sorry. I am not in the position to make jokes. In fact I am crying and I want to stop watching the video, but I just cannot. I cannot. I have to watch and remember, because i knew it was bad, but i didn't know it was THAT bad. I knew people died, but i did not know how many. I thought about hundreds, not ten thousand.
I want to change the world now, knowing i'll have as much success as a stone in a river.
Stupid short sighted men blinded by money and power have created this world danger and after chernobyl and fokushima you would think they'd stop playing russian roulette with our lives!
@rosiethebear300 its not that they are doing that in both cases it wasn't human era they were both caused by different problems the rbmk reactors all had graphite tips witch acted like the graphite moderator surging the power all of people new about this except the Russian workers in the UK sellafeild had a rbmk reactor but the works were warned about the problems with the rbmk and after chernobly rbmk reactors were either fased out or the rods were changed
Dog running after the bus broke my heart. So many brave souls that gave their lives to try and help solve the whole horrible situation. Chernobyl -A lesson we should NEVER forget, and most importantly learn by. xoxox
To mark the end of the clean-up operation atop reactor 3, the authorities ordered three men to attach a red flag to the summit of the chimney. A group of liquidators had already made two fruitless attempts by helicopter, so the three men had to climb the 78 metre chimney via a spiral staircase, despite the dangerous radiation levels. Radiation expert Alexander Yourtchenko carried the pole, followed by Valéri Starodoumov with the flag.
I cannot possibily thank those brave brave men who not only risked their lives to save Asia and Europe from being virtually a nuclear wasteland. If people really think it wasn't much i really suggest they read how close to a worldwide disaster we all came to. There a half a million Russians who are or have paid or are PAYING with their lives to stop this becoming something alot alot worse.
I hate how the americans think they're so much more better than the Russians, look at the firemen, THEY WERE LIED TO, AND THEY STILL TRIED TO SAVE THEIR CITIZENS, that is what I call a real good person, all of those firemen did not deserve to die
@abspartanlaser Yes. I think firemen are taught all over the world to save others, for the greater good. It's amazing.Their job is to save lives from active threat, not just put out fires :)
they had two people go into the radioactive water to open the valves to prevent the thermal explosion that is what really happened and the two brave soviets died 2 weeks after the fateful dive thats how the thermalexplosion was really prevented
i know they actually didn't film at Chernobyl at all did they? and what nuclear power plant did they use for Chernobyl..? btw..great documentary this is my second time watching it..so sad and disturbing =[
@GREENVK Thanks alot for sharing. This is incredible, and scary. I was wondering, how do you know so much about this stuff? You're like a Chernobyl wiki.
They mentioned 'Ignalina'. Ignalina is a nuclear power plant in Lithuania with nuclear reactors of the same type as in Chernobyl. Though it was shut down in 2009.
@MJDrums101 yes. sometimes I think humans are a virus on the face of the Earth, causing death to other live creatures. In catastrophes like that lives of animals are worth nothing. People kill each other and destroy the planet.
@dcccapfan Boron is element number 5 on the periodic table. It is used as a neutron absorber (as control rods) to remove thermal neutrons, and control the nuclear reaction. The control rods act as an accelerator and a brake in the reactor, so to speak.
You may be familiar with a chemical called Borax, commonly used as a household cleaning agent. Borax is just boric acid... a salt of Boron
@AGuyNamedReezy .... radiation is not a virus.... you can't be infected with it.... The reason they didn't tell people or evacuate them sooner was because the authorities were in denial. They didn't want to believe what had happened, and didn't want to admit to it, because of their national pride, and fear of losing their jobs...
@1995a1995z there is a documentary about it, but it was a crappy test, delayed until the inexperienced night shift took over. I think that if the control rods had not been tipped with graphite, the AZED might have actually stopped the reactor, and this clusterfuck would've been erased. Of course, some guy with a pencil and some paper made them tipped with graphite, and as such we have this mess.
@Tabby266 It was worse then that. Nobody knew the control rods were tipped with graphite, or that inserting graphite tipped control rods would increase the reaction. Because nuclear power was a state secret, the lower level operators were never informed.
This was a disaster engineered as much by political policy as mechanical failure contributed.
No country is perfect, but I really do feel sorry for the Russians. All the things I've read and learned tell me a story about how much control the government has over the minds of it's citizens. So many secrets are kept from the people. The government has very little regard over it's people. They have what they call "acceptable losses". No loss is acceptable to me if it could have been avoided, panic or not.
@shaunone Isn't it though? But you're forgetting the simple fact that we have a freedom of information act to declassify our secrets. We don't have "restricted access" to certain cities. When Three Mile Island had it's partial meltdown, the near by areas that could have been exposed WERE given iodine tablets, ordered to evacuate within mere hours, not days, & were allowed to return afterwards because of technology like radioactive containment rooms so we didn't possibly pollute the whole world.
