@JohnAhrendt does it work ? a defense contractor in the US provided 800,000 chemical suits, developed in the 80s. a number of them were defects, but adding nominal, low density wind pressures, made the suits useless in a matter of hours. The US troops in both gulf wars were, blowing up arm depots, not knowing they were blowing up chemical ones as well as conventional depots. the so called, Gulf war syndrome... good old america.
@DarthBarkerSithLord Honestly Nuclear power is quite safe, solar costs a huge sum of money to maintain and Nuclear produces much more energy. The reason for this accident was mostly awful design and stupid risks taken by impatient people. Not to mention the same weight of coal dust as nuclear waste is actually MORE radioactive because coal contains traces of uranium and thorium.
Shortly after the accident, firefighters arrived to try to extinguish the fires. First on the scene was a Chernobyl Power Station firefighter brigade under the command of Lieutenant Volodymyr Pravik, who died on 9 May 1986 of acute radiation sickness. They were not told how dangerously radioactive the smoke and the debris were, and may not even have known that the accident was anything more than a regular electrical fire....
@deegan45 "Can't we get all our power from solar??"
Yes, but only if we spent more money building solars panels than has existed in the history of mankind, and just for the US energy needs we would need to cover a land mass the size of Texas with solar panels. So yes in theory ... in practice, not even possible, not even close.
According to published sources, immediately after the explosion the radioactivity in the vicinity of the destroyed core was 30,000 Roentgens/hour. This is an astronomically high number and means incapacitation and loss of consciousness within like 45 seconds. Watch the movie and listen to the comments-whenever the scouts encounter 300-500 Roentgens, they turn around and run away in panic. 30,000 is too much to fathom...
i just dont understand WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD WOULD YOU GO TO THE HART OF THE BIGGEST NUCLEAR DIEASTER IN ALL OF HISTORY WITH COTTEN WOOL MASKS BOILER SUITS HELMETS AND GOGGLES, yes they know the risks but if their life worth some science wich robots can do, the only way i would go near chernobyl is with the worlds most protective radiation suits on and a gas mask and somethink lead based over that
@sspecialairsservice You should Google what is necessary for radiation protection. Perhaps you could understand why the people in this video were wearing these suits to protect them for the radiation.
@sspecialairsservice No $hit! These suits make the raincoats the Japanese at Fukushima are wearing look like Nasa Space suits!
This is an awesome video showing what our fellow man is willing to do on behalf of the many. Very fearless men, and adding to that Russia probably only paid them each $10 an hour to do it.
@sspecialairsservice they also sent their moon-rover: "Lunokhod" (which theoretically can withstand space radiation), but the rover failed after several attempt (due to radiation). Chernobly accident is a serious accident, many had sacrifice themselves to clean up the radiation, even robot died.... -Electronic are vulnerable to radiation too...
@deegan45 PS: Hydro is an ecological disaster. I laugh when 'green' people sing the praises of Hydro. Do some research on it and you'll see that Hydro has destroyed more land than Chernobyl. Look @ the Three Gorges Damn in China and how many 100s of square miles are now flooded. I'd be curious the carbon load increased by all the trees that were killed. Hydro isn't all that green.. it's just cheap.
@otlg30 You're right. Hydro causes huge environmental destruction and requires massive amounts of land to work. It destroys entire ecosystems. By contrast Chernobyl is actually a safe sancuary for endangered species because humans are not living there. Also I should mention that wind power isn't entirely good either. Aside from not being efficient enough to meet demands, too many wind farms can cause huge disruption in the natural flow of wind which could cause huge environmental destruction.
@deegan45 The *real* future is Fusion. Until then *carefully* controlled fision (different casing intentional so it's read clearly) is a viable option. All the money being pissed away on feel good energy sources should be going to fusion, but because it's NUCLEAR fusion it gets a bum rap. We know the math for fusion power, it's *just* an engineering problem, but won't get funded because too many would lose their empires.
@deegan45 one issue, it would bankrupt the entire world. The only current other option other than fossil fueling power plants is nuclear. Maybe in the future we may discover other ways of harnessing other forms of energy that are much safer and cleaning.
Can anyone answer why didnt they pour concrete into the reactor till the whole thing is full, then pour concrete over the entire building and i mean alot till its a foot or 2 thick then build a Sarcophagus around it, to me your keeping any chance of a dust clould and radition having any chance of getting out, Can anyone tell me why not? to me this was the logic thing to do
Can anyone answer why didnt they pour concrete into the reactor till the whole thing is full, then pour concrete over the entire building and i mean alot till its a foot or 2 thick then build a Sarcophagus around it, to me your keeping any chance of a dust clould and radition having any chance of getting out, Can anyone tell me why not? to me this was the logic thing to do
@deegan45 Biggest problem with solar.. it takes more power to make one than they can produce in their lifetime right now (in other words, the energy to make a solar cell is greater than the energy it will produce in its life time)
@deegan45 yes, but it probably won't happen anytime soon. unfortunately, too many companies have a financial stake in non-solar power generation and will probably spend whatever it takes to see that solar use does not become widespread.
