information was inexcusable even considering the time. I was 9 when TMI happened and when the movie came out. I never knew the design of the rbmk reactors that was used in Chernobyl, but using graphite in control rods, especially the way they designed it, was sheer insanity.
I was living in Pennsylvania when we had the Three Mile Island incident. My mom was in Virginia scared to death for my brother and I because we lived with Dad and Pennsylvania after their divorce. I lived there for 2 years before I moved back south because it was just too darn cold. I remember thinking that situation was bad and yet when the Chernobyl meltdown occurred in 1986, I was a senior in high school. There's Chernobyl incident couldn't have even been remotely compared to what happened at 3 Mile Island. For decades they've had people who've been born healthy and many others who've been born with birth defects and cancer.
But Chernobyl affected other parts of Europe and Belarus cos of the radioactive dust cloud! Cos of the lack of action and knowledge of the Soviet union, many things were affected, sheep were culled in britain for years because of the effects of Chernobyl, and that's just Britain, americans cant compare that to 3 mile island, you only ever endangered yourselves!! More to point your government knew it and didnt give 2 shits what that may have done to its citizens, that sounds just like Soviet union!!! And america still lives that way!! Chernobyl happened because the Soviet government kept secrets on nuclear safety away from its operators in favour of productivity, even people in the nuclear industry did not know about the design flaw, or previous incidents at ignalina... the American government nd nuclear programme knew everything!! And still it happened, and it still covered it up and because its effects would only affect america, nobody would ever know!!! People would die mysteriously and they could deny everything... the Soviet union being so close to rest of Europe never would have been able to keep Chernobyl secret for long, it was readings from other countries that exposed an accident and they had to come clean. America will lie forever. The Soviet system lives on in its rival
@@johnycabs who was comparing them? As far as I can see you are the only one comparing them
That woman's voice is immortalized. You can just feel her concern for the people there.
No you can't. She had no idea how bad it really was. I'm not blaming her but don't try to make her into a hero. It's a phone call talking about a fire on the roof at worst.
I guess your Russian which is why I take this film as probably wholly inaccurate. Even the music is ripped off some other composer.
This is not worth watching.
I've seen and read everything I could ever find on Chernobyl. Just fascinates. This doc is completely new to me. Very interesting.
Me also. Its strange actually and can also be disturbing.
Yes, you're right, Chernobyl is an interesting (and very tragic) subject. It's terrible to think that everything in and around the nuclear plant - water, buildings, air, etc was so radioactive. This really never comes across in these programmes, except where there are flashes on the developed film. In this docu you see some of these film clips.
N io o
keep us informated
All those brave men who scarified their lives to prevent a much larger disaster....
All those brave men the USSR sacrificed to prevent a much larger disaster.
When expert advice is ignored due to political demands, a "situation" will indeed occur and grow worse. A sobering lesson for the ages.
A lesson that we are yet to learn. How many incidents have ever occurred around the world that were given some sort of warning that were only ignored due to a higher power? They've all been genocides.
That the danger with communism
@@JK-xt7ro
Right, because 3 mile island and Fukushima never happened.
Don't mix subjects that have no bearing on the matter, just to feed your silly political biases.
@@Goreuncle Dont start pointing fingers at something else just because you're wrong. The Chernobyl disaster would have killed Europe if someone didnt have the balls to stand up against the communist lies. We were very lucky.
@@JK-xt7ro not just communism. It happens everywhere.
Visiting Pripiat is not disaster tourism but is historical/environmental tourism. It is a city which was abandoned, as if everyone just vanished. You are able to both look back in time to the moment in time, as well as see how nature can reclaim what is hers.
Yesterday was the anniversary of Chernobyl. It was so sad for those who lost their lives.
Put it into perspective - it's nothing compared to the tens of millions that died under communism generally.
You say like it's over. Like people wount get cancer,misscarry etc ftom it any more..
@ingridakeeblom7577 You get the commenter’s point, right?
@@ingridakerblom7577 swedish arrogance at its best. congrats, you won the medal.
