I can't wait for you to watch episode 3. When is it due to come out?

Would you consider mods specifically for CHERNOBYL to avoid inadvertent spoilers about who what when lives/dies etc?

For reallllllll when does part 3 come out??? None of my family like to watch this kind of stuff so I have to resort to reaction channels as sad as that sounds.

@@moonwalkeronthemoon4165 no shame, whatever people enjoy. There's a reason reaction channels do so well. Great show

Episode 4 is the toughest in my opinion, if I were you, assuming you haven't already watched them since this is KZfaq, I'd probably watch 3, then 4 and 5 together, after 4 you'll kind of need some resolution, but if you can watch all three go for it. I obviously don't want to spoil anything but from what I've read subsequently, its not 100%, an acceptable amount of artistic license was taken of course, but on the whole it's more than accurate enough. All in all another amazing international production from HBO et al.

This is the only reaction channel I follow. Seems so genuine, and interacting with viewers. You are doing great content @TBR Schmitt and Samantha!

@@71bagarn You, me, and the movies are really good too

That's how I do my reaction videos (observe and pay attention). The only problem is, people want that 'shocked response' more than observations and paying attention lol. I've actually been told that I 'need to cry' at whatever scenes where other reactors cry... or scream or whatever. That's not my personality though. If it was, I'd likely get more views, but it is what it is lol.

He he, reactors

@@0ChaosHedgehog0 lol 😅 oh, you!

Of course! Thank you!

Craig Mazin, the creator of the miniseries, said in The Chernobyl Podcast that this gesture was grasping at straw, because Legasov knew there's no difference between the glasses.

More likely (or as well as) the one he had been given had just been washed, and so still wet, in contaminated water.

@@BlueShadow777 That was my thought as well. . . .

@@BlueShadow777 This scene is especially poignant later when you find out who the couple next to him are . . . . .

Thanks taking the time to inform us about this great man, this is things like that that makes youtube a great place despites all the bsht spreaded around by this media.

A salute to a good man o7

@@digitaltrekkie gamer? 1st time I saw "o/" was in FFX|V

Thanks for bringing this to attention. With so many participating in containing the damage that the accient of chernobyl did, there are problerly thousands of stories like this. To all the unknown people who did this for the future of humankind...

"Liberation" of Poznań That's a good joke there. Liberation, hah.

He already was General Secretary (the Soviet equivalent to the US President) at the time of the Chernobyl disaster, and he started the Glasnost policy a year before. Still you are right, Chernobyl certainly contributed a lot to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war. Gorbachev received the Nobel Peace Prize and "Star Trek VI - The undiscovered Country" transported the story into the 23rd century, bringing down the Klingon Empire and being the foundation of peace with the Federation. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtd3oaR6zOC5hI0.html

Or Maphead from that birthmark!

unfortunately he also instituted perestroika which has destroyed standard of living in post-soviet countries and contributed to its decline in former eastern bloc countries. it is also why he ran to germany after the belavezha accords

@@ryanpruner1853 How did perestroika destroy standards of living? You believe secrecy is linked to quality of life?

@@krashd glasnost is more attributed to making the soviet bureaucratic and political system more transparent, perestroika was market reformation. descendent of liberman/kosygin reforms of soviet economic organization

This is a great comment that answers questions and delves into the history in a way that doesn't spoil the rest of the show. Thank you.

They wouldn't only have spread contamination. They would also have died miserable deaths from radiation sickness. Shooting them was a horror, but it was also an act of mercy.

these stories are the scariest all the time. HBO does a really great job. I hope to see more of these miniseries

Very entertaining, but is very inaccurate in it's hyperbolic predictions

@@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons thank you, comrade.

@@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons it takes an impressive amount of skill to predict something that happened 30 years ago.

