Looking forward to the next video ;) Edit: He made the next video finally.

PD love the videos my man. !

Without a doubt!

I could go for another video or three. You make some proper yet simple videos that have answered a lot of unknowns on a lot of events. Very good work here.

perhaps when you learn the algebra?! Chernobil was 600 MW, Fukushima was 2 GW... so mother of all,,, why not make a video about Sellafield, when British decided to EJECT NUCLEAR MATERIAL INTO ATMOSPHERE

In western capitalism: if something goes wrong: just trust the market

@@henrimessinghausen5185 at least in capitalism they put a bit of security because there's insurance companies forcing regulation.

*Somewhere, the soviet anthem plays LOUDLY COMRADE*

@@henrimessinghausen5185 the difference being that the thing that went wrong is not censored for decades.

I don't remember anything like that being an aspect of the late Stagnation Era Soviet bureaucracy. Everyone knew just how fallible the state was and took advantage of it, by slacking off in their leather-clad offices and stealing as much as possible, before it all rotted away. By that time, all that was left of revolutionary spirit and fervor, and war-time heroism, were portraits of Lenin and empty slogans on propaganda posters. BTW, the word "comrade" was only used in official state media and mandatory Party meet-ups. Even at those, if you said something like "the state is infallible", you'd develop a reputation as a mental case. It was very much depressing though.

Cherenkov radiation... that "shiny" strange glow... is... particles and... non-particles... that shoot clean thru steel and zirconium and on the way... excite electron orbits enough to emit energetic photons... ...which means you have light... going THRU metal... ...which is pretty rare, and, in my case... the kewlest thing I've ever seen, hands down. Second place was a plasma torch cutting two foot radius quarter circles... out of ten by ten foot, two inch thick stainless steel blanks, so that Fermilab could wrap four of them with huge cables, in banks of who knows how many... ... to make a particle beam shoot oit the end of the "block." A lightning bolt one inch across... cutting two inch steel. But that was a DISTANT second place. :-)

I haven't seen cherenkov radiation, but I have seen red and green lightning. Both were in the same storm... Said storm was a hum-dinger from memory.

@@sball1990rack Oh I've seen *images* of it, just not in person :P

(Which, upon reflection, is probably a good thing)

@@malusignatius oh I understand. It’s absolutely beautiful. I mean more beautiful than anything.

If it's my place to ask, what was his responsibility as a liquidator?

the f**** a living legend

@@Fighterpilot555 - The guys that went in to scrape the bits of reactor core back into the reactor hall and other insanely dangerous things. They essentially know they would die - which is why it is amazing his grandfather is still alive. Some died within hours.

Yeah ok mutant

Legend !!!!!!

That's so sweet, what a miracle!

The liquidators were volunteers. They werent forced..

@@davelowets 1980's Soviet Union: volunteering=forced to do it or face severe punishment

@@coltongraves9331 It was the other way... The guys who volunteered to do it were rewarded with early discharge from the military.

@@davelowets Because there was a reward for going, doesn't mean there wasn't punishment for not going. It was still Soviet Russia, even if they got rid of the name, the population was expendable, and if they didn't do their jobs, they were punished

E:

F: Human stupidity

G: Taliban

H. COVID-19

I: You didn't see graphite because it's not there..... Excuse me.....

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Beautiful

I'd been trying to think of a Dyatlov Pass joke for some minutes, glad I wasn't the only one.

Blyatiful!

Why don't you buy your underpants from Ukraine? Because chernobyl fall off

And it ain't even clickbait

Not shown: that lid weighed about 1000 tons

You must have stolen this from somewhere else in the comments. I've seen the same thing posted over a dozen times already, and you were not the first one.. Don't steal and plagiarize someone else's work, get creative and come up your own if you want attention.

@@davelowets no i thought of it on my own, didn't know other people had the same idea, sorry

The yeeted madr me laugh more than it should have.

