Yeah cause they have the building covered right now. Go and walk in the building where the reactor blew up. Then let me know how safe it is. It's only safe to a certain extent. It's not like people can live there.

@@froey198033 u know humans have 10 fingers right

@@realepic-brawlstars276 He was joking

@@cetaphil9763 the jeff guy didnt get the joke

Hope your are a biologist

@@paradigm_shift You have more of a chance of dying of radiation than you do from the pandemic.

He stated that he agrees with the use of directive tourism to reflect and think critically of the decisions and consequences. Rather than visiting to disrespect and make a disaster an aesthetic. You both share the same view. Requiring people to visit a place as (dangerous) as this might be far fetched. But you’re the engineer!

@@paradigm_shift Such an UNEDUCATED thing to say. Wake up, you've been conned.

@Bob Bob It worked on far too many sheep. These easily brainwashed people in 2021 are what scares me.

You're a nuclear plant engineer? What does that mean? Are you building reactors or concrete walls?

They didn't stand a chance from the second they showed up, so horrific, so wrong.

(bribed by money), do you think their psyment made their contributiuon less valuable?

KZfaq - Windscale disaster

Russians for sure. Pure communism bureocracy

Look up the windscale nuclear power disaster in the UK, see what the governments response was? Don't talk about it, cover it up and make no mention of it to those living nearby

There had also been leaks prior to the fire, but any reporting was heavily censored by the goverment

No you can't. She had no idea how bad it really was. I'm not blaming her but don't try to make her into a hero. It's a phone call talking about a fire on the roof at worst. I guess your Russian which is why I take this film as probably wholly inaccurate. Even the music is ripped off some other composer. This is not worth watching.

I thought it was a hipster microbrewery.

Or Communists

There was a Nuclear plant disaster in Chernobyl also....

Finger blast me

Heroes!!

absolutely agree!

@@nicolasrose3064 What’s the point of this comment?

Me also. Its strange actually and can also be disturbing.

Yes, you're right, Chernobyl is an interesting (and very tragic) subject. It's terrible to think that everything in and around the nuclear plant - water, buildings, air, etc was so radioactive. This really never comes across in these programmes, except where there are flashes on the developed film. In this docu you see some of these film clips.

N io o

keep us informated

A bit too cerebral for you ..

Thank you; you just saved me and hour :-)

True, but that was intended, not accidental. And that one guy is supposed to represent a whole nation(or even larger group of people), wich he kinda does, in a sense. I like the way the story is told here, because it´s different from other videos about this disaster, it has a perspective, and you must be skeptical to see, understand and digest this, and that' s what you just did. ;)

IKR

I bet you say that about everything.

I was in Everett. When Mount St Helens erupted. I remember going to a friend of my stepfather's house somewhere near their post eruption and they had ashes they collected. I'm not sure why not looking back I was only four?

but, at least, their bodys won't decay, they still lie under grount looking alive, ahahahaha

A lesson that we are yet to learn. How many incidents have ever occurred around the world that were given some sort of warning that were only ignored due to a higher power? They've all been genocides.

That the danger with communism

@@JK-xt7ro Right, because 3 mile island and Fukushima never happened. Don't mix subjects that have no bearing on the matter, just to feed your silly political biases.

@@Goreuncle Dont start pointing fingers at something else just because you're wrong. The Chernobyl disaster would have killed Europe if someone didnt have the balls to stand up against the communist lies. We were very lucky.

@@JK-xt7ro not just communism. It happens everywhere.

^ GITDCIAN

half life - level god

That was pretty good 👍

Or the DNC....

@Bob Bob Everyone talks about politics. They are all edgy people

I was 8.

It was TMI and the movie The China Syndrome that got me interested in nuclear physics and when Chernobyl happened I was glued to the news. As little as it was. The way the Soviet Union handling the information was inexcusable even considering the time. I was 9 when TMI happened and when the movie came out. I never knew the design of the rbmk reactors that was used in Chernobyl, but using graphite in control rods, especially the way they designed it, was sheer insanity.

I was living in Pennsylvania when we had the Three Mile Island incident. My mom was in Virginia scared to death for my brother and I because we lived with Dad and Pennsylvania after their divorce. I lived there for 2 years before I moved back south because it was just too darn cold. I remember thinking that situation was bad and yet when the Chernobyl meltdown occurred in 1986, I was a senior in high school. There's Chernobyl incident couldn't have even been remotely compared to what happened at 3 Mile Island. For decades they've had people who've been born healthy and many others who've been born with birth defects and cancer.

