Chernobyl disaster (Ukraine 1986) part 1 of 10

[MGoffer]

2:40- 3:07 =( god bless the firefighters.

[Mcoov]

1:30-1:33 will haunt me forever.

[Eksnab]

THE TRANSLATOR AT 5:00 Is Artyom for Metro :D

[DemonTrooper17]

@Eksnab holy crap it does sound like him!!!

[kakauga]

Radašin na 3:17 !!!

[theperv01]

Imgone54321 brrrraaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnnssssss­........ Arrrrggghhh braaaaiiinns.

[mahound9]

You know, the bravery and self-sacrifice of these people is enough to touch even me. They had to face clearly lethal amounts of radiation in order to save countless more people from death. Some of those examples of true heroes. Anatoli Zakharov: "Of course we knew! If we'd followed regulations, we would never have gone near the reactor. But it was a moral obligation—our duty. We were like kamikaze"

[Ducknbob8]

2:09 it was beautifull ????? is'nt it Ironic that the things on this planet that can hurt us the most are the beautifull things ????? Roses,,,lightning,,,,cone snails,,,,blue ring octopus,,,,WOMEN !!!!!!!!!!!

[mahound9]

@Ducknbob8 Well said.

[TomFynn]

Anyone who "dislikes" this should be made to work on the new sarcophagus for Chernobyl.

[MissPanicMyBoy]

yes lets all take tours to radioactive cities. lets charge people for that. lol

[666pat666]

lol 4:52 the voice over is the guy from the game metro 2033

[HerculesRockefellerr]

Whenever they show real footage with the radiaion flashes on the film and that radiation reading instrument noise its so freaky...more scary then any movie

[83DrumProdigy]

@HerculesRockefellerr haha yea it is....i think thats why it only beeps now

[Gencturk92]

i want to visit pripyat, whats the nearest town to pripyat ?

[HerculesRockefellerr]

@Gencturk92 I dont know but I was reading just recently that the ukraine government has set up one day tours where you can actually go in and see pripyat for only a few hours with guides. From what I heard it really isnt even that expensive either. If I had alot of free time and was around there I would want to see it! Not quite a vaction but an experience you would never forget nonetheless.

[KayBeeEee1983]

1986 Ukraine looks like 1970 America.

[butterz2butterz2]

6:34 looks like a face on the wall of the photo

[nema1218]

@paperbackbeetle

I guess you are right,many people are insensitive and make fun of tragedy.Maybe you are right.

[lamordiemann]

the man thats doing a voice over sounds like the main dude in metro 2033...

:OOOOOO

[ytkclo]

pray for Ukraine and Japan

[OldSchoolLad]

the actions of the jap government make one doubt they want to hide something, maybe related to nuclear weapons.

[heroine6940]

Everyone knows how terrible in Chernobyl

Now, Japan has troblue, and really serious.

I really hope other countries can help Japan.

No one deserve to suffer in that.

Please, save Japan.

Sorry for my poor English.

[seanrio147]

ควย

[imgone54321]

Since Japan has there Chernobyl now. I will never ever visit Hawaii now. I will buy never pineapple again. I wonder if the west coast of the United States is even safe ? 

[Tommiclio]

@imgone54321 You clearly lack ANY knowledge on the events that are happening in Japan!

[temuzero]

@imgone54321 You're dumb.

[Fixdal]

@imgone54321 "I will buy never pinapple again" rofl

[jo927]

I wonder if human ever learn.

[juggy444]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH who ever invented this goddam thing!

[heisenfeis]

@juggy444 Russians.

[1020Shane]

@juggy444 we all did.... our constant consumption of energy is the product of these disasters. We should all learn from this and go back to living like in the 1700's.

[osakavoxpop]

Japan next?

[makjj1234]

@osakavoxpop Most likely. Just worse than this.

[SavingNCS]

I like how he's smoking. He's all like, I survived Chernobyl bitch, cigarettes can't touch me.

