thank you for posting an awesome documentary, i live in finland, right nextdoor. and i have been allways curious about what really happened there, i was 4 when it happened. thank you and i will share this forward.
I fear that Japan crisis will make Chernobyl look like a tiny accident. It's amazing that the powers that be kept the potential of the secondary explosion and Europe being uninhabitable for over a 100 years facts quiet for over 20 years. I don't trust the government or the nuclear industry. I hope the Japanese can find a way to cool their reactors and spent fuel rods or we have a 1 in 3 chance of a reactor detonating and it would ignite 42 nuclear cores worth of uranium and plutonium.
@eatcarpet I understand your consern about nuclear power, but it is FOR NOW the best choise of energy before we could find a better and safer solution, we can`t build dams to every river fos waterplants or windmills/solarplants for every plains and fields and fossilfuel plants are polluting. people are using more energy all the time, we need power... p.s. and think how safe fukushima was it survived a earthquake and a tsunami, that was a worstcase scenario.
@daboljuutii First off Fukushima did not "survive" earthquake/tsunami... it was a level 7 worst case accident, the core melted down and the radiation is still leaking. The problem is far from being resolved. Second there is already 10,000 times the amount of sunlight than we need to power up the entire world's electricity. All we need is to use is 1 of that 10,000 sunlight that reaches the earth.
@eatcarpet good comment and what you say is true but the core melted couse they did`t get the reserve power from external dieselgenerators fast enough and the emergency batterys emptyed, that coused the meltdown, not tsunami or earthquake, thats what i mented, the nuclearplants(not RMBK) it self is very safe to run these days. and i know that the sun is the best option for energy put we dont have that kind of equipment tu run this planet fully on solarpower, or if there is it is too expensive.
all other type of reactors, RMBKs are designed so that you can change the nuclear fuel on the fly, so there are no explosion proof containment structure that would limit the accident.....if the fuel rods would be exposed without water, the fuel would not only melt the reactor core, but with RMBK the heated tempature could actually accelerate the reactor, leading up to the same catastrophic and very quick meltdown that happened in Chernobyl , and even worse, if the graphite would ignite and burn
reactor didnt have back-up diesel generators that could have been immediately used to keep the water flowing to the reactors in the event that power had been cut off.
Ofcourse such natural disasters as in Japan, could never happen in the areas where RMBK reactors are located, and the condition of back-up diesel generators are regulary checked, but in the worst case scenario, nothing would prevent Chernobyl from rehappening again, because there are no shield-building around the reactors, like in
never forget and the recent events in Japan have showed that when it comes to nuclear energy, we can never be too careful.
Imagine same sort of situation with RMBK (Chernobyl-type) reactors, where the cut of all power would prevent the cooling of the reactor core and the back-up diesel genenerators wouldnt work either....the result would be catastrophic, exactly the same as in Chernobyl....so there really must be multiple back-up plans, it's quite terrifying that before Chernobyl, any RMBK
But ofcourse the economical and social effect of nuclear war would effect all of the world, even if the fallout and nuclear winter wouldnt and riots and even new wars with conventional weapons might errupt.
But anyways life would continue on Earth...but ofcourse the world would never be the same and it's entirely another quesion would it be life worth living, especially for those who survived the nuclear blast, but were contaminated by nuclear fallout.
Let's hope there will never be a nuclear war. The Plutonium half life is more than a million year. That's eternity. If the war happen, plutonium will be spread to everywhere. No life will remain on Earth.
@Civsuccess2 Not exactly...altough fullscale nuclear war would ofcourse cause enormous loss of life and destruction, the more remote areas and population, far away from the nuclear blasts could survive quite well....ofcourse it all depends how wide spread the nuclear war would be, would it be limited to Europe/Russia/USA or would some countries from Southern Hemisphere involved....and how wide would the winds spread the enormous fallout.
@Ow3n86 Please, no need to thank me, just help spread awareness if you can... There's still so many people who are suffering from this disaster, and we can't let the world forget about them.
You have to ask yourself, if knowing what you know now, would you go up onto that roof. That takes real gut. Then later on your guts fall apart.
I hope that we manage to develop fusion power, it should solve all our energy problems and its alot safer than nuclear fission. It seems incredible to me that people would ever even contemplate firing nukes at each other.
