I wish all the worlds people would wake up and realize its corperations and there greed that are destroying the world..while we all fight over bigotry and racist natiaonalistic hatred they rape us and the land.
Nuclear energy is shit. Look at Japan... Half the country is radiated. Many people will die from cancer and WITHOUT EVER TO KNOW THAT IT WAS FROM THAT INCIDENTS IN FUKUSHIMA. Many will say it can not be proven... I say yes it can not be proven, BUT THOSE WHO HAVE A LITTLE BRAIN KNOW WHERE CANCER WILL HAVE COME FROM... everybody else go there as helper if you are pro nuclear... Go on... B a hero. pro nuclear = BRAINDEAD PEOPLE.
@CorrineInChains Sorry this is just idiotic that Uranium is less radioactive than MOX, shows how uneducated you are. MOX is more. The difference is that Chernobyl went overcritical and exploded, while Fukushime "just" melted.
@CorrineInChains Im not calm my tits... cause when everybody calms their tits, then this planet will go to hell.
I mean if the people of this world shuts up and the goverments do their dirty shit, like nuclear energy, then WE ARE DOOMED AND OUR CHILDREN ARE DOOMED... So i will scream so maybe some more people WAKE UP AND GET UNPLUGED FROM "THE MATRIX" and realize tha the goverments act in fascistic ways and do NOT what their people want them too... In other words, No Nucler- GO GREEN...
@hellenicsniper Clearly you've done plenty of research into what actually creates more pollution in terms of mass energy creation. Clearly you've brought facts and figures to prove that you're argument is actually valid, not just some rant because you don't like something. Clearly you've never lost an argument in your life and your spelling and punctuation is perfect....
Cancer can occur from many circumstances, not just nuclear. Think of a good argument before you have a nerd-rage on youtube.
@MrShadow316 Are you making fun of it ? You cant clearly see what radioactivity is about ?
I dont give a fuck about "the other circumstances because we cant stop the them" BUT NUCLEAR REACTORS WE CAN STOP AND TURN TO GREEN ENERGY NOW THAT THERE IS STILL TIME AHEAD. LOOK AT JAPAN EVERY DAY MY FRIEND AND LEARN, OR BE EXTERMINATED BY NUCLEAR ENERGY SOME DAY WITHOUT EVEN KNOWLEDGING IT.
About grammar and punctuation, sorry about it BUT I AM NOT NATIVE AMERICAN OR ENGLISH, SO ITS OK FOR ME.
Dont worry about grammar/punctuation.Your point is clear. We are killing ourselves and environment. What a high price we are paying in human lives and wildlife.It is not funny! 25 years later the contamination is still evident. 100k years is what is estimated. A new generation is suffering from cancers, primarily thyroid. The radiation level was estimated to be 90 times greater than Hiroshima. 15 yrs after the thyroid cancer rate increased 10 thousand times the norm.
Ok. I gave facts and figures. Yes cancer occurs but the people in Belarus had an increased rate of 10,000 just 15 years after. Its now 25 years and that number has increased. Do you not understand that 190 tons of uranium was expelled, 600,000 workers were sent on a suicide mission. I don't care about losing an argument. Its not about me or you but the people and generations that are still suffering. Now Japan. Have a heart, please.
I coudlnt imagine, you gotta be so careful in there you knock over something etc, and kick up a very nasty toxic dust cloud of radioactive particles, if you get those particles in your.. your dead for sure
It's amazing the amount of length the nuclear industry and the pro-nuclear people go through to cover-up any information and downplay every realistic risks and dangers. These people are nothing more than criminals for not properly warning people of its risks of nuclear.
@PoisonSapphire Radioactivity is basically energy that goes through your body, and when it does it damages your DNA, causing DNA mutations which causes cancers.
@overvolting They didn't step in some water; they were emergency workers trying to restore power to the plant, who were standing in contaminated water for half an hour. The part about their skin looking like "they were boiled from the waste[waist] down" is pure fabrication, as no pictures have been released and the only statements by reputable sources is that they are being treated for _possible_ beta burns on their _feet_.
@Snesgamer in Chernobyl the core exploded and the fuel was in the land, in fukushima there's no broken core, no meltdown and no shit like that, in Chernobyl the radiation could kill you in seconds (over 10 Sv) in Fukushima, in the worst day, needs years to kill someone, probably you'll die for natural causes before for radiation (0.001 Sv)
What happened in Japan wasnt just a natural disaster but a combination of elements that were triggered by the disaster itself. I bet that in a couple years when investigations have been taken we will see that the disaster at Fukushima was created due to poor maintainance, bad quality reactors (MARK 1 reactors by General Electric proved back in the 70s to give problems in US nuclear plants and were replaced by many nuclear stations due to these problems) and a disaster that nobody expected.
Can't work for more than 30 minutes in the first room? Damn I wouldn't go anywhere NEAR a room that has radiation that becomes dangerous if I'm in it for more than 30 minutes lol.
@vids4chrome Yes and the worst. It isnt built like the Pyramids, to last the hundreds and/or thousands of years it will need to last. I've read and seen about the new Sarcophagus they're about to build, but havent found info about how long this new one will last. Nuclear Power is something very important and useful in the world, however it is very dangerous and requires good engineering and certain cares with an amount of luck to prevent horrible things from happening.
@DerAdventurer They need to think even farther ahead than this latest building. Some kind of deep underground structure shielded in lead that will last at least a couple centuries. This is a problem people will deal with until the end of man. 100,000 years estimate.
@vids4chrome Indeed... with such a long period of danger, it will be always haunting the humankind, since no usual structure could resist for all that long.
@fallenfromx - that is the Pro Nuclear argument every time...and that's awesome UNTIL THERE IS AN ACCIDENT!!
alternative energy could easily fuel the world if there was enough commitment by governments to develop it. Hopefully the disaster in Japan will make people realise that nuclear energy is not safe and alternatives should be developed for the sake of humanity
@fallenfromx - that is the Pro Nuclear argument every time...and that's awesome UNTIL THERE IS AN ACCIDENT!!
alternative energy could easily fuel the world if there was enough commitment by governments to develop it. Hopefully the disaster in Japan will make people realise that nuclear energy is not safe and alternatives should be developed, for the sake of humanity
@xterminaler Yeah, TERRITORY, Not money, Drugs or diamonds!