@Steelfalcon22 Chernobyl was running at the time of the explosion. The explosion completely exposing the core. The graphite ignited and sent plooms of radioactive particles into the air. None of the reactors at Fukoshima have cores exposed in the manner. Chernobyl is still the worst, by many degrees.
they are only wearing face masks their not even proper respirators i wouldn't even use them things for sanding car bodywork never mind go into a destroyed nuclear reactor
@WhoCaresFU Inappropriate comment to make on a video about a very pivotal point in history and wishing slow, traumatic and painful deaths upon 'US feminists' - who, by definition, are US citizens [male and female] who believe in equal rights - is tactless. So who cares fuck you? I fuckin care.
@deegan45 That is definitely a sacrifice that would need to be made. The problem that people are going to find is that we have 104 Nuclear Reactors in this country and to replace those with wind would take more than 20,000 wind turbines that are about half the height of the Empire state building. Personally, I advocate modern nuclear energy because of the massive energy that it produces and the fact that reactors get about 1600 times safer every 10 years. Again, this is just my opinion.
@deegan45 - I agree with you, deegan45. To me, it is clear that we don't NEED nuclear energy. People get along without it just fine, as we can see historically. But we think we have to have all our toys. I hope that the Japan disaster gets us all thinking.
@travpoet nuclear energy is actually better than coal and natural gas energy because it doesn't release CO2, but on the other hand when something goes wrong like this.... IT GOES WRONG
@travpoet You mean the Japan disaster that was caused by the 5th largest recorded earthquake coupled with a 30ft+ tsunami. Using the same logic we shouldn't live in houses since many were destroyed. If any Japan demonstrates how far we've come as the nuclear release is *relatively* minor given the scope of the disaster the plants were involved in. I'll also point out those are the oldest nukes in Japan and all the others are completely fine. If anything it means we need NEW plants not NONE.
@deegan45 thats fine and I respect your opinion. I know there are risks with nuclear power but the fact is that the world needs it. The worlds most powerful wind turbine produces 7 megawatts of power and its about 650 feet tall. It would take 200 of these to make up for one modern reactor. Again I'm not saying that my opinion is the only right one, and I respect yours, but I think that until more efficient systems are developed for generating power from wind and solar we need nuclear power
No. One kilogram of uranium produces more power that 3000 TONS of coal. If you were to put a solar panel on top of every home in the US, it would not only be much more expensive than using nuclear technology, but it would only make the same amount of energy as 1/2 of the reactors in the US
@deegan45 one kilogram of uranium produces the same amount of energy as 3000 TONS of coal. You would need to put a solar panel on top of every home in the US just to produce the same amount of energy as half of the reactors in the United States
@mace1337 It's a playback tracking issue from VHS, probably from a hi-fi audio - normal track audio wouldn't do this. (I used to have this problem in some tapes in one of my VCRs).
@romano082 alpha radiation isnt that dangerous you must eat or inhale particles for them to hurt you. beta particles are used in chemotherapy and those protective suits can block them. gamma radiation is really dangerous, can be stopped only by high density materials.(mostly lead but its only 20-30% better then other materials such as aluminium, steel, concrete or soil). and all those types of particles are not emitted by the same sources. believe me, they know what are they doing
the RBMK reactors were primitive by western standards(no containment)and very unstable and prone to graphite fires.In other words,a piece of shit.Its amazing they operated so long without a major incident before this
There it is... the apple! The Goliath! The Chernobyl Sarcophagus! Why... if this thing were destroyed, all the radiation would escape causing more death and devastation than anyone could ever dream!!! I'm surprised this thing isn't guarded by the army or all the world's military forces.
It has been 24 years now, in another 6 or so, levels of Cs-137 and Sr-90 will be about half. The very hot short term fission products should be mostly gone assuming that no ongoing fission has taken place. I wonder if they wait another 10 to 20 years, that if they wore really protective gear to keep the particulate alpha emmiters out of their bodies, if they cannot start to remove some of the fuel elements. Just a thought.
I have studied the Chernobyl disaster thoroughly in books and articles. This documentary is by far the best program that I have seen on the subject. It is a must see for not only the casually curious, but for anyone interested in the real risks of nuclear power. Thanks for adding it to Youtube!
@lastermak These are not the real risks of nuclear power. It was poorly engineered and built using backward technology even for the time and place. Current reactors are far FAR ahead of this technology and cannot meltdown like this.