[Linknot100]

@SavingNCS yeah that's right

[jichaelmackson1958]

@SavingNCS LOL

[iGeckoGaming]

@SavingNCS

HAHA!

[replica814]

@SavingNCS you really did???

[jadedmastermind]

If you look at the lower right at 5:28, you can actually see the red hot glowing uranium and graphite from the reactor.

[dannyland1]

the scariest thing ever conceived is man-made and invisible. Its just bursting with irony.

[jennnn41]

its unexceptable that the world does not know about chernobyl and the gladiators that saved russia and fuckin europe. Instead we know about cocky athletes that suck dick all day.

[SCE2AUX]

2:00 "PRETTY COLORS!!!"

[shoegalsho2]

That reporter survives nuclear exposure and smokes cigarettes....

[traxxasmaxx33]

@shoegalsho2 thats a russian for you :P

[cwill324]

@robotkilla09 heroes??? It was a terrible thing that happened, but maybe if they weren't sacrificing safety to put their dicks on the table this wouldn't have happened. Ignorance of the situation does not a hero make.

[helstontvx]

@cwill324 yeah but running out onto a roof with a shovel and digging into the piles of ultra radioactive material..knowing you are going to die...is in my book...Fucking Heroic!

[cwill324]

@helstontvx my point is... they didn't realize they were going to die until they were already exposed. The world was (in relation to our current situation) ignorant of the amount of exposure that was fatal. The vast majority of the "heroes" were not aware of the true problem they were facing until it was nearly over. Anywhooo... so glad to hear about your book.

[helstontvx]

@cwill324 Oh I think we like to think the locals were dumb to the risks..are you saying that you can not be a hero unless you are aware of the facts?

That would make the guys running up the trade centre...just guys...the guys on the roof of the reactor house just guys doing a job...I think I understand what you are saying and it does seem tinged with a large dollop of cynicism.

[suddenlyill]

Dude, our cooling towers look so much cooler looking (no pun intended) than the Soviet towers.

[michcookies]

I've been looking for this documentary for a while now, thanks for posting. Such a terrible thing to happen, can't ever imagine going through that. The liquidators are heroes for sure. Without them who knows what could have happened?

[traxxasmaxx33]

@michcookies hopefully this doesn't happen to the Japanese power plant!

[importsstillsuck]

@traxxasmaxx33 it already did...

[traxxasmaxx33]

@importsstillsuck yea when i wrote this the Jap plants didn't explode yet. poor people :(

[michcookies]

@traxxasmaxx33 I've been following it on twitter, but information changes all the time. Goes from being fine, to meltdown, to cooling down, to heating up, to leaking, to not leaking... as long as it's contained that's the main thing!

[traxxasmaxx33]

@michcookies One thing for sure is that its a lot worse than what the Japanese are saying. just as long as they get it under control, thats all that matters.

[helstontvx]

@traxxasmaxx33 er...sfunny you should say that......Chernobyl San!

[rightfredsdead]

if you are exposed to over 20 rems, cher knob will fall off.

[Clarice1933]

I do not know if this documentary talks about the robots that they used to help clean. I saw in another documentary that even the robots only lasted about a week in the radiation and they were made of metal. Soooooooo scary.

[13times]

Hans Blix, aided by the IAEA, conspired with the the Soviet leadership to conceal the true impact and scope of radioactive contamination in the Ukraine, Russia and Europe. The most egregious part of this series is the discovery channels conclusion - that nuclear weapons are dangerous? Bloody jackasses, the obvious conclusion is governments and their agencies lie to us, obfuscate and dissemble whenever it suits their political agendas.

[APiece0fToast69]

my prayers go out to the families who have been effected by this tragedy. pripyat was a beautiful city and now, it lyes in the dust and derbies of the vladimir i. lennin nuclear power plaint's wave of destruction. for those of you who feel leninism, marxism and communism in general, watch and read what happened at chernobyl and those who gave their lives for europe in general.