But Chernobyl affected other parts of Europe and Belarus cos of the radioactive dust cloud! Cos of the lack of action and knowledge of the Soviet union, many things were affected, sheep were culled in britain for years because of the effects of Chernobyl, and that's just Britain, americans cant compare that to 3 mile island, you only ever endangered yourselves!! More to point your government knew it and didnt give 2 shits what that may have done to its citizens, that sounds just like Soviet union!!! And america still lives that way!! Chernobyl happened because the Soviet government kept secrets on nuclear safety away from its operators in favour of productivity, even people in the nuclear industry did not know about the design flaw, or previous incidents at ignalina... the American government nd nuclear programme knew everything!! And still it happened, and it still covered it up and because its effects would only affect america, nobody would ever know!!! People would die mysteriously and they could deny everything... the Soviet union being so close to rest of Europe never would have been able to keep Chernobyl secret for long, it was readings from other countries that exposed an accident and they had to come clean. America will lie forever. The Soviet system lives on in its rival

@@johnycabs who was comparing them? As far as I can see you are the only one comparing them

The Soviets were nothing but criminals just like the current leadership in Russia.

And 🧒

I honestly don't understand what they are complaining about unless maybe they're Chernobyl "scholars" or something. Most of us aren't. Or maybe they want something resembling a video game. People watching free documentaries on YT have a lot of nerve feeling so entitled. They can also stop watching.

We have it high up in the Carpathians as well, they served as a shield when the cloud came down on us on May 1st. It's everywhere in Europe except Spain I think

I mean as a shield by retaining some of the radiation when the cloud moved towards central Europe

Same in Italy, we weren't allowed to play out amd we couldn't have fresh milk and fruit/vegetables. At the end of the 90s exams on soil found still levs of radiation at 30cm deep.

" all of eastern Europe " you do realize that eastern Europe stretches all the way to Alaska?

@@stevefromsaskatoon830That is not Europe anymore😅

30 megatons knows no borders or seas of any nation. @@stevefromsaskatoon830

That guy is not as smart as he thinks he is. @@davidogborn47

Except that it doesn't.

Put it into perspective - it's nothing compared to the tens of millions that died under communism generally.

You say like it's over. Like people wount get cancer,misscarry etc ftom it any more..

@ingridakeeblom7577 You get the commenter’s point, right?

@@ingridakerblom7577 swedish arrogance at its best. congrats, you won the medal.

@@christopherwitecki6649 repent what?

@@christopherwitecki6649 I don't follow

Some people go to graveyards to because they're thrill seeking, or listening for ghostly voices, or stealing flowers they're too cheap to buy. Other people go to graveyards because they want to pay their respects to the people buried there, or to leave a memorial token to reassure the family of the deceased that someone still cares, or to look for groups of deaths that occurred around the same time to research disease outbreaks, or to study the art of memorial architecture. It might be unfair to make assumptions in the absence of conversation. I can think of any number of reasons that someone might want to visit Chernobyl and Pripyat that have nothing to do with ghoulish adventurism.

What kind of lesson is that? Pretending that millions died, or that even the worst nuclear disaster didn't evolved to be a disaster after all?

I bet your favorite show is "Forensic Files" Eat sh*t Val

Geiger counters

Not having one makes the silence kinda scary too

@@cheesetomato9140 congrats, you know something.

Also, the most annoying sound when used in a documentary while people talk.

True. In the movie it worked great because it was set up that way.

I think he went blind right away to if I'm not mistaken like super cataracts

Were they actually even able to get that close? That fire would have been so hot and the radiation so damn intense I can't imagine being anywhere near it!

You've looked right into deaths eyes

* and those guys knew it.. because they were not layman..

Nice eye 👍...wow, thats amazing the film captured the radiation like that!..

There’s another bloke who took some of the first pictures of the exposed reactor core from a helicopter a day or two after the explosion. Or not long after. He lived for quite a while afterwards. I’m not sure of his name. I remember seeing a documentary about Chernobyl and he was talking about it.

oh totally! it got worst then the camera got digital... but it still slowly damaging your camera every time you shoot a picture...

Technically that is why they use film badges when people go into areas where there is radiation, the photographic film capures the rays. You can even expose the badge to sunlight and get the same results, but I'm not sure if its the exact same kind of photographic film.

To be fair, I don’t think they had any idea the danger they faced. It’s well documented that those firefighters had no idea they were being painted with lethal doses of radiation until they began vomiting. Brave yes, ignorant of the truth

They had no idea what they were up against….

the true heros are all the workers of all the nuke plant that haven't blew up... yet

@@joseph-mariopelerin7028 ??? Why?

@Cornell Kirk huh? Oh if nurses are heroes, truckers… army boys… Why not nuke nerds… without them, no power! The most important race on this Planet…

Bring tears? Ridiculous

@@coimbralaw I hope you’re being sarcastic

​@@coimbralawI wish you were there when the rbmk reactor exploded

@@coimbralawyeah, of course you’re from the us who don’t care about anyone else except your own

​@@coimbralawpeople died. Innocent people doing a job got killed. And thousands other got sick and eventually died trying to save others. When 9/11 happened a lot of countries cried with us and even played the American National Anthem a few weeks after the hit. The queens guards even played it the day off. I'm comparing these 2 events as they both resulted in death with both still bringing cancer to surviors. But one hits america hard, the other hits Ukraine/Russia hard. Maybe, you only care about yourself aka you are a narcissistic person. But many people felt for those families who got affected. Because this could of happened to anyone

You're welcome.