Agreed. There are layers upon layers of automatic fail-safes engineered to prevent this exact type of disaster. Modern nuclear plants practically regulate themselves and are safer and cleaner than most other types of power and with a much higher output to boot.
@youngdones Well the entire southeast US was bathed in radiation, and ever since then, more and more guys sit out in their ford trucks with shotguns, waiting for Jesus in his space ship to come down. So the problems are hard to correlate, but are definitely there ;)
in the control room you can still see the clock which stop at the exact time that the reactor went quite erie. i went there last year with some russian friends of mine but we went to see the russian woodpecker.
instead of sentencing people to the gulag, they should have sent them to chernobyl for life. then they could have built the sarcophagus faster and stayed there until they died instead of dying in a concentration camp.
@youngdones ...But they're wearing protective suits. You can't really shield against the gamma rays; you need about a centimetre of solid lead to reduce it to half. Nuclear fuel is a dense ceramic; it doesn't easily form dust and it doesn't easily stay aloft for long periods of time. Your body is also very good at catching and eliminating dust before it reaches the lungs unless you're a heavy smoker. Better respirator is nice, but unlikely to help.
quite easy, there does no protective suit exist for such high levels of radiation.
for example, if you get a x-ray picture, you wear a west of lead.
this heavy west is used to protect you just from the x-rays.
in an enviroment like the broken reactor, the radiation is many times more powerful. you cant wear so mouch lead, to be protected from the gamma radiation. you only can protect you from radioactive particles. but not from the gamma radiation.
@youngdones there is no protection suit , you can use a lead scaphandre which weight a lot , and in these rubble you can t move around in it , and the protection would be minimal anyway . he said 3 rontegen , that 's make around 13mSv/h , 20 mSv is the anual dose for a worker in civilize country , and i think some physical effect appear at 150 mSv or even more , basicaly you would not get some radiation burn from it, you can find this level of radiation in some particule accelerator turned off.
@outlawdex1 There are still measurements being done and restrictions around some farms on Wales and Scotland, and across northern europe, around the Baltic there are areas which cant be used for grazing, and high radioactivity is found in wild animals.
question: how are lights working inside there? wouldn't they have gotten destroyed and if they didn't you think that after 50 years they would go out and it would be kinda hard to replace them.
LOL I was watching this video specifically to see how close they got it in Stalker. They actually got the CNPP, and the surrounding town and country side perfectly. Such an under-appreciated game though. Probably due to the fact that the first one is so buggy you can hardly play it without being fully patched and modded. But with some minor fixing and modding, damn what an awesome game.
It would be very exciting to make a trip to Chernobyl
zubomglol 3 days ago
I can't stop thinking about this whole thing about Chernobyl
zubomglol 3 days ago
I <3 America! Im only 13 and i can walk down to wall mart and buy a beter respirator than thoes highly trained russian scientists.
JohnAhrendt 1 month ago
@JohnAhrendt does it work ? a defense contractor in the US provided 800,000 chemical suits, developed in the 80s. a number of them were defects, but adding nominal, low density wind pressures, made the suits useless in a matter of hours. The US troops in both gulf wars were, blowing up arm depots, not knowing they were blowing up chemical ones as well as conventional depots. the so called, Gulf war syndrome... good old america.
teddythebenny 1 month ago
GET OUT OF THERE STALKERS >:C
Chaindoggie 2 months ago
I think my right ear has been exposed to radiation
HedgehogStudios1 3 months ago 14
my audio is farting at me
chi6075 3 months ago
A chcialem tam jechac na wycieczke..
westen1fabryka 4 months ago
@deegan45 did you forget about winter and cloudy autumns ?
metalgearrexlover 4 months ago
@deegan45 Solar power isn't anywhere near efficient enough to even make a dent in the worlds power consumption.
Tokamak85 4 months ago
@Tokamak85 The Earth receives more energy from the Sun in one hour than the human race makes in a year!
Jemalacane 1 month ago
@Jemalacane If you're referencing scishow's "Solar Energy" video, he say says it is six hours to one year
Google "pvcdrom", it is an excellent resource to learn more about Solar Energy.
Tokamak85 1 month ago
@Jemalacane Yeah... The Earth, but enviroment needs the sun too. You cant just cover the whole earth with solar cells xD
QBMan 1 month ago
@deegan45 Yeah. We could. But it won't be affective as coal. Yes solar would be clean energy, but in winter or in stormy weather, you're out of luck.
DarthBarkerSithLord 5 months ago
@DarthBarkerSithLord Honestly Nuclear power is quite safe, solar costs a huge sum of money to maintain and Nuclear produces much more energy. The reason for this accident was mostly awful design and stupid risks taken by impatient people. Not to mention the same weight of coal dust as nuclear waste is actually MORE radioactive because coal contains traces of uranium and thorium.