And ever seen racism around the animal kingdom,? i once met a kid saying humans make war with good reasons and animals with bad reasons and animals only for might and power, and the he called ME dumb!
@SuperMuscleman1 why dont u shut the fuck up dude you have no idea what your talking about! they already said it was a mix of fualty building of the reactor and lack of a containment building like wester reactors must have and a mix of stupid kgb members and solviet butt heads that caused all the problems. the water isnt burried its stored and re-used to cool fuel rods and then stored again to cool and be re used so shut ur fucking arrigant think u know it all mouth
@rainerfilm Radiation levels drop of time. But when this video was made (from what the narrator said it was 1991 when it was made) the radiations levels would still have been incredibly high. I bet even today the radiation in the reactor is still quite high.
@rainerfilm no, its died down. Not by much, but it has. but thats only the CNPP. as for the rest of the Zone, the radiation levels have died down immensely everywhere, except for near the center where the CNPP sits
But can anyone tell me what the difference is between this documentary and the BBC Horizons one? They seem to have parralel footage just with different commentators, I think I like this one better although the other is a hell of a lot easier to download.
all those men had to have died. a good portion of their bodies aren't even covered, and if u take a look at newer films the suits are a lot safer looking. it took a while for scientists to really figure out how dangerous it was
I wonder if you can feel the radiation. Does it feel like a burning sensation gradually build up like a sun burn or something completely different? Must have been horrific being in those ruins!
At a chemical level, radiation burns you the same way fire or the sun does. You skin is being oxdized. In a fire, the process is very fast, so you feel it. In the case of the sun or exposure to high levels of gamma, the process is slow (although equally deadly), and so the burns only appear later...
These guys are either very, very brave or very, very dumb. What would compel a man to walk into the fucking power plant that killed thousands of people and gave cancer to hundreds more? If not ridden with cancer, they're most likely sterile. That or their reproductive cells are horribly, horribly mutated.
These guys were uneducated firemen who had no idea that they were fighting a special kind of fire. The whole situation at the time was poorly understood, and the firefighters just thought they were putting out an electrical fire. There had been small electrical-based fires at the plant in the past, anyways...
They do, however, realize that they were in a nuclear power plant which had just melted down. If they lived in Pripyat, they could probably feel the shockwave. Not at all saying it was an explosion, however.
Yup. The big thing to remember is that at that time, most people in the Soviet Union had NO idea regarding radiation/nuclear stuff whatsoever. Many of the firefighters probably never knew that radiation was even bad for you. ....Today, most people know this stuff, but back then and over there, it was much different. :-)
Well, my main point being that they pretty much knew that if a brand new type of powerplant exploded, perhaps it wouldn't be that good an idea to go inside of it. I don't know for sure.
You're correct. They did still realize that they were not fighting just a normal fire. They did hear the blast, but what else could they have done? They did not know anything other than there was a big fire needing to be put out. So that's what they did. They all were aware of a metallic taste in their mouth, and many of them became very ill once they had spent some time in the fire. They definitely knew something was up. They just did not have the knowledge to know that it was due to radiation.
Very true. However, I've heard that they only spend x amount of time before another shift took over, which means whoever was commanding them knew what was going on.
Also, this video MAY be incorrect. The sarcophagus is not the area around the reactor, but it's a structure build above the hole the explosion created to block emissions.
The time limits in regards to the shifts only applied to the actual cleap up stage. The gravity of the whole situation was not really realized until the actual fire was extinguished. And that only took a few hours at most.
The sarcophagus covers the entire destroyed reactor and much of the highly radioactive debris. The entire reactor building is not covered completely by the sarchogus.. :-)
Indeed. Since they knew they were going to have to cover the reactor anyways, they figured they'd use it as an opportunity to dispose of some of the worst of the debris. SO, they chucked it in.
If you are looking for a quality geiger counter, I would recommend ECOTEST. They make some quality products. Plan on spending at least $150.00 USD. :-)
Seiverts is the new SI standard unit for the biological effect of raditation. It's older equivalent unit is the REM.
R/milliR/microR refers to the actual dose-rate. and is measured in rate-per-hour. In in order to find an affordable geiger counter than measures in R, you may need to look at older units or more expensive newer models. :-)
yeah "small amounts" that reached areas within deep western europe, plus even believed to have spread eastwards having even reached to japan, so i don't know what your imagination of small is then. and i'm not spreading false info. don't know if you know some german but if so then check out e.g. the report "der millionensarg" also featured here on you tube. a very professional independent report free of soviet propaganda manipulation data.
later examinations of the inside have proven that there aren't tons of radioactive materials inside the destroyed reactor, actually it has shown that most of the radioactive materials had been released into the atmosphere by the explosion.
90 percent was left in the form of pure molten fuel, fuel fused with the graphite, and general debris.
even then, the debris that was blown outside was shoveled right back into the reactor by the liquidators.
in about another 8-9 years, 48% of the radioactive material will be left due to the decomposing of the main source, caesium-137, and strontium-90. (considering both have a have life of roughly 29 years.
iodine was also present in fairly large amounts, but has a very short half life of
that's an official soviet version, but examinations of a german nuclear scientist together with a russian independent scientist (a guy that goes by a name prof. tchecherov, not sure if its written this way) entered the sarcophagus a couple of times finding that there aren't nowhere near as many radioactice remainings as the official version claims, and so they set up the only correct conclusion that way more had been released by the explosion than official versions admitted to.
@polinitm125 The reactor was a terrible design. It had a large positive void coefficient(if the coolant water ever starts boiling in the reactor, the power output rapidly increases out of control).
SCRAMing the reactor took ~20 seconds(a few seconds at most in western reactors), and the control rods were tipped with graphite, and the emergency generators took 60 seconds to start.
It is because the reactor was such a dangerous design that the test was devised and perfomed.
I'm thinking that the narrator in this video series is the same guy that narrates the TRU TV television show Forensic Files ~ His name is Peter Thomas. Thanks for sharing!! I've always been facinated by the history behind the Chernobyl accident.
the floor of the reactor was cracking, water from the fire crews was pooling beneath, if it had got through to the water then, boom, bye bye europe. simplest way to put it, if you need more, look at vids on here from discovery, 8 parts to it, very interesting.