If you look at time stamp 40:12 at all the vertical lines that look like light shining up on the film, that is radiation that was picked up by the film, that was coming off the pieces of core and graphite on the roof. This is why they use film badges to measure how much radiation a worker is exposed to when in radioactive areas. The film developer simply didnt cut out the area of the exposure for the purpose of showing how much radiation there was, and you can see the notches where the exposed negative is turned by a gear inside the camera itself. I thought that was interesting how you can actually see the radiation on that roof on the exposed film. The cameraman Vladimir Shevchenko that took those photos died roughly a year after taking those pictures, his wife said the nurse told her his lungs had liquified.
Nice eye 👍...wow, thats amazing the film captured the radiation like that!..
There’s another bloke who took some of the first pictures of the exposed reactor core from a helicopter a day or two after the explosion. Or not long after. He lived for quite a while afterwards. I’m not sure of his name. I remember seeing a documentary about Chernobyl and he was talking about it.
oh totally! it got worst
then the camera got digital... but it still slowly damaging your camera every time you shoot a picture...
Technically that is why they use film badges when people go into areas where there is radiation, the photographic film capures the rays. You can even expose the badge to sunlight and get the same results, but I'm not sure if its the exact same kind of photographic film.
The Soviet Union were worried about what it would look like abroad and that’s why they didn’t say anything for 3 weeks. Well that looked an awful lot worse!! Not telling their own people about the seriousness of the situation wasn’t just negligent but criminal in my opinion. Glasnost and perestroika were just words and didn’t mean anything because the old ways of the Soviet Union were still happening. This disaster and the way it was handled by the authorities was a huge reason why the 1991 uprising took place.
The Soviets were nothing but criminals just like the current leadership in Russia.
Seeing history like this reminds me of seeing
Mt Saint Helens or the titanic, haunting, empty, deadly and dangerous. Very sad for those who lost their lives.
I was in Everett. When Mount St Helens erupted. I remember going to a friend of my stepfather's house somewhere near their post eruption and they had ashes they collected. I'm not sure why not looking back I was only four?
but, at least, their bodys won't decay, they still lie under grount looking alive, ahahahaha
This felt less like an examination of the disaster, and more a post-modernism deconstruction of how the disaster makes this one guy feel...
A bit too cerebral for you ..
Thank you; you just saved me and hour :-)
True, but that was intended, not accidental. And that one guy is supposed to represent a whole nation(or even larger group of people), wich he kinda does, in a sense.
I like the way the story is told here, because it´s different from other videos about this disaster, it has a perspective, and you must be skeptical to see, understand and digest this, and that' s what you just did. ;)
IKR
I bet you say that about everything.
This event can still bring tears, and great sadness, I'm from the USA, I was 18 when this took place, I'm so sorry for what happened to those who experienced it first hand.
Bring tears? Ridiculous
@@coimbralaw I hope you’re being sarcastic
@@coimbralawI wish you were there when the rbmk reactor exploded
@@coimbralawyeah, of course you’re from the us who don’t care about anyone else except your own
@@coimbralawpeople died. Innocent people doing a job got killed. And thousands other got sick and eventually died trying to save others. When 9/11 happened a lot of countries cried with us and even played the American National Anthem a few weeks after the hit. The queens guards even played it the day off. I'm comparing these 2 events as they both resulted in death with both still bringing cancer to surviors. But one hits america hard, the other hits Ukraine/Russia hard. Maybe, you only care about yourself aka you are a narcissistic person. But many people felt for those families who got affected. Because this could of happened to anyone
Thanks for posting this online. Very interesting doc.
I had just turned 5 when this happened. Year later my mom showed me children being born with birth defects cuz of the radiation from Chernobyl. It stayed with me always and when I could, I looked it up. It was terrifying when I learned what had happened.
Those brave men and women who rushed into Chernobyl after the explosion were true heroes. ❤️❤️🙏🙏
To be fair, I don’t think they had any idea the danger they faced. It’s well documented that those firefighters had no idea they were being painted with lethal doses of radiation until they began vomiting. Brave yes, ignorant of the truth
They had no idea what they were up against….
the true heros are all the workers of all the nuke plant that haven't blew up... yet
@@joseph-mariopelerin7028 ??? Why?
@Cornell Kirk huh? Oh if nurses are heroes, truckers… army boys…
Why not nuke nerds… without them, no power! The most important race on this Planet…
Very nicely put together video and very informative as well. Thanks for posting this.
The many helicopter pilots and crew were called from an active war to fight this disaster. A larger group of boys and young men in these crews died here, on their own soil than died in their overseas war.