4Deadserious 5 months ago
I feel like Ive been comtaminated by radiation just by watching this.
ssrabits 5 months ago
Shortly after the accident, firefighters arrived to try to extinguish the fires. First on the scene was a Chernobyl Power Station firefighter brigade under the command of Lieutenant Volodymyr Pravik, who died on 9 May 1986 of acute radiation sickness. They were not told how dangerously radioactive the smoke and the debris were, and may not even have known that the accident was anything more than a regular electrical fire....
MobYardieKrew 5 months ago
@Jimdangello What year was this made, please?
PaintedSavages 5 months ago
@deegan45 The sun isn't always shining my friend.
09stoneheart 6 months ago
@deegan45 sadly not yet, but that would be great.
daboljuutii 6 months ago
@deegan45 too fucking expensive.
spotlightman1234 6 months ago
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@deegan45 "Can't we get all our power from solar??"
Yes, but only if we spent more money building solars panels than has existed in the history of mankind, and just for the US energy needs we would need to cover a land mass the size of Texas with solar panels. So yes in theory ... in practice, not even possible, not even close.
SauceCaptain 6 months ago
The problem with solar: NIGHT
MaestroDaae 6 months ago
@MaestroDaae The solution? Orbital Solar Platforms
RelaxingThought 5 months ago
wow look at 4:34 the lights i noticed that on another vid too
miragef19 6 months ago
@miragef19 that was common on 80's video equipment when viewing a bright lightsource against a dark background.. nothing nuclear about it.
notalott 6 months ago
@notalott aha thanks man i wondered why that was for ages :P
miragef19 6 months ago
@deegan45 no.
187nydala 6 months ago
@deegan45 we cant. If we want power all electrical thinks with solar so the earth must be one big solarpanel.
Pitchplus8 6 months ago
@deegan45 Less power is produced and maintenance costs a ton of money.
DrHooty911 7 months ago
@deegan45 its more harder and has a big price for it :)
1Rockyboxer1 7 months ago
According to published sources, immediately after the explosion the radioactivity in the vicinity of the destroyed core was 30,000 Roentgens/hour. This is an astronomically high number and means incapacitation and loss of consciousness within like 45 seconds. Watch the movie and listen to the comments-whenever the scouts encounter 300-500 Roentgens, they turn around and run away in panic. 30,000 is too much to fathom...
monsterzeroJr 8 months ago
now it's fukushima
chillaxer1993 8 months ago
@chillaxer1993 Exactly! How far has that radiation been moving across the planet? You will never here the American media talking about it..,.
pettyofficer30 8 months ago
@chillaxer1993 yes , there are just building the sarcophage ....and France is n°1 of nucleaire
....:(
wildsugarfly 7 months ago
@deegan45 In the future , Yes present , No
Reason, Money
Btw this was 1986 solar panels where only used on space ship's
Unknowcreation 9 months ago
God I want this document without buzzing it makes me angry
Majkyboy95 9 months ago
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BabiuaAlyshaao709 10 months ago
i just dont understand WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD WOULD YOU GO TO THE HART OF THE BIGGEST NUCLEAR DIEASTER IN ALL OF HISTORY WITH COTTEN WOOL MASKS BOILER SUITS HELMETS AND GOGGLES, yes they know the risks but if their life worth some science wich robots can do, the only way i would go near chernobyl is with the worlds most protective radiation suits on and a gas mask and somethink lead based over that
sspecialairsservice 10 months ago
@sspecialairsservice You should Google what is necessary for radiation protection. Perhaps you could understand why the people in this video were wearing these suits to protect them for the radiation.
beefmaster7 10 months ago
@beefmaster7 those people died...
xponen 8 months ago
@xponen Everybody dies.
beefmaster7 8 months ago
@sspecialairsservice No $hit! These suits make the raincoats the Japanese at Fukushima are wearing look like Nasa Space suits!
This is an awesome video showing what our fellow man is willing to do on behalf of the many. Very fearless men, and adding to that Russia probably only paid them each $10 an hour to do it.
