Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl Part 1/3

[kriswak1]

@ MDM781 no it wast this was check ur head and get it facts straight

[HedgehogStudios1]

The power surged when they relowered the rods into the water. Neutrons have to be slowed down to cause fission and the rods...well they did it. But then the motherfucker blew up and caught on fire.

[mrbigshoworelse]

most horrible disaster ever

[MDM781]

@mrbigshoworelse did you forget about fukushima, much worse.

[mrpmike55]

This somekind of creepy viewed a few years after.

[petertdun]

ahhhhhhhhhhh peter watched this in social studie

[petertdun]

ahhhhhhhhhhh peter watched this in social studie

[policedylan]

why diddnt they senfd people in in selfcontained sutes?



[Deader87]

"ANd yet 8 people seemed oblivious to the DANGER!!!"

[mrKoncpom]

Quite nice viewed in context of current developments... The remark at 3:06 - that bad Russkies didn't pay much attention to the Three-Mile Iland, "Russian complacency" as there were no "american complacency" or a japanese one. But these are small potatoes. A true double somersault at 5:55: a clear view of russian PWR reactor shell. And as always, the very short and simplified version of what happened otherwise the idiot watching won't understand.

[89elmonster]

6:25 through 6:28 is that a ghost???

[madderbass]

@89elmonster No, don't be ridiculous. It's just a shadow of somebody walking past quickly.

[lsteer100]

chernobyl was nowhere near the coast (0.20)

it was however next to the pripyat river, but rivers don't have tide like that.

[NsKvClan]

This is not the test they did. They wanted to see how much power they could get. So they took the rods out of the coolent and the power went up. But then when they went to put them back in, it faild and the reactor over heated and went to meltdown

[onsenfoudunomful]

This video is a LIE

[ocarrace]

@onsenfoudunomful i dont understand .... ?

[redice1024]

Mention Japan

[tkavalanche24]

@redice1024 this was uploaded in 2008...

[zzmopful]

what happen hey Robert want to drink vodka? sure

[fyte4luv808]

this happens when i fart

[VerisonMember]

Wow, I thought that 3 mile Island happened after Chernobyl. You learn something new everyday!

[ssoficer1]

I thouth of the same thing

[keithLD50]

"Altogether, the number of Chernobyl related cases of thyroid cancer to be expected in Europe (outside the borders of the former Soviet Union) is between 10,000 and 20,000"

"And when one then reviews the

reference given in WHO report, one arrives at 10,000 to 25,000 additional deaths due to cancer and leukaemia"

[keithLD50]

@keithLD50

Google - 20 years after Chernobyl The ongoing health effects for many more sources and those quotes.

[snedie69er]

@keithLD50

Kind of the same as how the US government estimated 200,000 deaths in the USA alone, and yet no one has died from any radiation related diseases to date.

Sweden, which got a nice healthy portion of fallout also has yet to report an increase in radiation related deaths that are outside of the national average.

Did you know that in the 50's it was common practice to irradiate water before drinking it? That water gave you a higher dose that that gained when visiting Pripyat.

[monkeyman1140]

@snedie69er

I don't think you understand radiation. "Irradiating" water means exposing it to high energy gamma rays. This will not make something radioactive

Fallout is made of numerous radioactive materials like cesium, strontium that give off alpha, beta particles and gamma rays. When ingested it exposes the body to radiation which damages DNA, killing cells and causing cancer.

[snedie69er]

@monkeyman1140

No and I don't pretend to, but what I do understands are cold hard facts proven by respected scientists who do, and to date not a single (reliable" scientist has produced any evidence to suggest that radioactive fallout, that can be carried by wind, has caused an increase is cancers.

In fact there are a number of studies that show quite clearly that most all animals have dormant genes which slow the effects of radiation to the extent less than 1% suffer from the effects.

[eatcarpet]

@snedie69er You are a foolish shill for the nuclear industry, statistics clearly show that there's a sudden increase in cancers especially in children after the Chernobyl incident near the area.