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like most of europe will be uninhabital and well let's say that all of us will like die of radiation and it would burn down into the crust of the planet according to recent reports
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I undsterand while unshielded nuclear chain reactions in the open evironment are bad. RADIATION BAD, I GET THAT. I am just wondering why they think a second chain reaction might be likely to be spontaneously initiated. I assume after the explosion and core meltdown, that the remaining fuel is sparse and not concentrated.
@nitestryker7 At least there are a handful of people out there who aren't ignorant to the truth about nuclear power. Thank you, nitestryker7. I'm always surprised at how many people think nuclear power is the most dangerous thing we've ever created.
@doonbugie No. Natural disasters happen. The reason its on the verge of meltdown is human cooling systems were unprepared for a loss of power for more than a few hours.
@aigy85 Yes. Again, human error. All of the cooling systems were built using diesel power (no power, no cooling). And the reactors are all located near major subduction faults. Nothing is 100 % safe, but things could have been done better. All of their reactors use 1970's technology.
@nitestryker7 true, but people do say that if something as poisonous as radioactive elements were buried away from us then they were meant to stay there. not that nuclear energy isnt efficient, its just a risky business that runs on the margins of really good and really bad
While there have not been an outrageous amount of things like this that happen, Nuclear Power is not safe to use if this has a chance of happening- there are very safe and available means of Natural Power Alternatives.
While we use Nuclear Power today- I think that we should move away from it because the risk of Nuclear Melt Down, Nuclear Exposure, and Contamination is so hard to control if this does happen- it is not worth the lives and damage that it causes.
What sort of natural power? Solar? Good luck meeting energy needs unless you're willing to kick everyone out of arizona and set up panels there, and god help you if it rains more than once in a while. Wind? what happens if there's no breeze that day?
The only viable alternative for fossil fuels right now is Nuclear, like it or not.
@pcasso87 Yes it was. The cooling systems failed, not the nuclear reaction. The reactor didnt just spontaneously explode. And the event is still happening. Once we achieve 20/20 hindsight on this event, we will find plenty of human errors.
@supermariner human error in this case could come down to designing or decisions made once things started to go wrong. we don't know yet, it's WAY too early to know what's going on in japan.
@supermariner Its the human systems that have failed, not the nuclear systems. The reaction is still contained and is producing energy as it should. Its the human cooling elements that are failing because they were built 40 years ago and were not designed to withstand the g-forces of the quake. Magnitude doesnt matter as much as the g-forces. Look at the San Onofre nuclear power plant. Its designed to handle .67 g-forces. Much higher than the Fukushima plant.
although it was very american ( I.E.: anti-soviet) The reactor at chenobyl was a RBMK (also known as "peaceful atom" now thats ironie at its finest)which has a increbable power output that is impressive even by todays standard the problem was that the control rods decent into the reactor takes 2.5 seconds at best that is slow even by the standards of the time and as the control rods in question are made of graphite with in these 2.5 seconds they warped,split and shattered rendering them useless
I know they still havent fixed the sagophagus suroinding the powerplant, i really hope they do that soon, Concidering bout 3% came out the first time, i wouldnt wanna experience how it would be like, if the remaining 97Percent got out :(
"Humans and science are both a perfect match and a lethal mix. Never forget Chernobyl '86"
Yet you have no trouble forgetting the fact that as many people die from coal power particulate emissions every 7 weeks in the US as will die from Chernobyl?
Radiation drops exponentially with time. The initial radiation drop over five years would've been massive, as short half-life fission products decayed away.
A large proportion of the radioactivity present in the days after the accident would be decayed by the time this video was taken.
Nowadays, you will get as much a rate of dose of radiation on the plane flight to the Ukraine, as you would spending a day at the Chernobyl plant...outside the sarcophagus of course..
"i've read reports saying that the Americium contamination could take as long as 2 million years to phase out." -Yeah but you have to remember were talking about half lives. the decrease is not steady: 100 50 25 12 (rounded down) 6 3 2.5 1.25 0.6 0.3 0.1 see, it will take a long time for it to get down to normal radiation levels but it gets down very quickly.
"[...]Americium contamination could take as long as 2 million years to phase out."
No. The longest lived isotope of americium has a half-life of 7000 years, it will go away much faster than that.
Radiation is emitted when the atom decays. If the half-life is long it's not very active. The most dangerous sources of radiation are long gone(e.g. I-131), but did the most damage. Cs-137 is still quite problematic but americium is already below natural background in most of the zone.
Does anyone know how scripted this video, they had a little or rather way over estimate on how long that will be radioactive.
It's more like 100-200 years.
By the way since thi was 5 years after, debris mask and some white suits would barely help them against gamma. I'm going to say 90% of these scientist have died to this date.
They were cheated and lied to, they were told by their bosses that they woudln't die from the radiation and they were screwed over big time, althought i don't doubt that they would have gone in anyway. Whether or not they were communists, they showed tremendous bravery to contain the radiation.
This incident is so dark.. so dark. When you realize free energy tech has existed for decades, it becomes even more apparent that this should never have happened at all..
A sad reality that we live in.This was caused by some mans foolish pride.Damn that foolish and ego man.You can not play god without getting hurt and hurting others all round the world.
Let's blow some nuclear dust!
Samyaza69 1 month ago
Actually there was a partial core meltdown in block 2 in 1982 at Chernobyl
hhluvzmagik 2 months ago
@hhluvzmagik And yet they still kept fucking with it.
Jemalacane 1 month ago
6:22 in the inset: atoms yielding ~3 neutrons? must be plutonium 239, not uranium
felineboy 4 months ago
This is no time for chewing the fat!
northroad1 5 months ago
I wish all the worlds people would wake up and realize its corperations and there greed that are destroying the world..while we all fight over bigotry and racist natiaonalistic hatred they rape us and the land.