Freedomquest08 10 months ago
@sspecialairsservice they also sent their moon-rover: "Lunokhod" (which theoretically can withstand space radiation), but the rover failed after several attempt (due to radiation). Chernobly accident is a serious accident, many had sacrifice themselves to clean up the radiation, even robot died.... -Electronic are vulnerable to radiation too...
xponen 8 months ago
@deegan45 PS: Hydro is an ecological disaster. I laugh when 'green' people sing the praises of Hydro. Do some research on it and you'll see that Hydro has destroyed more land than Chernobyl. Look @ the Three Gorges Damn in China and how many 100s of square miles are now flooded. I'd be curious the carbon load increased by all the trees that were killed. Hydro isn't all that green.. it's just cheap.
otlg30 10 months ago
@otlg30 You're right. Hydro causes huge environmental destruction and requires massive amounts of land to work. It destroys entire ecosystems. By contrast Chernobyl is actually a safe sancuary for endangered species because humans are not living there. Also I should mention that wind power isn't entirely good either. Aside from not being efficient enough to meet demands, too many wind farms can cause huge disruption in the natural flow of wind which could cause huge environmental destruction.
mackat4ck 9 months ago
Why don't they wear Hazmat suits?
killerkat74 10 months ago
@deegan45 The *real* future is Fusion. Until then *carefully* controlled fision (different casing intentional so it's read clearly) is a viable option. All the money being pissed away on feel good energy sources should be going to fusion, but because it's NUCLEAR fusion it gets a bum rap. We know the math for fusion power, it's *just* an engineering problem, but won't get funded because too many would lose their empires.
otlg30 10 months ago
@otlg30 You should look up JET or ITER, really awesome Fusion reactors that are working (consuming more power then creating but they work).
Tokamak85 4 months ago
@deegan45 nope
dudufangor 10 months ago
@deegan45 one issue, it would bankrupt the entire world. The only current other option other than fossil fueling power plants is nuclear. Maybe in the future we may discover other ways of harnessing other forms of energy that are much safer and cleaning.
YourMacManDan 10 months ago
you gotta have balls to go in there.
Keepingitreal0 10 months ago
@deegan45 Not with current technologies we can't
Mandragara 10 months ago
Don't blame nuclear power, blame the Soviets for hiding secrets and ultimately causing this disaster!
traxxasmaxx33 10 months ago
Man is not fit to rule this planet.
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Can anyone answer why didnt they pour concrete into the reactor till the whole thing is full, then pour concrete over the entire building and i mean alot till its a foot or 2 thick then build a Sarcophagus around it, to me your keeping any chance of a dust clould and radition having any chance of getting out, Can anyone tell me why not? to me this was the logic thing to do
moonwalker5800 10 months ago
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Can anyone answer why didnt they pour concrete into the reactor till the whole thing is full, then pour concrete over the entire building and i mean alot till its a foot or 2 thick then build a Sarcophagus around it, to me your keeping any chance of a dust clould and radition having any chance of getting out, Can anyone tell me why not? to me this was the logic thing to do
moonwalker5800 10 months ago
@deegan45 Biggest problem with solar.. it takes more power to make one than they can produce in their lifetime right now (in other words, the energy to make a solar cell is greater than the energy it will produce in its life time)
otlg30 10 months ago
@deegan45 yes, but it probably won't happen anytime soon. unfortunately, too many companies have a financial stake in non-solar power generation and will probably spend whatever it takes to see that solar use does not become widespread.
asulca593 10 months ago
1:42 am i tripping balls?
starterfight 11 months ago
Are these guys all dead??? the guy Yuri looks like he is dying. these guys are heroes and so are the worker in Japan nuclear plant. God bless them!!
VIL388 11 months ago
im sorry but chernobyl isnt the biggest no more _-------> Japan is,, sorry chernobyl
Steelfalcon22 11 months ago
@Steelfalcon22 No it's not.
thewireman 11 months ago
@thewireman yes it is
Steelfalcon22 11 months ago
@Steelfalcon22
no it's not.
educate yourself.
DeejayPWND 11 months ago
@Steelfalcon22 Chernobyl was running at the time of the explosion. The explosion completely exposing the core. The graphite ignited and sent plooms of radioactive particles into the air. None of the reactors at Fukoshima have cores exposed in the manner. Chernobyl is still the worst, by many degrees.
DickChambers69 11 months ago
they are only wearing face masks their not even proper respirators i wouldn't even use them things for sanding car bodywork never mind go into a destroyed nuclear reactor
wulli1988 11 months ago
u do no the other reactors are still being used?
BankZed 11 months ago
They couldn't send robots..the radiation was so high robots wouldn't work near the reactor.They sent biobots/liquidators aka human test monkeys.
arizonastyle 11 months ago
they schould be sending bloody robots in there
vencugar 11 months ago
Wheres Artyom? There are more darkones that need to be dealt with
h02371 11 months ago
@h02371
Chernobyl had nothing to do with the events of Metro 2033
Daputti 11 months ago
This is where all US feminists should be sent to work - immediately....
