Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster - Surviving Disaster (BBC Documentary series) - Part 4

The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster from the BBC documentary series, Surviving Disaster. This episode follows the accident as told by Valeri Legasov (played by Adrian Edmondson, in one of his more serious roles), the Russian scientist who was a key member of the Soviet government commission formed to investigate the causes of the catastrophe and to plan the mitigation of its consequences. This is quite a chilling tale of events. Some of the documentary was filmed on location in the abandoned town of Pripyat and inside one of the remaining 3 (now closed) nuclear reactors located at Chernobyl.

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Education

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• Chernobyl
• nuclear
• disaster
• accident
• radiation
• radioactive
• valeri
• legasov
• ussr
• russia
• soviet
• kgb

[dcccapfan]

Okay really stupid question. What is boron? Is it like a chemical or like an actual thing? Like can u pick up a chunk of boron?

[GREENVK]

@dcccapfan Boron is element number 5 on the periodic table. It is used as a neutron absorber (as control rods) to remove thermal neutrons, and control the nuclear reaction. The control rods act as an accelerator and a brake in the reactor, so to speak.

You may be familiar with a chemical called Borax, commonly used as a household cleaning agent. Borax is just boric acid... a salt of Boron

[RevchenkoTheWolf]

Too many ignorant idiots watching this video, RIP to all the brave Soviet Citizens who helped battle Chernobyl.

[GREENVK]

@RevchenkoTheWolf .....agreed!

[2010pabeda]

DIE FENSTER STIMMEN NICHT;; ZU  DER 'ZEIT

[NitinSampathiDesigns]

Why aren't the people who are battling the reactor explosion hours and days after the explosion effected by the radiation?

[starryeyedfangirl]

@TGTAP *sniffs* t..thankyou so much this comment has TOTALLY made my day :' )

[TGTAP]

@starryeyedfangirl What the fuck is wrong with you!?

[starryeyedfangirl]

6:54 i'd rape every man in that room :D (not really but i do fancy alex akimov)

[07sandrewsworth]

@GREENVK um excuse me but what happened to the other guy drowning the nuclear reactor you know not the one with glasses but the youngish looking one

[07sandrewsworth]

@boniface8th i thought it was still radioactive...

[07sandrewsworth]

i feel really sorry for the guy with the glasses...and what happened to the other guy who was drowning the reactor~???

[mistab1983]

@RevchenkoTheWolf agreed!

True Heroes!

[Rivannous]

get out of there, Stalker!

sorry. I am not in the position to make jokes. In fact I am crying and I want to stop watching the video, but I just cannot. I cannot. I have to watch and remember, because i knew it was bad, but i didn't know it was THAT bad. I knew people died, but i did not know how many. I thought about hundreds, not ten thousand.

I want to change the world now, knowing i'll have as much success as a stone in a river.

i am crying. for the heroes of chernobyl