Dojocho 9 months ago
Nuclear energy is shit. Look at Japan... Half the country is radiated. Many people will die from cancer and WITHOUT EVER TO KNOW THAT IT WAS FROM THAT INCIDENTS IN FUKUSHIMA. Many will say it can not be proven... I say yes it can not be proven, BUT THOSE WHO HAVE A LITTLE BRAIN KNOW WHERE CANCER WILL HAVE COME FROM... everybody else go there as helper if you are pro nuclear... Go on... B a hero. pro nuclear = BRAINDEAD PEOPLE.
hellenicsniper 10 months ago
@hellenicsniper Uranium (Chernobyl) is a lot less radioactive than MOX fuel (Fukkushima).
Fukkushima is different than Chernobyl.
CorrineInChains 9 months ago
@CorrineInChains Sorry this is just idiotic that Uranium is less radioactive than MOX, shows how uneducated you are. MOX is more. The difference is that Chernobyl went overcritical and exploded, while Fukushime "just" melted.
fuzzygrid 9 months ago
I DONT GIVE A SHIT WHAT IS MORE OR LESS RADIOACTIVE...
I CARE ONLY THAT IT IS DEADLY ENOUGH TO BRING ME AND MY CHILDREN,PARENTS ETC ETC ETC, C A N C E R...
through the food chain, through the water chain, etc etc etc
HALF TIME FOR URANIUN IS 4.47 billion years
HALF TIME FOR PLUTONIUM 24,100 years
So tell the Japanese, THEY HAVE TO LOOK FOR ANOTHER ISLAND TO GO AND HABBIT, BECAUSE THEIR ISLAND IS "DEAD" FOR many years to come.
I DONT WANT THE SAME FATE, SO I DONT WANT NUCLER FUCKING ENERGY!
hellenicsniper 9 months ago
@hellenicsniper Relax, dude. Seriously. You're not gonna get anywhere with your cause by screaming at people on YouTube. Calm your tits.
CorrineInChains 9 months ago
@CorrineInChains Im not calm my tits... cause when everybody calms their tits, then this planet will go to hell.
I mean if the people of this world shuts up and the goverments do their dirty shit, like nuclear energy, then WE ARE DOOMED AND OUR CHILDREN ARE DOOMED... So i will scream so maybe some more people WAKE UP AND GET UNPLUGED FROM "THE MATRIX" and realize tha the goverments act in fascistic ways and do NOT what their people want them too... In other words, No Nucler- GO GREEN...
hellenicsniper 9 months ago
@hellenicsniper You're not going anywhere. Calm the fuck down.
CorrineInChains 9 months ago
@hellenicsniper Clearly you've done plenty of research into what actually creates more pollution in terms of mass energy creation. Clearly you've brought facts and figures to prove that you're argument is actually valid, not just some rant because you don't like something. Clearly you've never lost an argument in your life and your spelling and punctuation is perfect....
Cancer can occur from many circumstances, not just nuclear. Think of a good argument before you have a nerd-rage on youtube.
MrShadow316 8 months ago
@MrShadow316 Are you making fun of it ? You cant clearly see what radioactivity is about ?
I dont give a fuck about "the other circumstances because we cant stop the them" BUT NUCLEAR REACTORS WE CAN STOP AND TURN TO GREEN ENERGY NOW THAT THERE IS STILL TIME AHEAD. LOOK AT JAPAN EVERY DAY MY FRIEND AND LEARN, OR BE EXTERMINATED BY NUCLEAR ENERGY SOME DAY WITHOUT EVEN KNOWLEDGING IT.
About grammar and punctuation, sorry about it BUT I AM NOT NATIVE AMERICAN OR ENGLISH, SO ITS OK FOR ME.
hellenicsniper 8 months ago
Dont worry about grammar/punctuation.Your point is clear. We are killing ourselves and environment. What a high price we are paying in human lives and wildlife.It is not funny! 25 years later the contamination is still evident. 100k years is what is estimated. A new generation is suffering from cancers, primarily thyroid. The radiation level was estimated to be 90 times greater than Hiroshima. 15 yrs after the thyroid cancer rate increased 10 thousand times the norm.
505JAM505 5 months ago
Ok. I gave facts and figures. Yes cancer occurs but the people in Belarus had an increased rate of 10,000 just 15 years after. Its now 25 years and that number has increased. Do you not understand that 190 tons of uranium was expelled, 600,000 workers were sent on a suicide mission. I don't care about losing an argument. Its not about me or you but the people and generations that are still suffering. Now Japan. Have a heart, please.
505JAM505 5 months ago
I coudlnt imagine, you gotta be so careful in there you knock over something etc, and kick up a very nasty toxic dust cloud of radioactive particles, if you get those particles in your.. your dead for sure
getowned84able 10 months ago 2
It's amazing the amount of length the nuclear industry and the pro-nuclear people go through to cover-up any information and downplay every realistic risks and dangers. These people are nothing more than criminals for not properly warning people of its risks of nuclear.
eatcarpet 10 months ago
did they say it had been 5 years after the disaster, i dont think i'd go till at least 15
Dominick1215 10 months ago
I have no idea what radioactivity really is please tell me what does it do to your body, is it somekind of deaseas in the air or what is it
PoisonSapphire 10 months ago
@PoisonSapphire Radioactivity is basically energy that goes through your body, and when it does it damages your DNA, causing DNA mutations which causes cancers.
eatcarpet 10 months ago
"Fukushima, in the worst day, needs years to kill someone, probably you'll die for natural causes before for radiation (0.001 Sv)"
Yeah, tell that to the fuckers who stepped in some water and looked like they were boiled from the waist down 2 days ago.
overvolting 10 months ago
@overvolting They didn't step in some water; they were emergency workers trying to restore power to the plant, who were standing in contaminated water for half an hour. The part about their skin looking like "they were boiled from the waste[waist] down" is pure fabrication, as no pictures have been released and the only statements by reputable sources is that they are being treated for _possible_ beta burns on their _feet_.
soylentgreenb 10 months ago
Man, this shit is still scary today, even 25 years later - and this was one reactor. Can't imagine what the situation in Japan must be like with 4.