@phattieg i agree, but it is not only russia... USA has the same policy, but people are constantly being told how free and democratic the country is, so people believe... 2 sides of the same coin... horrible
@KarynaCh I understand what you are saying, and I do not want to sound like a mean person, but the differences between our governments is the financial sacrifice that was made with this situation is the lack of the containment structure, and the way the government originally built the facility to make nuclear weapons, while making electricity. They did not take into account the people who would be affected if something like this happened. We had a similar disaster happen, and nobody died.
@xRazzorz it's the reactor SCRAM button. Used for emergency shut downs. It inserts all the control rods into the reactor as fast as possible, to stop the chain reaction......Usually it works great, but in this case, the rods were tipped with graphite, a neutron moderator (slows down neutrons so they can interact with fuel atoms and cause nuclear fission), so they had the effect of speeding up the reaction, causing a complete thermal runaway, and the consequent explosion
@GREENVK are the control rods meant to kind of divide the power source and make it less powerful? i'm not an expert so this question miht sound stupid probably : |
@aandrebs90 control rods regulate the rate of the chain reaction. Kind of like the accelerator and brake in one. The do so by absorbing slow neutrons, which are then unable to cause further fission events (splitting atoms). The further they are inserted into the reactor core, the more neutrons they absorb, and the slower the nuclear reaction. The less they are inserted, the less neutrons absorbed, and so the reaction proceeds faster.
Thought I'd say this about the disaster. There's a very good reason why communism sucks. It's not the idea about communism per se - it's the authoritarian silence that is associated with it that's so terrible that it brings communism to shame. I must qualify though, that I'm pro-democracy. Just look at the stark contrast between communist rule and democratic rule, and you'll see what I mean.
If you think about it the Americans were the first people to start using nuclear weapons against Japan to end the war. This is what has lead to interest in nuclear power and with the major global benefits of nuclear power like being more environmental friendly then fossil fuels comes great risks such as the disaster in Chernobyl. This disaster is such an eye opener to what can go wrong.
@HALO3KINGVIDEOS You went totally off track, what I was talking about was the risks and benefits of nuclear power not who lost or won the war. I stated the fact about America because people keep leaving messages about communism, to be honest I shouldn't really give a shit I live in England and am very patriotic and respect Americans because they helped us against the Nazis. So don't think I am anti-American, not saying you do but please don't.
@lancekennady I only hate Americans that are stuck up and automatically assume you speak poshly and drink tea and eat crumpets just because you come from England. To be honest I don't associate myself with Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish people, I don't consider myself British. In fact I consider myself English, a person born and raised in ENGLAND.
what was the difference the people were radioactive so were the animals there's a very good documentary about the animals still there narrated by paul mcgann
i tell you i would stay then be parted from my cat and die with her there's no way i'd leave my animal behind
@KevinZombieTV They didnt bring the pets because of the radioactive dust that lied in their fur. A couple of weeks after the explosion the authorities, wearing radioactive suits, were sent out to kill all animals that were running free. =[
my nana once said to me when i was a child one day someone will press a button and we will all go up. My teachers assured me that could never happen. I dont think they knew of the AZ button. I guess my nana could be right.
@syro666 They dropped over 2000 tons of lead. that was how they were able to cool it and in the end bring it under control. But that were later, after the water had been removed from the building.
@syro666 Yeah they were, but not enough to knock the thing through.
The helicopter crashed because of the pilot's exposure to radiation making him dizzy and his nerve endings stopped responding - resulting in the crash.
"Nothing to feed on but each other " - OUTRAGEOUS!!!! The Chernobyl exclusion zone now is a wildlife refuge! The people left so the bears, wolves, swallows, field mice, spiders, voles, rare lynx, bears, wild ponies, and all the verdant nature imaginable has taken the place of the people. This show is a crime against truth!!!!!
what if the radiation wore off after time? im sure that it must have been chaotic at first but after time the radiation wore off and animals settled in
Radiation is like cyanide, or phosphorus, or gasoline, it's dangerous if mishandled. But life itself depends on it - the Sun is a great source of radiation - we call it "light". The molten core of the Earth got there because radiation melted it, and once melted the gas emerged to form the atmosphere we breathe. Genetic mutations that lead to the progress of species originate in random changes in genes caused by passing cosmic rays or the like.
In this case the radioactive material was almost all of short half-life - the region around the reactor was intensely radiated for a few weeks causing massive biological damage, just as it would have been if say there had been a massive leak of chlorine or a forest fire. Once the most intense alpha radiation was spent, the area recovered quickly. Animals have proven to be much more resistant to exposure than expected to what was previously considered to be a dangerous background level.