WhoCaresFU 11 months ago 2
@WhoCaresFU Inappropriate comment to make on a video about a very pivotal point in history and wishing slow, traumatic and painful deaths upon 'US feminists' - who, by definition, are US citizens [male and female] who believe in equal rights - is tactless. So who cares fuck you? I fuckin care.
jasminkwan 4 months ago
these people are totally crazy
BassGoesBoom1 11 months ago
Hell on Hell!...This is The Big One!..Get Ready!.
BarryPuppetSoetoro61 11 months ago
This isn't NOVA, it's BBC's Horizon.
aianyoung 11 months ago
@deegan45 That is definitely a sacrifice that would need to be made. The problem that people are going to find is that we have 104 Nuclear Reactors in this country and to replace those with wind would take more than 20,000 wind turbines that are about half the height of the Empire state building. Personally, I advocate modern nuclear energy because of the massive energy that it produces and the fact that reactors get about 1600 times safer every 10 years. Again, this is just my opinion.
igotN0ceilings 11 months ago
@deegan45 - I agree with you, deegan45. To me, it is clear that we don't NEED nuclear energy. People get along without it just fine, as we can see historically. But we think we have to have all our toys. I hope that the Japan disaster gets us all thinking.
travpoet 11 months ago 3
@travpoet nuclear energy is actually better than coal and natural gas energy because it doesn't release CO2, but on the other hand when something goes wrong like this.... IT GOES WRONG
bcollier94 11 months ago
@bcollier94
"nuclear energy is actually better than coal and natural gas energy because it doesn't release CO2"
Anthropogenic global warming is not just unproven, it has been disproven. So how exactly is nuclear energy 'better'?
FightTheElite 11 months ago
@travpoet You mean the Japan disaster that was caused by the 5th largest recorded earthquake coupled with a 30ft+ tsunami. Using the same logic we shouldn't live in houses since many were destroyed. If any Japan demonstrates how far we've come as the nuclear release is *relatively* minor given the scope of the disaster the plants were involved in. I'll also point out those are the oldest nukes in Japan and all the others are completely fine. If anything it means we need NEW plants not NONE.
otlg30 10 months ago 6
@deegan45 thats fine and I respect your opinion. I know there are risks with nuclear power but the fact is that the world needs it. The worlds most powerful wind turbine produces 7 megawatts of power and its about 650 feet tall. It would take 200 of these to make up for one modern reactor. Again I'm not saying that my opinion is the only right one, and I respect yours, but I think that until more efficient systems are developed for generating power from wind and solar we need nuclear power
igotN0ceilings 11 months ago
@deegan45 Cool, since you don't care about the cost personally, can you buy solar panels for my house? TIA.
regulargonzalez 11 months ago
No. One kilogram of uranium produces more power that 3000 TONS of coal. If you were to put a solar panel on top of every home in the US, it would not only be much more expensive than using nuclear technology, but it would only make the same amount of energy as 1/2 of the reactors in the US
igotN0ceilings 11 months ago
@deegan45 one kilogram of uranium produces the same amount of energy as 3000 TONS of coal. You would need to put a solar panel on top of every home in the US just to produce the same amount of energy as half of the reactors in the United States
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Statics are caused by the radiation
BannyBunch 11 months ago
i didnt know that another explosion could happen....
cowsownvideos 11 months ago
i wonder if the cables there still have electricity running through them....
cowsownvideos 11 months ago
they are fucking climbing around fuel rods? what. the. fuck.
b4ptist 11 months ago
I remember my old tapes making that buzzing sound.
mace1337 11 months ago 25
@mace1337 It's a playback tracking issue from VHS, probably from a hi-fi audio - normal track audio wouldn't do this. (I used to have this problem in some tapes in one of my VCRs).
tugatomsk 10 months ago
It's say, but they still use equipment from the late 1980s :/
donconco 11 months ago
Its amazing how stupid they are.... its suicide not to going in with cloth that protects from gamma beta and alpha radiation.
romano082 11 months ago
@romano082 alpha radiation isnt that dangerous you must eat or inhale particles for them to hurt you. beta particles are used in chemotherapy and those protective suits can block them. gamma radiation is really dangerous, can be stopped only by high density materials.(mostly lead but its only 20-30% better then other materials such as aluminium, steel, concrete or soil). and all those types of particles are not emitted by the same sources. believe me, they know what are they doing
dcukic 11 months ago
In Soviet Mother Russia, nuclear reactor fights you....
DobermansRock 11 months ago
Its time to shed the monkey body, and head into the 5th dimension
mcnowski 11 months ago
True heroes!
n0f3aR629 1 year ago
RBMK=piece of shit reactor and if a country builds one, they're practically begging for a disaster.
HedgehogStudios1 1 year ago
its gonna be more than 100k years. the half life of uranium is more than 4 billion years
igotN0ceilings 1 year ago
were those people inside of what was the reactor core at the beginning?