What people don't understand is that Chernobyl is an ongoing nuclear accident. We have only partially contained the radioactive release. We haven't even begun cleaning up the widespread environmental contamination. A meltdown like this is a multi-thousand year event.
Thanks for uploading. Very interesting. Incredible to think how many men were employed to clean up the mess, all the while knowing their health was at great risk. We all owe those brave men our lives.
People are visiting Pripyat nowadays and it would be an amazing place to go and get something of a feel for what those people went through, but the buildings are slowly decaying (one recently collapsed) and it'll be closed to the public some day. It is a time capsule frozen almost 25 years ago.
bear in mind that if the molten fuel hit the water most of europe would be inhabitable, those people averted a HUGE catastrophe and all they got was a flag?
jesus christ, 245000 years for the half of it to disapear and you have to bare in mind that it will be another 245000 years before it's even half of that amount, it'll be another million of so years before any living creature can go in there and survive.
Wow finally finished watching em.. THANK U so much for the uploads this is so interesting don't know y we haven't learnt this in high school....by the way im from Sydney just watching the Australian open n heard Maria Sharapova mention this in an interview n sounded so shocking then starting Google Chernobyl ... so sad ...this is a HUGE DEAL!
Never seen so many dislikes for videos. Great uploads. Great documentary. Thank you
ronanocarroll 2 weeks ago
@ronanocarroll I mean, so few dislikes
ronanocarroll 2 weeks ago
Loved it
DestWa 2 months ago
thank you for posting an awesome documentary, i live in finland, right nextdoor. and i have been allways curious about what really happened there, i was 4 when it happened. thank you and i will share this forward.
daboljuutii 6 months ago
soviet power supreme
swift4o 10 months ago
Thanks for the upload!
lousy91 10 months ago
I fear that Japan crisis will make Chernobyl look like a tiny accident. It's amazing that the powers that be kept the potential of the secondary explosion and Europe being uninhabitable for over a 100 years facts quiet for over 20 years. I don't trust the government or the nuclear industry. I hope the Japanese can find a way to cool their reactors and spent fuel rods or we have a 1 in 3 chance of a reactor detonating and it would ignite 42 nuclear cores worth of uranium and plutonium.
GISGuy31 11 months ago
FOR ALL YOU ASSHOLES WHO STILL SUPPORT NUCLEAR... WATCH THIS, AND LEARN.
eatcarpet 11 months ago
@eatcarpet I understand your consern about nuclear power, but it is FOR NOW the best choise of energy before we could find a better and safer solution, we can`t build dams to every river fos waterplants or windmills/solarplants for every plains and fields and fossilfuel plants are polluting. people are using more energy all the time, we need power... p.s. and think how safe fukushima was it survived a earthquake and a tsunami, that was a worstcase scenario.
daboljuutii 6 months ago
@daboljuutii First off Fukushima did not "survive" earthquake/tsunami... it was a level 7 worst case accident, the core melted down and the radiation is still leaking. The problem is far from being resolved. Second there is already 10,000 times the amount of sunlight than we need to power up the entire world's electricity. All we need is to use is 1 of that 10,000 sunlight that reaches the earth.
eatcarpet 6 months ago
@eatcarpet good comment and what you say is true but the core melted couse they did`t get the reserve power from external dieselgenerators fast enough and the emergency batterys emptyed, that coused the meltdown, not tsunami or earthquake, thats what i mented, the nuclearplants(not RMBK) it self is very safe to run these days. and i know that the sun is the best option for energy put we dont have that kind of equipment tu run this planet fully on solarpower, or if there is it is too expensive.
daboljuutii 6 months ago
is that a real skeleton hand at 00:47? creepy.
nwillard 11 months ago
Really gain alot after watching this all videos. never realise that there is a huge incident in human history.i will promoting this video to others
soonhuat88 11 months ago
...overall it's just shocking that so many RMBK's are still in use, even though the safety of the power plants were made better after Chernobyl.
Balnazzardi 1 year ago
all other type of reactors, RMBKs are designed so that you can change the nuclear fuel on the fly, so there are no explosion proof containment structure that would limit the accident.....if the fuel rods would be exposed without water, the fuel would not only melt the reactor core, but with RMBK the heated tempature could actually accelerate the reactor, leading up to the same catastrophic and very quick meltdown that happened in Chernobyl , and even worse, if the graphite would ignite and burn
Balnazzardi 1 year ago
reactor didnt have back-up diesel generators that could have been immediately used to keep the water flowing to the reactors in the event that power had been cut off.