237 people fell ill from acute radiation sickness and 31 died, mostly because they did not know they were dealing with an exposed reactor core. Had suits been worn and exposure time-limited among rotating crews, only those exposed immediately after the accident would have died. The long-term effects of low-level irradiation are unknown. The cancer rates have remained at the previous levels in the entire area. Everything about this show is hysteria and fear mongering.
Because of anti-scientific fear-mongering on left and pro-military posturing on the right, nuclear energy, perhaps God's greatest gift to Man, has been crippled and goes unused, while we poison the atmosphere with the byproducts of burning fossil fuels, mostly coal, to make electricity. It is a suicidal approach to living. You cannot go around as a full human being with your tail between your legs and your head in the sand!! This show exposes the worst aspects of humanity, cowering in the dark.
@antimatterXXXIII: what I wanna know is, you already expressed that you'd had enough of watching it on part 1. so why is the holy mother of fuck, are you still watching it??????????????????????????????
I think you're getting the message wrong - you're clearly a proponent of nuclear power, and I'm prepared to agree that in a lot of ways it is the least worst option with the technology we have available.
However, I see this docudrama as a warning against secrecy, and a timely reminder that when dealing with something as potentially dangerous as nuclear power, openness and transparency between those at the top and those on the ground are paramount.
@antimatterXXXIII Okay, for God sake, shut up and stop watching, the rest of us who take an interest in this video are watching and listening without believing its some sort of massive conspiracy? Just like the backwards sort of people like you do. Now find something better to do with your life.
As with most other powerfull countries, the Soviet Union wanted to be like the United States and be more superior. This meant that they had a long way to go in order to become "equal." The flaw in this was that the USSR skiped safety procautions and tried to spped up there dominence. If any truthfull word of this catastrophy leaked, much like the radiation, the conciquences would be futile; thus the soviets kept Chernobyl a secret from the entire world...
@KillerJoeFIN i wished you could hold a dieing child in your arms, screaming of pain wihle the skin is falling on the ground, looking in his eyes and saying that again! I bet you couldn't so please be quite.......
in 5 years the steel tomb (cover) over the destroyed reactor will collapse due to poor repairs and when it does all of europe will be ingulfed with thousands of tons of radioactive dust.Killing hundreds of thousands of people.God help us
well i dont think they would have cinimatic cameras in the helicopters. but the tower is completely wrong on block 4. there are support beams all around with dimond shapes in the cross braces. and the reactor didnt glow purple...
I wonder if the scene with the guys throwing sand bags out of the helicopter was authentic stock footage. I know the audio was in English, but I wonder if the people were actually Russian.
The power station they were flying over was certainly not Chernobyl NPP. In reality, the chimney has straight stripes not zig-zags, and the 2nd chimney is not red & white. They filmed it somewhere else, (my guess is in France). Good film though.
Could someone tell me if the dog that runs behind the busses, is an original film-document by the time of the incident or if it was shot for this movie?
6:54 i'd rape every man in that room :D (not really but i do fancy alex akimov)
starryeyedfangirl 4 days ago
@starryeyedfangirl What the fuck is wrong with you!?
TGTAP 2 days ago
@TGTAP *sniffs* t..thankyou so much this comment has TOTALLY made my day :' )
starryeyedfangirl 1 day ago
i feel really sorry for the guy with the glasses...and what happened to the other guy who was drowning the reactor~???
07sandrewsworth 1 month ago
get out of there, Stalker!
sorry. I am not in the position to make jokes. In fact I am crying and I want to stop watching the video, but I just cannot. I cannot. I have to watch and remember, because i knew it was bad, but i didn't know it was THAT bad. I knew people died, but i did not know how many. I thought about hundreds, not ten thousand.
I want to change the world now, knowing i'll have as much success as a stone in a river.
i am crying. for the heroes of chernobyl
Rivannous 1 month ago
radiation is like cancer only in fast forward. :(
TheGrabasspants 1 month ago
Stupid short sighted men blinded by money and power have created this world danger and after chernobyl and fokushima you would think they'd stop playing russian roulette with our lives!
rosiethebear300 3 months ago
@rosiethebear300 its not that they are doing that in both cases it wasn't human era they were both caused by different problems the rbmk reactors all had graphite tips witch acted like the graphite moderator surging the power all of people new about this except the Russian workers in the UK sellafeild had a rbmk reactor but the works were warned about the problems with the rbmk and after chernobly rbmk reactors were either fased out or the rods were changed
lonleyraverx14 2 months ago
@lonleyraverx14 and at fukishimas was caused by and eath quake
lonleyraverx14 2 months ago
Eventually they had to kill all of the abandoned animals :((
crazeeborg 4 months ago
Nooo don't leave the cat :'(
itskirstybetchx 4 months ago
Thank you so much for uploading this.