MrFerrariiii 1 year ago
Why are the Russian even allowed to build nuclear reactors?
Acenis1 1 year ago
the RBMK reactors were primitive by western standards(no containment)and very unstable and prone to graphite fires.In other words,a piece of shit.Its amazing they operated so long without a major incident before this
IwontConform 1 year ago
I wouldn’t go in there with nothing short of a SEVA suit
nightseifer 1 year ago
Why does it stay radioactive so long? Sorry I'm not Nuclear Savvy :S
JakesNotDrinking 1 year ago
@JakesNotDrinking Search 'Radioactive decay' on wikipedia an check out the Decay timing subsection
hardfi123 1 year ago
Why does it stay radioactive so long? Sorry I'm not Nuclear Savvy :S
JakesNotDrinking 1 year ago
There it is... the apple! The Goliath! The Chernobyl Sarcophagus! Why... if this thing were destroyed, all the radiation would escape causing more death and devastation than anyone could ever dream!!! I'm surprised this thing isn't guarded by the army or all the world's military forces.
izlude2 1 year ago
Gamma particles aren't stopped by protective suits...
thisguy41487 1 year ago
WTF is up with the farting sound???
ProjectRealityBf2 1 year ago
@ProjectRealityBf2
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WhataPee 1 year ago
those suits do jack shit
catklyst 1 year ago
lol "in levels of radiation that would be suicidal in the west.."
but dont worry we're from the east! :D
Skoxx16 1 year ago
they are dead
mystyc9 1 year ago
It has been 24 years now, in another 6 or so, levels of Cs-137 and Sr-90 will be about half. The very hot short term fission products should be mostly gone assuming that no ongoing fission has taken place. I wonder if they wait another 10 to 20 years, that if they wore really protective gear to keep the particulate alpha emmiters out of their bodies, if they cannot start to remove some of the fuel elements. Just a thought.
amourdutigre 1 year ago
Where are the bloodsuckers!? :O
realsgtskywalker 1 year ago
jezas are you serious 1hundredthousend years were domed
schizle32 1 year ago
I have studied the Chernobyl disaster thoroughly in books and articles. This documentary is by far the best program that I have seen on the subject. It is a must see for not only the casually curious, but for anyone interested in the real risks of nuclear power. Thanks for adding it to Youtube!
lastermak 1 year ago
@lastermak then wat is that fuzzing noise in the background sound
schizle32 1 year ago
@schizle32 its the radiation readers. More buzz means more radiation.
WilDeRSkillZ 1 year ago
@lastermak These are not the real risks of nuclear power. It was poorly engineered and built using backward technology even for the time and place. Current reactors are far FAR ahead of this technology and cannot meltdown like this.
ptelg 1 year ago
@ptelg
Agreed. There are layers upon layers of automatic fail-safes engineered to prevent this exact type of disaster. Modern nuclear plants practically regulate themselves and are safer and cleaner than most other types of power and with a much higher output to boot.
geeknproud2110 1 year ago
Christ Jesus titty fucking Christ.
Tripo1iSamson 1 year ago
i keep waiting for zombified body to bust out and kill a few of them,or like 200plb roaches
brucekirk89 1 year ago
How many cancers and birth defects has Chernobyl caused since 4/26/86?
youngdones 1 year ago
@youngdones Well the entire southeast US was bathed in radiation, and ever since then, more and more guys sit out in their ford trucks with shotguns, waiting for Jesus in his space ship to come down. So the problems are hard to correlate, but are definitely there ;)
Tripo1iSamson 1 year ago
Dude Mothra is in there !!!!
panzertrance 1 year ago
Man in the west we've had our share of environmental issues but dang, Russia takes the cake...
gators5220327 1 year ago
@04:12 -The film crew wore "Western style respirators", while the scientists wore cotton, wool masks... .geez
zk92000 1 year ago 2
Just another day at the office....
heisenfeis 1 year ago
well i cant remeber if its the control room clock or another one but its there
Theory94 1 year ago
in the control room you can still see the clock which stop at the exact time that the reactor went quite erie. i went there last year with some russian friends of mine but we went to see the russian woodpecker.
Theory94 1 year ago
Absoloute nutjobs.
0oPadmano0 1 year ago
I kinda like the VHS noises :-) memories.....
mpwelk 1 year ago
Is this BBC's Horizon or USA NOVA series?
The title says one thing and the video seems like its Horizon....
Isthisthelongestname 1 year ago
I wonder if the scientists are still alive...
alexandrakl 1 year ago
aren't they dead??
bererboy01 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing this!
kneecoal777 1 year ago
instead of sentencing people to the gulag, they should have sent them to chernobyl for life. then they could have built the sarcophagus faster and stayed there until they died instead of dying in a concentration camp.