If you think that radioactivity is so harmless, then make sure to visit Chernobyl and now Fukushima every year and make sure to drink contaminated radioactive water with iodine-131, cesium-137 and plutonium-239. Mm, mmm, radioactive water. Just don't complain when you get cancers 10 years later.

[snedie69er]

@eatcarpet

I'll be sure to tell the couple hundred workers who until 2005 that they are all going to get cancer 5 years ago...oh wait that's right they didn't.

Answer me this: Are you aware of a chromosome present in many species that naturally provides protection against radiation?

If not then please quietly go back to your room and pretend to keep feeling like your actually making a career.

[eatcarpet]

@snedie69er Have you seen the statistics? Are you a radiologist or have you ever talked to a radiologist?

Like I said, I dare you to consume iodine-131, cesium-137 and plutonium-239. I. Dare. You. We can use people like you as first voluntary human test subjects on the effects of radiation on humans. It'll be great.

[villainy07]

@eatcarpet no, i think u can't... because of ethics...and because radioactivity itself is very random, say we both have one iodine-131 molecule, u just can't tell which decays first; even statistically speaking, if we have sufficiently large amount of iodine-131 molecules ate, u and i can respond very differently as there are still 2 many parameters in human body...

i call fission energy a necessary evil be4 we get fusion energy, so plz spend the human resources to workable fusion energy instead

[eatcarpet]

@villainy07 Well duh, that was just a joke. They've already tested on mice and dogs. And of course, statistics have to be fairly large to be meaningful, they'd have to test them on thousands, tens of thousands of samples.

Fusion power won't be available for at least another 50 years, and it might not even be available this century.

[villainy07]

@eatcarpet u're right that they do testes, but i just doubt how conclusive the result can be

for fusion energy, we all just predict when it's available; however, one saying is it'd be workable in 2030 and available to everyone in 2050; it's pretty reasonable based on the fact that "in 1986 people produced fusion neutrons", "in 1994 people produced 10.7MW fusion power" and "people are building ITER in France"

isn't that quite promising?

[eatcarpet]

@villainy07 Not really, we don't even have working fast-breeder reactors yet.

[iToasterman]

nuclear power is farthest from clean

[AlexanderRozhenko]

Ah, the days when The History Channel actually talked about history. Now its just one "reality" show after another like every other channel.

[TheMoonShard]

is this an 80s program?

[fortissabrok]

@TheMoonShard You know that this meltdown happened in 1986 right? There for the footage is from before that time.

[792105001]

Why can't the Education system use decent quality videos?

[UltimateRugratsFanTV]

@792105001 Because it's public education... Private Education will give you HD videos!

[stevefordfreak]

@manofgod30 so far its been spotted on the corner of 5th and main..

[snedie69er]

@manofgod30

Around the planet, but even levels at Pripyat remain slightly above the natural background level.

To date, less than 70 people have actually died or been effected by the accident, and most of these where from the clean up crew on those who died in the explosion. Very different from the "200,000" deaths reported all over the world. Most people don't even realise that people still live and work at the power plants still active there (Well, until very recently).

[keithLD50]

@snedie69er

Only 70 have maybe died SO FAR. There will be thousands once all said and done years from now when the effects of the radiation cause cancer in many of those people on the site and in the surrounding areas who were exposed.

[keithLD50]

@snedie69er

Only 70 have maybe died SO FAR. There will be thousands once all said and done years from now when the effects of the radiation cause cancer in many of those people on the site and in the surrounding areas who were exposed.

[snedie69er]

@keithLD50

I challenge you to show me evidence of a single case of cancer or other genetic abnormality directly related to the reactor 4 accident on people living further than the blast zone. I'm not saying there aren't cases, but there is overwhelming evidence that as come to light which shows that humans (and other animals) have a natural gene which protects from radiation.

Even studies into the animals that inhabit reactor 4 have shown low levels of abnormalities.

[keithLD50]

@snedie69er

LOL, are you serious?!? You can't be that naive. Heres one among MANY.

cdnedge.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/­1615299.stm

[snedie69er]

@keithLD50

I don't see a single reference to an individual case, just (gu)estimates which have long been proven to be within the national averages.