Like'd and favorite'd.
gummiosten 4 months ago
Dog running after the bus broke my heart. So many brave souls that gave their lives to try and help solve the whole horrible situation. Chernobyl -A lesson we should NEVER forget, and most importantly learn by. xoxox
o0portal0o 4 months ago
this is amazing to me.
cradl3offilth969 5 months ago
You can email me if you want.
boniface8th 6 months ago
To mark the end of the clean-up operation atop reactor 3, the authorities ordered three men to attach a red flag to the summit of the chimney. A group of liquidators had already made two fruitless attempts by helicopter, so the three men had to climb the 78 metre chimney via a spiral staircase, despite the dangerous radiation levels. Radiation expert Alexander Yourtchenko carried the pole, followed by Valéri Starodoumov with the flag.
nevarezromero 7 months ago
I cannot possibily thank those brave brave men who not only risked their lives to save Asia and Europe from being virtually a nuclear wasteland. If people really think it wasn't much i really suggest they read how close to a worldwide disaster we all came to. There a half a million Russians who are or have paid or are PAYING with their lives to stop this becoming something alot alot worse.
DoktorLorenz 7 months ago
I hate how the americans think they're so much more better than the Russians, look at the firemen, THEY WERE LIED TO, AND THEY STILL TRIED TO SAVE THEIR CITIZENS, that is what I call a real good person, all of those firemen did not deserve to die
abspartanlaser 8 months ago 2
@abspartanlaser Yes. I think firemen are taught all over the world to save others, for the greater good. It's amazing.Their job is to save lives from active threat, not just put out fires :)
euyfdvfhj 5 months ago 2
the three dislikers are absorbed in the pride of the soviet union.
bestshowontheweb 8 months ago
i will NEVER forget those days...
Zhmyaka 9 months ago
they had two people go into the radioactive water to open the valves to prevent the thermal explosion that is what really happened and the two brave soviets died 2 weeks after the fateful dive thats how the thermalexplosion was really prevented
deathrow70170 9 months ago
i feel so sorry for them :<(sniff)
bukskarlis 9 months ago
i know they actually didn't film at Chernobyl at all did they? and what nuclear power plant did they use for Chernobyl..? btw..great documentary this is my second time watching it..so sad and disturbing =[
auburntigersfan12 9 months ago
@auburntigersfan12
It wasn´t Chernobyl, it looks different. As far as I know, Zero Hour was filmed in Chernobyl Powe Plant.
Jetelinka 9 months ago
@GREENVK Thanks alot for sharing. This is incredible, and scary. I was wondering, how do you know so much about this stuff? You're like a Chernobyl wiki.
baibaii 9 months ago
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boniface8th 10 months ago
I went to Chernobyl last month. So glad I went, but so, so disturbing.
boniface8th 10 months ago
@boniface8th i know that you posted this three months ago, but Chernobyl interests me so i must ask. How was it seeing it up close?
Kiryu394 6 months ago
@boniface8th i thought it was still radioactive...
07sandrewsworth 1 month ago
They mentioned 'Ignalina'. Ignalina is a nuclear power plant in Lithuania with nuclear reactors of the same type as in Chernobyl. Though it was shut down in 2009.
KARROLL1S 10 months ago
The pets part got me :'(
MJDrums101 10 months ago 2
@MJDrums101 me too :(
norwayownz16 10 months ago
@MJDrums101 yes. sometimes I think humans are a virus on the face of the Earth, causing death to other live creatures. In catastrophes like that lives of animals are worth nothing. People kill each other and destroy the planet.
Annylucidmind 10 months ago
@Annylucidmind I have a feeling that if we dont destroy this planet,Mother Nature will weed out the human race eventually.
TheRalphus666 3 months ago
Okay really stupid question. What is boron? Is it like a chemical or like an actual thing? Like can u pick up a chunk of boron?
dcccapfan 11 months ago 2
@dcccapfan Boron is element number 5 on the periodic table. It is used as a neutron absorber (as control rods) to remove thermal neutrons, and control the nuclear reaction. The control rods act as an accelerator and a brake in the reactor, so to speak.
You may be familiar with a chemical called Borax, commonly used as a household cleaning agent. Borax is just boric acid... a salt of Boron
GREENVK 11 months ago 14
@GREENVK um excuse me but what happened to the other guy drowning the nuclear reactor you know not the one with glasses but the youngish looking one
07sandrewsworth 1 month ago
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AGuyNamedReezy 11 months ago
@AGuyNamedReezy .... radiation is not a virus.... you can't be infected with it.... The reason they didn't tell people or evacuate them sooner was because the authorities were in denial. They didn't want to believe what had happened, and didn't want to admit to it, because of their national pride, and fear of losing their jobs...