TheArmyKid999 1 year ago
Wouldn't it be extremely dangerous/suicide to go inside the sarcophagus without a protective suit?
youngdones 1 year ago 33
@youngdones ...But they're wearing protective suits. You can't really shield against the gamma rays; you need about a centimetre of solid lead to reduce it to half. Nuclear fuel is a dense ceramic; it doesn't easily form dust and it doesn't easily stay aloft for long periods of time. Your body is also very good at catching and eliminating dust before it reaches the lungs unless you're a heavy smoker. Better respirator is nice, but unlikely to help.
soylentgreenb 1 year ago
@youngdones there wearing suits but like it said they need to check there isnt any real protection from gamma radiation
hammerhead4896 1 year ago
@youngdones
quite easy, there does no protective suit exist for such high levels of radiation.
for example, if you get a x-ray picture, you wear a west of lead.
this heavy west is used to protect you just from the x-rays.
in an enviroment like the broken reactor, the radiation is many times more powerful. you cant wear so mouch lead, to be protected from the gamma radiation. you only can protect you from radioactive particles. but not from the gamma radiation.
Feliday 1 year ago
@youngdones It is deadly to go 500 miles from it, you stooge.
analyzingfunny 1 year ago
@youngdones You wouldn't make it very far in those levels of radioactivity with no protection.
darthnefas 1 year ago
@youngdones
Well... radiation particles have now probably gone down, and are on the floor and walls.
I wouldn't go in there without a proper environmental suit, but apparently it's doable by easterneuropean standards since they ARE doing it.
Radiation is a strange thing. You can easily protect yourself from it, yet it is very dangerous.
DutchManticore 1 year ago
@DutchManticore well, they made it, but maybe there will be future side effects
MrTURBOJOHN 1 year ago
@youngdones it would be ever more deadly swimming naked with the reactor and eating alot of dust
Maximalnoob 1 year ago
@Maximalnoob
I'm sure it would
tberwick1 1 year ago
@youngdones there is no protection suit , you can use a lead scaphandre which weight a lot , and in these rubble you can t move around in it , and the protection would be minimal anyway . he said 3 rontegen , that 's make around 13mSv/h , 20 mSv is the anual dose for a worker in civilize country , and i think some physical effect appear at 150 mSv or even more , basicaly you would not get some radiation burn from it, you can find this level of radiation in some particule accelerator turned off.
Ashuiegi 1 year ago
@youngdones nah its fine, you first
StaffSergeantTbag 11 months ago
@youngdones It depends.
DickChambers69 11 months ago
the best images of chernobyl...
hotgta 1 year ago
Its was blown over England and Wales but very small amounts and would be depleted in day's
outlawdex1 1 year ago
@outlawdex1 There are still measurements being done and restrictions around some farms on Wales and Scotland, and across northern europe, around the Baltic there are areas which cant be used for grazing, and high radioactivity is found in wild animals.
monk3ypilot 1 year ago
question: how are lights working inside there? wouldn't they have gotten destroyed and if they didn't you think that after 50 years they would go out and it would be kinda hard to replace them.
PivotB3stZ 1 year ago
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MrFooblet 1 year ago
@PivotB3stZ they added the lights there so they could see while they were working in chernobyl
TheArmyKid999 1 year ago
The core deep within the sarcophag is still burning to date.
kzbxvz 1 year ago
Radioactive dust landed in Wales in the UK. Where else was it blown?
SpudXXXX 1 year ago
You wouldn't catch me anywhere near that place. You couldn't pay me enough!
dockreth 2 years ago
Damn bastards trying to find the wish granter.
They will create blowouts if the keep trying to break into the zones heart!
MgPinky 2 years ago 2
@MgPinky I was wondering...WHY THE HELL ISN'T THE MONOLITH STOPPING THESE GUYS?
98RamMagnum 1 year ago 55
@98RamMagnum LOL! I dont think anyone but us will know what your talking about!
Magsec50 1 year ago
@98RamMagnum
how about Mothra?
gezatini 1 year ago
@98RamMagnum they want it to stop 2 and wouldnt you do it
schizle32 1 year ago
@98RamMagnum SOMEONE CALL IN DUTY REINFORCEMENTS
windson7 1 year ago
@98RamMagnum
LOL I was watching this video specifically to see how close they got it in Stalker. They actually got the CNPP, and the surrounding town and country side perfectly. Such an under-appreciated game though. Probably due to the fact that the first one is so buggy you can hardly play it without being fully patched and modded. But with some minor fixing and modding, damn what an awesome game.
geeknproud2110 1 year ago
@geeknproud2110 LURK mod is best mod
98RamMagnum 1 year ago
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MgPinky 2 years ago
lol
MattieKirby1 2 years ago