Snesgamer 10 months ago
@Snesgamer It's not as severe in Japan though.
tkavalanche24 10 months ago
@Snesgamer in Chernobyl the core exploded and the fuel was in the land, in fukushima there's no broken core, no meltdown and no shit like that, in Chernobyl the radiation could kill you in seconds (over 10 Sv) in Fukushima, in the worst day, needs years to kill someone, probably you'll die for natural causes before for radiation (0.001 Sv)
fabiomb 10 months ago
What happened in Japan wasnt just a natural disaster but a combination of elements that were triggered by the disaster itself. I bet that in a couple years when investigations have been taken we will see that the disaster at Fukushima was created due to poor maintainance, bad quality reactors (MARK 1 reactors by General Electric proved back in the 70s to give problems in US nuclear plants and were replaced by many nuclear stations due to these problems) and a disaster that nobody expected.
JAAPJXBIT 10 months ago
Can't work for more than 30 minutes in the first room? Damn I wouldn't go anywhere NEAR a room that has radiation that becomes dangerous if I'm in it for more than 30 minutes lol.
EnigmaHood 10 months ago
What many of you folks like to disregard, is that human error, sooner or later, is inevitable.
INEVITABLE.
And as someone pointed out, 20/20 hindsight always reveals multitudes of errors.
So when you're dealing with technology that leaves NO ROOM for error, disaster is...inevitable.
jrg8008 10 months ago
The iron/concrete Sarcophagus look is so sinister and it contains something so terrible that you could even say it is like "Devil's Graveyard".
DerAdventurer 10 months ago
@DerAdventurer The Sarcophagus has holes in it. =/
vids4chrome 10 months ago
@vids4chrome Yes and the worst. It isnt built like the Pyramids, to last the hundreds and/or thousands of years it will need to last. I've read and seen about the new Sarcophagus they're about to build, but havent found info about how long this new one will last. Nuclear Power is something very important and useful in the world, however it is very dangerous and requires good engineering and certain cares with an amount of luck to prevent horrible things from happening.
DerAdventurer 10 months ago
@DerAdventurer They need to think even farther ahead than this latest building. Some kind of deep underground structure shielded in lead that will last at least a couple centuries. This is a problem people will deal with until the end of man. 100,000 years estimate.
vids4chrome 10 months ago
@vids4chrome Indeed... with such a long period of danger, it will be always haunting the humankind, since no usual structure could resist for all that long.
DerAdventurer 10 months ago
Human error is inevitable...as proven every day.
To err is human but to AVOID the truth is deadly.
With every human error there comes thousands of deaths...
So instead of deadly technology, try GREEN ENERGY. Good for you, Good for the nature.
NUCLEAR REACTORS (and nuclear weapons) ON the FACE OF EARTH IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY ITSELF... (DIRTY ENERGY)
hellenicsniper 10 months ago 2
@hellenicsniper to be honest, nuclear energy is the cleanest method of producing energy (at a massive level)
green energy cannot fuel all of the worlds energy demand.
fallenfromx 10 months ago
@fallenfromx - that is the Pro Nuclear argument every time...and that's awesome UNTIL THERE IS AN ACCIDENT!!
alternative energy could easily fuel the world if there was enough commitment by governments to develop it. Hopefully the disaster in Japan will make people realise that nuclear energy is not safe and alternatives should be developed for the sake of humanity
zok161 9 months ago
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@fallenfromx - that is the Pro Nuclear argument every time...and that's awesome UNTIL THERE IS AN ACCIDENT!!
alternative energy could easily fuel the world if there was enough commitment by governments to develop it. Hopefully the disaster in Japan will make people realise that nuclear energy is not safe and alternatives should be developed, for the sake of humanity
zok161 9 months ago
@fallenfromx theres one than can keep up with nuke plants: solar panels.
aallee6 9 months ago
@fallenfromx Maybe we'll try to live with less energy
pepiflor 9 months ago
@hellenicsniper Humans are stupid, Ever seen an animal make war? NO...
luckjes112 8 months ago
@luckjes112 chimpanzees have been recorded fighting over territory.
xterminaler 7 months ago
@xterminaler Yeah, TERRITORY, Not money, Drugs or diamonds!
And ever seen racism around the animal kingdom,? i once met a kid saying humans make war with good reasons and animals with bad reasons and animals only for might and power, and the he called ME dumb!
luckjes112 7 months ago
@luckjes112 Actually, monkeys..
gavquinn 7 months ago
@gavquinn What? Am i dumb?
You sayin` that? I oughta beat you up, Boys, Get him...
wait, i am not a maffia boss
luckjes112 7 months ago
@SuperMuscleman1 why dont u shut the fuck up dude you have no idea what your talking about! they already said it was a mix of fualty building of the reactor and lack of a containment building like wester reactors must have and a mix of stupid kgb members and solviet butt heads that caused all the problems. the water isnt burried its stored and re-used to cool fuel rods and then stored again to cool and be re used so shut ur fucking arrigant think u know it all mouth
valosbabygurl 10 months ago
what is name of song at 7:29
HedgehogStudios1 11 months ago
Heavy was very sad to see reactor exploding. He worried mostly about his sandvich getting poisoned with radiation.
HedgehogStudios1 11 months ago
@SuperMuscleman1 lol your a moron
steveplayer21 11 months ago
Lol wish granter x) . This is what i call heroes,because the risked their life so bad. I would never accept a work in this conditions.
ikbenswe 1 year ago
I bet they are all dead.. I would never go in there.
bfrance2002 1 year ago
They should use remote control Cybernetic implants, and send in prisoners that have murdered or raped others to do this terrible work.
loveunderlaw 1 year ago
Very old documentary, circa 1991 I'm assuming?
youngdones 1 year ago
@youngdones
Yep, this documentary is mainly filmed in 1991, with the last shots sometime in 1996.
TheBoomViper 1 year ago
Those guys are all gonna get cancer.
CamButler 1 year ago
@CamButler their all prob dead by now
killerblazer459 1 year ago
I don't understand how it is possible for people to walk around in there, the radiation is just as bad as it was 20 years ago.
rainerfilm 1 year ago
@rainerfilm Radiation levels drop of time. But when this video was made (from what the narrator said it was 1991 when it was made) the radiations levels would still have been incredibly high. I bet even today the radiation in the reactor is still quite high.
Xzameron 1 year ago
@rainerfilm no, its died down. Not by much, but it has. but thats only the CNPP. as for the rest of the Zone, the radiation levels have died down immensely everywhere, except for near the center where the CNPP sits
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ShadowZzznaiper 1 year ago
Oustanding video's, really amazing.
