Chernobyl Disaster Documentary

[CM52Column]

A reactor going critical just means it is turning on, it does not make any reference to a disaster.

[addvanced]

this vid is suck-up job, it is a lie to monotone such a screw-up

and act like it is nothing and almost over. facts prove this far from over...300,000 workers alone are sick or dead from this not to mention the 50,000 who live there that move to late...

an millions sick&dead in the europe from from food.

[MirrorMatrixStudios]

@addvanced First of all, you might want to check up on your grammer and spelling before you start ranting if you want to sound professional. I'm pretty sure that we mentioned the fact that the radiation is still prominent in Chernobyl. Also, while the radiation is still extensively prominent in Chernobyl, it is no longer giving off radiation on a continental scale, and I'm pretty sure that no food is being distributed that is contaminated. If you've found otherwise, by all means, post it here...

[CSUTAMTAM]

WHERE WERE THE REACTOR WHISTLES? GEEZ YOU WOULD THINK

THAT SOME KIND OF HUGE NOISE WOULD GO OFF WAY BEFORE IT

GETS TOOOOOOO LATE!!!

[awbrynes]

@CSUTAMTAM it did, but the alarms were ignored.

[laurikaru]

Lol at 1:21. A flat screen tv in 1986 Russia? Man commies were high tech

[MyXboxFreak]

next time you make a video like this. lower the background sound. because i can hardly hear u.....

[addvanced]

your ending is total bullshit the half life of the radiation takes 200,000+ years to be usable to live on

[NukeAttackWarnings]

@addvanced not true .The majority of dangerous gamma ray emitting isotopes are short lived, and most have decayed away now. What remains are the long lived alpha and beta emitters (strontium, plutonium, americium, etc etc). There are a few longer lived gamma emitters, like Cobalt 57, Cobalt 60, Caesium 137 etc that are still around, but even they are becoming deminished

[ColonelGhostman]

Great video.  =)

[dickie6000]

Oh I get it now.

[Crpetersena]

Very well done, Lets compare America to the Soviet union for a moment, Yes we had three mile island. That was in the 70's. I'm sure there have been other close calls but , I still say the Chernobyl meltdown was caused by a faulty SCRAM system , you mentioned it here, they went for emergency shutdown and it spiked 10x in power , causing the first explosion. This problem was known but classified, The technicians didn't know about it As well as political pressure to get the reactor online.

[MirrorMatrixStudios]

Thanks for all the comments. Just wanted to say, while we did try to make it as accurate as possible, it was a school project and probably shouldn't be used as a complete reference. The resources listed in the credits will probably give you more of an accurate description of the event and it's aftermath.

[iloveredline]

its SSSR (CCCP) not SSR, pay attention to what u say....

[DrMotorDude]

from engineering [dot] com in plain English.. 1. Non-routine operation of the reactor. 2. Violation of operating regulations, including the removal of most of the control rods. 3. Positive void coefficient characteristic of the reactor. 4. Apparent lack of knowledge by the station staff of the characteristics of the reactor. 5. Inadequate control rod design.

[DrMotorDude]

The rods did not "displace coolant." What DID happen was (thanks to the design of the carbon block core) the "positive thermal coefficient" pushed the reactor beyond its max heat capability. Coolant was there but the PTC causes things to get hotter right before they get cooler.

[DrSid42]

Both actually. Graphite tips of control rods are counted as one of the causes. If the rods were without them, it could actually stop the reaction. There is never one cause in failures like this. It's always more factors.

[DrMotorDude]

Sid, the control rods had a small amount of graphite but were iron/boron. The reactor core BLOCK was carbon (and unstable design to begin with) instead of water. There was a boiling water tube jacket that did not directly contact the CRs. Add the unauthorized low output test...The carbon block/RBMK system gets hot spots and becomes unstable at LOW power output..run at 95+ % temps. in places then drop CRs = big problem. ULTIMATE fault was the operators' errors on a poorly designed system.

[mokdadmm]

Nice Documentary.

[kdougherty79]

Nice video but it could be at a slower pace but please don't take it offensively the video was very professionally done try making more documentary's

[ThunderBunny08]

OMG!!