GREENVK 11 months ago
@GREENVK This comment made me reflect and I'm glad to have come by it.
damthatriver09 10 months ago
this is the worst death... and the saddest catastrophe...
KarynaCh 11 months ago
What's with all the ugly cigarettes?
Mynameisnotooo 11 months ago
@Mynameisnotooo they are soviet cigarettes
gtsgtsgt 11 months ago
Too many ignorant idiots watching this video, RIP to all the brave Soviet Citizens who helped battle Chernobyl.
RevchenkoTheWolf 1 year ago 61
@RevchenkoTheWolf .....agreed!
GREENVK 11 months ago 15
@RevchenkoTheWolf agreed!
True Heroes!
mistab1983 1 month ago
ok can someone please tell me how this happened. Did a nucleus split inside the chamber or what?
1995a1995z 1 year ago
@1995a1995z there is a documentary about it, but it was a crappy test, delayed until the inexperienced night shift took over. I think that if the control rods had not been tipped with graphite, the AZED might have actually stopped the reactor, and this clusterfuck would've been erased. Of course, some guy with a pencil and some paper made them tipped with graphite, and as such we have this mess.
Tabby266 11 months ago
@Tabby266 It was worse then that. Nobody knew the control rods were tipped with graphite, or that inserting graphite tipped control rods would increase the reaction. Because nuclear power was a state secret, the lower level operators were never informed.
This was a disaster engineered as much by political policy as mechanical failure contributed.
CommandoDude 11 months ago 3
this is fucking good, so horrifying. Just wish it was subtitled in russian.
netscapepizza 1 year ago
Well, there goes a bunch of helicopter crews sacrificed.
PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD 1 year ago
poor basterds
Gueritoag 1 year ago
there is a way better documentry on youtube called" Battle of Chernobyl [1-10]" has alot more info and first hand accounts
Rabscallion69 1 year ago
In Seconds From Disaster,they said 6 rods.
in this one,18.
which one to believe?
91770158 1 year ago
5:28 is REAL footage shot by some guy I forget whose name but they have the video on YouTube somewhere
Dominoes282 1 year ago
in soviet russia, you just draw on the walls!!
dumfart21 1 year ago 2
OMG are cats not allowed in the bus? and dogs? Oh good that here is no reactor be me
GtaGekkerd 1 year ago
06:59
MyXboxFreak 1 year ago
No country is perfect, but I really do feel sorry for the Russians. All the things I've read and learned tell me a story about how much control the government has over the minds of it's citizens. So many secrets are kept from the people. The government has very little regard over it's people. They have what they call "acceptable losses". No loss is acceptable to me if it could have been avoided, panic or not.
phattieg 1 year ago
@phattieg
You said it!
TheBoomViper 1 year ago
@phattieg That's quite ironic coming from an American.
shaunone 1 year ago
@shaunone Isn't it though? But you're forgetting the simple fact that we have a freedom of information act to declassify our secrets. We don't have "restricted access" to certain cities. When Three Mile Island had it's partial meltdown, the near by areas that could have been exposed WERE given iodine tablets, ordered to evacuate within mere hours, not days, & were allowed to return afterwards because of technology like radioactive containment rooms so we didn't possibly pollute the whole world.
phattieg 1 year ago
@phattieg i agree, but it is not only russia... USA has the same policy, but people are constantly being told how free and democratic the country is, so people believe... 2 sides of the same coin... horrible
KarynaCh 11 months ago
@KarynaCh I understand what you are saying, and I do not want to sound like a mean person, but the differences between our governments is the financial sacrifice that was made with this situation is the lack of the containment structure, and the way the government originally built the facility to make nuclear weapons, while making electricity. They did not take into account the people who would be affected if something like this happened. We had a similar disaster happen, and nobody died.
phattieg 11 months ago
@ 3:57 thats not a pet, it's a mutated child, STOP THE BUS!
hwyone 1 year ago
A/Z Button can some one inlightn me im not nucler wise ?
xRazzorz 1 year ago 2
@xRazzorz it's the reactor SCRAM button. Used for emergency shut downs. It inserts all the control rods into the reactor as fast as possible, to stop the chain reaction......Usually it works great, but in this case, the rods were tipped with graphite, a neutron moderator (slows down neutrons so they can interact with fuel atoms and cause nuclear fission), so they had the effect of speeding up the reaction, causing a complete thermal runaway, and the consequent explosion
GREENVK 1 year ago 21
@GREENVK thanks
xRazzorz 1 year ago
@GREENVK if the rods touch the water,power surges,temperature increases and
BOOM!!