Ofcourse such natural disasters as in Japan, could never happen in the areas where RMBK reactors are located, and the condition of back-up diesel generators are regulary checked, but in the worst case scenario, nothing would prevent Chernobyl from rehappening again, because there are no shield-building around the reactors, like in
Balnazzardi 1 year ago
never forget and the recent events in Japan have showed that when it comes to nuclear energy, we can never be too careful.
Imagine same sort of situation with RMBK (Chernobyl-type) reactors, where the cut of all power would prevent the cooling of the reactor core and the back-up diesel genenerators wouldnt work either....the result would be catastrophic, exactly the same as in Chernobyl....so there really must be multiple back-up plans, it's quite terrifying that before Chernobyl, any RMBK
Balnazzardi 1 year ago
But ofcourse the economical and social effect of nuclear war would effect all of the world, even if the fallout and nuclear winter wouldnt and riots and even new wars with conventional weapons might errupt.
But anyways life would continue on Earth...but ofcourse the world would never be the same and it's entirely another quesion would it be life worth living, especially for those who survived the nuclear blast, but were contaminated by nuclear fallout.
Anyways Chernobyl is something we should
Balnazzardi 1 year ago
Let's hope there will never be a nuclear war. The Plutonium half life is more than a million year. That's eternity. If the war happen, plutonium will be spread to everywhere. No life will remain on Earth.
Civsuccess2 1 year ago
@Civsuccess2 Not exactly...altough fullscale nuclear war would ofcourse cause enormous loss of life and destruction, the more remote areas and population, far away from the nuclear blasts could survive quite well....ofcourse it all depends how wide spread the nuclear war would be, would it be limited to Europe/Russia/USA or would some countries from Southern Hemisphere involved....and how wide would the winds spread the enormous fallout.
Balnazzardi 1 year ago
@Ow3n86 Please, no need to thank me, just help spread awareness if you can... There's still so many people who are suffering from this disaster, and we can't let the world forget about them.
Jimdangello 1 year ago 6
You have to ask yourself, if knowing what you know now, would you go up onto that roof. That takes real gut. Then later on your guts fall apart.
I hope that we manage to develop fusion power, it should solve all our energy problems and its alot safer than nuclear fission. It seems incredible to me that people would ever even contemplate firing nukes at each other.
sizzlor108 1 year ago
What people don't understand is that Chernobyl is an ongoing nuclear accident. We have only partially contained the radioactive release. We haven't even begun cleaning up the widespread environmental contamination. A meltdown like this is a multi-thousand year event.
longlakeshore 1 year ago
Scary
waterboy716 1 year ago
thank you so much its a shame that only 2000 people have watched this
jaccomenting 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading. Very interesting. Incredible to think how many men were employed to clean up the mess, all the while knowing their health was at great risk. We all owe those brave men our lives.
People are visiting Pripyat nowadays and it would be an amazing place to go and get something of a feel for what those people went through, but the buildings are slowly decaying (one recently collapsed) and it'll be closed to the public some day. It is a time capsule frozen almost 25 years ago.
lumabi25 1 year ago
bear in mind that if the molten fuel hit the water most of europe would be inhabitable, those people averted a HUGE catastrophe and all they got was a flag?
redundant1180 1 year ago
@redundant1180 i know its been 3 months but they got some sort of soviet medal of honor
pieisgood928 1 year ago
@pieisgood928
A very poor miserable award, is what they got. Disgraceful! Criminal!
TheBoomViper 1 year ago
jesus christ, 245000 years for the half of it to disapear and you have to bare in mind that it will be another 245000 years before it's even half of that amount, it'll be another million of so years before any living creature can go in there and survive.
roryos 2 years ago
This was incredible. Thank you for posting it.
delphireactor 2 years ago 20
Wow finally finished watching em.. THANK U so much for the uploads this is so interesting don't know y we haven't learnt this in high school....by the way im from Sydney just watching the Australian open n heard Maria Sharapova mention this in an interview n sounded so shocking then starting Google Chernobyl ... so sad ...this is a HUGE DEAL!
Thanx for the uploads!
R0MY7 2 years ago 11