Radiation meters.
The most terrifying sound in the world.
Geiger counters
Not having one makes the silence kinda scary too
@@cheesetomato9140 congrats, you know something.
Also, the most annoying sound when used in a documentary while people talk.
True. In the movie it worked great because it was set up that way.
The Elephant’s foot is terrifying. It heated itself for a while as it melted through the floor….
Thank you for uploading this for free ❤
You're welcome.
This guy watched a bunch of docs on Chernobyl and wanted to give his thoughts...
Here in the uk we still have quite high irradiated areas in Wales and in the South east where I live, I remember us being told by the news readers to stay indoors due to acid rain caused by the radioactive fall out over East Sussex. I was 10 at the time and we lived in Hastings, I remember strange coloured dots on my mums car after it had rained, I remember family and friends and neighbours saying that they had a very slight metallic taste in their mouths for days
We have it high up in the Carpathians as well, they served as a shield when the cloud came down on us on May 1st. It's everywhere in Europe except Spain I think
I mean as a shield by retaining some of the radiation when the cloud moved towards central Europe
Same in Italy, we weren't allowed to play out amd we couldn't have fresh milk and fruit/vegetables.
At the end of the 90s exams on soil found still levs of radiation at 30cm deep.
The helicopter crashing was surprising. The map of the amount of release was astonishing.
Did they even announce that to the public? Also how can a copter not see the crane line? Must be cheap crappy Russian/ussr technology 🤷♂️ smh..
@@Jason.cbr1000rr accidents happen, clearly the helicopter was not focusing on the crane it has NOTHING to do with soviet technology
Its crazy to think that they were not only dying slowly while fighting an unstoppable fire, but these places they tried to protect would in fact be inhospitable for decades to come... So many brave people doomed from the start 🤨
to matter worse. those poor firefighters were sent there, unknowing the danger of radiation, died a very slow and horrible deaths. They did not deserved that.
heres the thing; if they didn't do what they did, it would've gotten much worse and it would've been a bigger catastrophe for the rest of the world. RIP to all of those brave men who didn't know what they were rushing into, but did it anyways to protect their loved ones and their country.
Remember they had 3 other operating reactors at that location. It could have been MUCH worse. Those brave men prevented a much worse catastrophe!
@@glenroberts7388 yeah they’re true hero’s, yet who where they 🥺
20:22 Ok, so that Mi-8 didn't go down due to radiation damage, it went down because the main rotor blades hit the crane's wires.
Ofc
I like what the doctor said in the beginning of his interview chernobyl should be a lesson to us all not an attraction like disney world
@@christopherwitecki6649 repent what?
@@christopherwitecki6649 I don't follow
Some people go to graveyards to because they're thrill seeking, or listening for ghostly voices, or stealing flowers they're too cheap to buy. Other people go to graveyards because they want to pay their respects to the people buried there, or to leave a memorial token to reassure the family of the deceased that someone still cares, or to look for groups of deaths that occurred around the same time to research disease outbreaks, or to study the art of memorial architecture. It might be unfair to make assumptions in the absence of conversation. I can think of any number of reasons that someone might want to visit Chernobyl and Pripyat that have nothing to do with ghoulish adventurism.
What kind of lesson is that? Pretending that millions died, or that even the worst nuclear disaster didn't evolved to be a disaster after all?
I bet your favorite show is "Forensic Files"
Eat sh*t Val
American documentaries are always like this.
There is no need for dramatic voice and poetry, the incident itself is dramatic enough!
It is dramatic enough for people who somehow remember it. It´s not dramatic enought(by itself) for newer generations who don´t remember it. ;)
Congratulations
@@r4v3rbr You don't have to "remember" anything to understand.
@@martinc.720 Being dramatic(appealing) has nothing to do with understanding it or not. I didn't say you had to remember it to understand anything, I said it might have a different impact when you have your own memories of that time.
Imagine being the guys sent to look directly into the fissioning core from a mezzanine only a few stories above it.
Like looking into the abyss. Beautiful, but the second you go through that passageway, you've signed your own death certificate, an unfathomable sickness and breakdown of the body
I think he went blind right away to if I'm not mistaken like super cataracts
Were they actually even able to get that close? That fire would have been so hot and the radiation so damn intense I can't imagine being anywhere near it!