He must have been in a dangerous job, most likely clearing radioactive debris from the roofs, or pumping water from under the reactor, do you know if he was in the fire brigade at all? To pass away at 50, he must have received a really high dose. If he was on the roof, he may have been unlucky enough to stand on a tiny fragment of a fuel pellet which were extremely radioactive. What was so scary about these tiny pellets were that they emitted 100's of sieverts (5 sieverts is a lethal dose), and if you accidentally stood on one with out realising, you would most likely lose your foot or leg. I have a huge respect for your uncle.

I've been told he was just a soldier in the army. You have to remember how hard the Soviet union tried to cover it up. Enough that they ruined a lot of lives. He never would speak about his time there and was always sick. I don't know to much about logistics of radiation exposure. All I know it's growing up if I questioned why he was wheelchair bound and often too sick to lift his own spoon. I'd get carted out of the room by my mother and reminded that we weren't allowed to talk about him being forced to clean up Chernobyl.

If he was one of the men who was on the roof of the building where 20,000 rads an hour of gamma and neutron radiation was present, I have no doubt his exposure was the cause of his leukemia.

@@fin4289 He was a LIQUIDATOR... Liquidators shoveled radioactive debris off of the roof top, all of them did.

It's impossible to tell. This is 1980s Ukraine remember. How many of them smoked? Where they even filtered? Did they live near a coal fired power plant? Did they heat their houses with coal? In the West we tend to build power plants on brownfield sites, so people correlate an uptick in cancer rates with the power plant if it's nuclear. Thing is, brownfield industrial sites are generally soaked in poison from decades of not having any environmental regulations. You'll get cancer living near it regardless

Feels almost cliche for him of all people to do Chernobyl

@@THICCTHICCTHICC I know nearly everything there is to know about Chernobyl, and i still watched this because his presentation is fantastic.

@@alexcrouse Unless you were high-ranking Soviet communist in the 1980s... no, you don't.

@@peterrmansii 90% chance i know more about it than them. Otherwise, we wouldn't be talking about it.

@@alexcrouse Yeah, I get it. We've all watched/read the same stuff. But I think that you underestimate Soviet secrecy. Your assumption feels very... Western millenial?

One of them died from a heart attack a few years ago..........

One of them works as a CEO of Energoatom, nuclear energy generating company

also the man who took the photo with the Elephant foot is still alive

@@cjwiffle4714 i still am sure not , if that picture is "real" . I have run across mentions that say it is a double exposure, or two pictures semi-imposed on each other some other way. Never investigated it fully myself yet. Doing that , especially at that time, should have been fatal in days/hours.

@@chrisperrien7055 the man on that picture (that he made btw) is Artur Korneev. He is still alive at 71 years old and worked at chernobyl site since the accident and while the second sorcophagus was being built, teaching and instructing new workers. Times interviewed him in 2014 (if im not mistaken) and he is still mentioned here and there in our russian news.

"What if it explodes ?" "It won't because comrade Stalin spirit is protecting us"

Yeah... There is more advanced reactor designs, like PWR in Three Mile Island, or BWR in Fukushima. That's how you build reactors.

@@user-ci6wr7dk6n reactor design doesn't really matter when the plant gets tsunami'd

@@Snipurss Sure... And placing emergency generators for powering cooling system in a basement under sea level is ingenious engineering decision.

@@user-ci6wr7dk6n they put a 10 meter wall to protect the power plant but the wave was 15 m high *sad engineer with budget restriction noises*

I am not sure if the explosion could have been contained, not when the reactor top, control rods, and a third of the fuel were hurled a kilometer into the sky.

@@taraswertelecki9886 that’s what an actual containment building would have prevented or reduced

Give these guys any types of power plants other than boiling water on a pile of burning wood and they will doom it one way or another.