There are people who live in the mountains of Tibet who receive higher yearly doses than the people of Pripyat did during the disaster, and yet these people have the lowest cancer rates of the entire human race.

So feel free to try find a source that physically identifies a radiation related death.

[keithLD50]

@snedie69er

These cannot be claimed to have been found due to methodical problems. Essential data on the Chernobyl catastrophe have been kept secret, both in the East and in the West. Large epidemiological studies are very expensive and only possible with state support. "It is, however, possible to provide an informative basis to show to what extent and what kinds of damage we are dealing with when we are talking about the effects of Chernobyl"

[keithLD50]

@snedie69er

Obviously there is no way they can prove a specific cancer case came from a specific source (Chernobyl or other). People can read those reports and decide for themselves what they think.

IMO anyone with any common sense, its obvious there was and will be many adverse health effects to come out of this disaster.

[snedie69er]

@keithLD50

So what about the 300+ nuclear bombs exploded by the USA alone, surely the fallout from all of these have increased the risk of cancers world wide?

I'm not trying to say that people have and or will die as a result of the reactor 4 incident, but for something which released very little radioactive contaminants into the atmosphere I do believe that many studies are "Hyped Up" to promote "Cleaner Fuel Sources". Well maybe not deliberately, but they are certainly used for that agenda.

[keithLD50]

@snedie69er

Well, I'm def not making this out to be any sort of anti - Ukraine / Russian thing. Thats not what I meant. I actually live about 20 miles from the Three Mile Island Nuclear plant in Pennsylvania where they had a partial meldown in 1979 and material was released into the air. I was 2 at the time and sent away to relatives, but I figure the same is true here for people that stayed in the area. Probobly many adverse health effects since and still yet to come from that as well.

[keithLD50]

@snedie69er

And I would agree, there were probobly thousands of cancer cases that can't be proven but likely liked to the US nuclear tests in the 50s / 60s.

[monkeyman1140]

@snedie69er

The movie "The Conqueror" was filmed in desert areas where radioactive fallout was present. Numerous actors eventually died of cancer years later, including John Wayne, the star of the movie.

[uncreativeranter]

This was the time that aids came about... i'm not fucking surprised with all this political greed.

[Klybe2]

the meltdown wouldnt happen if uranium didnt exist.

[StephenWebb1980]

Relatively safe...if properly controlled...one of the cleanest forms of energy...hmmm...does not compute, does not compute

[Xelvielll]

@StephenWebb1980 It makes sense. Think of it as a grenade, if properly handled, and controlled, you are no threat to yourself, or your company. However, if you use it wrong, you can probably kill yourself and do harm to those around you with it. nuclear energy is infact the cleanest, its waste isnt as harmful as coal or oil, it lasts for hundreds to thousands of years, and 1 plant can power a large amount of people.

[StephenWebb1980]

@Xelvielll I understand your point, everything has its purpose and when used correctly that purpose is fulfilled. Though, hand grenades are weapons just like guns, where proper usage is more than likely to cause harm. Nuclear Power in-so-far as certain forms of nuclear power are concerned are ok. Modern Power Plants here in the US are built VERY differently than those in less technologically advanced countries which use antiquated tech.

[StephenWebb1980]

@Xelvielll On the whole of it, Nuclear Power is still too unsafe for the world to use because of the current state of the world. You have to consider countries not necessarily on very good terms with others and also consider that they would have the material and rudimentary tech to create dangerous weapons and poisons.

[littshepkid]

so they didnt try to do anything bout it

[legonatter105]

i did not know nucular power was one of the cleanest forms of power

[littshepkid]

it doesn't pollute the air

[StephenWebb1980]

@littshepkid No, but it sure as hell takes up space as toxic waste when spent. That waste will be radioactive longer than both you and I will live. Though the waste may be kept in concrete 'vaults', this still posses a very real threat to the eco-system.

[littshepkid]

my teacher told me that

[GBVendettaGB]

The nuclear meltdown was just a dumbass mistake. The government just kept on pushing innovation, so the people had to pay with their lives.