You've looked right into deaths eyes
* and those guys knew it.. because they were not layman..
What is remarkable is when the public needs to know, the first communication begins with a lie and coverup.
And only God knows what is still happening in FUKASHIMA,,, no one talking about that anymore.
Nuclear power generation is, by several orders of magnitude, the most safest when compared to generating electrical power by other means as these statistics, measured in deaths per terawatt hours (TW/h), show:
1. Brown coal: 32.72
2. Coal: 24.62
3. Oil: 18.43
4. Biomass: 4.63
5. Gas: 2.82
6. Hydro: 1.4
7. Solar: 0.44
8. Wind: 0.15
9. Nuclear: 0.07
A typical 500 megawatt coal power plant produces 3.5 billion kW/h per year. To produce this amount of electrical energy, the plant burns about 1.5 million tons of coal. In fact, coal-burning power plants emit more radiation than a (properly functioning) nuclear power plant. Nuclear fission produces roughly 1 million times more energy per unit weight than fossil fuel burning. Nuclear energy is safe and, unlike renewable energy sources, it's reliable.
You didn't learn anything from the chernobyl disaster. If a similar event happened in the US it could wipe out most of our agricultural capacity. If chernobyl was a coal burning plant it would still be operational and pripyat wouldn't be abandoned. Another example...Fukushima another nuclear disaster caused by a natural disaster. You say nuclear is safe?? I beg to differ.
@@garrettkessler1895 you didnt learn anything from the disaster either: design anything badly and it will be a problem. reactors in the us cannot physically blow up like this one did. physically impossible even if youre trying to blow it up. it cannot ever possibly happen here unless we build an rbmk from 50 years ago and then do tests with the emergency systems disabled on purpose... nuclear is insanely safe mainly because of this accident and the few others that have been far less problematic. so tell us again what the problem is here...............
So basically this is a long interview with a prof at UCL interspersed with site footage and bad music
It's free so shut up
@@elinorregina that doesnt mean it can just be of any low quality it pleases. there is still a floor.
"Most toxic mass on earth"... My mother in law.
ROFL
What about my ex wife.....
She must have a twin
This narrator can’t decide if he’s doing a doumentary or a action movie.
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Da
He sounds familiar
he's taking action to narrate a docummentary
The parallels seem pretty clear between the heroic deeds enacted in the aftermath of this awful event, and the splendid Ukrainian character manifest in current events today. Respect and Godspeed, folks.
I remember watching a documentary about this a few years ago and they said that if the reactor had detonated it would've been a 30 megaton blast and all of eastern Europe would've been uninhabitable for 10000 years. Could you imagine had that been the case?
" all of eastern Europe " you do realize that eastern Europe stretches all the way to Alaska?
@@Stevros999That is not Europe anymore😅
30 megatons knows no borders or seas of any nation. @@Stevros999
That guy is not as smart as he thinks he is. @davidogborn47
Except that it doesn't.
The Black and white Bio-Robot picture's at 40 minutes are are striking 😵
Talk about rocking it to the core...prayers to those in the fallout.. And thanks from California USA. Never really understood how deep the cultural roots ran in the people there...but working with people from Ukraine and knowing them , I am deeply aware of their courage and strength...and good humor, tho it might be a little dark for some. I get it...and I'm gonna spell it American like..Sposiba..I know I butchered it, but Thanks...PEACE
Be careful near the SSFL area. Very toxic grounds with radiation levels as well.
I think it deserves a better title then this.
It's more historical and politic then a timeframe.
it's clickbait
Why does it need a title, then this?
Chernobyl : Hour by hour...
It lasts 51mins 🤦♂️🤦♂️
16.23. "Flawed in many ways" Pretty much sums the whole thing up.
Hey great job I can tell you poured your heart out into this video. Those 198 people are massive haters. Thank you 🙏🏻 for creating this it made my entire existence
Oh edit 19
Yes all these documentaries bring their own profound emotions of sadness,fear,desperation and chaos scrambling in the unknown to attempt to contain the unknown ,then feel the effects 1st hand whilst witnessing death around you also then not knowing those treating you will also die and others who where close to that person and so on..
i wonder why People were sent there to dealt with the fire without protection which caused their life . The higher authorities shouldn't have allowed them to go to that dangerous situations as they should have known the cause. Heartfelt condolences to those who sacrifice their life protecting others. The heroism they showed will never be forgotten. 🙏
So just let the fire burn and the radioactive material escape?