@@OrdinaryEXP never doubt a fool's ability to fuck something up

@@OrdinaryEXP I saw a movie where a hurricane hit a nuclear plant and got irradiated. Saw another one where it happened with a tornado. Those 2 documentaries scared me.

One TV show and all of a sudden everyone is a nuclear engineer

@@masonmunkey6136 ain't even seen the show. Been a nuclear history buff since the nineties.

@@tjzambonischwartz I wasn't referring to you with that comment. The extent of my knowledge about Chernobyl was pretty much limited to the show up until today lol.

And thank you for pointing this out, too! I've read extensively about this disaster and have watched many videos, and Plainly's is the first one to actually explain what the control rods are clearly and not just describe them as "graphite tipped" with no reason as to WHY they were made that way.

@@CobaltThunder267 Scott Manley's video also explains these properly. He really did a good job kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p5mUZtWrq7rWfJs.html

Thank you!

@@PlainlyDifficultAs a navy nuke who was taught about chernobyl and had to learn reactor physics for my job as reactor operator, I really appreciate the research that was done to produce this video. I couldn't find anything inaccurate about the explanation of the physics even though it was put in semi-laymans terms. The only thing I caught that was missing was the fact that the xenon burnout also contributed heavily to the reactor power excursion. As soon as the reactor was brought critical again, the xenon burned away adding positive reactivity and it essentially created its own feedback loop in addition to the ones you discussed. Fantastic video and well informed which is why I enjoy your channel.

Kinda hard to cover it deeper... This was both comprehensive and concise. Outside of actual observed environmental impact, I think this is pretty much the entire story.

There are* only 81 documentaries about Chernobyl in existence (including this video) so I doubt it.

@@LoLFilmStudios are*

Then you haven't watched any good ones.

Even this video omits that it was in fact a proficiency test, a prerequisite for officially considering the 4th reactor (and entire plant), complete with staff, ready for use.

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@PlainlyDifficult isn't this like the only 10 you've done so far?

@@Rammstein0963. I'm pretty sure that Fukushima scored a 10 as well. I was kind of expecting this one to be an 11.

@Mp Cops Fukushima was worse? The total radiation released was a fraction of that released from Chernobyl.

That just means your brain is operating properly.

"It'll be fine, just don't build it in Russia I hear Ukraine is expendable"

@@Jabarri74 they built the first one in leningrad, which has literally been russia's capitol at various points in history.

A fellow Christian

@@gingernutpreacher :)

Please don't get that feeling of smugness because you don't live in Russia. Your government doesn't give a shit about you, whatever country you live in. CIA testing LSD on citizens, our own UK government testing chemical & biological weapons on army "volunteers". And lets not even get started on how companies are willing to kill people for a quick buck.

To be fair, it was upgraded significantly.

Yea, rbmk is save... Unfortunlly after non soviet upgrade xD

@@zerghydralisk1837 The bad capitalists disabled the explode mode.

@@u.v.s.5583 true

Greedy (USSR)...

Also, the TMI wasn't nearly as bad as the media made it out to be. And a far *_far_* cry from Chernobyl.

Absolutely. I've watched many Chernobyl documentaries, this is the best one from a technical perspective.

😂😂

Wrong Dyatlov, the hiker got *[REDACTED]*

Ominous Russian Introduction: "Meet your new team leader, Mr. Dyatlov".

@@Tindometari yea if that happened I’d just quit whatever job; it would end in disaster for sure 🤣

But seriously, are they related or is Dyatlov just a common last name in Russia?

Your grammar tells me you've never held any position of authority... unless of course English is not your first language. Please clarify.

​@@paulcunnane4 Their grammar is more then acceptable, Fuck are you on about ya weirdo?

@@paulcunnane4 Maybe the issue is on your end, that was an entirely comprehensible paragraph.

I had an older Russian software engineer on the team. He got fired for exactly this kind of stuff. Younger Russians aren't much better, though. I've caught one uploading internal documents to Google Docs - he wasn't stealing them, just going around safety measures.