[REXFERAL59]

much respect to the firefighters and first responders, they probably knew they were dead men but did their jobs anyways

[xPinkStrifex]

@MrDirtbag0 Nuclear power plants offer 1000x the amount of power as coal power plants...it's easy to see why people chose this. What they don't realize is if a nuclear plants melts down the effects are felt around the world, not just in their country.

P.S. three mile island did not "meltdown". In fact the amount of radiation that was released into the air was at the acceptable/safe range. It was nothing like Chernobyl.

[thepayne0]

you BASTARD!

[juanlozanoism]

@robotkilla09 There were no heroes in the USSR, they killed millions divided countries, like the korean peninsula. Brutal Staling, etc...USSR one of the most evil entities of human history.

[Elemarth]

@juanlozanoism I can't believe you would say that. There's a huge difference between a government and its people. Soviet leaders, especially Stalin, were evil, but almost nobody in the USSR had the least bit of control over it (a lot were busy being killed, themselves). I guess you think all people in Nazi Germany evil, including all the people who risked their lives saving Jews. And all Americans alive during the Vietnam War were evil because of the terrible things the military was doing there.

[juanlozanoism]

@Elemarth oh yeah cuz the Nazi did something wrong the what the brutal Russians did can be forgiven...Bloody Russians have a brutal past...a bloody legacy to human kind.

[Elemarth]

@juanlozanoism I can't figure out the first sentence. But now you're talking about all Russians, ever? You must really have problems. I sure hope you don't know anyone from Russia.

[assym2006]

@MrDirtbag0

because a model Molten salt or pebble plant are far far safer

[ThePassiton]

i respect those mans and wemans who expiriense that radioactivity....

[SMGJohn]

@robotkilla09 There are and where many heroes in Soviet, more then in any other country. Why? Because they fought for freedom and justice and for their people instead of money like America and western countries

[Tamaslammer]

You know shit's serious when some British dude is narrating.

[butterz2butterz2]

@Tamaslammer sir, that tickled me

[Tamaslammer]

@butterz2butterz2

thanks but.....that's ma'am to you... son....

[CtrlRm]

@Tamaslammer This is a BBC documentary you idiot

[Tamaslammer]

@CtrlRm

You're fucking wrong. Don't just start typing shit you know nothing about and calling people an idiot. The Battle of Chernobyl was an INDEPENDENTLY made film, produced by Play Films who are based in Los Angeles and Paris. It was licensed and distributed by Discovery Networks (USA) to be shown on the Discovery Channel and The History Channel. The BBC had NOTHING to do with this film.

And not all British narrators work for the BBC either. You're welcome.

[analyzingfunny]

Beware: To copy this video and SAVE it. Then re-load when they take it down.

450 helicopter pilots

15,000 firemen

650,000 construction workers

50,000 in Pypiat

6500 villiges

all exposed to the lethal dose

Homes in these villiges were flash over burned. Look at Elan's pictures.

Barges were blown on top of each other where they still lay. (google earth)

This was big.

[trombulan]

many of those people didn't know what kind of risk they'vbeen exposed to because nobody told them where they'll go and for what reason but 3:53 WTF?no comment :X

[darklaren]

Government didn't let anyone know what was really going on, they did not evacuate people from radiation zone and they were hiding this grave danger from the world. fuck Soviet regime!

[MASTERCHIEF2434]

@robotkilla09 May god be with them , amen

[sarastar60]

The second explosion would have wiped out 1/2 of Europe. The brave souls that gave their lives to save the rest of us. Their names should be etched forever in history.

[viperxeon]

Wow, brave people, radiation poisoning is one of the worst deaths ever.

[PanzerFrog]

Get out of here Stalker.