[lilmisscleo]

i know they say its safe when done correctly but i dont really think its fair to take the risk when there are other safe methods of producing energy like wind turbines or solar power that arent likely to go wrong and kill people. i know a lot of people here are pro nuclear but i'm not gonna lie it scares me it seems we're playing with fire here.

[CarNikolaj]

@lilmisscleo Unfortunately, neither wind nor solar power plants are sufficient to produce enough power for our civilization.

[TheFumel]

@lilmisscleo yeah and the atomic waste from the plants is not the realy that safe

[MDM781]

@lilmisscleo Its not really ever safe, a flood or earthquake is all it takes.

[sandrasynar]

this documentary must have been financed by the vampires that own the nuclear industry...there is no safe nuclear reactor..the waste is poisonous over ten thousand years...the more earthquakes we are having, the more this can happen...the hot fallout is melting the icecaps...

[triathlon4ever]

@sandrasynar mkay so you need to actually read a book or something. first of all the waste is poisonous yes but it is radioactive because it is breaking down. the waste can and is safely disposed of. i have no idea why you think reactors cause earthquakes but that makes as much sense as a screen door on a submarine. finally there is only fall out from a nuclear explosion. heat is what makes power in a reactor. please learn about these because when properly operated they are safe.

[sandrasynar]

@triathlon4ever

you need to study more, i've been studying it for thirty years...the half life of the waste is ten thousand years....i know just steam comes out of the towers, stupid way to boil water to turn turbines...every plant must be sealed for over ten thousand years, these impossible costs were never calculated into the electricity cost, many plants are old and should be shut down but decommission is impossibly expensive...study chernobyl, waste blew into the sky...

[triathlon4ever]

@sandrasynar i think you think that "fallout" is what comes out of the towers. but thats not true what comes it out is just steam

[1sackofshit1]

a month or so after the reactor 4 explosion a steal structure was put over the damaged reactor to prevent contiued contaminated radiation in the area.

[TaqiyyaExposer]

Vodka + Nuclear power = Problems

[hearts76100]

I dont recall the us Brits having any serious accidents! If im incorrect then feel free to enlighten me? I await with bated breath!

[darien42]

@hearts76100

Although one considers to be "serious" can be quite subjective, there are a number of various incidents revolving the Sellafield facility in Cumbria. This is not meant as an "ah ha! you're wrong" statement, but merely a clarification on the statement not having any accidents

[runforit420]

Was another roof put on Unit 3 after the accident?

[BankoBoy]

This is a terribly biased account that gives the impression that a similar catastrophe could not happen with an American design. The USA, UK, USSR, France, China and Indian all have a sordid legacy of both commercial and military nuclear industries. The issue is inherrent in dealing with fissionable material and radionuclides. Let's be realistic, it could happen again to any nuclear reactor (including research reactors).

[Lifewontwait29]

@BankoBoy ahem. Three Mile Island.

[BankoBoy]

This is a terribly biased account. The U.S.A. has a sordid nuclear legacy as well as Britain, France, China and the U.S.S.R. The issues are beyond politics and are inherrent in handling fission products.

[BankoBoy]

This is a terribly biased account. The U.S.A. has a sordid nuclear legacy as well as Britain, France, China and the U.S.S.R. The issues are beyond politics and are inherrent in handling fission products.

[Rode57]

April 26? my birthday is on 27!

[russianXbassXplayer]

RUSSIA WILL RISE AGAIN!!!!!!

[xxBigxxBossxx8]

@russianXbassXplayer When my cock rises, your mother russia can suck

[TaqiyyaExposer]

@russianXbassXplayer

Loser....

[45678ret]

in america you control nuclear you but in soviet russia there is no control

[TheVampyreCat]

@45678ret Shut the hell up, no one truly controls anything... oh god just don't even type anything you can't even use basic grammar or punctuation for fricks sake.

[45678ret]

@TheVampyreCat its a yacoff smearoff (however you say his name) joke it is meant to be funny and have bad grammar so basically you should shut the hell up

[stubell1995]

this video is truetho all information about it. nothing bias about it just the facts.