I can tell that your low level PTSD has caused you to consume high levels of alcohol, the terrible grammar was a dead give away. I hope you recover. By the way, cool story.

Free reindeer meat all around!!!! 🤣

@@yankees29 I think it's actually called Rudolph meat because "you would even say it glows".

I remember that whole herds of reindeers were clubbed. It was horrible.

Theres a breed of dogs that live in that area. They're really pretty dogs actually, they're all okay though they've been there the whole time nothing weird happened to them, I'm not Chinese so I wouldn't eat one but I'd pet one for sure. They're call pupyats. I'd like to adopt one maybe but they don't have really long life spans but I think that's because they're wild dogs and just hangout in the abandoned buildings

thank you!

Me too, I’ve seen and read so much and it turns out I have a lot to still learn :)

Half this comment section: "there is naught to regulate as human decency exists"

Forsmark is in Sweden, not Norway but we are close neigbours.

Thank you for being a decent human being and not calling him all sorts of things about being wrong and just letting him know he was so!

I remember that the USSR didn't say a word for days what happened there and that Westerners recognized a lot of radioactivity in the air and assumed it must be an ultimate MCU somewhere in the East. Scary times. Didn't know it was at another nuclear power plant in Sweden.

That is one of the worst ways to find out! "Um,Jimmy,you seem to have a bunch of radio active materials on you,where have you been going lately?"🫤

Contact the charity/whoever ran the relief effort? It would be fantastic to get back in touch.

Or they got blowed up by a missile attack or a fab 500 or a drunk driver.

Thank you!

There is a long interview to Dyatlov on YT

It's not just his book either, if I remember rightly one of the later IAEA reports said that the USSR had lied to them about the existence of operating procedures that were meant to stop an incident like this, that in fact those supposed operating procedures were made up after the fact, and that misleading information had made it into earlier reports in the series. I think it may have taken the fall of the USSR for this information to come out as well.

@@makomk I don't know much about reactors but safety problems were rife in other areas including casual attitudes towards oxygen gas analyzer malfunction in submarines.

Moreover, according to Dyatlov, the RBMK reactros were already working, unknowingly for their operators, in conditions that the same RBMK Chief Designer, N A Dollezha, considered incontrollable. Infact, with 2% enrichment of the fuel, special absorbers should have been inserted into the channels to contrast positive void coefficient at low power levels. In reality the commercial RBMK worked with 2% fuel enrichment, no special absorbers, and none of the operators even knew that those absorbers should have been present. It's typically Soviet. The chief designer states that, if made in a certain way, the reactor is safe and can rise power from any energy level. The designers of the plant remove safety measures (maybe simply implying that low enrichment fuel would not have been used), but mantain the statement that the reactor is safe and can rise power from any energy level. The operators only know that the reactor is safe and can rise power from any energy level.

Thank you!

In fairness, given the decades long (with no end in sight) run its had as a storyline in history... 40 minutes is damn concise 🤣

@@MadScientist267 IIRC, there's a twitter account with regular updates as to how much cleanup is left at Chernobyl. Last time I checked, I think they had gotten it down to something like only 99.999994782% cleanup left to go.

Trust me, this vid is a masterpiece of clear explanation of a very complex failure

@@FilosophicalPharmer And tepco started off by saying 20 years they would have it all cleaned up. Yeah right good luck with that one. And they have the ocean to deal with and all the cooling water flowing into It since 2011. Too bad GE didn’t listen to those 3 engineers. We’ll to be fair they did but said we’ll if we do x then that’ll kill the nuclear side of GE. Profit over life once again wonder how many 10s of thousands of cases of cancer will come out of this one?

You're delusional. Go to the infirmary.

YOU DIDN'T BECAUSE IT'S NOT THERE!

YOU DIDDANT! Because it's not there.

b e c a u s e i t ' s n o t t h e r e

you DIDN'T, BECAUSE IT'S NOT THERE!

