Surviving Disaster Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster part 1

[TehNoobWhoPlaysHalo]

Russian/Ukrainian scientists who are purely British. Seems legit.

[TheChesie18]

what does the radio active radiation ACTUALLY DO behind your body to kill you someone please reply

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[chernobleman]

@ 0:52 What the fuck is a black guy doin in the docudrama? It's the USSR! There's no blacks there!

[traell100]

ktos to przetlumaczy na polski??????????????????

[DrBPhD]

Why is this docudrama hard to watch, as stated by the uploader? The script, the acting, the camerawork and the directing are just brilliant and keep you in your seat for the entire duration of the documentary. A must see for those interested in what is still the one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) nuclear disaster in history. Ok, some scenes are graphic but that's the reality of what was going on there. I strongly recommend watching all parts 1 to 10.

[MrMeineNamen]

how the hell can you ppl make this americas fault? ignorant bigots

[Freddiefeast17]

is this video like real or just like a movie?

[puncheex]

@Freddiefeast17: It's a docu-drama. That means it is based on reality, to the extent that that doesn't interfere with what the writer feels is good story telling. it's one step more realistic than James Michener's novels, if perhaps not nearly as well researched. It doesn't claim to be 100% factual.

[puncheex]

What this docu-drama is great for is it's characterization of Legasov. If it is even 60% true about him, it is a great portrait of an really honorable man.

There are plenty of overstatements (particularly gruesome ones). People dying in Pripyat left and right, the junk about the effects of the feared steam explosion in part 4. What is true that Legasov's suicide shook the Soviet confidence in their system and possibly added impetus to glasnost.

[worldchampion1986]

There will be no evacuation? son of a bitch!!!! if I was the governor of prypiat, I would have sounded the civil air raid sirens and gotten city buses, school buses, air planes and evacuated everyone from the city!

[puncheex]

@worldchampion1986: Sure, but the mayor? governor? didn't have that authority. ANything that serieous had to come down from above. The civil authorities have their jobs to consider, and didn't have the right information anyway.

[Adem242]

I know that this is an odd request but does anyone know where I can find any information about Alexander Akimov (Александр Акимов), the man who pressed the AZ-5 button?

[Jetelinka]

@Adem242

I can´t help you much, but the best way is to put it in Google in Azbuka with some key word like "Чернобыл", you can find some pieces of information, but is more like a treasure hunt then research :-)

[puncheex]

@Adem242: Wikipedia has a slough of articles about Chernobyl; see fir "Chernobyl Disaster", and branch from there. There are articles on all the major players, and even one that names all the 57 dead, circumstances, atc.

[XXCAZ101XX]

Those guys are such bloody idiots. They are responsable for the damage done throughout europe! they have no idea on what they have done to the millions of lives!!

[GWRtom]

@XXCAZ101XX How? They had no idea in the Control Rod design Fault, They coudn't speak out, otherwise they'd be on the Streets.

Besides Fukushima Daichi will kill more.

[puncheex]

@GWRtom; No, it won't.

[miket1m]

I was heartbroken when I heard about all those people in the chernobyl nuclear meltdown. It would be kind of cool to have kids with two glowing heads, though.

[seifster]

Those Dislikes Are Trully evil men

[egomate]

bu11shit

[CheaterNLaw]

Chernov radiation at 8:20?

[t6yz]

this is deep strong stuff, so well made

[ohgoditsjames94]

At least 100 million people would die if the sarcophagus collapses, they need to be quick building that Steel structure so they can begin to take the old sarcophagus apart and the Initial Reactor Building, if anything collapses inside, the Material will be ejected into the Atmosphere, and there is still over 80% of that material left inside...

[puncheex]

@ohgoditsjames94: That's a load of bull. You must have gotten from a rabid greenpeacer. It is hardly likely that a full collapse of the structure could be worse than the original event, though it is certainly not something to be wished for.

[ohgoditsjames94]

@puncheex Funny enough, a majority of the material is still inside, of which, is all Plutonium and Uranium.

Sorry pal, I don't think it's bull.

[puncheex]

@ohgoditsjames94: Yup, it's mostly still inside, and melted into solid accretions, such as the "elephant's foot". It is called corium, which is the fuel, uranium and fuel by-products (no pu), plus rod, graphite, concrete, reactor vessel, and whatever else. In the event of a collapse, a large amount of corium dust, graphite, and fallen fallout would be disturbed (which is the problem), but anything buried within the hardened corium (say, 99% of the dangerous stuff) will stay right there.

[ohgoditsjames94]

@puncheex That is correct, but, you're forgetting, water is still a threat, it's still possible that should the whole building give way, it would escape

[puncheex]

@ohgoditsjames94: No it isn't (as far as I know, at least). Any small amount of water left in the building probably wouldn't be affected by a sarcophagus collapse. Escaping water is less a problem than the dust, which can be carried in the wind. Water itself cannot be seriously radioactive (though it can be contaminated), so evaporation is not a problem. The corium is no longer hot (1000s of degrees) so steam explosion is not a menace. What it can do is add contamination to the dust, perhaps.