The disaster would've exponentialy gotten worse.
There's several parts to it. As others noted, it had to be taken care of, the fires continuing to burn put out far more radioactive ash than once they were put out. The biggest issue, though, was at the start, no one involved was even aware of the radiation. the initial force of fire fighters had no idea, and even the plant's staff were under the impression that it was just a regular fire and the reactor was still intact. No one in the building at the time knew it was possible for the reactor to explode. The USSR hid the reports from a decade earlier that showed that a RKMB could explode under the very circumstances caused by the test they were doing.
The authorities were totally clueless… an example, they believed that older people would be affected much more by the radiation affects on the thyroid, and so people over 45 were encouraged to take iodine tablets.
In fact kids’ thyroids soaked up the radiation like water to sponge. Hence huge numbers of kids with cancer at the time. Older people’s thyroids are not like sponges, more like tough old rubber and their thyroid glands were much less affected by the radiation. Ignorance was very dangerous… with tragic consequences.
because communist societies are more about protecting the ruling class than the people they claim to support and protect. it happens time and time again
Excellent commentary and perspective in this video. It's too bad so many commenters are complaining about it but they're not listening with both ears. The cultural context was, and remains relevant today.
Especially what stood out for me was the commentary on this spirit of self-sacrifice. It is romanticized by western cultures, but its roots are in long term oppression. The people were so beat down into submission by one controlling regime after another that they internalized it and began to own it. This is a self defense and mass self-sacrifice is a sad after effect.
Thank you for the video.
Apparently Gorbachev attributed eventual break up of the Soviet Union to this event. It has definatly effected the Ukrainian attitude towards rule from Moscow.
As someone born and raised in a communist country, the beaten down attitude is straight to the point. You have to remember that communism was enforced by violence in the post-war years so you didn't really have a choice but to eventually submit. There was this "get used to hardship and enjoy the small things" attitude. After Chernobyl, people kinda knew it was dangerous (even without public acknowledgment) and when cancers grew in the 1990's, we knew it was mostly from that but it was like what the hell can we do about it?? You accept that you are screwed
Well said
"The right equipment"... There was no right equipment to combat this casualty.
exactly, that becker guy is talking bullshit
I agree. the robots they were trying to use broke down under these radiation levels. The had no other choice at that point than to improvise of how to clean up this mess using "biorobots"
Brilliant. A flashback from my generations past.
Very good and informative documentary, highly recommended!!
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And 🧒
Funny they forgot to feel bad for the people.
@@BillyBob-pu2vceveryone feels bad for the people. The animals are rarely mentioned.
Could have just used animal instead of spamming the entire animal keyboard
I was still in Grade school when Chernobyl explosion happened. I wasn't aware of just how dangerous is was, and I didn't know how worse it could have been.
I was still an egg in 1986
This isn't necessarily about this video, just Chernobyl "real events" and stories.It's sad that it came down to cold war political strategy. Misinformation and materials being released, even to this day are the biggest contributors to making Chernobyl, Pripyat and effects of exposure in and near Belarus taboo. The fact that documentaries seem to always have conflicting recounts of the events is disheartening.
Gorbachev first used the word "perestroika" on April 8, 1986, about two and one-half weeks before this accident.
Such a tragedy for the people in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Grateful to the brave volunteers and soldiers who cleaned it up.
Hatts off to the bravest men in the History.
That poem is f'ing amazing..."Faces bloom, not erased by dread. Blessed is each moment we’re alive. On these worldwide fields of death." Chernobyl Poems By Lina Kostenko
Translated from Ukrainian by Uilleam Blacker. Made this whole documentary worthwhile.
The professor being interviewed: To make a short story long...
I was a born Ukrainian citizen during 1980s this is sad to watch because its true!
Read the book "Midnight in Chernobyl" and get the real story......published in 2019 and very factual.
I just ordered the book on Audible because of your suggestion. I'm already loving it! Thanks!
All lies
don't read that book, read my ass instead
There were freaking Gamma Rays lighting up the might sky after the explosion. Firefighters just rolled up like it was one of thise spot lights outside a night club. Crazy!!!
There are much better documentaries on Chernobyl that this video provides.