Horrormovies usually make us scared of monsters while reality is actually the most terrifying. Chernobyl, the Holocaust, WW1 and WW2 all really happened. Same can be said about depraved serial killers, all real.

he was fishing with that question, and Skarsgard played it perfectly.

a good politician can work himself into something for 5 minutes and then talk as if it was the most important thing for him

@@jakubfabisiak9810 Not just fishing, if he had asked 'Why did Legasov see graphite on the roof' Brychanov and Fomin would have gone back to 'Legasov is clearly spreading disinformation.' By asking 'Why did I see graphite on the roof ?' (Note that he didn't), he's not only backing Legasov up, but also uses his authority to make sure the two can't keep dodging the bullet as easily.

"[With the assurance of an expert" That's because he was already a seasoned social media and youtube commenter.

@@Zombiepull Like any psychopath. They have their uses.

@@tsogobauggi8721 I noticed it mainly from contrarian folks who seemed to want to nitpick the whole series just because of how popular it was. Some of those same folks complained that the Russian characters spoke English with English accents...as if they should either put on fake Russian accents (but still speak English?) or speak Russian with subtitles (despite the actors not actually being fluent). I wonder if those folks have ever watched any anime scenes with a Japanese voice actor reading English lines despite clearly not knowing the language.

@@Liesmith424 Filming it in Ukrainian and Russian would've been too complicated, since there are no English speaking persons in this story. It all takes place in the former Soviet Union. This was a conscious decision because it's a very, very technical story, along with it being very emotional. Very much like Spielberg did Schindler's List in English, and not in German. It's different from dubbing where the original language version exists, but they redo the voices because some people hate to read subtitles.

Places like chernobyl or fukushima already do enough to be anti nuclear propaganda, not much needed from the show

@@bloodymarvelous4790 No need to explain it to me, I agree completely; I think people complaining about the movie being in English are nitpicking issues that don't exist.

One of my fave moments. You can tell it's hitting him like running into a brick wall.

when he slumps to his chair in disbelief he know then...

That was the moment that Boris finally realizes the severity of the situation they're in. His attitude towards everything that happens subsequently in the show shifts at that exact moment.

yes, they are still watching the show, they'll find out. thanks for that.

The badly burned person that is in the water that is carried over the guys shoulder is calling for Khodemchuk when he is found. The guys then moves into the main reactor hall to look for Khodemchuk and instead stares directly into the exposed core (seen for the first time).

Assumed vaporized. Equally his body could still be there buried under the reactor remains. His remains would be incredibly irradiated.

Fun fact.

​@@Soopytwist Yearh correct, no one has ever sat their foot on the floor in the reactor hall since, so we have no idea if the remains would be underneath the rubble. The official description is that he is forever entombled inside Chernobyl reactor 4, but all models assumes that he vaporized, given how close he was to the explosion that destroyed almost the entire reactor hall.

In Belgium you can get (normally) free Iodine pills from a pharmacy.

HOLY CRAP!! its almost 40 years later and there is still that much radiation. How must eastern Europe be?

That's such a stupid ass thing to joke about about or anything on this tragedy.

You can no longer go there. They recently completely closed off that section due to the rise in tourism to those particular areas. There were so many people trying to get to that still very hot basement that they had to do something.

@@swokatsamsiyu3590 Thank goodness. To many people on KZfaq and other places had videos of themselves trying to get there. Crazy.

@@swokatsamsiyu3590 Yeah it's a good thing too, most of the area is relatively cleared up with the topsoil removed and buried but there's a couple of hotspots, as well as places like the hospital basement where clothing was dumped and a few fields where they permanently stored all the trucks and equipment that got contaminated. They want people to wear plastic foot coverings while touring the nuclear plant to prevent people carrying dust out, so closing off the hospital makes sense to prevent people spreading around radioactive debris or even deliberately taking stuff as souvenirs.