91770158 1 year ago
@GREENVK are the control rods meant to kind of divide the power source and make it less powerful? i'm not an expert so this question miht sound stupid probably : |
aandrebs90 1 year ago
@aandrebs90 control rods regulate the rate of the chain reaction. Kind of like the accelerator and brake in one. The do so by absorbing slow neutrons, which are then unable to cause further fission events (splitting atoms). The further they are inserted into the reactor core, the more neutrons they absorb, and the slower the nuclear reaction. The less they are inserted, the less neutrons absorbed, and so the reaction proceeds faster.
GREENVK 1 year ago 2
. @GREENVK oh, thanks, now it's clearer
aandrebs90 1 year ago
@GREENVK if they were smart than you id didnt happend
12Filo12 1 year ago
@xRazzorz basically, it functions like a brake pedal does in a car; stops the process as fast as it can.
PaintSniffer07 1 year ago
@xRazzorz if u press the a/z button it stops the reactor going KA BOOM supposidly
09jeveritt 1 year ago
dats nice of ppl to leave their pets behind wen it cums down to it.....
Cheryn6111 1 year ago
Thought I'd say this about the disaster. There's a very good reason why communism sucks. It's not the idea about communism per se - it's the authoritarian silence that is associated with it that's so terrible that it brings communism to shame. I must qualify though, that I'm pro-democracy. Just look at the stark contrast between communist rule and democratic rule, and you'll see what I mean.
smgx92 1 year ago
Hell yeah. FUBAR. Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. It's just tragic, I actually cried over this video :'(
smgx92 1 year ago
Its incredible that the brain still functions normally while the body breaks down. God it's like irradiating MEFs.
E2F83 1 year ago
'How much is the lethal dose?'
'400 a bit less.'
'What did you get?'
'650.'
'I don't know mine. Noone's told me.'
'I got One and a half thousand.'
'Show off.'
:(
silvertear 1 year ago
If you think about it the Americans were the first people to start using nuclear weapons against Japan to end the war. This is what has lead to interest in nuclear power and with the major global benefits of nuclear power like being more environmental friendly then fossil fuels comes great risks such as the disaster in Chernobyl. This disaster is such an eye opener to what can go wrong.
tsn85 1 year ago
@tsn85 at least we didn't loose the war and turn japaneese. and besides nukes are a great way to end a fight realy quickly
HALO3KINGVIDEOS 1 year ago
@HALO3KINGVIDEOS You went totally off track, what I was talking about was the risks and benefits of nuclear power not who lost or won the war. I stated the fact about America because people keep leaving messages about communism, to be honest I shouldn't really give a shit I live in England and am very patriotic and respect Americans because they helped us against the Nazis. So don't think I am anti-American, not saying you do but please don't.
tsn85 1 year ago
@tsn85 Great considering many brits hate us,Yes i am american
lancekennady 1 year ago
@lancekennady I only hate Americans that are stuck up and automatically assume you speak poshly and drink tea and eat crumpets just because you come from England. To be honest I don't associate myself with Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish people, I don't consider myself British. In fact I consider myself English, a person born and raised in ENGLAND.
tsn85 1 year ago
@tsn85 Oooh, crumpets. Not had them for ages. Right, off to Sainsbury's
mrcakey 1 year ago
@mrcakey Oooh you cut me deep with your crap comebacks.
tsn85 1 year ago
@tsn85
care for a crumpet cheero?
ionaustin 1 year ago
@ionaustin Your too original for me, stop talking :L
tsn85 1 year ago
what was the difference the people were radioactive so were the animals there's a very good documentary about the animals still there narrated by paul mcgann
i tell you i would stay then be parted from my cat and die with her there's no way i'd leave my animal behind
SCANDIN3 1 year ago
america is becoming communist but our nuclear plants are still safe.
itb222 1 year ago
@itb222 Aha what?
DidntKnowWhatToPut1 1 year ago
@itb222 lol wtf.
svitri2 1 year ago
This is what we have to look forward to in america if the government continues gaining power, though I do support nuclear power.
seid0067 1 year ago
WTF! i cant find part 1,2,3 to this one!
jmvargasme 1 year ago
why didn't the pets go whit them? i'ts so sad to see the dog running to his owner.
its all the foult off those people how were working in that nucliar plant.
KevinZombieTV 2 years ago
@KevinZombieTV They didnt bring the pets because of the radioactive dust that lied in their fur. A couple of weeks after the explosion the authorities, wearing radioactive suits, were sent out to kill all animals that were running free. =[
kornball666 1 year ago
no its not. that's what Vladimir was trying to say. its the engineers fault! they wanted the power plant to be done as cheap and fast as possible.