And he still had a son

No he was still on the toilet

Well, gotta pay the bills. So they put on the content that brings in viewers. Which can be...less than educational.

There are stories that some of the liquidators would trade tags that had been on the roof with those that had not yet gone up there. men sacrificing themselves willingly to save others. they are heros.

@@trinalgalaxy5943 there's also stories that there were people who "forgot" to check tags to let people serious about reducing risk to others, too! Those guys are honestly the first people we should remember when we hear "Chernobyl". They knew it was probably going to be lethal, and they were willing to do this so others wouldn't.

@@trinalgalaxy5943 Reminds me of a scene in the Battlestar Galactica episode "The Passage" (I think): a pilot secretly swapped radiation monitor tags from another pilot, absorbing a lethal dose.

@@ironhead2008 disasters have a way of boiling everything away and leaving us with the best and the worst of humanity.

Oh, this madlad DID go ahead and release it one day ahead of the 35-year anniversary, didn’t he?

gods...im old...

@@AshenTechDotCom I doubt this will help, but I was surprised at how recent this disaster was (born in 2003). It always seemed like it was one of those things that happened forever ago, maybe in the 60s or 70s

Ha ha ha 😂

I hope you enjoy it!

@@PlainlyDifficult I indeed did enjoy! Thank you for making these, your channel is excellent!

So did I!

Or as any ordinary man would call it, hypocrisy.

@@sintheemptyone8108 This is beyond hypocrisy. A hypocrite would see you imprisoned for smoking weed while halfway through a blunt. This is next level, an emotional wall ringfencing a set of beliefs (regardless of evidence). The basis of all ideologies, of which organised religions have historically been the most egregious examples.

As such, the time stamp is probably referring to something else, you might want to fix it.

@@233kosta so like the people rioting for years on end, being encouraged, even during a pandemic, burning, looting and murdering people, and the media saying its "peaceful protest" and safe, to be encouraged, but, peaceful anti-lockdown or gun-rights protesters, standing around talking and being...genuinely peaceful... thats a danger to society... the people i know who believe and back those views..are.... genuinely worrying if not frightening... like a friend of ours whos sister went off the deep end after 2 years away at uni... from a nice, normal, happy girl, to having half her head shaved, and hating all white people, shes white and her family is white... lecturing them about white privilage and how its wrong for their family to own land and a home when so many people cannot own land or a home. she started to lecture me about biological sex being a lie, but then couldnt actually justify that with science, just emotion... the whole family had a meeting when she was away for the day over thanks giving and... she wasnt going back, if she did, it would be her own back the debt would fall on... she tried to go back but, was smart enough to recognize that getting a degree that wouldnt let her pay off the loan sshe would need to get it, would be really fucking stupid...rather then admit this she went crazy on her parents with "friends" encouragement... shes better now... last time he took me to their place for a visit, her hair is growing back in on her head, and, she started shaving her legs again..(admitted the itching hadnt stopped the whole time she had stopped but she was assured it would... and she would be much healthier and happier as a harry woman... shes realized how insane she was for getting sucked into that culture... has no intent to go back, infact shes loving taking classes locally and online, says part of what let them get their claws into her so easy was the fact she moved like 6+hrs from home(her dad drives fast...so for most of us add a couple hours...), no local support and all these people pushing her to join their cult... she keeps having to block people on fb because the crazies who were the core/leaders/dictators of that group keep using alts to harass her on facebook, when they found out she mostly used minds they started calling her a nazi.. she was upset at first..but.. well.. when i read the shit they were saying and rather then what she expected, started laughing and "wow, talk about desprate, attacking a woman for leaving your cult and finding, shes much happier not hating herself and everybody else..." (more...but she took her laptop and typed out a modified version... i told her.. "want to post a video of me saying it?" she loved that idea... i said it my own way... omg the fuckers tried to get me kicked off SSI over it.. thankfully the gal at SSI did a quick review, got a few medical records, then when i mentioned they said they would get me kicked off ssi, and told them who to look for..the gal was able to find them fast... and... the best part... the idiots had posted screenshots of their reports against me.... AND AUDIO OF THEM CALLING, then talking about how screwed i was... so.. yeah... my acct now has to have a note warning of facebook fgts making false reports that im not a gimpy mofo... i genuinely hate this world/society we live in...