The authorities have filled in the stairs to that basement with dirt and rubble, and now a window's broken and people climb in that way. There are videos on YT of people walking around down there without so much as a mask or gloves and pushing things around with their feet, an excellent way to stir up dust. The basic "thought process" seems to be that radiation is dangerous and therefore interesting, but nothing bad will ever happen to me, and I paid good money to come here so I want to see it.

@@hamletksquid2702 They're a bunch of idiots and they'll find out the hard way. Radiation is not something to be trifled with. Ever. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I think you are being too generous. Many of the radiation effects and consequences were significantly over-hyped in this series, well beyond what the scientific and medical evidence supports. That is consistent with either dramatic license to make the Chernobyl radiation into a scarier monster or with an anti-nuclear power bias or agenda on the part of the series’ producers. Regardless of what you believe about that, it is deeply ironic that a work which is largely aimed at exposing the dysfunction engendered by the replete lies of the Soviet system is itself filled with inaccuracies and falsehoods.

@@markhamstra1083 Then don't watch TV shows and stick to documentaries. This is a dramatization, hence it's dramatized.

@@bloodymarvelous4790 the problem is that the overwhelming majority of people watch "dramatizations" and don't even give it a second thought that it isn't accurate

@@LMarti13 Yes I watched this program and naturally believed it to be factual in it's science at least - it was only watching Thunderfoot that explained the nuclear material simply couldn't cause the destruction the show predicts

Same here, i was 5 then and i remember my father had to trow away all our homegrown vegetables and fruits from our community garden. Also i remember tanks of milk being disposed into the water by farmers. So long ago but i still vividly remember it...

@Necramonium I’ve heard that the Sami (Laplanders) in Sweden still can’t eat their reindeer meat due to the radiation content.

@@kathyastrom1315 There are plenty of stray dogs in Chernobyl today, some friendly because of care from residents. Their ancestors escaped the culling. But none of them survive past 6 years of age or so.

I was 6 at that time in northern Greece and the world Chernobyl was associated in my head with death.

Makes so much sense now! Thanks for the clarification!

@@TBRSchmitt You're very welcome. Love the videos, you two are the best!

Wow that was a detail i missed thank you for pointing this out!

@@wokkel4852 You're welcome! I almost didn't say anything, I figured everyone noticed it.

@@TBRSchmitt They're right, the difference upon ingestion of the radioactive nuclides from Chernobyl would have been devastating. Most of the radioactive isotopes released were iodine-131 (I-131), strontium-90 (Sr-90), cesium-137 (Cs-137), and plutonium-241 (Pu-241); all of them release lots of *beta* radiation, one of the three main types (alpha, beta, gamma). Alpha is like a cannonball (big particle with a lot of smashing energy, but it's stopped very quickly from all the smashing it does, rarely getting through your skin); beta is like a smaller and faster projectile, penetrating further into materials but only by fractions of an inch. Gamma penetrates things like X-rays, but even further. The I-131, Sr-90, Cs-137, and Pu-241 could have been dangerous enough if they stayed outside of your body, but your skin could have offered *some* protection from the beta radiation; it's when you breathe it in, or ingest it, that you bring those radioactive particles right into your body where they'll do the most damage. It's even worse if you look at the *chemical* properties of some of them. Find strontium on the periodic table; it's right underneath calcium, in the same column and only one row down. Because they're in the same column, they have similar chemical properties -- which means your body sometimes uses strontium instead of calcium when its doing those chemical reactions that keep us alive. And what does your body need lots of calcium for? Bones. Because calcium is so much more common than strontium, this isn't usually a problem that happens... but when you ingest a lot of radioactive strontium, it's going to potentially end up *inside your bones*, steadily emitting radiation for decades. And you can't just pluck individual atoms out of your entire skeleton; you're stuck with it. Plutonium is just as bad; when you find it on the periodic table, you'll notice it's way down at the *very* bottom. Those elements are extremely rare -- so rare, in fact, that many of them effectively "don't exist in nature", meaning we only find them when *we* do things to make them. That means our biology has *never learned to deal with it* -- our bodies just don't know what to do with plutonium or how to get rid of it -- and unfortunately, plutonium can be very chemically reactive. When you breathe or ingest it, your body just kind of lets it hang around like strontium, leaving this source of radiation in your body for decades. tl;dr "Radiation smoke! Don't breathe this!"