But can anyone tell me what the difference is between this documentary and the BBC Horizons one? They seem to have parralel footage just with different commentators, I think I like this one better although the other is a hell of a lot easier to download.
thebrain100491 2 years ago
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What the FUCK is this!? where are the damn vampires and sarcophagus stuff?
condorlegion89 2 years ago
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those crazy Russian 's
octobubble 2 years ago
@octobubble it's not in Russia idiot.
aapinator 2 years ago 6
right its in the ukraine
mommasboy168 1 year ago
i give you right
Jaschar60 2 years ago
all those men had to have died. a good portion of their bodies aren't even covered, and if u take a look at newer films the suits are a lot safer looking. it took a while for scientists to really figure out how dangerous it was
Blazedastreetracer 2 years ago 2
A reporters boss asks the reporter to film this.
The reporter replies: "What made you think I would agree to this?"
Jemalacane 2 years ago
;DDDDD
EZERINIAI 2 years ago
5 years this dumb asses should be dead
iTzGiNz 2 years ago
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this guys are stupid to go inside!
tannerflacher 2 years ago
5 years ago? wow....this video is OLD...
DandMrB 2 years ago
I wonder if you can feel the radiation. Does it feel like a burning sensation gradually build up like a sun burn or something completely different? Must have been horrific being in those ruins!
gordon1201 2 years ago
At a chemical level, radiation burns you the same way fire or the sun does. You skin is being oxdized. In a fire, the process is very fast, so you feel it. In the case of the sun or exposure to high levels of gamma, the process is slow (although equally deadly), and so the burns only appear later...
stephendonnelly88 2 years ago
These guys are either very, very brave or very, very dumb. What would compel a man to walk into the fucking power plant that killed thousands of people and gave cancer to hundreds more? If not ridden with cancer, they're most likely sterile. That or their reproductive cells are horribly, horribly mutated.
PrimoVids 2 years ago
These guys were uneducated firemen who had no idea that they were fighting a special kind of fire. The whole situation at the time was poorly understood, and the firefighters just thought they were putting out an electrical fire. There had been small electrical-based fires at the plant in the past, anyways...
stephendonnelly88 2 years ago
They do, however, realize that they were in a nuclear power plant which had just melted down. If they lived in Pripyat, they could probably feel the shockwave. Not at all saying it was an explosion, however.
PrimoVids 2 years ago
Yup. The big thing to remember is that at that time, most people in the Soviet Union had NO idea regarding radiation/nuclear stuff whatsoever. Many of the firefighters probably never knew that radiation was even bad for you. ....Today, most people know this stuff, but back then and over there, it was much different. :-)
stephendonnelly88 2 years ago
Well, my main point being that they pretty much knew that if a brand new type of powerplant exploded, perhaps it wouldn't be that good an idea to go inside of it. I don't know for sure.
PrimoVids 2 years ago
You're correct. They did still realize that they were not fighting just a normal fire. They did hear the blast, but what else could they have done? They did not know anything other than there was a big fire needing to be put out. So that's what they did. They all were aware of a metallic taste in their mouth, and many of them became very ill once they had spent some time in the fire. They definitely knew something was up. They just did not have the knowledge to know that it was due to radiation.
stephendonnelly88 2 years ago
Very true. However, I've heard that they only spend x amount of time before another shift took over, which means whoever was commanding them knew what was going on.
Also, this video MAY be incorrect. The sarcophagus is not the area around the reactor, but it's a structure build above the hole the explosion created to block emissions.
PrimoVids 2 years ago
The time limits in regards to the shifts only applied to the actual cleap up stage. The gravity of the whole situation was not really realized until the actual fire was extinguished. And that only took a few hours at most.
The sarcophagus covers the entire destroyed reactor and much of the highly radioactive debris. The entire reactor building is not covered completely by the sarchogus.. :-)
stephendonnelly88 2 years ago
Yeah. The hole where the explosion occured is probably filled with radioactive debris, right?
Anyways, I feel like buying a geiger counter now.
PrimoVids 2 years ago
Indeed. Since they knew they were going to have to cover the reactor anyways, they figured they'd use it as an opportunity to dispose of some of the worst of the debris. SO, they chucked it in.
If you are looking for a quality geiger counter, I would recommend ECOTEST. They make some quality products. Plan on spending at least $150.00 USD. :-)
stephendonnelly88 2 years ago
I'm looking for one not in Seiverts or microseiverts but RADS or Gray. Or an easy conversion from mS to R, seeing as one Gray is equal to 100 rads.
PrimoVids 2 years ago
Seiverts is the new SI standard unit for the biological effect of raditation. It's older equivalent unit is the REM.
R/milliR/microR refers to the actual dose-rate. and is measured in rate-per-hour. In in order to find an affordable geiger counter than measures in R, you may need to look at older units or more expensive newer models. :-)
stephendonnelly88 2 years ago
Duhhhh.
ethanswish123 2 years ago
Loving your profile pic, in spite of your most recent comment... [/sarcasm]
PrimoVids 2 years ago
it all lies virtually in the "basement of the reactor."
and i agree it was small amounts that escaped, but only small in relativity to the accident as a whole.
it was still a very large release in general terms.
tdizz92 2 years ago
pt2:
only 9 days.
the radiation that did escape was small amounts of dust and mainly iodine vapor.
if you honestly believe there's not a lot of fuel/radiation left, go see for yourself and don't give false info.
tdizz92 2 years ago
yeah "small amounts" that reached areas within deep western europe, plus even believed to have spread eastwards having even reached to japan, so i don't know what your imagination of small is then. and i'm not spreading false info. don't know if you know some german but if so then check out e.g. the report "der millionensarg" also featured here on you tube. a very professional independent report free of soviet propaganda manipulation data.
CHUUMPASS 2 years ago
later examinations of the inside have proven that there aren't tons of radioactive materials inside the destroyed reactor, actually it has shown that most of the radioactive materials had been released into the atmosphere by the explosion.
CHUUMPASS 2 years ago
No.