@@sintheemptyone8108 I call it deception (which includes self-deception)

+1 for this. I don't have OCD but I do know something of debilitating mental illnesses and their mischaracterisation and it's so sad how people don't understand just how badly they can affect people. Whenever I hear someone say that something "messes with my OCD" I gently correct them; they're usually referring to something not being tidy or something trivial like that, so I remind them that *actual* OCD is way worse than just getting irritated at mess.

It had to be done!

@@PlainlyDifficult A real sarcophagus of a video.

@@PlainlyDifficult You give hints, that this will be 2 parts, if not 3 or 4 . I see 3 at least. This disaster has been with us 40 years or so, and is still going on.

@@chrisperrien7055 No, you didn't see three. You didn't see three BECAUSE IT'S NOT THERE!

@@thedungeondelver Love your Avatar , D&D/TSR in 1978, I remember it well .

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Ukraine needed power, and the other reactors had safe, post soviet uppgrades

They operated the older units (1&2) for a few years' more but they kept the significantly upgraded unit 3 rolling until 2000.

what’s the title name of the HBO mini series?

Just one? I guess you don't live in Charlotte, NC then!

Ours are a lot safer lol. This one is the nuclear equivalent of a trashcan fire.

@@RobinTheBot I’m from PA, where the 3 mile island plant is located, so while safer yes, my grandma got cancer because of the meltdown there

@@FilosophicalPharmer well my state had a reactor meltdown so state legislation is super iffy about it

@@stuglife5514 Understood! I was only a kid but I can remember talking about it in church that Sunday! It was a scary time.

Or operate on your body!

Damn you're old

@@keepmymindpreoccupied2892 youll be too

@@keepmymindpreoccupied2892 That's not "old". Your just a young puppy, that's all.

@@davelowets no no no sir i am the big bad dog 😎💪

No wonder they fucked up

I like the history of the day I was born, yep, I was literally born the day it happened.

@@monad_tcp As is the nature of the world we live in, even in death. There is life

I hope you enjoy it!

@@PlainlyDifficult ITS AWESOME

@@PlainlyDifficult loved it thanks

Bad designs and bad management are dangerous, nuclear power as a whole is very safe. As is evident from the many active plants in America(like the Limerick plant in Pennsylvania)

Nuclear power is only dangerous when flawed designs are used and/or are put in the hands of bad management (especially with the culture of the soviets where you were better off to cover things up instead of being safe and reporting faults) And unsurprisingly most if not all major disasters can be traced back to flawed designs, proceedure or safety advice being ignored, cheap shortcuts being taken, and/or bad management (though even in the major disasters it killed suprisingly few people for the size of the areas that were effected and left abandoned, like it gets a lot of attention because of the massive areas of land that get marked as exclusion zones due to radiation risk in the aftermath but honestly there are other things that i think are much worse) Otherwise nuclear power and in particular modern designs are actually quite safe and far cleaner than coal could ever hope to be

And even more important, incompetence and unquestionable authority, in the way that communism worked, is dangerous! It leads not only to deaths, but also to mega-disasters like this, that distroy the planet and keep on killing!

@@purpleldv966 that’s true. A mature leadership that is willing to accept criticism is also important for vital infrastructure such as this.

@@dustinm2717 Or when the insane is just so unlikely that it can never happen... Until it does. Fukushima has a glowing beer for you...

Glad you opted for the safer option! 😬

We wouldn't want Mr. Difficult to have to do a short documentary on you! 😬 Stay safe out there!