Could you please suggest some.. 🙂
link please
The poor guys who fought to quell the fire and the clean up the area are the true heroes and probably not told what they were letting themselves in for had they known, who knows what or how it would have ended. Even today the soviets dont fully inform their people of events.
30:14 'May 4 1986... liquid nitrogen was pumped underneath the dead reactor'
THIS WAS PLANNED BUT NEVER HAPPENED!!
Imagine speaking a language that isn’t your first THIS fluently. Man has high level English. 👏🏼👏🏼
12:30 There was no power surge during the safety test. The AZ-5 was pressed at the end of the test according to plan and at that time the situation was relatively stable.
AZ-5 was not only used in emergencies but it was also used as the way to shut the reactor down.
It was not until after the AZ-5 was pressed that there was a power-surge.
Yep, that's what Dyatlov wrote too. They simply wanted to shut the reactor down after finishing the test, it was trivial situation, not as dramatic as it was depicted in tv shows
True
I did some work for one of these guys they're calling the "liquidators" in the country Abkhazia. I was just helping out changing some electrical wiring. I asked the homeowner what her husband does. She said he was an electrical engineer but he's a retired alcoholic now since the 1980s. But she wasn't old... I said why did he retire so young? She said he was on the roof of Chernobyl. They were all promised retirement and a flat in Moscow for that. They didn't get their flat until Putin came to office. I was at their place in Moscow also. The one they got for the Chernobyl work. It was big and nice. 4 bedrooms on a 15th floor with a balcony.
Abkhazia is a region in Georgia
@@brinjoness3386 Not anymore.
Seeing this terrible accident, it seems that the human being has not learned anything even today, man himself is bent on ending this world and himself, perhaps this is the destiny of humans
Yes. By the time we finish, there will be nothing left at all for future generations.
@@nisha8298 Humans are determined to end themselves and this world
it was the fault of the soviet union. Nuclear power is still the best way to produce energy until we have fusion. If we continue using coal and other bad energy sources we will have a ending yes. That's why we need more nuclear. Wind and solar is also a good alternative but we need a base power source and that is nuclear.
@@fnnpc746 don't forget gas we have a couple decades of a reserves in the coal plants can be retrofitted to use it. I agree though we need to get to fusion all the countries need to put the effort into it but for right now there's no way we can get rid of everything and not use nuclear at least for industrial means manufacturing etc
Humanity's arrogance will kill us all.
The radiation statement is nonsense. The total blast of any bomb is heat radiation, and the nuclear bombs on Japan were different from the firebombing only in that one bomb sufficed to destroy a city, although both cities recovered.
UNSCEAR has calculated the number of actual casualties, at rather less that 100.
By the way, three weeks before this infamous meltdown, the IFR EBR-2 reactor in Idaho was deliberately tested by halting its coolant pumps, just as happened at Chernobyl, and as that Experimental Breeder Reactor was calculated to do its neutrons went faster, fewer were captured fewer fissions meant fewer neutrons, and the reactor shut itself down and cooled its fission products by simple convection.
The disaster that was so huge it changed the course of an entire nation
Thanks Captain Obvious.
They were gonna poop out either way. Bad system.
um, yes... also, the soviets were on their way out already; this just accelerated it to basically right then
for me, the saddest images are the abandoned rides- bumper cars, swings, ferris wheel etc. I am not sure if any kids got to ride them yet. Extremely heartbreaking!😢
The rooftop of the reactors buildings, by regulation, must have been fireproof and reinforced. But...hey we don’t have time to get this type of materials so let’s build it with the usual materials used to build schools, apartments and everything that don’t have to contain a nuclear reactor.
They skipped that step. And, by who's regulations?
@@DWilton the owner director of the power plant ordered it, because the construction was behind schedule. He wanted to make career through the power plant, and being promoted to a higher level of employment after showing off all the perfectly working plant to the local Party representatives, he was a member of the Party himself and was up for a promotion a week before the accident.
@@DWilton regulations in place for nuclear reactors of power plants made by the CCCP.
Many country’s cut corners. They are not like us who regulate safety.
We all knowthat the reactor should have had a containment building... But I wonder if there would have been some leakage with such a powerful explosion.