Did they even announce that to the public? Also how can a copter not see the crane line? Must be cheap crappy Russian/ussr technology 🤷‍♂️ smh..

@@Jason.cbr1000rr accidents happen, clearly the helicopter was not focusing on the crane it has NOTHING to do with soviet technology

ROFL

What about my ex wife.....

She must have a twin

It is dramatic enough for people who somehow remember it. It´s not dramatic enought(by itself) for newer generations who don´t remember it. ;)

Congratulations

@@r4v3rbr You don't have to "remember" anything to understand.

@@martinc.720 Being dramatic(appealing) has nothing to do with understanding it or not. I didn't say you had to remember it to understand anything, I said it might have a different impact when you have your own memories of that time.

You didn't learn anything from the chernobyl disaster. If a similar event happened in the US it could wipe out most of our agricultural capacity. If chernobyl was a coal burning plant it would still be operational and pripyat wouldn't be abandoned. Another example...Fukushima another nuclear disaster caused by a natural disaster. You say nuclear is safe?? I beg to differ.

@@garrettkessler1895 you didnt learn anything from the disaster either: design anything badly and it will be a problem. reactors in the us cannot physically blow up like this one did. physically impossible even if youre trying to blow it up. it cannot ever possibly happen here unless we build an rbmk from 50 years ago and then do tests with the emergency systems disabled on purpose... nuclear is insanely safe mainly because of this accident and the few others that have been far less problematic. so tell us again what the problem is here...............

It's free so shut up

@@melindamelissa4784 that doesnt mean it can just be of any low quality it pleases. there is still a floor.

to matter worse. those poor firefighters were sent there, unknowing the danger of radiation, died a very slow and horrible deaths. They did not deserved that.

heres the thing; if they didn't do what they did, it would've gotten much worse and it would've been a bigger catastrophe for the rest of the world. RIP to all of those brave men who didn't know what they were rushing into, but did it anyways to protect their loved ones and their country.

Remember they had 3 other operating reactors at that location. It could have been MUCH worse. Those brave men prevented a much worse catastrophe!

@@glenroberts7388 yeah they’re true hero’s, yet who where they 🥺

exactly, that becker guy is talking bullshit

I agree. the robots they were trying to use broke down under these radiation levels. The had no other choice at that point than to improvise of how to clean up this mess using "biorobots"

Ofc

So just let the fire burn and the radioactive material escape?

The disaster would've exponentialy gotten worse.

There's several parts to it. As others noted, it had to be taken care of, the fires continuing to burn put out far more radioactive ash than once they were put out. The biggest issue, though, was at the start, no one involved was even aware of the radiation. the initial force of fire fighters had no idea, and even the plant's staff were under the impression that it was just a regular fire and the reactor was still intact. No one in the building at the time knew it was possible for the reactor to explode. The USSR hid the reports from a decade earlier that showed that a RKMB could explode under the very circumstances caused by the test they were doing.

The authorities were totally clueless… an example, they believed that older people would be affected much more by the radiation affects on the thyroid, and so people over 45 were encouraged to take iodine tablets. In fact kids’ thyroids soaked up the radiation like water to sponge. Hence huge numbers of kids with cancer at the time. Older people’s thyroids are not like sponges, more like tough old rubber and their thyroid glands were much less affected by the radiation. Ignorance was very dangerous… with tragic consequences.

because communist societies are more about protecting the ruling class than the people they claim to support and protect. it happens time and time again

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Da

He sounds familiar

he's taking action to narrate a docummentary

it's clickbait

Why does it need a title, then this?

Chernobyl : Hour by hour... It lasts 51mins 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Oh edit 19

Yes all these documentaries bring their own profound emotions of sadness,fear,desperation and chaos scrambling in the unknown to attempt to contain the unknown ,then feel the effects 1st hand whilst witnessing death around you also then not knowing those treating you will also die and others who where close to that person and so on..

Abkhazia is a region in Georgia

@@brinjoness3386 Not anymore.

True, no one was prepared for something like this but the fact that the government refused specialized help from the outside makes them responsible because any help would've made things easier.

And these people did help but I blame the government for not giving out information to any country, we in Romania had to deal with it by ourselves, no one understood what was happening.

I was still an egg in 1986

I just ordered the book on Audible because of your suggestion. I'm already loving it! Thanks!

All lies

don't read that book, read my ass instead

Yes. By the time we finish, there will be nothing left at all for future generations.