[jichaelmackson1958]

@puncheex Well measurements of radiation inside the sarcophagus disagrees with you, most of the radiation is still there

[puncheex]

@jichaelmackson1958: And where do I say it isn't? Most of it, of course, lies in the 95% of the reactor contents that was not blown through the roof, but quietly melted and sagged down through the basement floors below the reactor. Inasmuch as that is "within the sarcophagus" (sort of) you are correct. As far as is known, the mass did not make it through the lowest basement, but cooled first, and is thereby contained.

[jichaelmackson1958]

@puncheex contained... until the sarcophagus collapses, cooled or not, it still emits large doses of radiation and must be kept enclosed

[puncheex]

@jichaelmackson1958: The sarcophagus is not itself currently "emitting large doses of radiation", though the radiation in its vicinity is of course fairly high; it is containing sources. Should it collapse, it will stir up a large amount of radioactive dust, as well as exposing a lot more to be potentially picked up by the wind freely. That is the danger.

[Mtmelendez]

Watching this documentary and reading the news from Japan confirms me that human nature is terribly consistent, no matter where this type of disasters occur. We're getting so many mixed reactions from Japanese government spokespeople, which, just as in Chernobyl and in Three Mile Island, can only mean one thing... it's worse than what they're telling us.

[Chunkboi]

@Mtmelendez Three mile island was contained. Chernobyl was not. And the tsunami in Japan...well it's too soon to say what history will make of that reactor. We need to place some newer plants in safer locations so we can shut down the old ones. We also need to hope that ITER will work so that future fission plants will be few and far between...startup generators for a far safer fusion plant.

[puncheex]

@Mtmelendez: The only thing that it means to me is that you haven't done any homework to try to determine what happened in any of these events. Reading wikipedia is pretty basic, but you haven't done that much; you just waggle your fingers.

[Muziqstar]

Some of the smartest dummies...

[KewneRain]

The GSC team must have used this documentary as a model for what the inside of the reactor looks like. That shot with the top of the reactor heaved over is EXACTLY like it appears in Stalker SoC.

[puncheex]

@KewneRain: I think it is rather the other way around, or more likely, both got their data from the hero of this story.

[MDkid1]

they look like bakers, not nuclear reactor people.

[ReadyRave]

1986 - The zone was born.

[Jimdangello]

Thank you all for your comments. Just trying to raise awareness for the hundreds of thousands of people who are still suffering from the effects of this accident.

[coldfire2143]

@Jimdangello I love you.

[bailong329]

@Jimdangello its good I hear they are still trying to replace the new sarcophagus over the reactor. Well not replace but build over it with a more perminant sarcophagus if there is such a thing the damn thing is nuclear afterall. Any news as to how thats coming?

[AudioTechPM5D]

@Jimdangello  Thank you for uploading this. I'm also trying to raise awareness regarding man-made technology. My goal is to help those who are listening to better understand the technology that is around them, sharing the advantages and disadvantages as accurately and truthfully as possible, which will allow them to make better decisions.

[krehall]

does anyone know what the russian choir music is in the film ??

[Jimdangello]

@krehall If your talking about the part with the divers, its called "The Cliff" - Performed by the Red Army Choir.

[krehall]

@Jimdangello yeah just got the MP3 the other day, really good music :)

[91770158]

their boss is so stupid!

[WhoDaresW1ns]

At 3:55, is that safe? Walking uprotected across there?

[puncheex]

@WhoDaresW1ns: Yes. He's walking across the top of the lid which blew off when the explosion occurred. Most all the rods inserted into the reactor through the lid were manual - fuel rods, moderator. The control rods are motor driven. He has that huge amount of concrete between him and the reactor. He is, of course, wearing a dosage badge, and even the the USSR those safety rules were enforced.

[YortonJunction00]

Ade Edmosson, never realised he played such a powereful "straight part", well done to all who posted this, and of course, the acotors and crew for the english soundtrack, 5 star. YJ

[ricotermonen]

This is definately one of the best viewpoints I have seen on Chernobyl, and I have seen most documentaries about the topic. Also very well acted, also by one of my (normally) comic actor Adrian Edmundson. Anyway, thank you for uploading this. It very well shows the background of the disaster.

[egdqv13234]

''im in charge here!!!

--IM IN CHARGE CHARGE!.

[PoonBot5K]

A lot of people don't know about the SL-1 reactor accident. It was so crazy they didn't find one man for a few days because he was literally pinned to the roof of the structure by one of the control rods.

[provito]

that explosion gives me chills...