Makes me wonder about the cancer rate amongst certain age groups in Europe
Damn there is an old man in my neighborhood that spends his time in local pubs his name is Chernobyl , we really thought it was his real name until adults told us it’s only a nickname he got because he was always farting and sometimes his fart was so nasty that you couldn’t stay inside the pub and everybody wanted to evacuate the place… I just found out Chernobyl was an actual place in Russia people evacuated from, so it makes sens
😂😂😂😂that’s funny
It’s in Ukraine
Bruh
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is what happens when you have a whole plant of Homer Simpsons!!
This isn't really hour by hour... it jumps all over the place.
Thank you, is was looking for that video.
I'm sorry it's 2021 & nothing has changed at all with the governments when it comes to covering up issues, they will always do it until something goes drastically wrong & by then it's too late & other countries have to go in & try to fix up their problems which they caused in the first place! 🙄
As George Carlin had put it once: "Voting is a waste of time. All it does is put bullshit in, only to watch bullshit come out."
Lol that is sooo true Steven! 😂👍👍
So, tell me what exactly did USSR hid???
Watch the movie 1984..
It looks peaceful. How long will it take me to die in Chernobyl ground zero in 2023? I remember when this reactor exploded in 1986. I was 16 years old
The immediate death's I would say within the first 6 months to a year has to be in the hundreds of thousands. They brought in 600K liquidators who worked with no protection or very little protection. So I would say a decent amount of those workers died within the first year
This is not a movie. We call this a "documentary" or "documentary film".
Who is he to judge? My grandpa was a liquidator, and he suffered a lot, and there was no time or choice, not from the government or people. It is easy to say that the government sent unqualified people there, but who was qualified to deal with something like that at a time of happening? If the government doid/t do what it did, and if it would be looking for professional cleaners, most of Europe would be dead and inhabitant now..
True, no one was prepared for something like this but the fact that the government refused specialized help from the outside makes them responsible because any help would've made things easier.
And these people did help but I blame the government for not giving out information to any country, we in Romania had to deal with it by ourselves, no one understood what was happening.
Gordon Ramsey should set up hells kitchen inside of chernobyl, now that would be a great show, get the cooking done or die trying.😂
No clam sauce for Gordo!
I've seen all the Chernobyl documentaries and films and this is one of the best...very well done.
respect to all poor souls that gave there lives to save what they could do be fore they fell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All of this can be summed down to the practices of the USSR, hiding problems, cutting costs, killing for disappointing the party and the stubbornness of man
Ironic that it was a “safety check” that set it off…..
The most disastrously scene the world has ever seen until Fukishima
Yeah………the Holocaust never happened? 6+ million + soldiers + civilians?
How about when Nazi Germany attacked Russia? 15 - 40 million (some estimates) civilian casualties, alone?
@@Gfysimpletons Um those are not disasters, try again SJW
@@wxmyjnsn yer funny. I ain’t no sjw…😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 I could care less of those people.. just making a point!🤣😂🤣
@@Gfysimpletons the earth is us all
I watched that in 7th grade but now I'm in highschool. I somehow payed more attention to this more then any other history lesson
this right here is how NOT to make a movie
Think about this, that explosion was so huge and so explosive, that graphite could have been flung for miles and miles. You could be walking around out in the open and then BAM you’re on your way to becoming a ghoul..
Everything critical of the Soviet Union the guy says described what it’s like in America for citizens in 2021
People need to look at history to see where we are heading and we need to stop it.
Totally agreed mate!
Absolutely agree!
Yeah but why worry about something that will never happen
@@enoknab Sounds like something that should be put on money, don’t you think?
Grown man. Makes me sad. Mad. Grateful. Pray.
Damn that radioactive cloud engulfs 90% of Lithuania and I am 4 years old then and that is probably why my immune system kind of sucks 🤷
Meanwhile in Latvia (30km) from Lithuanian border I finished kindergarten and spent the entire summer following the incident running outside from dusk till dawn!
No problem with my immune system though... No extra cancers in my family or people around
Terrible disaster. I was in the Finnish Defence Forces on the eastern border those days. It is still told Sweden regocnized the accident first. I can tell the finnish military devices knew before the swedes something must have been happened in the USSR, though it is still classified for some reason. I don't know am I allowed to tell much about the situation, but I was one of those deployed to even shoot the civilians if they tried to become over the border en masse and didn't stop when ordered to.
That song at @5:52 is absolutely haunting