The cancer epidemic isn't for no reason.

I was 17, 2 years later I was in the Army. So when I see the young soldiers in these episodes (especially some specific ones), I kind of relate to them on a personal level. If this disaster happened in the U.S. in say,1988 or 1989, I'd have been one of the soldiers doing some of those tasks... and if I was, would I be here today, at 52 years old, able to type this?

I was 15/16. I was scared too

I was 6 years old and I also remember the fear and tension clearly. I still get little ticks, when I hear about someone wanting to build or use anything nuclear. I'm from Denmark BTW.

@@hildajensen6263 ever heard of a french reactor or a Canadian Candu having a problem? those have been running fine for 40 years, new designs are even safer. lets face it. it took a lot of really hard work on the part of some real idiots to get chernobyl and fukushima to happen. and nobody died at fukushima directly from radiation.

To add a little more to the current situation, during the current Russo-Ukrainian war, Russian forces occupied Chernobyl, where they exposed themselves to high level of radiation and destroyed some of the safeties that were in place. It is not yet known how much damage was done.

That is crazy to think!

They actually walled off that room recently because people kept going there, there's a bunch of videos of it on KZfaq here

You can visit Chernobyl and Pripyat although large areas are simply too radioactive. Personally, the closest I would ever want to go is playing call of duty.

No, is safe now comrade! Travel much vacation! Visit fun!

most of it will only stop being radioactive after another 50 years. But some will keep on being dangerous 20 times longer, but not much. They shielded it off, and they will keep shielding it for generations.

In the *mines*?! Good lord almighty.

Mines would be radioactive already though thanks to radium in soil.

RIP. Good man.

Sure. Blame it on radiation ;)

@@DogmeatDied989 Do we really need a reason? :) If you go to Japan a lot of households still hold booze for that purpose, I mean they are the people who got two devices dropped on them and had a major accident themselves.

I'm not sure if alcohol works as well as iodine, but if I found out I'd absorbed a lethal dose of radiation, plenty of booze would keep me slightly less panicked, at least for a while.

theres photos of it. it's worth looking up.

Specifically, radioactive smoke/dust particles. Alpha and beta radiation is easily stopped - a sheet of paper, or even your skin, will arrest it - but if you actually inhale or ingest an alpha or beta source, it can shred you from the inside. The particles from the Chernobyl reactor smoke would contain alpha and beta emitters, plus higher energy sources of x-ray and gamma radiation. But the more sources you ingest, the more damage you take over time. Drinking from the upside-down glass was a wise precaution. It certainly couldn't hurt!

Dang! Thanks for the support on all sides!

Let them watch the damn show!

You must have watched the show.

*Dosimeter 🤣 A decimator would be something that goes around destroying 10% of things 😉

I’m old enough to remember Gorbachev “Gorby” and “glasnost”, where he brought reforms to the Soviet Union by a more open and transparent administration. He was a shrewd, intelligent man, who saw the writing on the wall for the old style dictatorship. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Even though that is what a lot of people like to believe, there's no possible way to rise to that position in a regime like that without stepping on some necks on the way up. So even though it ended up positive, there's no way you can classify him as a good guy. It's more nuanced than that, more like a general seeing the battlefield and changing their approach to come up on top. Still better than some though...

@@Robalogot I don’t think anyone called him a good guy, but he has his merits as a politician.

To be honest, he was ousted by tricky politics. As in Yeltzin won the Presidency of Russia and made a deal with Ukraine to break up the USSR while the military tried to do a coup where they held Gorbachev hostage. Yeltzin rescued him from the coup....