NEEDCARS 1 year ago
my nana once said to me when i was a child one day someone will press a button and we will all go up. My teachers assured me that could never happen. I dont think they knew of the AZ button. I guess my nana could be right.
baileys60 2 years ago
@baileys60
No she was not.
psilodump 2 years ago
this is inaccurate they were dumping lead bars into the core for a bit even one of the helicopters crashed
syro666 2 years ago 22
the heli crashed because the tail rotor brushed against the crane cables above it
w0bbl3r 2 years ago
@syro666 Please explain what does lead bars do ?
counterstrikenerd321 1 year ago
@counterstrikenerd321 radiation cant get through lead
Whamesl0l 1 year ago
@Whamesl0l So they planned to put a huge wall of lead covering the reactor?
counterstrikenerd321 1 year ago
@counterstrikenerd321 i dunno
Whamesl0l 1 year ago
@syro666 making a helicopter crash is a little out of the budget of this doc probably : )
aandrebs90 1 year ago
@syro666 a news heli crashed, not the ones dumping sand. they never dropped lead, only sand and boron
traxxasmaxx33 11 months ago
@syro666 They dropped over 2000 tons of lead. that was how they were able to cool it and in the end bring it under control. But that were later, after the water had been removed from the building.
aboajaka 11 months ago
@syro666 Yeah they were, but not enough to knock the thing through.
The helicopter crashed because of the pilot's exposure to radiation making him dizzy and his nerve endings stopped responding - resulting in the crash.
AidanLunn 9 months ago
chernobyilska savaraga-thyra
bebaseka 2 years ago
fuck the corrupt governements of communism that raped the idea of communism!!
iownage4youi 2 years ago
"Nothing to feed on but each other " - OUTRAGEOUS!!!! The Chernobyl exclusion zone now is a wildlife refuge! The people left so the bears, wolves, swallows, field mice, spiders, voles, rare lynx, bears, wild ponies, and all the verdant nature imaginable has taken the place of the people. This show is a crime against truth!!!!!
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
what if the radiation wore off after time? im sure that it must have been chaotic at first but after time the radiation wore off and animals settled in
EL41591 2 years ago
Radiation is like cyanide, or phosphorus, or gasoline, it's dangerous if mishandled. But life itself depends on it - the Sun is a great source of radiation - we call it "light". The molten core of the Earth got there because radiation melted it, and once melted the gas emerged to form the atmosphere we breathe. Genetic mutations that lead to the progress of species originate in random changes in genes caused by passing cosmic rays or the like.
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
In this case the radioactive material was almost all of short half-life - the region around the reactor was intensely radiated for a few weeks causing massive biological damage, just as it would have been if say there had been a massive leak of chlorine or a forest fire. Once the most intense alpha radiation was spent, the area recovered quickly. Animals have proven to be much more resistant to exposure than expected to what was previously considered to be a dangerous background level.
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
237 people fell ill from acute radiation sickness and 31 died, mostly because they did not know they were dealing with an exposed reactor core. Had suits been worn and exposure time-limited among rotating crews, only those exposed immediately after the accident would have died. The long-term effects of low-level irradiation are unknown. The cancer rates have remained at the previous levels in the entire area. Everything about this show is hysteria and fear mongering.
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
Because of anti-scientific fear-mongering on left and pro-military posturing on the right, nuclear energy, perhaps God's greatest gift to Man, has been crippled and goes unused, while we poison the atmosphere with the byproducts of burning fossil fuels, mostly coal, to make electricity. It is a suicidal approach to living. You cannot go around as a full human being with your tail between your legs and your head in the sand!! This show exposes the worst aspects of humanity, cowering in the dark.
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
Yes it does, i totally agree with you.
Torchmark 2 years ago
@antimatterXXXIII
All hail the atom!
Seriously man. =/
Malvoo 2 years ago
@antimatterXXXIII: what I wanna know is, you already expressed that you'd had enough of watching it on part 1. so why is the holy mother of fuck, are you still watching it??????????????????????????????
roryos 2 years ago
@antimatterXXXIII
I think you're getting the message wrong - you're clearly a proponent of nuclear power, and I'm prepared to agree that in a lot of ways it is the least worst option with the technology we have available.
However, I see this docudrama as a warning against secrecy, and a timely reminder that when dealing with something as potentially dangerous as nuclear power, openness and transparency between those at the top and those on the ground are paramount.
turricaned 1 year ago
@EL41591: Radiation never wears off, cus it has a half life. so even after many years, things will have lost some of the radiation but not much.
roryos 2 years ago
@antimatterXXXIII Okay, for God sake, shut up and stop watching, the rest of us who take an interest in this video are watching and listening without believing its some sort of massive conspiracy? Just like the backwards sort of people like you do. Now find something better to do with your life.
Cheddarrs 2 years ago
And you find someone else to bully!
Torchmark 2 years ago
@antimatterXXXIII I'm sure the lynx, bears and wolves feed on tofu and hummus.
mrcakey 1 year ago
3:43
that's sad
smp156 2 years ago
this incident Brings Tears to my eyes :*(
xXAwsomeManXx 2 years ago
"in 3 years this will be the biggest powerplant in the world" im glad that it hapend sooner then later.