[herauthon]

raise a monument if not yet existent -a 6 meter tower - squared with 4 jets of peaceful blue flame at the top comming from the sides - a hint to the four winds - so calm and prosperous

[RussianBoyDAN]

In critical times when our country is under danger, whether it is war, disaster, ...the Russian people will ALWAYS be willing to give up their lives to save their nation! No matter the political, economic or social situation. There are many other examples throughout Russian history: Napoleonic Wars, Wars with the Turks, WW2 etc. The Russian people will always stay committed and brave when it comes to defending their motherland! Don't you westerners ever forget this!

[Chaneyslops]

@RussianBoyDAN If they had known how badly they would be effected by the radiation I doubt that many would have been willing to kill themselves. The russian government was COMPLETELY AWARE of the dangers posed by the nuclear reactors. If they truly cared they would have put the reactor in a remote location and NOT in a city.

[RussianBoyDAN]

@Chaneyslops you're obviously trying to discredit the liquidators' work, despite the fact that their fork saved thousands of lives and prevented what my have been a worldwide catastrophe. Yes, a lot of the facts were PURPOSELY hidden by the government, but many of the surviving liquidators say they do not regret doing it because it had to be done. And btw, if THEY didn't build a city near the plant, where would all the workers and their families live? Inside the plant?! Wow that's logical!

[Chaneyslops]

@RussianBoyDAN Are you on fucking drugs?? The government and the officials in charge of the construction ot the Chernobyl plany KNEW that there were design flaws which posed a threat to EVERYONE involved as well as the surrounding community. It should never have been built in the first place. If the plant was never built those people and the land on which they lived would be deemed inhabitable had the government not conspired to keep such valuable information classified.

[barthoedemaker]

Thanks to this I was born with 6 fingers on one hand (1987 ) But I was lucky, alot of weird births came all across europe thanks to this

[Eagertman]

@barthoedemaker Possibly, but my sister was born with six fingers on both hands (which were removed) and we're in Australia. Could have just been something completely random for you, and not related to radiation.

[AnimeChatOtaku1]

thank g-d my family and i live in france, italy, spain, and the UK.

[Burzhuy32]

im going there this summer XD

[GreendayGil]

So glad my granddad moved to the UK from Ukraine or else he might now not be here, I don't know why you are arguing about whether they are hero's or not if I am right anybody who puts there life on there life to save others is a hero

[dkdoae]

@robotkilla09

the true heroes are the NATO soldiers how saved albanians in kosovo!

[SaintsSpecOps]

@dkdoae

i had family in that conflict

US Army

[soya28]

If somebody told those liquidators that they would die within a month with almost 100% certainty after this work, they would not be so brave. Bravery and disinformation are very different things. Hate Russians for their ignorane. Safe as a samovar. What kind of moron said that and what kind of idiots would believe such a thing?? Russians should never have possesed nuclear weapons. Its just not for idiots like them.

[seejur]

@soya28 Chernobyl was was the first incident of this kind, and yes, of course within one hour from the incident there was no way to know the gravity of the incident. Following your reasoning then the firefighter who entered the twin towers in the 9/11 were dis informed idiot as well right? Even an idiot would have known that the towers were about to collapse right?

[xXterjooXx]

My uncle helped them , and the radiation was faitful now he is suffering nerval damage , and he cant u know , have sex anymore :( Sad

[TheMan36027]

If only they didn't try. I am glad my Great my grandad left the b4 the disaster

[rrraawwwkk50]

just out of curiousity, are those subtexts in chinese?

[Lefkara03]

woah! now, i wouldnt liked to be a resident of Pripyat!

[TheAKmatics]

it would have been nice if a second explosin would have happend

[AwesomeGamer4]

why would you say that

[Reguzeeb]

>A tomb of deafening silence

Symptoms of exposure happen that fast? What a horrible way to die I would wager.

[Ramirez2396]

omg

[mastaODI56]

pripyat looks a lot like the city i live in:always cloudy: crapy city design,

[MetelAdict]

was the plant ment to power the city? i know it's a dumb question.

[greatindonesia]

the whole 4 chernobyl's reactors when the 4th reactor explode is about to supply 10% of the ukraine electricity

sory if my english is bad.