Vroom vroom

the reactor design was risky, but i wouldnt call it bad. they built lots of them and they ultimately worked fine, once the bugs were cleared out. the problem is when you get bureaucrats and bureaucracies to manage complex machines. like the space shuttle, for example. when the accident happened, most people on site were inexperienced, they did what they were told to do.

Please...no more...I can't endure these dead memes.

3.6 roentgen? Mmh. Not great, not terrible. Call the fire brigade, comrade

@@Dany94256 Stop! It's already dead!

I was having fun for once... Sure, no problem.

The equivalent of a Chest X-ray

YES MATE! it's on my bucket list (close to the top actually). Slightly pissed off with the NSC though, it ruins the view. :(

@@EscapeMCP kinda important so we don't have another disaster or radiation leak tho

I visited Chernobyl in February 2020, unforgettable experience I recommend highly

To be honest, I usually blame it all on "because Communism"--mainly because of the paranoid working environment fostered by the Soviet culture. But as the video shows, there was a whole chain of bad decisions that led to the disaster.

Skynet?

Not great, not terrible. There. I said it.

How did I know someone would be acting like a Russia

Same

Hope you enjoyed it!

@@PlainlyDifficult I certainly did enjoy it. I’ve been enjoying the videos you do. Keep up the fantastic work

Can you put up a link?

@@rustyshackleford3649 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7ufopNzuK3Omps.html and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lbeqoKxlrM-xdKM.html Both are only in Ukrainian. Update: I see Chaplynsky added English subtitles, so those are available, if you're interested.

It kinda makes me sad that we can't see the old sarchophagus anymore, it is what made Chernobly look Chernobyl-y. The views are not the same.

Agreed, been twice, once pre NSC and once before. Beautiful place.

Can you sense any radiation? (Weird taste or texture in or on your teeth/mouth/nose). I’m lucky I didn’t get cancer. As a kid, I once ventured behind a huge lead block shield at my father’s work. There some weird looking piece of machinery back there. I just took a peek and ran away because it gave me the creeps. My father was suitably horrified and rushed me to a cement shower stall, fully clothed. I had to strip naked and stay that way in his office for what seemed a long time. He came back with men’s coveralls and a Geiger counter. I guess he was satisfied that I wasn’t radioactive, but erring on the side of caution, I had to wear the coveralls and he took me to another building to be examined by a lady doctor. (A novelty in those days). She assured him and me--by then, I was screaming, that there was no harm done. Whatever the thing was, it couldn’t have been that dangerous because it was “cooling” in the assembly building where about five dozen men worked during the weekdays. This was early on a Sunday morning. I got a thorough lesson about looking carefully for the the radiation symbol and to never wander off on site. After that, we younger ones didn’t go to Dad’s work with him.

Fukushima was avoidable also, if some genius hadn't put the back-up generators in the BASEMENT, and had put them on higher ground instead.

I was born in 1982, I was just about old enough to remember the news at the time talking about the radioactive dust cloud blowing towards the UK.

My cousins in Germany and Austria told me the playgrounds were closed for some time, mushrooms and some sensitive plants couldn't be eaten anymore.. Stuff like that happened. In fact wild game and mushrooms were cjecked for radiation until the early 90s. What measures were taken in your place?

@@astroboy3291 I’m born in 1985 and here in the north of Sweden we “emergency” slaughtered over 100.000 reindeers due to high levels of radiation. It was a huge blow to our natives the Sami people who many makes a living owning and selling reindeer meat.

@@astroboy3291 I’m pretty sure that sheep were slaughtered and milk was disposed of. There was probably more going on that I can’t remember.

I was born 1979 in Hungary, this disaster was the (final) reason for my family to emigrate to Germany.

This is the case when someone gains their position not through knowledge, but through quotas, skin color or sexual orientation. Oh, wait...

@@jakubjandourek2822 …what???