Part 1 - Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus - BBC Horizon

[ninjaswordtothehead]

Apparently; in Soviet Russia, You get cancer on purpose.

[teddythebenny]

@ninjaswordtothehead thanks for the advice, here in Japan, in 20 years we`ll know what you mean. Not to mention the use of depleted Uranium and natural uranium weapons in the gulf wars, Balkans and so forth.. poor kids.

[pranker121]

fuck me i would have gone in there with a Bio hazard suit!

[xhemexx]

Not to sound disrespectful about people who grew up or love the 80's, but it just makes sense that an accident of this magnitude could ONLY have occured in the 80's

[DeviousToster]

@xhemexx Please google "Fukushima - Earthquake-damaged nuclear power plant" in Japan. Its nor nearly as bad, but that's only because they learned from this. The only reason today is safer then yesterday is because we've already tripped over it, so we can now step over. It's not really because people in the 80's where stupid or unsafe, they just didn't have the hind-sight we have.

[jdlg1983]

This is horrifying

[etbadaboum]

Some Russians are made of steel. We a proof now.

[jmr1068204]

Why were the expedition people wearing COTTON masks, while the filming crew was wearing "western respirators"? Who gives a crap whether the respirators are northern, southern, eastern or western. The fact is, all of these people should have had respirators...wow, that country and government has made some major mistakes.

[puncheex]

This program was created in 1996, ten years after the accident. Most of its length is a playback of a 1988 program discussing the accident and the aftermath, particularly among the scientific group working through the debris. The accident occurred on April 26, 1986 when reactor #4 exploded. Reactors 1, 2 and 3 continued operation, the last shutdown in 2000 (but none have yet been decommissioned).

[ProjectRealityBf2]

In mother Russia.....the radiation fears you!

[Metallica4LifeDude]

@ProjectRealityBf2 Do you think this is a good place for jokes? And especially on this matter?

[ProjectRealityBf2]

@Metallica4LifeDude obviously I do, hence the comment I posted to which you in turn responded to, does that answer your question?

[DanRaccoon]

Oh just realised that John Sergent is narrating :3 and if it's not, then he damn well sounds like Sergent.

[mpwelk]

i like the vhs sounds... fits the time period of the story

[DanielR305]

my heart goes out to the familys and especially the children of chernobyl as it known that most kids whom are born there at present are ether born with deformities or get leukaemia I am being from shrewsbury uk glad there is a group that fund raises money to bring some of the kids over from chernobyl and get them medical help while here ad get meds sorted and 4 medication to carry when they go back home too but whats so great when they eat non contaminated food in uk they live up too 4 yrs more

[puncheex]

@DanielR305: Do you have a citation for what you said above: "most kids whom are born there at present are ether born with deformities or get leukaemia"? I would be really interested to read something scientific about that; the most prevalent cancer according to the IAEA, is thyroid cancer, which fortunately has a 99% cure rate. They report having found no increase in the expected numbers of hard cancers or birth defects.

[puncheex]

From wikipedia: "Apart from the 57 direct deaths in the accident itself, UNSCEAR originally predicted up to 4,000 additional cancer cases due to the accident. However, the latest UNSCEAR reports suggest that these estimates were overstated. In addition, the IAEA states that there has been no increase in the rate of birth defects or abnormalities, or solid cancers (such as lung cancer) corroborating UNSCEAR's assessments." Citations on wiki, "Chernobyl Disaster".

[xygomorphic77]

Way to copy your description from Wikipedia

[BlacKSacrificE]

@xygomorphic77 - And? He credited wikipedia as the source of the info, whats your point?

[noah3824]

takes some kinda balls to do this

[zwedanez]

crazy guys

[BlacKSacrificE]

unwatchable with the sound tearing, don't know why you'd bother putting it up.

[ShinGouki86]

@BlacKSacrificE it stops after a couple minutes

[BlacKSacrificE]

@ShinGouki86 - Its present in all 5 video's this was a VHS rip, and from the sounds there is cross modulation from the head motor into the audio chain within the VCR it was played from. Lame.

[BlacKSacrificE]

@ShinGouki86 - Its present in all 5 video's. This was a VHS rip, and from the sounds there is cross modulation from the drum motor into the audio chain within the VCR it was played from. The buzzing is at the same frequency as the RPM of the drum from the sounds. Lame.

[Soopytwist]

What's with the farts?

[toakodan]

@Soopytwist Cause It may have been recorded from a old VHS to DVD with a DVD recorded.

[pumpplow2]

thx