[MetelAdict]

@greatindonesia Thanks for the answer, and I've read worse english than yours.

[ekkrir]

the plant was built to supply Ukraine with power although the plant powered the city of pripyat (the city builf for the plant workers) with power

[cheeseindatrees647]

I sort of wish I was there but survived. Its sooo interesting and I will go there one day!

[megaman2000]

@funnyboys112 eh?

[jadissx]

heha....godzilla

[Timsalt3100]

Very Very sad events Soviet pride caused the accident in my eye's because they knew unit 4 was not safe but they put power over human life. Chernobyl should never have happened

[gedviuxxx]

omg!!! the people that helped to stop the radioation are the bravest people !!!!

[teckcode1]

yeah they have alot of memorials surrounding Prioyat

[Chaneyslops]

@gedviuxxx not as brave as you may think. They had no idea how bad the radiation was. They didnt have the equipment to measure it. Had they known Im sure they all would have made a run for it.

[cakemaster10]

@gedviuxxx Not if they didn't know about the radiation, they didn't. I would rather use the word heros to describe them. Without them, half of europe residents would be dead, including me! The chernobyl is a very shocking accident, and too few people know about it, and how big of a threat it is today. Peace! and sorry for correcting you ;)

[Malmstreams]

@cakemaster10

Thank you foe knownig true. 

[halfpipefreak]

@gedviuxxx and they didn't even know it.

there bones are still radioactive.

[ChokeAlotMilk]

these guys are such shit tanslators i can translate better then them

[Deskonet]

thanks to russia

[ActionReplayPerson]

this is somewhat good. What i mean is, i think that if Chernobyl Never happened, nuclear war could still be an option. But it turned some heads after it happened. Like the guy said in one of the part "Nobody deserves that. We are human beings."

[BySharpandFlame]

Nuclear War will never be an option. It simply can't be. Nuclear war will be our last resort if anything. The widespread damage is incalculable and will affect the plant for centuries. Basically, our possession of nuclear weapons is used as a deterrent though we all know they will never be used. We know that after the Russians detonated the 50 megaton bomb years before Chernobyl ever happened. Nuclear research will only continue with the promise of Nuclear Fusion.

[EthanStrife]

And if aliens come we can use them to shoot them. They could also be used to melt polar ice caps and then over time the planet would recover from the radiation as the climate develops

[gedviuxxx]

your right

[arbitar222]

i would lay my own life on the line and help them remove all of the newclear fall owt

[lucifierkiller]

wow... so sad D: i heard people are making games about this >.> what faggots... that isnt funny :'(

[jdz8989]

They aren't games about this, they are games that involve the disaster.

No one is going to make a game exactly about this, it just has parts in the storyline.

[RandomFunnyPictures]

No the game Stalker is about it

[shotysniper117]

are you talking about Call of duty 4? because that game simply features this locale in a mission to assassinate a make believe terrorist leader.

[KLONIME1001]

NO STALKER. shadow of chernobly. Clear sky

[jacobdallen]

I think the same thing. I just don't use the word "faggot".

[KLONIME1001]

Nothing about faggets. they making that game so other people will know about it. cuz people in amercia wont give a shit about any thing unlass its fun. so yeh

[rickcrouch]

Like CoD4...

[lucifierkiller]

no, cod 4 doesnt "revolve" around it as the main storyline idiot.

[rickcrouch]

don't get insulting. what games are you talking about then...

[lucifierkiller]

Stalker, Stalker Clear sky, Stalker shadow of Chernobyl

[MujaRagHeadKillaUK]

Chernobyl will still burn for another 10,000 years. In 50-100 years time we will need to increase the size of the coffin around the plant to stop the radiation.