90 percent was left in the form of pure molten fuel, fuel fused with the graphite, and general debris.
even then, the debris that was blown outside was shoveled right back into the reactor by the liquidators.
in about another 8-9 years, 48% of the radioactive material will be left due to the decomposing of the main source, caesium-137, and strontium-90. (considering both have a have life of roughly 29 years.
iodine was also present in fairly large amounts, but has a very short half life of
tdizz92 2 years ago
that's an official soviet version, but examinations of a german nuclear scientist together with a russian independent scientist (a guy that goes by a name prof. tchecherov, not sure if its written this way) entered the sarcophagus a couple of times finding that there aren't nowhere near as many radioactice remainings as the official version claims, and so they set up the only correct conclusion that way more had been released by the explosion than official versions admitted to.
CHUUMPASS 2 years ago
I know this is serious but dosent the american narrating it sound like a robot?
limatedman 2 years ago
Not at all.
Horse125 2 years ago
I think he sort of does.
limatedman 2 years ago
The sarcophagus, the epitome of this man made hell.
EdikShepherd 2 years ago 2
These people are amazing
gabbeslabbe 2 years ago 10
its not the soviets designs fault its the cock that organised such a stupid test in the first place
polinitm125 2 years ago 5
Well said.
ender2reynolds 2 years ago
i think it was both... the design should not have allowed being such a cock and switching off safety systems
marhalabszar 2 years ago 2
@polinitm125 The reactor was a terrible design. It had a large positive void coefficient(if the coolant water ever starts boiling in the reactor, the power output rapidly increases out of control).
SCRAMing the reactor took ~20 seconds(a few seconds at most in western reactors), and the control rods were tipped with graphite, and the emergency generators took 60 seconds to start.
It is because the reactor was such a dangerous design that the test was devised and perfomed.
soylentgreenb 10 months ago
i remeber that
angelicsnoww 2 years ago
I'm thinking that the narrator in this video series is the same guy that narrates the TRU TV television show Forensic Files ~ His name is Peter Thomas. Thanks for sharing!! I've always been facinated by the history behind the Chernobyl accident.
Wendy313 2 years ago
Thanks so much for posting this -- I remember seeing it as a kid. Powerful stuff.
angengea 2 years ago 3
did they leave that guy in there?
USMAI 3 years ago 5
Does anyone know why they are worried about a second chain reaction initiating and causing an explosion???
thefullmonte03 3 years ago
the floor of the reactor was cracking, water from the fire crews was pooling beneath, if it had got through to the water then, boom, bye bye europe. simplest way to put it, if you need more, look at vids on here from discovery, 8 parts to it, very interesting.
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USMAI 3 years ago
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like most of europe will be uninhabital and well let's say that all of us will like die of radiation and it would burn down into the crust of the planet according to recent reports
swiftdragoness88 3 years ago
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I undsterand while unshielded nuclear chain reactions in the open evironment are bad. RADIATION BAD, I GET THAT. I am just wondering why they think a second chain reaction might be likely to be spontaneously initiated. I assume after the explosion and core meltdown, that the remaining fuel is sparse and not concentrated.
thefullmonte03 3 years ago
Nuclear energy is not inherently evil. Human error is to blame in all Nuclear disasters.
Nuclear energy is safe, but put a crew of pisspoor trained humans in charge of it and you WILL have a problem.
nitestryker7 3 years ago 36
@nitestryker7 This reactor was designed first and foremost as a weapon. Power was just a convenient by-product.
ESAPOWER 1 year ago
@ESAPOWER HA HA LOL OMFG!!!!!!
steveplayer21 11 months ago
@steveplayer21 Seriously. The intention was to spend plutonium and Uranium for use as fuel in nuclear fission weapons.
ESAPOWER 11 months ago
@nitestryker7 You speak as though human error is avoidable.
jareth2472 11 months ago
@jareth2472 They were conducting an unauthorized "experiment." That WAS avoidable.
hailmasch 11 months ago
@nitestryker7 At least there are a handful of people out there who aren't ignorant to the truth about nuclear power. Thank you, nitestryker7. I'm always surprised at how many people think nuclear power is the most dangerous thing we've ever created.
demiseofpurity 11 months ago
@nitestryker7 What about the Japanese Tsunami
doonbugie 10 months ago
@doonbugie What about it?
nitestryker7 10 months ago
@nitestryker7 the reason the its on the verge of meltdown is due to natural disaster.
doonbugie 10 months ago
@doonbugie No. Natural disasters happen. The reason its on the verge of meltdown is human cooling systems were unprepared for a loss of power for more than a few hours.
nitestryker7 10 months ago
@nitestryker7 Are you sure? Have you watched the news about the catastrophe in Fukushima power plant?
aigy85 10 months ago
@aigy85 Yes. Again, human error. All of the cooling systems were built using diesel power (no power, no cooling). And the reactors are all located near major subduction faults. Nothing is 100 % safe, but things could have been done better. All of their reactors use 1970's technology.
nitestryker7 10 months ago
@nitestryker7 true, but people do say that if something as poisonous as radioactive elements were buried away from us then they were meant to stay there. not that nuclear energy isnt efficient, its just a risky business that runs on the margins of really good and really bad
thegundamguy 10 months ago
@nitestryker7
While there have not been an outrageous amount of things like this that happen, Nuclear Power is not safe to use if this has a chance of happening- there are very safe and available means of Natural Power Alternatives.
While we use Nuclear Power today- I think that we should move away from it because the risk of Nuclear Melt Down, Nuclear Exposure, and Contamination is so hard to control if this does happen- it is not worth the lives and damage that it causes.
PeaceMouse17 10 months ago
@PeaceMouse17
What sort of natural power? Solar? Good luck meeting energy needs unless you're willing to kick everyone out of arizona and set up panels there, and god help you if it rains more than once in a while. Wind? what happens if there's no breeze that day?
The only viable alternative for fossil fuels right now is Nuclear, like it or not.
The pro
Sephirius 10 months ago
@Sephirius Most people don't know what a melt down means either. it's just a bad sounding buzz word to media.