[computersmasher]

what is that thing at the end of the hall that lights up at 7:13

[roofanhealer]

@computersmasher Perhaps a fire, there was a lot of graphite to burn there. Perhaps it's the melted nuclear fuel. It couldn't be Cherenkov radiation, that thing is blue. But again no one really knows what's it's like near and in a core of a RBMK going postal. There might be light phenomena and sounds, ad other unknown things.

[puncheex]

@computersmasher: Emergency warning lights.

[MrXRainbowsX]

We watched this in science today, it was so sad and so gripping. I didn't really know anything about the Chernobyl disaster but now I am acknowledged about it I feel so bad for all of those people who's families were effected and hurt.

[itb222]

what pissed me off is that the asshole supervisor did get exposed but still lived healthily till age 90 and he didn't of radiation poisoning at all, it was a heart attack.

[puncheex]

@itb222: It is thought that it was an indirect result of the 390 REM dose he took (500 REM is considered a 50% fatal dose). He died at age 54 in 1995, after spending 5 years of his ten year sentence in prison.  See wiki, "Anatoly Diatlov".

[puncheex]

What this docu-drama is great for is it's characterization of Legasov. If it is even 60% true about him, it is a great portrait of an honorable man.

There are plenty of overstatements (particularly gruesome ones). People dying in Pripyat left and right, the junk about the effects of the feared steam explosion in part 4. What is true that his suicide shook the Soviet and possibly added impetus to glasnost.

[XJLKX]

omg we watched this in pyshics, and the whole class was like sobbing at the end of it, like when the scientist with the glasses asked the other scientist in charge if they were gonna blamed for this, and then the other guy said yes and the glasses guy started crying, we were all like teary, then when the sacrifice thing came up, we were all crying

[peticco]

Politics in the communist era was really disgusting. In Hungary we didn't know anything about Chernobyl disaster weeks and weeks after it happened, because they didn't wanted to cause panic.

[greedybox]

heck, here it is 2009 and i just found out about it last week

[Bilderbergz]

apparantly it was the operators fault for shuting down the auxilary power for the cooling fluid for the fuel rods?

[puncheex]

@Bilderbergz: Partially, but there were design flaws in the reactor itself as well. For example, when the operator pushed the AZ-5 button (called A-zed in the video) that started emergency control rods to descend under motor control. The rods contained boron, which absorbs neutrons. However, the lowest 30cm of the rod was graphite, which is a moderator, not an absorber.

...

[puncheex]

... So the first foot of the rods descending caused a surge in the power, that lead to the second, larger steam explosion that wrecked the reactor. The reactor's heat lit the chunks of graphite (like compressed coal) as they were hurled out of the reactor along with remnants of the fuel rods, starting the fire that burned for nine days. That problem with the control rods was known but as Legasov says, it was classified above the operator's level.

See wiki "Chernobyl disaster" for more detail.

[xXELiTEHACKERXx]

-.- ideots

[ARandomCanadian]

Awesome acting!!

[dominodash21]

that was very good acting during the explosion

[akastukibitch]

oh my........im so sorry for your loss

[rosenoel]

May you see them in heaven someday, HGOF.

[xXELiTEHACKERXx]

HGOF??

[eebil]

How were you able to migrate to the US?

[HappyGaiaOnlineFan]

@eebil Use your imagination, how do you think I got there? o.o

[eebil]

@HappyGaiaOnlineFan The only thing I could think of is that either your family could have migrated, or you could have been adopted. Jeez, what's wrong with showing interest and wanting to know?

[HappyGaiaOnlineFan]

@eebil I was adopted, and I was taken to the US with my sister, ( me and her were really the only ones who survived, family wise) and the rest are dead.

[w0bbl3r]

hope youre at least happy in the US, and I am terribly sorry for what happened to you and your family.

I am from the UK, and clearly remember the disaster at the time, when I was about 12 years old.

Terrible, terrible thing to happen.

I take it your brother now died as well? That is awful, but I am glad you and your sister made it out ok.

[puncheex]

@w0bbl3r: Who, me? (This is a response to my posting; perhaps you missed your intended target.) Sorry, I'm American, Irish/Scot mostly. Being from here doesn't keep one from studying up on happenings elsewhere and learning, though.

[DragonRomer]

@HappyGaiaOnlineFan Lol nice troll *downthumbed*

[HappyGaiaOnlineFan]

@DragonRomer I like tater tots.

[oefel]

@HappyGaiaOnlineFan

Bullshit

[Frano911]

the simpsons were based on this

[goodmusicandmetal]

what a dumbass commander. They are dying of radiation and he's doing nothing but sitting on his fat ass and saying no,no,no this cant be happening.

[Jetelinka]

@goodmusicandmetal

Well, to be fair, there was really nothing he could do about it :-(

[shadowthewedgehog]

i've been looking for this for years. thank you so much

[mrkman20]

wow u wasted ur life