To be honest, he was ousted by tricky politics. As in Yeltzin won the Presidency of Russia and made a deal with Ukraine to break up the USSR while the military tried to do a coup where they held Gorbachev hostage. Yeltzin rescued him from the coup....

He was also in Lost in Space movie as the older Will Robinson.

Oh yes! No one ever reacts to The Terror, and it is SO good!

I have become a Jared Harris fan myself since Cherno. His dad, Richard Harris plays English Bob in Unforgiven. Epic!

Jared Harris was great in the show Madmen

Such a massively underseen and underrated show. And Adam Nagaitis, who plays the firefighter in Chernobyl, is incredible in it.

Same here. Remember this happening as a kid, but I was never aware of the gravity of it until this series. It's harrowing.

I was in college when it happened and we knew the severity was downplayed by the Soviet government, but we weren’t too concerned because it was so far away. It wasn’t until I read Midnight in Chernobyl too that I realized how terrible it was. Thankfully the worst scenario was averted.

Same, we never really got much info on the news or in the papers while it was ongoing.

Don't take the information in this series at face value, you could just as well consult Homer Simpson on the topic. Its all blowen up tremendously for dramatic effect, to spread anti nuclear propaganda or both.

@@hernerweisenberg7052 What part is blow out of proportion?

Terrible overrated movie

Sounds like reality now.

It's an entertainingly slapstick look at a period when vast amounts of people were dumped in gulags or simply executed in mass shootings. Of course, it's banned in Russia, but well worth watching for some extremely black humour and a very skewed look at one of Russia darkest moments.

our goal is the happiness of all mankind...

I was thinking the exact same thing; "Wait until you get to episodes 3 and 4...."

It's BS, really, for dramatic reasons. Nobody cut any phone lines, it's just so exaggerated. Nobody held off the evacuation, once the authorities got word of what happened, they evacuated everyone. This series is a dramatic masterpiece fit for Hollywood, but from an historical POV it's complete and utter BS. And yeah, there were indeed three guys that dove down, but their lives were never at risk, and sure enough - they all survived. Kind of pisses me off that people take this series for an accurate historical retelling. It's so messed up. As an historically interested person I can admire the dramatic side of it, and I fully understand the liberties the screenwriters took for dramatic reasons, but it bugs me to no end that people take it as a historical fact.

@@callespringer9718 The evacuation wasn't imminent. It did basically happened after Sweden had detected the nuclear fuel and the whole world knew before the locals did.

@@callespringer9718 it's a tv show. What the fuck do you expect? - For the 3 men, yes they survived and even today, 2 of them survive, afaik. Those three men had rubber suits and water shielding them from the worst and they breathed air from tanks. They were massively more protected than for instance the firemen who went in with nothing but their dick and hose in hand.

Thank you! I knew it had something to do with radiation but not how.

Scientists in the 70’s predicted a new ice age and worldwide famine. Sorry, but intelligent people don’t believe everything they hear.

@@catherinelw9365 You know what? If nothing happens, great. But I'm pretty sure this hot as hell year will be the coolest in 50 years. So, hindsight is always 50/50, but doing something to prevent something bad from happening is something humans are bad at, moreso when it's an inconvenience to them. Profits or human lives? I wonder which the actual people in power would pick.

@@SARGEHALO666v2 Ok, dear. You worry about that. And do look up East Anglia Climate Hoax.

@@tsogobauggi8721 How old are you, and can you google? Are you saying it is intelligent to believe everything you hear? Grow up, kid. www.climatedepot.com/2017/05/23/120-years-of-climate-scares-70s-ice-age-scare/

Hope the coffee is delicious!

@@TBRSchmitt It is! ☺ thanks, best coffee in the caribbean for sure!! ☕

There was also an American physician who specialized in radiation poisoning who flew out to Minsk (?) to help the victims.

