The Battle of Chernobyl part 10

On 26 April 1986 01:23:45 a.m., at the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Station (Чернобыльская АЭС им. В.И.Ленина), the RBMK reactor of block No.4 suffered a catastrophic failure during a routine test. Only 56 deaths have been "officially" attributed to the disaster, however, documentation shows that well over 600,000 men women and children were directly affected by the fallout. In total, the fallout produced by the exposed burning reactor core would be 400 times greater than the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. The deadly toxic molecules were spread across 100's of miles with nearly 60% of the pollutants falling on Belarus. The radioactive plume touched almost every European country including Sweden, Italy, Hungary, The Netherlands, Britain, and France.

It is without question, the biggest nuclear disaster humanity has ever witnessed.

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[delphireactor]

This was incredible. Thank you for posting it.

[R0MY7]

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!

[ronanocarroll]

@ronanocarroll I mean, so few dislikes

[ronanocarroll]

Never seen so many dislikes for videos. Great uploads. Great documentary. Thank you

[DestWa]

Loved it

[daboljuutii]

@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.

[eatcarpet]

@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.

[daboljuutii]

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]

@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.

[swift4o]

soviet power supreme 

[lousy91]

Thanks for the upload!

[GISGuy31]

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.