@@nisha8298 Humans are determined to end themselves and this world

it was the fault of the soviet union. Nuclear power is still the best way to produce energy until we have fusion. If we continue using coal and other bad energy sources we will have a ending yes. That's why we need more nuclear. Wind and solar is also a good alternative but we need a base power source and that is nuclear.

@@fnnpc746 don't forget gas we have a couple decades of a reserves in the coal plants can be retrofitted to use it. I agree though we need to get to fusion all the countries need to put the effort into it but for right now there's no way we can get rid of everything and not use nuclear at least for industrial means manufacturing etc

Humanity's arrogance will kill us all.

😂😂😂😂that’s funny

It’s in Ukraine

Bruh

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Your little story is funny and, at the same time, the most ridiculous waste of 15 seconds in my life.

Be careful near the SSFL area. Very toxic grounds with radiation levels as well.

yeah how is this Hour By Hour?

Meanwhile in Latvia (30km) from Lithuanian border I finished kindergarten and spent the entire summer following the incident running outside from dusk till dawn! No problem with my immune system though... No extra cancers in my family or people around

Terrible disaster. I was in the Finnish Defence Forces on the eastern border those days. It is still told Sweden regocnized the accident first. I can tell the finnish military devices knew before the swedes something must have been happened in the USSR, though it is still classified for some reason. I don't know am I allowed to tell much about the situation, but I was one of those deployed to even shoot the civilians if they tried to become over the border en masse and didn't stop when ordered to.

As George Carlin had put it once: "Voting is a waste of time. All it does is put bullshit in, only to watch bullshit come out."

Lol that is sooo true Steven! 😂👍👍

So, tell me what exactly did USSR hid???

@@seho8722 you must be joking

Watch the movie 1984..

They skipped that step. And, by who's regulations?

@@dwilton2609 the owner director of the power plant ordered it, because the construction was behind schedule. He wanted to make career through the power plant, and being promoted to a higher level of employment after showing off all the perfectly working plant to the local Party representatives, he was a member of the Party himself and was up for a promotion a week before the accident.

@@dwilton2609 regulations in place for nuclear reactors of power plants made by the CCCP.

Many country’s cut corners. They are not like us who regulate safety.

We all knowthat the reactor should have had a containment building... But I wonder if there would have been some leakage with such a powerful explosion.

Could you please suggest some.. 🙂

link please

Apparently Gorbachev attributed eventual break up of the Soviet Union to this event. It has definatly effected the Ukrainian attitude towards rule from Moscow.

As someone born and raised in a communist country, the beaten down attitude is straight to the point. You have to remember that communism was enforced by violence in the post-war years so you didn't really have a choice but to eventually submit. There was this "get used to hardship and enjoy the small things" attitude. After Chernobyl, people kinda knew it was dangerous (even without public acknowledgment) and when cancers grew in the 1990's, we knew it was mostly from that but it was like what the hell can we do about it?? You accept that you are screwed

Well said

With all due respect towards your father, what did he envision that could be worse? Was it nuclear war? Ok in hindsight he most likely meant that.

Things can ALWAYS get worse. Until you die. Second explosion, meltdown into aquifer, fire causes unit 3 to meltdown as well, wind blowing toward Keiv (woulda been better for Belarusia though)... Always more suck just waitin...​@@xanmontes8715

By the time 3 Mile Island happened, the U.S. has already had 3 complete meltdowns and 3 partial meltdowns. 3 Mile Island was 7. We almost lost 2 major cities in meltdowns that were never made public. 1 meltdown was told in a song. Seconds from burning 6 Million Americans. Sheer luck we didn't see millions of Americans die. Japan, USSR, they watched millions die after their explosions

it is not totally safe 1000’s of years just because the river is blue does not mean anything the animals have deformef semen

That happened during the Carter administration

Thanks Captain Obvious.

They were gonna poop out either way. Bad system.

um, yes... also, the soviets were on their way out already; this just accelerated it to basically right then

Yeah, that would totally help.

it also drives all major innovation in all of history, so like everything theres two sides to it.

Yep, that's what Dyatlov wrote too. They simply wanted to shut the reactor down after finishing the test, it was trivial situation, not as dramatic as it was depicted in tv shows

True

Yeah who wants to go to a tropical island when you can freeze your balls off in Russia to see a ghost town and a two headed deer.

I was there last year too. And back again this summer to improve my Ukrainian. Two heads would be useful but I still have only one.

@@johnv6806 …..it’s in Ukraine, not Russia.

With this generation of millennials who know about Chernobyl from video games and HBO movie, you cant expect respect.

Lucky for you I knew about it prior to the HBO series and I don't really play those type of video games. I did it on my fruition. Never learned it in school, but did hear about it when we were working on a NASA project in 5th or 6th grade.