NEEDCARS 2 years ago
Why are they still smoking?!
maury2000 2 years ago
their smoking backwords
halofan4lifee 2 years ago
The guy that is eating and being a dumbass, I would have kicked has arrogant ass!!!!
These men have no regard for human life! My heart goes out to the people who will be affected for years to come.
Sagg75 2 years ago 2
As with most other powerfull countries, the Soviet Union wanted to be like the United States and be more superior. This meant that they had a long way to go in order to become "equal." The flaw in this was that the USSR skiped safety procautions and tried to spped up there dominence. If any truthfull word of this catastrophy leaked, much like the radiation, the conciquences would be futile; thus the soviets kept Chernobyl a secret from the entire world...
McLOVINMike 2 years ago
yeah he's right: that chimney should be painted with parallel lines and surrounded by supports
lonewanderer77 2 years ago
Those kommunism b*stards!
KillerJoeFIN 2 years ago 4
@KillerJoeFIN i wished you could hold a dieing child in your arms, screaming of pain wihle the skin is falling on the ground, looking in his eyes and saying that again! I bet you couldn't so please be quite.......
superhoyuelos 1 year ago
@superhoyuelos A bit extreme but still. I dont understand what Communism has to do with this.... KillerJoe...
SPETSNAZCATS 1 year ago
you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about ... so please be quiet and study communism enough to say anything about it ..
Forseliz 1 year ago
took em like 2 days to evac the people. Most of them are dead or dying by now. Goddammit! Why?
FireRed808 2 years ago 4
because in those days it was better to keep things quiet and under wraps. Fucking dumbasses working in the government trying to cover there asses.
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limatedman 2 years ago
Man, chernobyl is FUBAR
streetskid961 2 years ago 18
@streetskid961 Its more that fubar(if there is such a thing)
paintball4life3214 1 year ago
@streetskid961 whats fubar
ehbabbeh 1 year ago
it;s all a clusterfuck of epic proportions
surfingnovak 2 years ago
You would think the people dropping the sand would be wearing some sort of protective gear
CokeaholicGamer 2 years ago
how far was pripiyat from other cities, like 100 km? wasnt this done if such an explosion happened?
cahemdue 2 years ago
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miragef19 2 years ago
in 5 years the steel tomb (cover) over the destroyed reactor will collapse due to poor repairs and when it does all of europe will be ingulfed with thousands of tons of radioactive dust.Killing hundreds of thousands of people.God help us
gangmastertall 2 years ago
God has no place within these country's and yes the radioactive particles would spread over europe which would probably destroy most of it
GRALL19 2 years ago
thank you for telling me this and reminding me to move soon
ninjagirl171 2 years ago
Their putting a building over it.... Using the sarcofagus method again. It's supposed to last 100 years.
ceafexftw 2 years ago
Key word here is "supposed". You never know
dodad12 2 years ago
Well the Ukranian government definatley can't afford it....
ceafexftw 2 years ago
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limatedman 2 years ago
a new enclosure is being placed over the sarcophagus
itsmikee1994 2 years ago
there is a small chance that it might collapse, but the sarcophagus has been strengthened and a new building is in the very early building stages
itsmikee1994 2 years ago
well i dont think they would have cinimatic cameras in the helicopters. but the tower is completely wrong on block 4. there are support beams all around with dimond shapes in the cross braces. and the reactor didnt glow purple...
McLOVINMike 2 years ago
I wonder if the scene with the guys throwing sand bags out of the helicopter was authentic stock footage. I know the audio was in English, but I wonder if the people were actually Russian.
DeafFret 3 years ago
You mean Ukrainian.
053bss 3 years ago
Ukraine didn't really exist until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 90's. The area we now call Ukraine was once part of Russia.
Alethi0 2 years ago
Politically they were Soviet, but really they were Ukrainian. They were called the Ukrainian SSR and they spoke Ukrainian, what more could you want?
053bss 2 years ago
I'm happy to admit that I'm wrong.
Thanks for correcting me. :)
Alethi0 2 years ago 2
Hey, no problem!
Thanks for getting in touch :-)
053bss 2 years ago
The power station they were flying over was certainly not Chernobyl NPP. In reality, the chimney has straight stripes not zig-zags, and the 2nd chimney is not red & white. They filmed it somewhere else, (my guess is in France). Good film though.
EssieP 2 years ago 3
Nice eye for detail.
ExplodingTeeth 2 years ago 2
another 4000 thousand runs and we can go home ;)
arminiuks 3 years ago 3
Could someone tell me if the dog that runs behind the busses, is an original film-document by the time of the incident or if it was shot for this movie?
Crizzey82 3 years ago
shot for the movie
mobious67 2 years ago