The expense of having to clean up Chernobyl bankrupted the Soviet Union They could not afford their military budget

Well. Don't blame US school system, at least not for this. I'm Eastern European so I'm pretty much familiar with the region where events take place, but ask me about US States and major cities I would probably be in much trouble. Or Africa. Or Latin America. Even thou I consider myself pretty well educated, it's just because of unfamiliarity.

@@juriskrumgolds5810 yeah, I'm pretty sure it was just a joke

@@juriskrumgolds5810 All that suggests then is that eastern European schools are as bad as American schools. No offence.

@@krashd they all are bad, none taken.

People... The real reason he made the "damn US schools" joke was because in the US they only teach children the imperial meassure system. Thus they don't know how much "400 km" is. It is around 250 miles btw. America seriously need to modernize and adopt the metric system...

"You don't talk over much of the content or feel compelled to insert jokes for the sake of it like many other reactors." Exactly. Too many reactors blither over something like this, something I find to be incredibly irritating.

I came here to say just that. That those clothes haven't been moved and that they are still putting off decent radiation..

I saw in a documentary. That pile of clothes is the 5th highest source of radiation on earth. Not sure if that has been bumped down the list since the nuclear disaster in Japan.

Also another interesting fact. the back of Marie Curie's chair where she wrote her notes. Is the 9th highest source of radiation. And she's been dead for close to 90 years. Radiation was transmitted to the back of the chair every time she pulled it to sit and write notes. Mind boggling what Radiation can do.

yes, they are still watching the show, it will be told to them in the last episode. thanks for that.

Saving them a watch? What else should they find out from comments instead of the show?

Come on..why mention these things now when they are revealed in the series in the end..

@@jidhindharanm.p9351 It's history bro. It doesn't spoil anything.

@@Nemophilist850 It does if it's something the person won't know....

@@krashd It has no effect whatsoever on the story. It's just a bit of trivia.

He was definitely not worse than republican governours during the corona crisis, including his disgust for scientists. Do you really thing if Harrisburgh/3 Miles Island would have blown up, the US officials would have reacted so much differently?

@@llothar68 What nonsense. Texas and Florida, with Republican governors, have much less severe situations with the Wuhan virus than New York with Democrat Cuomo. Talk about leftist lies and propaganda!

@@llothar68 👈🏻 Propaganda-fed parrot. I remember Three Mile Island. It had a dome so it could not have happened. People in the area self evacuated because they were not dependent on the government to get them out - they had their own transportation. Learn facts before blathering your lies.

@@catherinelw9365 They lied to their people and said it's all under control and it's all safe outside the tight zone they sealed. Yes i'm also old enough to remember. And it could have been the same size disaster.

@@catherinelw9365 That containment dome is there to hold in leaks, not explosions, if such an explosion happened in a western plant it would be raining chunks of containment building all over the surroundings.

Why spoiler so much dude??? You just can't don't ya?

@@ozimakistvan Already apologized to them in private for the slip up, as I got the end of episode 2 and the beginning of episode 3 mixed up.

The reactors shut down when the earthquake hit, and survived that just fine. What got them was the tsunami taking out the backup generators needed to push coolant water through the reactors. So they overheated, producing hydrogen. Which escaped under extreme pressure, and built up to explosive levels in the reactor buildings.

Pretty disingenuous and terrible take to try to dump the blame on GE. The Japanese had multiple reports throughout the decade prior stating that the plant was vulnerable to flooding if there was a tsunami. That’s what took the generators offline, not the earthquake. The generators all worked as designed after the earthquake. A few of the generators even survived the tsunami and continued to operate the coolant pumps for reactors 5 and 6. Please actually do some research before coming on here and spewing disinformation. There’s already enough of that about nuclear energy.

@@wwoods66 yes, it was the containments that were flawed, not the reactors themselves.