[erikinhawaii]

give this job to Halliburton, Dick Cheney's company

[Briskel2]

actully they have declared it as a natur reserve

[puncheex]

As the guy above says, get real. The fire is long dead. They used the other three reactors for ten years after they encased #4 in the sarcophagus. How locally dangerous does that sound? Without any further work, the exclusion zone will be ready for industrial use in 200 years; hopefully it will remain a wildlife refuge. The reactor core will be radioactively "hot" for 20,000 years, but there are plans for remediation that may allow it to be cleaned up much sooner.

[limatedman]

something on more 4 about chernobyl to night

[fugitive88888]

And the kept it secret damn comunist pigs like the Western eu knew but the damn russians kept it hidden in the east - I was little that day - my father told me that there was an unusuall fog that day - eastern eu knew after 2 days

[luomupunajuuri]

Thanks for uploading this. One of the best documentaries I've seen in a while.

[Denibull]

Oh and Great documentary! The best one I've seen on this topic. I love those BBC documentaries. They're the best..

[ntcrwler]

nice video. But what the hell is up with all the fake porn-related key words you have punched up? What the hell does the CHernobyl video have to do with "ass, webcam, lesbo, kissy, striptease, lesbian, boobs"???

[paulbigmac75]

so those perverts lookin for porn on youtube happen to stumble across this

[jcro8829]

Man this scares the hell out of me.

[Baronstone]

Why? The reason for the disaster was a flaw in the reactor design that only showed itself in low power stuations.

[Denibull]

Yes we know that now. God knows how many other mistakes are in many power plants around the world. It's just a matter of time when something else happens. For instance we got nuclear power plants in Czech republic and Slovakia which are pretty much the same in desgin and type to Chernobyl power plant.. Maybe slightly modernized you know.. Designed and built by Russians. If it goes off there it's right in the middle of Europe. There's no point to be scared though. It won't help anybody...

[luomupunajuuri]

Yes, the reactor design was flawed, plus the safety test should've been done before making the reactor operational, plus safety standards in the cash-strapped USSR were not stringent enough, plus the USSR's bonus culture and relatively low wages perhaps combined to encourage the designers' and engineers' reckless behaviour etc...

BUT, ultimately this disaster was caused by human error on the day of the accident and could've been avoided (with a bit of luck) indefinitely.

[luomupunajuuri]

cont.

This is why Chernobyl remains an extremely scary event for today's world. Even if the best minds come up with the plans for a nuclear power station and all the safety checks in the world are carried out, the mere possibility of a nuclear accident (which always exists as there can never be 100% guarantees for anything involving humans, or machines for that matter) is a frightening thought, as this documentary shows.

[puncheex]

If you want power to run your computer and keep your fridge cold, then you need to take a risk. Coal plants aren't risk free; most emit more radioactivity than nukes do, not to speak of CO2 and other pollutants. Risk free? Not in this world.

[antho836]

hydroelectrity is resk free , wind electricyty is resk free .... wake up

[puncheex]

Sure - unless the dam is weakened. It's not overly nice to the land it inundates, and there are examples of such a lake triggering earthquakes, and of earthquakes triggering landslides into the lakes, with catastrophic results. They seem to silt up a lot making them useless. And I didn't even get to the effects on animals, migrating fish and cultural sites awash. The worst problem is that hydropower is so comparatively nice that the world's supply is just about tapped out.

...

[puncheex]

...

Wind is good, except that it is noisy, and very expensive up front. It requires batteries for when the wind dies and a five year replacement plan. It's not very reliable (those damned inaccessible generators throw bearings like mad) and they're dangerous for DIYers. to mess with. They kill the occasional bird. Don't let anything ding the blade (like a occasional bird). Personally I like them better than solar, but not for reliable base load.

In short, go back to sleep and keep dreaming.

[ekkrir]

it's not risk free to get out of bead every day

[puncheex]

Indeed it's not.  Risk is eveything one does, and in particular when trying to develop sufficient electricity for everyday use. Concentrated energy is concentrated energy, to be created and used with respect.

[seanjoesph]

Best documentry I've seen yet. Thanks for posting.

[videopray]

Interestinggggg