JaoquinQ 10 months ago
@nitestryker7
Japans power plant was not human error!!
pcasso87 10 months ago
@pcasso87 Yes it was. The cooling systems failed, not the nuclear reaction. The reactor didnt just spontaneously explode. And the event is still happening. Once we achieve 20/20 hindsight on this event, we will find plenty of human errors.
nitestryker7 10 months ago
@nitestryker7 Tell this to japs with their pisspoor trained tsunami...
supermariner 10 months ago
@supermariner human error in this case could come down to designing or decisions made once things started to go wrong. we don't know yet, it's WAY too early to know what's going on in japan.
sprinklefriend 10 months ago
@supermariner Its the human systems that have failed, not the nuclear systems. The reaction is still contained and is producing energy as it should. Its the human cooling elements that are failing because they were built 40 years ago and were not designed to withstand the g-forces of the quake. Magnitude doesnt matter as much as the g-forces. Look at the San Onofre nuclear power plant. Its designed to handle .67 g-forces. Much higher than the Fukushima plant.
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@nitestryker7
>Nuclear energy is safe
lol
HomoGnosticus 10 months ago
they should really get better protection like actuall gas masks or somthing or they could make the ecologist suits from stalker XD
P.S theyre doing theyre best and im trully gratefull for their efforts the remark ive made before was of a humerous nature
gondorguard92 3 years ago
Nuclear waste stays incredibly dangerous for 100,000 years . Nuclear is NOT the answer. These poor guys are going to die of cancer.
zebra4593 3 years ago
You don't think they know that?
capucine 3 years ago
Let us know when you invent something better
DoctorPepper8 3 years ago 14
although it was very american ( I.E.: anti-soviet) The reactor at chenobyl was a RBMK (also known as "peaceful atom" now thats ironie at its finest)which has a increbable power output that is impressive even by todays standard the problem was that the control rods decent into the reactor takes 2.5 seconds at best that is slow even by the standards of the time and as the control rods in question are made of graphite with in these 2.5 seconds they warped,split and shattered rendering them useless
Dodershift 3 years ago
what, i think that guy (the narrator" sounds familar.. if anyone knows the show "medial detectives" you'll know his voice.
viperxeon 3 years ago
didnt soviet soldiers get a choice between 2 minutes on the roof of the reacter, or like 2 years in afghanistan?(srry for my spelling)
TokenDeadGuy 3 years ago
If they did, I would have taken 2 years in afghanistan any day of the week
IronbreakerFTW 3 years ago
Anyone know the name of the narrartor in this video? Hes like an icon in that respect.
RallyCat909 3 years ago 3
I know they still havent fixed the sagophagus suroinding the powerplant, i really hope they do that soon, Concidering bout 3% came out the first time, i wouldnt wanna experience how it would be like, if the remaining 97Percent got out :(
envy66 3 years ago
to me that is what hell looks like. its like watching sucide
esrollin 3 years ago
Humans and science are both a perfect match and a lethal mix. Never forget Chernobyl '86
Brutus0723 3 years ago 2
"Humans and science are both a perfect match and a lethal mix. Never forget Chernobyl '86"
Yet you have no trouble forgetting the fact that as many people die from coal power particulate emissions every 7 weeks in the US as will die from Chernobyl?
soylentgreenb 3 years ago
Does anyone know from which year this documentary is?
Thanks for posting! Great documentary!!
Heinzfaust 3 years ago 2
The first sentence you hear says "Five years ago.." so this documentary would be from 1991.
Tinaruon 3 years ago 2
BBC. 1996
pakkinen 3 years ago 2
1991 he says 5 years ago hahaxd better listen dude
NLPETERNL 3 years ago
Radiation drops exponentially with time. The initial radiation drop over five years would've been massive, as short half-life fission products decayed away.
A large proportion of the radioactivity present in the days after the accident would be decayed by the time this video was taken.
Nowadays, you will get as much a rate of dose of radiation on the plane flight to the Ukraine, as you would spending a day at the Chernobyl plant...outside the sarcophagus of course..
DartzIRL 3 years ago
i've read reports saying that the Americium contamination could take as long as 2 million years to phase out.
midwesternerforlife 3 years ago 3
JPCavyboy 3 years ago
"[...]Americium contamination could take as long as 2 million years to phase out."
No. The longest lived isotope of americium has a half-life of 7000 years, it will go away much faster than that.
Radiation is emitted when the atom decays. If the half-life is long it's not very active. The most dangerous sources of radiation are long gone(e.g. I-131), but did the most damage. Cs-137 is still quite problematic but americium is already below natural background in most of the zone.
soylentgreenb 3 years ago
Does anyone know how scripted this video, they had a little or rather way over estimate on how long that will be radioactive.
It's more like 100-200 years.
By the way since thi was 5 years after, debris mask and some white suits would barely help them against gamma. I'm going to say 90% of these scientist have died to this date.
kdc29 3 years ago
what exactly would happen to some one prolonged to radation?
contentlocked99 3 years ago 2
They would start to experience symptoms of Cancer & heart failure. Their skin would begin to fall off.
Death, basically..... ;-)
stephendonnelly88 3 years ago
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yes a second reaction S.T.A.L.K.E.R any one??
Boinkmakr 4 years ago
stalker clear sky?
XxkutaapxX 3 years ago
I remember when this happened. I remember watching the news and watching the radioactive cloud to see where it was going. I was scared to death.
MsMercury 4 years ago 5
those guys..wow. some bravery...
jacko39 4 years ago 17
Heros they truly were. They may have saved much of Europe from becoming highly contaminated.
stephendonnelly88 4 years ago
They were cheated and lied to, they were told by their bosses that they woudln't die from the radiation and they were screwed over big time, althought i don't doubt that they would have gone in anyway. Whether or not they were communists, they showed tremendous bravery to contain the radiation.
midwesternerforlife 3 years ago 2
They may have saved much of Europe??? No, they DID save Europe.. Great documentary btw. Thanks for posting. :-)
mulle25x 3 years ago
No problem. Thanks for watching. :-)
stephendonnelly88 3 years ago
This incident is so dark.. so dark. When you realize free energy tech has existed for decades, it becomes even more apparent that this should never have happened at all..
shrunkensimon 4 years ago 4
A sad reality that we live in.This was caused by some mans foolish pride.Damn that foolish and ego man.You can not play god without getting hurt and hurting others all round the world.
DuoLawrence 4 years ago 8
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fuck ukrania fuck russia killer word
micots61 4 years ago
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fuck the ukraine
szary237 4 years ago
dam 100,000 years atleast!! wow
ukirule14 4 years ago 4