@@WBookout10 The earthquake is what caused the tsunami, so yes, I’d say the earthquake definitely had something to do with it. Three of GE’s engineers, including one who was manager of their nuclear division even quit in 1976 because of worries the plants were unsafe. That’s exactly the time when the Japanese plants were being built. GE isn’t 100% to blame, but that they did knowing sell faulty designed containments to lots of different plants. They were even sued and lost for doing so, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission even made all US plants using their designs to upgrade the containment structures. How is that disinformation when it’s documented fact?

@@gumbomudderx7503 1. Your statement directly implied earthquakes damaged the generators and even cited arbitrary earthquake magnitudes when the generators themselves operated exactly as designed after the earthquake. Flooding from the tsunami shut down the generators, not the earthquake. You were implying that the generators themselves were flawed, which they were not. 2. The generators were flooded because of their location within the plant, in the basement. TEPCO was the owner/operator of the plant. GE designed and built the first 2 reactors; hitachi and Toshiba finished the other 4. GE placed their generators in the basement due to Cold War era concerns of bombing, etc, in order to protect the generators. US power plants are not built directly by the ocean as they are generally built inland by rivers, and are not susceptible to tsunamis. Japanese officials signed off on the design anyways as they did not think it was possible for a large enough tsunami to flood the plant. Hitachi and Toshiba had suggested relocating the generators to avoid flooding, by TEPCO refused to make any alterations to the original plans. GE engineers even raised the same concerns to TEPCO. Some engineers long had concerns over this apparent misplacement of the critical backup power systems. But Tepco, conservative by nature, didn't allow the Japanese companies building the plant to make any alterations to GE's basic design, said Tadaharu Ichiki, a 75-year-old former nuclear plant designer at Toshiba Corp. "For Fukushima No. 1, we only (manufactured and) provided equipment (such as the reactor vessels), leaving all (of the design work) to GE because that was Tepco's policy. That's why the diesel generators were placed in the underground floors" of the turbine buildings, Ichiki said. "That had been the tradition at Tepco. When Tepco introduced thermal plant technologies from overseas, (the utility's executives) also told the Japanese makers to build the plants exactly in the same way as those of foreign makers," Ichiki said. "Tepco was very bureaucratic." web.archive.org/web/20110713233357/search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110713x1.html 3. One of the backup generators failed in 1991 when seawater used as coolant in one of the reactors leaked into the generator room. TEPCO only responded by adding doors to prevent water from outside the generator rooms from getting in. 4. TEPCO leveled the construction site of the plant from its original 30m to 10m in order to make it easier to bring equipment in. 5. TEPCO had an in-house report done in 2000 that recommended implementing safety measures against a possible 15m tsunami, but TEPCO leadership shrugged it off as “unverifiable” and intentionally avoided announcement the results of the study. 6. The US NRC had warned its Japanese counterpart, NISA, about the risk of losing emergency power in 1991, and NISA acknowledged that report again in 2004, but never took any action. 7. TEPCO had another in-house study done in 2008 which urged immediate precautions in case of a 10m or greater tsunami. TEPCO and NISA both shrugged it off and said it wasn’t possible. 8. Other warnings by government officials, that the TEPCO estimates for max tsunami height of 5.6m, were also ignored. Thus, your post is just insinuating some sort of cynical corporate conspiracy theory that GE secretly withheld information about their generators or plant designs, which is false. TEPCO and other Japanese officials were made well aware of the risks for decades but did nothing to mitigate them, or even downplayed them. I’m also not even sure where you’re getting this info about GE being sued- every lawsuit in the US against them in recent years has been dismissed. Furthermore, just last year a top Japanese court found TEPCO and the Japanese government responsible for the disaster, and ordered them to compensate victims. abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/japan-court-orders-govt-tepco-pay-fukushima-disaster-73341400

The helicopter crash actually happened several months after the initial explosion. I don't know what the radiation levels were at that point, but I think they were low enough that it was not the cause.

That's insane!

And still highly radioactive.