[ajlovely10]

this is just yanks laying into the russians

[JGN248]

americans...at 4:21 they are showing pictures of the swedish nuclear powerplant "Forsmark" with no relevance to what they are saying... and Those three are BWR´s:)

[gewmonster]

this video is pretty bias

[HybridPineapple]

Millions not thousands of people were harmed.

[stefaan10111992]

not because of blunders, but because of a discussion in the operating team

[WolYou]

nuclear energy is:

1. not clean

2. very expensive (production, safety, cost of failures, consequences in case of accidents, dumping unusable fuel)

3. causing catastrophies on unprecendeted scale

[pumpplow2]

Not anymore sir. These were RBMK reactors. Altought 11 of them are still operational, they are terrible bad. The new ones are clean and not so expensive.

[720moorhsum]

damn this vid is totaly bashing the soviet union

[pumpplow2]

Cause it was made by the Americans.

[fanofKEVIN1]

@720moorhsum well it's an american talking...

[gregrudd]

The reactor hall scene at 0:13 looks like from an AGR

[lightningstrike555]

u dick that was not good that could have effected everyone on earth cancer and skin deseases bingo ehh

[cautionthisissparta]

hey steve, can you com take a look at this ? hmmm... OH SHIT RUN BWAAAAHHHHDHRRHRABBLLL

[ftpixelsticks]

@cautionthisissparta lmfao!

[WhiteShark392]

Oopsey doopsey?

[SuperSayin12345]

Rambo Theme Song

[Espresso337]

Ok they are.....toast.......tragic

[Koroush51]

This is why Communism sucks.

I can't believe why people walk around with Communism shirts and think that it is the best form of government.

No. It is actually one of the worst.

[justmecoop]

idealy its suppose to be the best but people get power hungry making it the worst

[NikoKun]

These days nuclear meltdown scares are sort of a thing of the past.

[Gforcebond]

Personally, I think that let it happen to cause genocide to maintain "order". Fear is useful to control what you want from others.

[ECQ3492]

gforcebond, you retard, it was an accident.

[sprinklefriend]

and that's why they sent their best INTO the disaster zone, rather than keeping them safe in moscow. riiiiiight...

[lucyg8]

I dont get it?

[Doom2312]

Hmmmm,Interesting 5/5

[artgoat]

Also look up "xenon poisoning" in regards to Chernobyl. There were many factors, but disabling all the safety systems and manually taking the control rods beyond normal operating limits were probably the biggest mistakes leading to the catastrophe. Chernobyl shows the high price of ignorance and arrogance.

[kyle5493]

i have watched a few chernobyl documentaries and they conflict each other. i beleive that the operators never bypassed the safety systems because that is insane and they knew that. in my opinion the main problem was poor design and using sub standard quality materials.

[JJtheboatwizard]

Most Modern Reactors To Day Are Based On The Chernobyl design especialy russian ones and have any of them melted down , no , well not yet anyway lol

[thisissick22]

No they aren't.

[DGFerro]

Not really, most reactors today use water, heavy water, or molten sodium for moderators. The chernobyl reactor and most other reactors in russia used graphite moderators.

[nemo1620]

This is the first time that I've heard a clear explanation of why the Chernobyl accident occurred: the engineers wanted to learn how long a failed reactor could drive the cooling pumps before the emergency generators switched on.

[sprinklefriend]

the explanation's in just about every documentary - and almost all those explanations are identical - but for some reason, they always seem to word it in such a way that you have no clue what they're actually trying to tell you. :-P

[Koroush51]

It was a bad designed nuclear reactor with under trained staff and low funding..

Why is that hard to understand?

It's probably all the same because that is all the Russians told everybody, so it's the only source of information... hence why everybody repeats it.

[Duckman209]

mmmm yeah, but they were also experiemnting with methods of quick cooling IN CASE of a meltdown... Subsequintly, they created one in the process by bringing out the rods to far (i think thats what happened). But yes it was earlier technology